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
federal loan payments. none of them have to pay any of these loans back until january of 2023. president claiming that this targeted approach will actually have a positive effect, he says, on lowering inflation. but tax experts and republicans think that those numbers do not add up. this is senator tom cotton. watch this. the president doesn t have the power just to unilaterally on his own eliminate entire categories of de. of all the dumb things joe biden has done this is the dumbest yet. a terrible policy that will harm many more americans that it will help. a former obama economic advisor pushing back as well pouring roughly half a trillion of gasoline on the inflationary fire that is already burning is reckless, says jason fuhrman who was with the obama/biden administration and thinks it is a very bad move. jacqui heinrich joins us now live with more. good morning, martha. it is not just the press secretary refusing to admit that taxpayers are footing the bill for t
the reality that swing voters might not be so kind to a party that cannot stop pouring gasoline onto the inflation fire. they are revolting against biden s bailout with some sharp reviews, calling it out of touch, and saying that it sends the wrong message. even the left-leaning washington post is calling it a regressive and expensive mistake. the white house responding to all of that and dismissing concerns. if this is about getting people to vote ahead of the midterms, the real national emergency is democrats in the midterm election. i disagree with everything you just laid out. we have said we aren t going to make everybody happy, so if you are not making everybody happy, you can t say that what you just laid out that can t be the case either. one delusional democrat is downplaying all the warning signs and dd about the long-tem prospects appeared how do you feel about the chances of the democrats holding onto the senate customer i m liking it. but the bi
criminal interference by the former president and his allies in the 2020 election. and then over to west palm beach, florida, the doj met the noon deadline just an hour ago to submit proposed redaction to the mar-a-lago affidavit. bruce reinhart will now begin considering the justice department suggested redactions of that affidavit. which basically lays out the government s-r reason for requesting the search in the first place. experts saying it is likely containing evidence of possible crimes that they expected to find on the property. today the former president once again said he, quote, did nothing wrong. the government vehemently opposed to the affidavit even being made public arguing that the release could, quote, cause significant and irreparable damage to an ongoing criminal investigation that is still in the early stages. the judge s deliberations are taking price in private and how much if any of the affidavit we will see is still unclear. the judge said earlier on
comment as the court considers the matter. no surprise there. the question now is what will judge reinhart say? we could hear from him at any moment. we also could not. presumably he s going through the redactions right now, deciding whether what remains of the affidavit is even worth releasing. just don t hold your breath. he warned us on monday that what the d.o.j. proposes might render the affidavit gibberish, his word, and he s inclined to side with whatever the d.o.j. thinks is appropriate. some former federal prosecutors order judge reinhart could relean information about the lengths d.o.j. and the national archives went to get donald trump and his legal team to voluntarily hand over all those documents, that is if that information is contained in the affidavit. after all, we did get a little more insight into that timeline this week. the national archives released a letter revealing donald trump handed over 700 documents with classified markings, some at the highest le