Now, turning attention to the ron johnson letter if i may. Yes. On august 31st, Senator Johnson is getting ready to travel to ukraine on September 5th with senator murphy. And he wanted johnson wanted the aid released, he calls the president , he actually sought permission to be the bearer of good news. Right. The president said, im not ready to lift the aid. And they had this Senator Johnson. He writes a ten page letter, very detailed. And he gives some remarkable deta detail. And id like to read it, its on page 6. I add this is Senator Johnson speaking, i asked him whether there was some kind of arrangement where ukraine would take some action and the hold would be lifted. Without hesitation Senator Johnson says, President Trump immediately denied such an arrangement existed. And he started cursing. And he said no way, President Trump said no way, i would never do that. Who told you that . And Senator Johnson goes on to say that President Trumps reaction here was adamant, vehement an
power, the once standard process seems to have gone awry. sources tell cnn it was chaotic with no one ensuring protocols were followed at the end. they rigged an election. they rigged it like they ve never rigged an election before. reporter: it wasn t until may of last year that the archives noticed several items were missing from their catalog of trump white house records. significant items like letters he exchanged with north korean dictator kim jong-un and a map of hurricane dorian. gary stern first reached out to a former white house attorney hoping to find the items according to multiple sources familiar with the matter. stern, frustrated by the pace of the turnover, sought the intervention of another trump attorney in october. also last fall, a top official in trump s orbit was concerned that classified documents have been brought to mar-a-lago and warned people not to touch the
cnn learned the situation got tense with the archives even threatening to go to congress and the justice department. my colleague, pamela brown, reports. reporter: white house aides began the process of collecting documents that needed to be turned over to the national archives soon after trump lost the november election, but while trump was trying to figure out how to remain in power, the one standard process seems to have gone awry. multiple sources tell cnn it was chaotic, with no one ensuring protocols were followed at the end. they rigged an election. they rigged it like they ve never rigged an election before. reporter: it wasn t until may of last year that the archives noticed several items were missing from their catalogue of trump white house records, significant items like letters he exchanged with north korean dictator kim jong-un and sharpie altered map of hurricane dorian, long-time national archives lawier gary stern reached out to a former white house counsel attor
reporter: it wasn t until may of last year that the archives noticed several items were missing from their catalog of trump white house records. the significance items like letters he exchanged with north korean dictator kim jong-un and an infamous sharpie altered map of hurricane dorian. longtime national archives lawyer gary stern reached tout a former trump white house counsel attorney hoping to locate the missing items and initiate their swift transfer according to multiple sources familiar with the matter. the sources say stern, frustrated by the pace of the turnover, sought the intervention of another trump attorney in october. also, last fall a top official in trump s orbit was concerned that classified documents had been brought to mar-a-lago and warned people not to touch the boxes out of fear that sensitive material could be exposed to those without the proper clearance. the situation becoming so tense that sources tell cnn the archives warned trump s team it planned to not
boxes out of fear that sensitive material could be exposed to those without the proper clearance. the situation becoming so tense that sources tell cnn the archives warned trump s team it planned to notify congress and the justice department if this wasn t resolved quickly. trump says something different. claiming the boxes taken to mar-a-lago contain letters, records, newspapers, magazines and various articles that are to be featured in his presidential library someday. the papers were given easily and without conflict and on a very friendly basis, he said. the archives has since asked officials to investigate trump s handling of white house records. including whether he violated the presidential records act. separately, the house oversight committee is launching an investigation. critics crying hypocrisy. people who having nothing to