but last month, trump hinted that he planned to replace shogan.s been critical of the office since the previous archivist asked the justice department to investigate trump's handling of the white house records in 2022, and trump has also set his sights on the fbi. he told cnn on friday that he plans to fire some of the fbi agents who worked on investigations into the january 6th capitol riot. he claims, quote, some of them were corrupt, but he didn't provide any evidence. cnn's paula reid has more from washington. >> reporter. on thursday. >> the fbi provided. >> the justice. >> department with the. >> names of investigators. >> who worked on. >> cases related to. >> january 6th. now, last. >> week. >> the justice department had been. >> provided with employee i.d. numbers, but the acting deputy. attorney general said that was not enough information. now, understandably, there are concerns among agents and their union that this list of names could potentially be leaked. now, there was a lawsuit that was filed over these concerns, and on friday, an

colleen shogan was nominated by former president. biden was the first woman to serve in the role. trump has been critical of the office since the previous archivist asked the justice department to investigate trump's handling of white house records. that was in 2022. there was one notable hire rather rehire. elon musk said that he would bring back a doge staffer who resigned after being linked to racist social media posts. vice president vance said that he would support the rehiring of that individual, and president trump agreed. >> one of the doge engineers was fired for some inappropriate posts. the vice president says, bring him back. what do you say? >> well, i don't know about the particular thing, but if the vice president said that, did you say that? i'm with the vice president. >> president trump is once again using the power of his office to punish his perceived enemies. >> last night, the president announced he is revoking former president biden's security clearances. and as cnn's jeff zeleny reports, the timing may not be a coincidence. jeff. >> victor. and it's become

but the archivist, colleen shogan, had been quite loyal to president trump over time. and just a couple of weeks ago, she blocked an effort. by then president biden to codify the equal rights amendment into the constitution, saying that was outside of her scope and ability. and she also became very close with melania trump, the first lady. she invited her to the national archives to attend a naturalization ceremony back in 2023. so really a surprising move here aimed at installing loyalists in key positions, but still a little bit questionable and unclear why he is taking this step right now. >> all right. >> betsy klein, thank you so much. all right. after a standoff in court, the fbi has now turned over the names of agents who worked on january 6th related cases to the justice department. it comes as president trump now says he plans to fire some of those fbi employees. cnn's paula reid with the details. >> on thursday, the fbi provided the justice department with the names. >> of investigators. >> who worked on. >> cases related to. >> january 6th. now. >> last week

apparently, according to sergio gore, the archivist of the united states, a woman named colleen shogan i'm unclear why. i think maybe he has an interest in the archivist. he's got an interest in quite a lot of things. this is not, by the way, the person who was involved in his, you know, papers, his classified documents. this is just somebody else who just a year and a half ago invited melania trump to the national archives to give a speech. >> i think. >> this is actually. >> he calls themselves amazing, who writes a letter to the public and calls themselves the amazing donald trump. >> i mean, that's the ridiculousness of this person. >> i want to be able to take lance's point seriously, because i agree with you that donald trump ran as wanting change, and that a lot of people wanted change the change they wanted that trump identified was they didn't want our factories going to china. they didn't want offshoring of jobs. they were upset with the economy. but americans love the constitution. they don't want to change that. americans love the super bowl. if donald trump was like, let's