records from the trump white house have now been turned over to investigators, and it seems many of them had been ripped up. this morning, abc news confirms some documents from the trump white house turned over to the committee investigating the january 6th attack were torn up and had to be taped back together. politico first reported in 2018 that aides were often forced to tape up shredded documents due to trump's habit of ripping up white house records. a statement from the national archives seems to confirm that report saying documents sent to the committee, quote, included paper records that had been torn up by former president trump. it comes as another person close to the trump administration cooperates with the january 6th investigation. former vice president mike pence's chief of staff mark short has now testified before the committee. the news coming just hours after former president trump admitted he wanted pence to, quote, overturn the election on january 6th by throwing out some electoral votes. >> that's clearly not what the constitution provides for. he must be kidding. >>

they were spying on the trump white house. and this data all came from 2016. white house data. that fact alone makes the whole thing ridiculous. but there is no accusation in the filing that the clinton campaign paid this technology company that was, had a role in helping to run the white house server. in fact, the money flow if anywhere went the other direction because the technology -- >> the wave -- the way this is being portrayed in conservative media, that this is blockbuster, brand new information that durham has finally, after years of investigation, revealed - is that true? is this new information? >> this was one of the problems that we had. the new york times, for example, had on friday night when this filing came out is, that we had reported the essence of this back in october. but it was being presented as new in the right wing media ecosystem. and then combined with that was their leaping to the conclusion, which mr. durham did not say, but maybe insinuated, that this was trump white house data. >> given the way that this thing has has sort of mor

use the word infiltrate and doesn't say when the data associated with the white house network came from. they claim that it was trumphe people who -- the cyber security specialists have said this was 2016 data. obama white house data that they were working with. and later in a court filing by this lawyer saying the information presented to the cia involved obama white house data and seem to have two problems. we have the strange russian-made smartphones that are in internet related data showing up with people surrounding donald trump. that's not clear what that means. someone with a smartphone in the pocket in trump tower and the obama white house. may not be related to each other. but it is a complicated and different story than the notion that hillary clinton paying to infill yate the white house servers with the narrative. >> because the data happens when obama was president. so the most honest effort to strain the facts would be that obama's white house was spied on my hillary's associates? i can't follow the thread out the window from where the good faith efforts and the outright lie starts. >> the whole spying

according to, of course, john durham, exploited internet data mined from trump tower and even the trump white house to smear donald trump. the mob in the media, they don't want you to see this story. just like the media mob ran defense on the hunter biden lap top story just before the election for the biden family syndicate. now the media is covering up yet another scandal. so let's take a moment to read directly from the durham court filing against attorney michael sussman who is charged with lying to the fbi about his work on behalf of hillary clinton. according to the filing, sussman was, quote, a lawyer at large at a large international law firm that was then serving as council to the clinton campaign. the document continues, the defendants billing records reflect that the defendant repeatedly billed the clinton campaign for his work and, quote, the defendant had assembled amid allegations about donald trump to the fbi on behalf of at least two specific clients including a technology executive at a u.s. based internet company and the clinton campaign. stay with me here. durham then goes on to e

which was common in the trump white house, right?er so much consternation about using personal devices with the candidate hillary clinton. so maybe, personal phone -- cell phones were used or maybe the archives will find more records. okay? but the gap raises a lot of questions because if there is one thing we know about the former president, it -- it is that his phone calls are perfect. remember that perfect call with the president of ukraine? the one, that led to his first impeachment? and remember what he said about hillary clinton? >> people who have nothing to hide don't smash phones with hammers. they don't. people who have nothing to hide don't bleach. nobody's ever heard of it. don't bleach their e-mails or destroy evidence to keep it from being publicly archived as required under federal law. >> people with nothing to hide don't flush papers down the toilet. what about her e-mails? what about her e-mails? what about his phone calls? what about his phone calls? where is the like big front-page news above the fold? where is th

