presidency. i m john berman. brianna is off. cnn chief white house correspondent and pinocchio fan kaitlan collins is here. i know a thing or two about trump, we got a lot to talk about when it comes to that. not making any connections. we begin with the new cnn reporting overnight involving a newly revealed email from the national archives, email that shows just how long donald trump has been holding sensitive documents in the archives did not think should be in his position at all. the email indicates records were not returned despite a determination by a top white house lawyer that they had to be, according to a source throughout 2021, there are about a dozen emails and calls including a may 2021 email from the national archives to trump s lawyers that reads in part, 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 and have no
coworker, politics did not come up, we were too busy investigating and prosecuting real crime, we knew then that politics ruins whatever it touches. religion, education, sports, and our justice system. now we are trying to reconcile competing realities, prosecutors like to ask question, who, what, where, when and how. and the evidence. what does the law say. we focus on the law because we re a nation of laws. no one is above the law. but no one is beneath it either. fairness, impartiality, equality should mean something, the best way to prove their meaning is by applying them equal to friend and foe, lead justice is blindfolded for a reason. the competing reality we confront is the past 6 years of watching the department of justice and fbi, they are seen as extensions. the political parties now, we were jim comey s press of conference. we remember the fbi agent who desmirched a republican presidential candidate, yet put in charge of investigating that same candidate. we remem
will comply swiftly and one committee member indicates the messages may have already been recovered. the texts could provide a crucial window into then president trump s movements and his plans and his heated exchange with secret service agents about going to the capitol on january 6th. according to explosive testimony from former white house aide cassidy hutchinson, she was told that trump even tried to lunge at a secret service agent. a d.c. police officer who was in the president s motorcade on that day corroborated details of her stunning account. and let s bring in former d.c. metropolitan police officer who defended the capitol on january 6th. he s a cnn law enforcement analyst, michael fanone. so michael, you were there at the capitol, obviously. what do you think would have happened if donald trump had gotten his way and actually made it to the capitol on that day? how much worse would that have made the situation? i think it would have made it considerably worse. i
you re live in the cnn newsroom, i m ryan nobles in washington. jim acosta is off today. and we re less than a week away from the january 6th committee s last planned hearing and new developments are coming fast and furious. on friday, the former ceo of overstock testified behind closed doors for nearly eight hours. he was part of that chaotic december 18th white house meeting in which outside advisers urged then president trump to seize voting machines. but those weren t the only outside advisers pushing extreme measures. new today, the new york times reports that a little known conservative lawyer talked to trump about declaring something akin to marshal law after the election. and also today, the secret service responds after the select committee issues a subpoena for a bunch of text messages that were erased by the agency. let s start there with cnn s senior crime and justice reporter kaitlyn poe lants. this hunt for the missing text message comes a day after the select
Hysterical. An entire town banding together to find a beloved teen. This is a huge search. 100s of people came. A lot of people. We had the Sheriffs Department, got divers. This is things you see on tv, not things that happen to you. And then, someone said he spotted her. I looked at her right in the face just like im looking at you right now. That girl is alive. But a secret recording could catch one of the towns own, revealing a sinister scheme. Saras whole deal was he explained he studied her movements. The plan was to take her money. Evil, pure evil. That is never going to be over. There was something there was something wrong on the bridge. It was 2 45 am, december 3rd, 2016. An old town on the jersey shore called neptune city. It was bitter cold. Dark. It was an uber driver who saw the car just sitting there halfway across the bridge. 911, wheres the emergency . Im actually on belmar bridge. Right after heading down in the middle of the bridge, there is a car thats abandoned. Its