and president trump said he wasn t given any head s up that the search was happening. how much advance notice did you have of the fbi plan to search mar-a-lago? i didn t have any advanced notice. none zero. not one single bit. sources have now confirmed to cnn that trump era records were not returned to the government even though a white house lawyer had determined that they should be, accordinged according to a may 21 email from the chief council to trump s attorneys. let s bring in a former federal prosecutor. thanks for joining us. thanks for having me. today the doj will submit their proposaled reed redactione judge. and of course this will all be unser seal, but you ve been through this redaction process before. what do you anticipate the redactions will look like, will we actually learn any new information? it is interesting, i have been through literally hundreds of these. and what the redactions will look like, you will see the affidavit and it will and i
indeed, good to have you. i m jim sciutto. justice department facing a noon deadline, two hours from now, to give a judge and we should be clear a redacted version, perhaps highly redacted of the affidavit behind the search warrant for the mar-a-lago home of the former president. the judge will then decide whether to release that redacted version to the public or continue to keep it under wraps. plus, new details about the national archives multiyear effort to get former president trump to hand over classified documents from his time in office. a top white house lawyer at the time told trump he should hand those documents over. so why didn t it happen? key question. also overnight, the department of justice releasing an unredacted full memo from 2019 that unveils why former attorney general bill barr decided then president trump could not be charged with obstructing the russia probe. we ll break down what is ahead in all of that. all right, let s begin this morning with
to do so. in the meantime, we are learning more about just how long the national archives worked to retrieve government documents from the former president before the search of mar-a-lago. an email made public shows requests for the return of presidential records were happening even before donald trump left office. okay, let s go to cnn justice correspondent jessica schneider, so, jessica, the doj has submitted their proposed redactions. what happens now? reporter: well, now, we wait, and unfortunately, we don t know h how long we are going to be waiting for. like you said, the filing from prosecutors that came in under seal, so not revealed to the public, just before that noon deadline, and right now, the judge, bruce reinhart, he s reviewing what doj has said they believe is okay to make public. now, it s very likely that most of this affidavit is blacked out with doj s recommendations, because they have made very clear that there is little, if anything, that can be r
would be staying alongside paying customers. will it pass? let s go outfront. good evening, everyone. i m kate bolduan. outfront tonight, warnings ignored. more evidence tonight of just how long the national archives fought and pleaded with donald trump s legal team to get documents from the former president. according to the washington post, about 100 days after trump left office, the national archives realized documents were missing from trump s white house. according to an email obtained by the post, gary stern, an attorney for the archives, emailed a trump lawyer in may of 2021, the subject, need for assistance regarding presidential records. stern went on to write, 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, and have not been transferred to the archives, despite its determination by pat cipollone in the final days
about in this fulton county, georgia, investigation into donald trump and others meddling, trying to overturn the 2020 election results in georgia. what do we know about senator graham s request? senator graham is arguing, jake, that under the speech or debate clause, this is the clause of the constitution that protects lawmakers from certain judicial proceedings simply because of their doing their legislative duties. he said these conversations he had with georgia lawmakers after the 2020 election were protected under speech or debate. obviously, fani willis, the district attorney in atlanta there, in fulton county, says there are important parts of these conversations that possibly go to crimes that she s investigating, and therefore, are not shielded by this clause of the constitution. you remember, of course, jake, that a judge had previously ordered this and has been asked to take a second look to see whether some parts of this need to be changed. thanks so much. joi