with north korean leader kim jong-un, the letter that president obama left behind for trump, when he left the white house in 2017, and gifts, things that should have been turned over to the national archives, when trump left office. trump instead took them home with him. turns out you can't bring white house souvenirs home. both of these habits, tearing up records, bringing documents and gifts back to his personal residence, they're both possibly major violations of the presidential records act. federal law makes it clear that the presidential records are not the property of the individual person who holds the office. they are public property. they cannot be destroyed. and now, the national archives is taking the unusual step of asking the justice department to investigate whether trump's handling of official white house record, including classified material, does in fact violate that federal law. now, within the past hour, we got word from "the new york times" about what could have prompted the national archives to take that step. here's the headline. archives found possible classified material in boxes

trump are ramping up. first, nbc news confirming stunning new details from the january 6th committee. investigators finding large gaps in white house phone logs from the day of the insurrection even though lawmakers know numerous calls were made by then president trump. we'll have more on this developing story ahead with a big panel. >>> also on the hill, one congressional committee opening an investigation into the former president's handling of white house documents. new details coming in about what lawmakers want to know and who they'll be talking to. our capitol hill team is standing by live with all of it. >>> at the white house, president biden getting ready to host democratic senators on the judiciary committee. a key meeting ahead of his announcement on whom he will be nominating to the supreme court. here with us live this hour the head of that committee, senator dick durbin. >>> plus new msnbc news reporting on those tensions overseas. what our intelligence sources are now telling us on how russia plans to invade ukraine if it happens and the kremlin has plenty of options on the table. >>> i'm kristen welker in washington

that should've been turned over when trump left the white house. the national archives says, that trump staff are quote, continuing to search, and quote four additional records. that may have been thrown into trump's you all when he left the white house for mar-a-lago. and don't forget to check the clubhouse for any more letters from world leaders. make sure a box of presidential memorabilia or memorandum didn't get stuck behind the wet bar pool. the post, and now the new york times, both reports that the contents of the 15 boxes include, correspondence from trump and the north korean dictator, kim john. as well as a letter that president obama left for trump when obama left office. according to the times tonight, also in the box was his amazingly this. the national weather service map that he altered with a sharpie during a hurricane briefing in 2019. now you will recall that he used a sharpie to change the projected path of a hurricane in order to match what he had incorrectly said about the hurricanes path in a tweet. dear leaders, tweet obviousl

grisham also talked about how there really weren't any rules in the trump white house. lations and structures for containing people's behavior just weren't in place, and that started at the top with donald trump. >> of course. and cnn's kate bennett reported this week trump is quietly making millions off this cafe table bo table -- coffee table book. i can't believe people are buying, but they're they are. inside, insult laced captions's interactions in washington. one photo of the late john mccain writes asking for a job for his wife. smiling but didn't like him even a little bit. it's sort of low-budget looking. almost looks like something that, you know, maybe there's a trump printing press at mar-a-lago or something. then the nancy pelosi caption. she was screaming and shaking like a leaf, trump writes in this caption. she's effing crazy. hence the name "crazy nancy." i suppose it does a good job memorializing his extremely damaged psyche? >> isn't that a fascinating observation, that the artistic product that he creates is actually an accurate self-portrait? this is

visitor logs from white house that could reveal who former president trump saw that day. ils. >> reporter: the house select committee investigating january 6 will soon get a new window into what was happening in the white house that day when the national archives turns over visitor logs from the trump era. president biden refusing a request from former president trump to keep those logs under wraps. trump has repeatedly railed against the committee's investigation. >> the unexceselect committee. >> and dana reamous said biden determined that shielding the visitor logs is not in the best interest of the united states and therefore is not justified as to those records and portions of records. the archives provided the document to the current white house for review in late january. they include visitor logs showing appointment information for individuals who were processed to enter the white house kpcomplex, including on january 6. they note that the current administration voluntarily disclosed such visitor logs on a monthly basis with some exceptions. a practice also followe

