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the national archives lawyer called this atypical. the fact that they were consulting with the white house. then the biden administration and instructed the national archives to revoke president trumps executive privilege. and the white house directed the national archives to refer the matter to the department of justice, spearheading the fbi investigation codenamed plasma, ". besides if you classify documents that trunk -- trump claimed privilege over they found rocket man's love letter. the letter obama left trump in the drawer of the resolute desk and owe my goodness, even the posterboard of the hurricane dorian, the one that trump marked up with a sharpie headed for alabama, notice that the boxes were printed out articles and memorabilia. biden says he had nothing to do with it. >> i don't want to get myself in the middle of whether or not the justice department should move or not move on certain actions they could take. i agreed i would not tell them what to do and not engage in telling them how to prosecute or not. >> the serial

e >> the national archives lawyer called this atypicalnation. ng the fact that they were consulting with the white adm house. >> then the biden administration instructed the national archives to revokte president trump's executive privilege, and then the white house directed. he the national archives to refer the matter to the department of justicetter tment of spearhei investigation, codenamed plasma echo. besiind of a stupid codename. >> besides a few classifiedy documents that trump claimed t privilege over, the fbi also fountrumcket man's love letter . the letter obama left trump in the drawer of the resolute desk. and oh my goodness, even the poster board of thedorian hurricane dorian, you know, the one that trump marked up with a sharpie trump headed for alabama. most of the boxes were printednd out articles of memorabilia. >> but biden say as he had nothing to do with it. >> i don't want to get myselfot in the middle of whether or not the justice department should ca move or not move on certaininey actions that i can take. couldi agreed i

and the national archive in washington, we can see a list of on us on the very 1st page. the pendant to this report is a listing of $34.00 men. singled out some meritorious service. only 30 full man out of the 25000 correlation gem and forces engaged in the color operation. lift tenant of all time is number 25 on the list. so his extraordinary service of all time received a high wall on from croatia is notorious. not seek public government. the king is one email, middle concert in silver and gold clips for service on the enemy file. the bottom line is it's this or that kind of metal, somebody's correlation and jim, and also this is only a wanted to someone who really ends and deserves it. in costa, in june and july 1942. that was code full time, a gym and secret document from june. the 2nd order is to general spells with both new combat group from colonel shinkel, the general quartermaster of the very most general stuff. come on for some be instructed styles headquarters to quote reach agreement with the croatian government. concerning the default ation of prisoners to co

it had to be covered by a fake telegram the, the gem and document found in the national archives in washington and headed t dash 311-195-0328 is very particular onto the item correlation. the currently so operation, cost of the president, ended in great success. 7947 prisoners sent 1592 germany. but 2774 to norway. and then an incredible sentence with no explanation of just translating 3000 women and children. then it added communicating in german press. so this gentleman document helped a lot by knew how to amends with precise with the military documents. so following the gym and documents that i quoted just now, i succeeded in finding both ends to communicate in the gym and press. and even the author of that report in the original wall film the, the right off to the customer, an operation head of the independent state of croatia, 20 public was even received by the fuel to adult hitler himself. both the germans and acrylics would extremely happy with the successful elimination of bandits that's gotten there, said the final liquidation of the point that i mention, the fact is the tablet, it's

this is a joint work of the belarusian peace foundation, the orthodox church and the national archivetook part in the event. belarusian technical students are taking part in the development of the internet portal . together with russian colleagues, the official launch is planned for the eightieth anniversary of the victory, this project was conceived so that they would remember, know and at the same time take care of it. have been serving people for a long time, a lot still needs to be digitized, a lot more interviews need to be done, more than 400 prisoners are still alive. the armed forces held a command and staff exercise with military command and control bodies and military technical support units. the training included arsenals and storage bases. more than 200 conscripts were called up from the reserves. during the exercise , skills in repairing weapons, military and special equipment, learned new techniques . the peculiarity of this exercise is that the military units of the unit perform tasks at points of permanent deployment using a stationary industrial base, we are also cons

