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one of the revelations in this wide-ranging report on the uvalde massacre. it describes widespread failures, egregious poor decision-making that resulted in more than an hour of chaos in the, quote, lackadaisical approach by those sent to help. the report states law enforcement failed to prioritize saving innocent lives over their own safety and failed to adhere to active shooter training. the police chief failed to assume his responsibility of incident command, the report says. the report says the robb elementary school lockdown was likely delayed by poor wifi connectivity. and the school also had reoccurring problems with maintaining its doors and locks, those are just a few of the revelationes in this report. and uvalde s mayor is releasing dramatic new video showing the first moments that officers arrived on the scene there at the school. shots fired. get inside. go. go. go. the new body camera footage gives a close up view of the action, but mainly the inacti ....
listening to taylor swift. it is called literacy lit rather c and. and if i took that class, i d be a better man. all right. thanks for joining us. i m christine romans. so it turns out the national archives has been after donald trump to turn over documents since the waning days of his presidency. good morning, everyone. good morning, kaitlan collins. quite the greeting for everybody waking up. it s been going on a long time. enjoy your coffee. we do begin with new cnn reporting overnight. an email from the national archives reveals how long donald trump has been holding sensitive documents that he should not possession. the email indicates that records were not returned despite a determination by a top white house lawyer that they should be. a source says there were a dozen emails and calls over the course of 2021, 2021, this is last year, including a may 2021 email from the national archives to trump s lawyers that reads in part, quote, it is also our under ....
probe of the capitol insurrection. key witnesses subpoenaed by the doj this week including two top aides of former vice president mike pence were asked specifically about the fake elector scheme and the role of trump s lawyers. and according to the washington post, justice department investigators in april received phone records of key officials and aides in the trump administration, including his former chief of staff, mark meadows. these are by far the most in-depth accounts of the federal investigation. until now we had virtually no sign this investigation had touched on the actions of the president himself. and it comes as the new york times reports new details on the so-called fake electors scheme, including previously undisclosed emails among trump advisers that show knowledge as the times puts it that a key element of their plan was of dubious legality and lived up to its billing as fake. let s go first to sunlen serfaty who is live for us on capitol hi ....
lost data was due to a planned tech migration and that the texts investigators wanted were not actually among those that disappeared. let s bring in former federal prosecutor and lead counsel in the first trump impeachment trial daniel goldman, he is now running for congress in new york. daniel, what do you see here? what we know is that a homeland security inspector general asked for these text messages and now we are learning from this homeland security inspector general, it s a letter from this person, saying that they were destroyed according to them after this request. what does that tell you? well, first of all, let s remember these letters are not written lightly to congress. i am sure that the inspector general notified the secret service that they would have to send this letter if they did not get better compliance and they didn t, but more importantly and to the point, there are a lot of questions that this raises. they claim that it was a phone migration ....
trump s political strength is still evident at the polls. overnight south carolina republican congressman tom rice was defeated by a trump endorsed candidate. rice was one of ten republicans in the house who voted to impeach the former president and one of the first to face republican primary voters. another race in south carolina did not go trump s way, congresswoman nancy mace at times a trump critic survived a primary challenge. in another significant development republican mayor flores flipped a democratic house district in south texas, this is a pretty significant special election victory that builds on republican gains among latino voters in the region in the 2020 election. joining me now is cnn senior data reporter harry enten. harry, i think the marquee race last night was in south carolina, people looking to see what would happen to this republican that voted to impeach donald trump. looking to see what exactly would happen and here is what happened, look ....