and why? joining us now is phillip shaynin, former "new york times" reporter and author of "the history of the kennedy assassination." great to have you back with us again. >> thank you. >> i felt like you spoke with unusual clarity last night in terms of telling us what to expect about what might go wrong today. i still did not anticipate that what might go wrong today is that we wouldn't get anything until 7:30 and then it would be only a little portion of the documents. do you have any sense of what went wrong today? >> what a mess. this is the worst possible scenario. apparently there really has been a mess at the white house for the last couple of weeks. even as president trump was tweeting out these assurances to the american people that he was going to open up this vast library of secret documents, there was these wild negotiations going on within the administration, the cia and the fbi and apparently the state department, going to the white house saying, no, no, no, you can't release thesis documents pinpoint appears nobody told that to the president, however.