the national archives has the e-mails.e needs to see the e-mail sos we can finish the investigation. maria: joining me now is tennessee congressman tim burchett, a member of the house oversight and foreign affairs committee. good to see you. thank you for being here. what's the point of all of this? what specifically is the oversight committee looking for from these e-mails. >> i would just like to see the cause and effect, what was hunter giving to these foreign nationals and what were they getting. maria: i see. >> and what access to the president of the united states or the vice president at the time. maria: you're trying to connect the dots where the biden family received money and then there was a policy change that then vice president joe biden may or may not have made as a result of getting paid. >> yes, ma'am. i would also like to see -- it's not going to be in the archives but i'd like to see proof where the president paid taxes on any of this stuff. you're talking $20 million and i have yet to see anything that p

prisoners, a single internet portal. are being created in belarus, a ceremony was held at the national archiven minsk to sign a memorandum on the launch of a patriotic project, the event was attended by witnesses of those terrible events with the whole country. villages were burned down along with the population, peaceful soviet people were shot, and driven away into slavery from germany. this project was conceived so that they would remember, know, and at the same time take care of the heritage that we have, and try to prevent anything like this from happening on our belarusian land. and attention to the people who came through trials, there are few of them left. a lot of information has already been collected, indeed we have it. and the prosecutor general's office is collecting information and the investigative committee, there is a lot of information in the archives, but the idea is to unite everything today to create a portal that will serve people for a really long time, a lot still needs to be digitized, a lot more needs to be interviewed, more than 400 prisoners are still alive, i belie

we know the work of dan blanton from the national archives. she and a wonderful book has documented at least 460 women who dressed as soldiers and went to fight i don't know if any of them were african american do. you know, i think there were a couple of them. i think a book came recently, i believe, that talked about that. but there are also black women who are serving on the union ships. we sometimes that there is a navy and black men had always served in the navy and they continue to serve you know throughout the history of the country. but it was in army that black men were not permitted to serve after a certain time. but black women serving on these naval vessels as nurses and i think we need to remember them. i don't know if they got pensions. they certainly were serving one black woman who received a pension, she was enslaved, norfolk, virginia and was spying essentially for the union, brought word to washington, d.c. her name was mary lou vest and she was giving word to the naval department that the confederates were building an ironc

serve as false electives, the people that signed and certified the bogus document sent to the national archive. are seven additional defendants who have not yet been served, their names are redacted. the washington port status post report they are mark meadows, rudy giuliani, jen alice, john eastman and christina bob. boris epstein and -- mike roman. the defendants are charged with conspiracy, fraud and forgery, all felonies. for scheming to prevent the lawful transfer of the president keep unindicted co-conspirator one in office against the will of arizona voters. unindicted co-conspirator one, is donald trump. all of this comes as trump already faces 88 criminal charges across four jurisdictions. he is currently on trial in new york facing 34 charges related to election interference and business record fried. tomorrow morning, the supreme court will be hearing arguments in his immunity case, were trunk claims he cannot be prosecuted by special counsel jack smith in the federal january 6th election case against him. joining me now is -- von hillier. i know you have been reading into this and

remember, that was the plot devised by allies of donald trump to set false certificates of the national archives, claiming that donald trump won the state's electoral vote rather than joe biden this played out in seven battleground states with the intent to sow chaos and confusion at the certification of the electoral votes which was to take place on january 6th. arizona attorney general mays has been investigating the scheme since shortly after she took office last year. clear we are here because justice demands and answer to the efforts of the defendants and other unindicted co- conspirators allegedly took to undermine the will of arizona's voters to the 2020 presidential election whatever their reasoning was, the plot to violate the law must be answered for and i was elected to uphold the law of this state. >> 18 people are listed in the indictment, but only 11 defendants are unredacted does include former arizona republican party chair, and senate candidate kelly ward as well as her husband, michael ward as well as current republican state lawmakers jake hoffman and anthony kern. all 11 that

i was i did a lot of research in the state department in, the national archives. there were just troves and troves telegrams. and i read through all of telegrams and i came to the end of. september 1970 folder and the next folder started in october. and all the hostages home by october. so i didn't think i'd find in there, but when i opened it, i found something that i remembered quite well, which was a sheaf of papers, literature. our captors had given out for the hostages read spelling out their plight. i'd always remembered the opening words which something like ladies and, gentlemen, i feel it is my duty. explain why. why we have done what we have done. and i saw those words and i scanned the entire document and it took me two years to go back read it it was just it was just too much because i remembered sitting on the plane it so what you're talking about stacie is is a moment and i will happy to read this passage when i was in what's called the motion research room of the national archives and had a wonderful, wonderful researcher there, helped me find these

