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
administration that they need to be. the washington post was the first to report on this email. also this morning, the justice department has got a clock that is now ticking as they face a noon deadline to turn over a redacted version of the affidavit that was behind that fbi search of trump s house at mar-a-lago. a judge will then decide whether or not to release that version given him by the justice department, or keep it shielded from public view. cnn s katalin palance join pola now. what do you think is going to happen in the next four hour oz or so? hard to predict. we may not see anything today. this submission from the justice department regarding this affidavit is supposed to be happening under seal, so the justice department will make their proposals confidentially to the judge, the judge will look at it confidentially, may even make a ruling confidentially. one of the things the justice department is really concerned about is they want to protect in