white house. we've been hearing reports fears that donald trump does this. >> yeah. thank you so much for having me. it is absolutely crystal clear when you enter one of those jobs in the white house, about what you can and can't do with presidential records and what you can do with your own records. you know, i would've never expected anyone among my colleagues to have, you know, torn up their records and tape them back together, or taken them even with them, home to their residents ... >> there is even talk and recording that staff who knew the roles would go in right after trump, wherever he was, retrieve documents that hadn't been ripped up, and take those that had and try to piece them back together, sometimes successfully, sometimes unsuccessfully. so, it is not that the white house can claim that we didn't know that you're actually supposed to keep the step. it was obvious that you are supposed to. so, what is your best guess as to when this ripping things up was about? >> yeah. all commend those staffers who pieced the documents back together again. i mean, th

, new questions about an unexplained gap in white house for locks, and why donald trump's reported use of the white house toilet to flush documents could be a big problem in an investigation. >> a republicans desperate attempt survived after trump endorsed primary opponent. how fox news channel is planning to do for the truck protests but they did for the tea party. >> it's not just about canada now. >> bringing the freedom convoy to the u.s. of a. >> and the big take away from leicester holt's exclusive interview with president biden. all in starts right now. >> should children be required to wear masks in schools? >> good evening from new york, i'm chris hayes. >> -- there were 18 minutes of tape missing. that was from a conversation three days after the break in at watergate. nixon tried to get the secretary for the mistake, but the attempt to cover up is ultimately what led to his downfall. we also saw a bizarre reversal of the clichÉ, during hillary clinton's bid for president. she was accused of cover-up. an accusation that became a refrain at trump's rallies. the thing is, t

that hillary clinton spied on the trump white house. you may have heard something about this if you ever dipped your toe into the right-wing media ecosystem. donald trump himself has cut out no fewer than five increasingly irate statements about. it i'm not gonna deconstruct this whole strange conspiracy for you right here, though i do recommend you had over two maddow blog.com for a great explanation or by our very own steve bennett -- i will say that to spy on the trump white house hillary clinton would've needed a time machine. because all the supposed evidence being waged around by trump and giuliani and company, the stuff that happened before trump was president. those clintons and those times jeans. but i digress. no matter how new shiny objects throughout to try to show -- other imagine scandal. they cannot change the fact that the january six investigation is moving steadily ahead. and they can't change the fact that the january six investigation has already amassed so much damning evidence. today, the washington post published a

president biden ordering the national archives to turn over trump white house visitor logs to the white house committee. what those could reveal. we want to start with the crisis in europe. i want to bring in peter baker, chief white house correspondent at the "new york times." before that he was moscow bureau chief and retired general mccaffrey. courtney, i want to start with you on this one. we just heard from secretary blinken. he was on "morning joe" earlier today. he said listen, at this point putin is getting everything he does not want, a unified nato, more troops closer to the border. you got ukrainian people united against moscow, against putin. talk us through where we are this moment. >> secretary austin should be meeting with his german counterpart in brussels. what they're hoping to accomplish at this nato defense minister meeting this week is a show of unity and to show vladimir putin what you described. number one, the u.s. troops have moved closer to the u.s. border. they sent some to poland and have moved several thousand troops in there as a show of unity and as a way

morning the house oversight committee has launched a new investigation into form are president trump's white housenational archives revealed it recovered 15 boxes of documents from trump's florida residence after he left the white house and reports that trump ripped up white house documents this morning, a new story on that front as well. and a forthcoming book, maggie haberman writes that white house staff periodically found papers had clogged a toilet in the white house residence, leave them to believe that president trump had ripped up papers. axios calls the story untrue. we do know the d.o.j. has been asked to look into the handling of trump's record. pete, i want to start with you on this one. just talk us through exactly what has the justice department been asked to do here? >> yeah, well, i wish i could. i don't think we know exactly what's happening here because justice and archives really aren't saying. but the best indication we get from the officials we've talked to is this, that archives did raise this concern about how documents were taken away from the white house instead of going t