a ceremony was held at the national archive in minsk to sign a memorandum on the launch of a patriotic. the event was attended by witnesses of those terrible events from all over the country. the settlements were burned down along with the inhabitants, and the civilians were shot. committee there is a lot of information in the archives, but the idea is to unite everything today to create a portal that will serve people for a really long time, we still need to digitize a lot, we still need to interview a lot, more than 400 prisoners are still alive, i believe that memory is not only that, it is an ambassador from the past to the future, of course, human memory, it is eternal in any case, precisely through memory. a special launch is planned for the eightieth anniversary of the victory. the sixth round of the belarusian football championship starts today with two matches. both fights will be shown live on tv channel belarus 5. so, in in vitebsk, the local club of the same name is preparing to host the most titled team in the country, bata, which is now going through hard times. the yello

this is the reading room at e national archives in washington, d.c. your tax dollars work? i wrote to the they said, hey, come on ove they hooked me up with the legislative archives to a great guy named adam br d back. and they bring out these documents for you. and that's, you know, part of the service they provide to a taxpayer. i guess we all pay for that. and and so for the next several years here, there i started going through the records of the truman committee, which take up about. 700 linear feet in the archives. i would go there. adam would pull a card for me, all of boxes ready for me. many of them have not been opened or read the 1940s. this is what, about six linear feet? so you can imagine how much space this stu takes up in the archives years and years and years. and of course, washington ran on paper those days. everything was in paper with carbon copy in triplicate. and basically i would go through these in a day that's about a day's worth of work there with my cell phone and take photos. i didn't have time to read documents, mostly like i had a limited time

the justice department and national archives were proactively archived of classified documents and theyere turned over. the president allowed the fbi to search his homes and sat a voluntary interview for more than five hours on october 8th and october 9th even as he was busy responded to hamas's vicious terrorist attack in israel. report thus demonstrates president biden's complete devotion to the rule of law and his respect for a fair and independent department of justice. president biden did not assert executive privilege or claim absolute immunity for special crimes. he did not hide boxes of documents under his bed or in a bathtub. he did not fight investigators nor did he seek to redact a single word of mr. hur's report. he consented that the root report for numerous locations including his homes and he did everything he could to cooperate, not obstruct. third, special counsel hur repeatedly emphasizes that president biden's conduct contrasts sharply with that of former president trump. hur observed that unlike president biden, "the allegations set forth in the indictment of mr. tru

but you should maybe say more about the national archive. but yes, there are definitely some letters in the national archives. and one interesting thing to know is that a president is president. anything that's not personal belongs to you. so anything a president produces in the office now since nixon, which is a story you can probably guess a little bit about something about watergate and destroying material since that point. now, those letters belong to you, so it's your right to ask. the only thing that holds it up is processing but there's new things released all the time. so if you want to learn about presidents, i every single president has stories to uncover. so please do i want to turn to we can only probably do two more questions. i see you have one and then we'll get to one other. but i know you'll all be around to ask where you can ask the questions one on one in to sign the book. so what do want to say? one thing? one thing about that? so we printed at least one letter from every president that we could get some of the presidency

that letter is buried in the national archives. he didn't keep that one. the mother in law and the the wife were working together to try to get appleton released. even they actually hated one another at this point. eventually the federal government decided to move william seward decided to move appleton to fort warren because they believed it would be to get a conviction in a court than in a new york city court. and appleton, at this point didn't know why he was moved to fort warren on christmas day, 1861. appleton there with a lot of other political prisoners, members of the maryland state legislature, and all these political prisoners just hated william seward and the way they celebrated christmas in 1861 was they made up a doll that looked like seward and they put him on trial for treason against the united states for destroying the constitution. they put him on trial. they had judge and a jury and they found him guilty. then they executed the little doll. and one of the legislators who was there said the guard watching got drunk on eggnog. and so they

national archives of the republic of belarus.h reports on the work of special schools organized by the fascists in the occupied territory are stored here, hundreds of reports from partisan detachments, reconnaissance and sabotage groups working behind enemy lines about the exposure of graduates of such schools, provocateurs with their actions against units. today we receive about 120 tourists enterprises of our country. of course, the flow of tourists differs from enterprise to enterprise, we can say that the main flagships of industrial tourism are mechanical engineering, food and light industry enterprises; there are enterprises that receive tourists in very large flows, for example, enterprises such as belas, which i visited last year 51 tourists, minsk tractor plant 21. kommunarka confectionery factory, also about 10 thousand tourists visited this factory, well, the entire sweet food industry enterprise, such as grifir, condensed milk, visited by about 40,000 people, in general, we estimate the flow of tourists to the enterpr

