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
Joined by nathan holman, one of the architects of the paris accord and the obama administration, you watched that, what did you make of it . Trump made a case about fairness and in that sense i thought it was relative to the facts of what the Paris Agreement actually is. I thought it was borderline delusional and apocalyptic. Those are strong words, back them up. He sketched a vision of what the Paris Accord Is Asa kind vision of what the paris accord is as a kind of International Imposition of the United States put it was negotiated as something the United States could argue we wanted to do on our own terms. The president fundamentally does not agree with those Negotiation Terms . One thing interesting about his vision and he is conflating two important things about paris, one of the structure of the International Agreement and wonders will we propose to country. For him they are one and the same and he is certainly not happy with the targets put forth, those targets are negotiable wi
on things like accomplishing lower prescription drug costs, getting health care to veterans, getting the infrastructure bill done, on combatting climate change in historic way, what you re seeing is the substance that is fueling our come back and his action on student loan debt, i believe, will be part that have come back. congressman, i will say we have talked about pat ryan s victory tuesday night and what it means and the messaging that is going to play out now ahead of november many times including on this show. i will thank you for joining us this morning to take our questions and to answer them and thank you very much, congressman sean patrick maloney. my pleasure. we should note don lemon spoke to pat ryan last night. we will have don on the show in a little bit to talk about that interview so you will see that discussion. it certainly has been a really interesting race because of what it means for messaging when it comes to, you know, preet dictions that that decision b