that hillary clinton spied on the trump white house. you may have heard something about this, if you ever dip your toe into the right-wing media ecosystem. donald trump himself has put out no fewer than five increasingly irate statements about. did i'm not going to deconstruct this whole strange conspiracy theory right here, though, i do recommend you head over to madel bob for a great explanation from our own steve bannon. i will say, that to spy on the trump white house, hillary clinton would've needed a time machine, because all the supposed evidence being waged around by trump and giuliani and company, a stuff that happened before trump was president. those clintons in those timesheets. but, i digress. no matter how many new shiny objects donald trump and his allies throughout to try and shift the attention to some other imagined scandal, they cannot change the fact that the january six investigation is moving steadily ahead. they can't change the fact of the january 6th investigation has already amassed so much damning evidence. tod

like the trump white house that was sort of so chaoticraditional that the committee is talking to a lot of people, some younger, some junior, some who would seem to be on the perfect he eveiphea lot of visibility in january 6th and into the runup to january 6th. these are people in another administration would not necessarily be in the oval office and hearing the president talk about some of these things, people in the vice president's orbit, other junior staffers, but these are people who in the trump white house had a lot of visibility into what was going on, who are people in some ways are more likely to talk to the committee and people who could likely be very fruitful witnesses for the january 6 committee. >> talking to adam kinzinger he said there were a great number of people within donald trump's white house that had spoken to the committee without subpoenas, which i found to be very interesting and, frankly, when you talk to that many people you will be able to connect some dots even if you are not able to get some of the bigger

i was there for all of it, on the campaign in trump tower and certainly the white house. my new book that you just talked about has brand-new details about january 5th and january 6, 2017. january 6 is the day the intelligence officers go to trump tower. and there is jim comey in the middle of a 10-year fbi term and he wants to stay on as director but he didn't make his way until trump tower until january 6, 2 full months after the election. it was the day before that i was at the white house, the obama white house, for a transition lunch and while i was there, upstairs they were cooking this out. call me, brandon, suzanne rice, barack obama. they were being briefed on what was going to happen. guess what i learned today. the clinton people have no faith in her. no confidence in her competence. they had to cut corners and cheat and lie. they had to perfume the pig. have to make the candidate something she is not. we had tremendous faith in our candidate to get the job done. to go out there and connect with people. "the washington post" "abc news" poll during the end of the

i could do a book of the trump white house photos. , if he so chooses. >> one of the things that trump took from the white house was the infamous hurricane map he had doctored with a sharpie. he reportedly gives the same treatment to many of the captions in the book. quote, ridden is telltale handwriting, a thick black scrawl of a marker, mostly upper case, beau -- and lots of exclamation points. and you are view, is this a book that chronicles the presidency, is it a collection of random photos with unpresidential insults, written in sharpie, that substitute for having a twitter account. what is this? >> i mean, i haven't seen the book. i have no plans to buy it, myself. what i've read, and what i've seen, it's basically a collection of his reality show presidency. it's a musing that he uses it, as you described, as a hatchet job. i will say, the one picture that i is it true behind the scenes picture, is the one with pelosi standing up to him, in that cabinet room meeting. which, the only reason it became public, was because he, hims

senior official in the trump white house, the author of unhinged, and insiders account of the trump white house. some chewing of paper. here with us is kimberly atkins stewart, cohost of the sisters and love podcast. she is an msnbc political analyst, and a great friend to us. good morning kimberly, thank you for being with us. >> good morning. >> i think the parallels are weird. just as the january 6th committee, and the number of reporters, and newspapers are getting more and more detail about the depth of the conniving, and the planning that went into the overthrow, the overturning of the election. donald trump's acting like it is all business as normal, he will run for office, he will pardon the people who were involved. it is a worrisome development, that donald trump does not seem to be marginally chastise by what is coming out? >> no. it seems as though he believes in the lies he is saying, or he believes as a morose said, that his power lies in the ability to keep this story going, and all the people who support him, and place. he is pushing forward with that. and the process, he