and of course, the national archives foundation for their support as well. and thank you for attending an evening. and thanks for joining us for congress investigates and american history tv series looking back at significant congressional investigations. this week the topic is waste, fraud and inefficiency in defense production. during world war two. well, it was in the 1940s that then-senator harry truman led a committee that traveled the country examining military sites and how the public's money was being spent. it became known as the truman committee and was said to have saved many dollars and lives and may even have shortened the war. joining us is steve drummond. he's with national public radio and he's the author of this book, the watchdog how the truman committee battled corruption and helped win world war two. mr. drummond, thanks for being with us. what's the genesis of the truman committee? hi, peter. thanks. happy to be here. harry truman in 1940 was a virtually unknown senator in november of that year. he barely scraped by. as for reelection to

it took place in the national archives in minsk. the signing ceremony of the memorandum on the launche orthodox church and national archives. living witnesses of those events also took part in the event. belarusian technical students together with russian colleagues are taking part in the development of the internet portal. the official launch is planned for the eightieth anniversary of the victory. this project was conceived so that people would remember, know and at the same time take care of it. military administration and military technical support units. the training included arsenals and storage bases. and more than 200 conscripts called up the reserves. during the exercise they restored skills in repairing weapons, military and special equipment, learned new techniques for performing tasks. in addition, the tasks include providing troops with equipment, restoring military vehicles and working repair teams, as well as protecting and defending part of the technical support. the peculiarity of this teaching. for the fact that the military units of the unit perform tasks at points

i find myself sitting in that reading at the national archives, holding actual documents in my hand. it's a very cool thing. and the story that i tell is how i begin the book, how all this tied into a strange incident. in january 16th, 1943, in portland, oregon, brand new tanker ship literally never had left its harbor before. 500 feet long, $3 million ship sitting in calm waters about 1030 on a cold january night. suddenly broken to the sound was heard a mile away. the fbi and the police raced to the scene was wartime. so everybody's thinking sabotage, right here. it is the next this is what it looked like. led a freedom of information act request fromhe federal bureau of investigation. they sent me a thick stack of documents inside informants, all teiews, trying to figure out what the heck happened in the ship and essentially the initial fear was sabotage that proved to be a false lead. and for several months. the reason the ship and the other tanker and merchant ships that were cracking and getting cracks in them was a giant mystery. a mystery that would be solved one day in a hea

from the white house to mar-a-lago and obstructing the efforts to return the documents to the national archivesspeak with and mccoy -- emory mcavoy. great to see you. go back to what we saw in new york. what did you think of the arguments made by the prosecution in particular. >> it was pretty much what we expected. it is still a little murky as to the underlying charges. from a legal standpoint it is an unusual, first of its kind case, and today did not change any views on that. they came out strong. they are going after him. they have the ability to talk about other issues he has had such as bringing in the publisher from the national enquirer to talk about the playboy model and other allegations against him. they are going to try their best to make him look bad. with the new york jury, that does not start off liking him to begin with. that could be enough to get him convicted. host: what about the defense and their strategies? will that be effective? >> it depends. again, it is a new york jury, which makes it difficult because in general, in new york, he is not well-liked. we don't know how

they bring together the documents that are maintained here by the national archives and people who produce them. we've done a concert. joe, we've done 40 of these. nixon legacy forums since 2010. and the the archives is particularly pleased with the work that we do because. they say we make their documents come alive and we do them here or we do them in washington, d.c. we are the only administration producing programs on various public policy initiatives of our administration. today's forum is going to be moderated by chris to move to my right, he's he's he and i were there together. all the panelists were there at the time. but chris and i were young. young colleagues on president nixon's white house staff, and he worked for patrick moynihan on urban affairs. so chaired the white house task force on environmental policy. he then taught at harvard's school and then came back under the reagan administration and was, in essence, deregulation czar at omb. he spent 25 years at the american enterprise institute, including 22 years as its president. and then he spent a little over ten years as,