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
was warranted, this was you know, there was evidence supporting a search. ellie, this is something that the justice department is obviously trying to navigate very delicately. what are you expecting? i think what doj prosecutors are trying to say is let s categorize all the evidence from this affidavit from least to most sensitive, let s disclose as much of the least sensitive stuff as possible to protect the most sensitive stuff. let me be specific. none of us have seen this affidavit but i ve done many in my career. there is a standard legal boilerplate part, that will come out, that i think will be boring. there is a part where you describe the premises that you want to search, you will give some description of mar-a-lago and where within mar-a-lago you want to search, that will be mildly interesting. i think there will be a part here where they will detail the sort of back and forth negotiation that we ve been talking about between archives and doj and the white house, a lot
despite a determination by pat cipollone, that s the white house counsel, in the final days of the administration that they need to be. the washington post first reported on this email. also this morning the justice department has about five hours left before a deadline to turn over a redacted version of the affidavit, that s what was behind the fbi s search of mar-a-lago. a judge will then decide whether or not to release that version that is given to him by the justice department or keep it entirely shielded from public view. we re going to get to all of these new data points, all this new information in just a moment. first, though, we want to check in on public opinion. what is the current view among the public of what has been going on the last couple of weeks since the fbi executed that search warrant? with me now a man who can answer that question. i d like to think. cnn s senior data reporter harry enten. there are some polling there are some polls out now that do s