accounts, these are direct messages or deleted messages that were not properly preserved. now, they also say white house staff conducted official business using unofficial electronic messaging accounts that were not copied or properly forwarded to their official accounts. covering the trump white house, i distinctly remember some sources directing me away from these nonofficial channels to make it easier for them to preserve things and others directing me right to them so it s clear, there may not have been a total effort to preserve all of these messages they were obligated to keep under the presidential records act. hm. paula, as i mentioned, a federal judge ruled today that the january 6-related civil lawsuits can move forward against the former president. how significant is that ruling is. this is incredibly significant john, and another in a series of significant legal lawsuits for the former president this week. in this ruling, the judge said
elections, and guess what, everyone is going to vote for russian presence here. pretty elegant i mean as a military guy for me to use the word elegant is quite a stretch, but this is an incredibly elegant move. so, john, let me ask you. you hear president biden s words were that his being convinced that putin has decided to invade ukraine as a fait accompli, it s done we re not going back here is based on significant intelligence capability. you heard intelligence telling matthew chance it did not contradict, wasn t like didn t take umbrage as they have recently. they simply said they were surprised and didn t really see it that way. how do you see it when you put this together? what do you read into significant intelligence capability and the ukrainians not seeming to be quite on the same page even now? well, when the president of the united states says he has intelligence that says that
classify them i just forgot. they also sald some white house staff conducted official business using nonofficial electronic messaging. so, how is that legally different than what hillary clinton did as secretary of state using private e-mail for official business? you think after the campaign attacking hillary clinton, all that staff all of trump s staff would known they shouldn t use unofficial devices for official business. it is just not the way you are supposed to do it because this is supposed to be a record of that administration. this is a law, john, with not really a lot of teeth. it is expected that people at that level of government will comply with the general-legal standards they have set up. i think, post-trump, at some stage, congress is gonna put teeth on this because of what we have seen happen. so, maggie, the most surprising bit of news today might have been this federal judge allowing the civil case against the former president for
president trump continued to destroy documents even after being warned about his obligations to preserve them while in office. in this letter, the archives revealed back in 2018, after seeing media reports about trump s habit of ripping things up, dumping it in the trash, staffers retaping things, they reached out and said the deputy counsel sured them it would be addressed but based on what they received from the trump administration say it s clear he continued to destroy documents related to his time in the white house that he had an obligation to preserve. john, these are missing pieces of history that are supposed to be in the public record, according to this letter, the trump team is supposed to be looking for other records that may not be in the possession of the archives. paula, what have the national archives learned about other presidential records particularly from social media accounts? as we know, social media was such a big part of the trump administration and accordin
discussions with the justice department about this discovery but it is not clear if they have made a referral. now, the archives, also, revealing that it believes that former-president trump continued to destroy documents even after being warned about his obligations to preserve them while he was in office. in this letter, the archives reveals that, back in 2018, after seeing media reports about trump s habit of ripping things up, dumping in the trash, staffers retaping things, they reached out and said the deputy counsel assured them this would be addressed but, john, based on what they received from the trump administration, they say it is clear he continued to destroy documents related to his time in the white house he had an obligation to preserve. these are missing pieces of history that are supposed to be in the public record. the trump team is supposed to be looking for other records that may not be in the possession of the archives. paula, what has the national archives learn