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Records, the anticipation really started building for the last few weeks now, from the media, from the president of the united states himself, hyping it on twitter. but then, today is the 26th, and all day long, nothing happened. nothing was released. and then well past the close of business, the white house released a new statement saying the new deadline for everything is next april, 2018. and just past 7:30 tonight, they did release a portion of the documents that were expected to be released today. so, two questions. anything interesting in what did get released? and what went wrong here? i mean, we thought it might be a fiasco of the order like, they re crashing the website, there s so much interest. we did not expect to have nothing until 7:30 and then a weird proportion of the documents which was not what was supposed to be released. how did they blow this? and why? joining us now is phillip shaynin, former new york times ....
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 rele ....
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 it appears nobody told that to ....