the national archives has been trying to get donald trump to return documents since the end of his presidency. i m john berman. brianna is off. cnn chief white house correspondent kaitlan collins is with us this morning. this timeline we just keep getting more data points. it s like every day you learn that the conversations on getting these documents back goes back further than we thought. it was a problem it seems from the beginning. an email from the national archives indicates that records were not returned by trump despite a determination by a top white house lawyer that they should be. a source says there were about a dozen emails and calls over the course of 2021, this is last year, including a may 2021 email from the archives to trump s lawyers that reads in part, quote, it is also our understanding that roughly two dozen boxes of original presidential records were kept in the residence of the white house over the course of president trump s last year in office an
i m here today to make a statement. if a law enforcement s job is to protect and serve why didn t they protect and serve my friends and teachers on may 24th? i have messages for pete arredondo and all the law enforcement that were there that day, turn in your badge and step down. you don t deserve to wear one. emotional pleas at the school board termination hearing for uvalde school police chief pete arredondo. the board voted unanimously wednesday to fire arredondo after outrage over the response to the robb elementary school shooting. 19 students and two teachers were killed in late may. cnn s shimon prokupecz is live in san antonio. i know you were at that hearing, some incredible statements there. reporter: yeah, it was emotional at times. look, john, the community, the parents have been so frustrated by the school board, by city
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into play. it s one thing to say that a former president is entitled to x, y or z and there were a lot of analogies brought up to former presidents and what they took to their libraries or what they used to write books and so forth. once you cross that line, you cross back past january into the trump administration, well, what can you tell a president to do and what are the legal ramifications of him not doing it? disregarding the advice of the white house counsel, which he s entitled to do which apparently he did do. it really gives them a whole lot more ammunition and i think we re going to see them throw up a lot more shields saying you cannot tell a sitting president what to do. one of the questions that s interesting and now it goes back to the final days of the trump presidency is who knew what was in these boxes? i mean, at this point and you ve seen different reporting in the washington post, the new york times and also cnn, did anyone but trump at the end of the day real
despite a determination by pat cipollone, that s the white house counsel, in the final days of the administration that they need to be. the washington post first reported on this email. also this morning the justice department has about five hours left before a deadline to turn over a redacted version of the affidavit, that s what was behind the fbi s search of mar-a-lago. a judge will then decide whether or not to release that version that is given to him by the justice department or keep it entirely shielded from public view. we re going to get to all of these new data points, all this new information in just a moment. first, though, we want to check in on public opinion. what is the current view among the public of what has been going on the last couple of weeks since the fbi executed that search warrant? with me now a man who can answer that question. i d like to think. cnn s senior data reporter harry enten. there are some polling there are some polls out now that do s