the january 6th committee now in possession of trump white house records. some at the national archives say they were torn up by former president trump, documents that we now know were actually physically taped back together and trump dangles pardons for the rioters were stormed the capitol. did he cross the line. that's "outfront." good evening, i'm aaron burnett. putin responds. russia's president has now replied to america's written response to putin's demands. now, the state department tonight is tight-lipped. they are saying they won't publicly discuss what putin has put in writing. but as putin delivered his response, we learned something important, that as he was doing that he was pumping up his military forces on the ukraine border. according to the biden administration, putin is now ramping up his presence on the border adding 30,000 more troops. that's the plan they say or the next coming weeks that. brings it to 160,000 troops on the ukranian border. these are actions that speak as loudly as russia's u.n. ambassador did today when moscow tried to

the house oversight committee is launching a probe into trump's removal of white house documents backat he may have taken some with classified information. there are calls to the doj to mount a full criminal probe. now, trump says that he meant to do nothing wrong. and yet, this like so many things, is the most completely typical self-owning hypocrisy that if it were a plot at the end of a movie, you could say it's too obvious and symmetrical, because trump claimed to be outraged oufrb how hillary clinton used a personal email server. >> the think you should be apologizing for are the 33,000 emails that you deleted. there has never been so many lies, so much deception, there has never been anything like it. >> we turn to steve schmidt, a longtime republican operatic and trump critic. your thoughts on the story? >> well, i think, ari, first off, good to be with you. second, i think we're going to find out what happened on that day down to the millisecond. so i think we will find out what happened to the deleted logs, who deleted them, when they were deleted, and whose orders were they

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there is raising concern that former president donald trump was brazenly mishandling white house documents. "the washington post" has new reporting on the records trump took with him to mar-a-lago. the post says some of the documents clearly marked as classified, including some at the top secret level. this as we are learning about potentially important evidence that's missing from the white house. white house records obtained by the january 6 committee. let's go to cnn special correspondent jamie gangel. what are you learning. some important updates are happening at this hour. >> reporter: what we learned, jim, is there's a gap in the official records. the firm records for what was happening during the riot on january 6th. we know that trump made calls before the riot. there were calls after 4:00 p.m., after he made the video telling the rioters to go home. the question is why do no calls show up during that period of time? just to be clear, no one is suggesting that these official records were tampered with. so what are some possible answers? as you well know, trump famously used a perso

trump talking to in the days leading up to the january 6th insurrection? today, president biden announced he would be waving executive privilege for the white house visitor logsesidency, clearing the way for the bipartisan committee investigating january six to get their hands on them. well trump likely -- again it's important because

trump's florida residence mar-a-lago. pamela brown has more. >> reporter: white house aides began the process of collecting documents that rchives soon after trump lost the november election. but while trump was trying to figure out how to remain in 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 n

brianna, this is a book that is different -- there's been a number of exceptional books about the trump white house. this is not just a trump white house book. this is a book about the former president, the arc of his life, beginning in his life of new york city and how that world shaped him and then shaped the world that he created in the white house. so the younger picture is to convey, a, this is a different book but also this is something that is anchored in a different period of time. at least in the beginning. and then it goes through the white house years and to florida in the past year. >> well, if toilet-gate or flush-gate, i haven't decided which one i'm going with yet, i expect to learn many more things. maggie haberman, thank you very much for joining us this morning with this new bit of information. >> fascinating bit of information here. let's talk about it with cnn senior legal analyst, elie honig. maggie won't go as far as to say the motive of the flushing documents. you have some experience where this has happened in some cases. tell us. >> i have a case that brings this one very m

there's tranches of evidence on the interworkings of the trump white house and in that vein of new thatwhite evidence may soon find the way into the hands of the january committee in the form of visitor logs. president biden once again rejected the ex-president's claims of executive privilege and ordered them to hand over logs citing the urgency of the work ordering them to do it in the next 15 days. "new york times," white house counsel remus said that the documents needed to be disclosed in a timely fashion because quote congress has a compelling need and constitutional protections of executive privilege should not be used to shield from congress or the public information that reflects a clear effort to subvert the constitution itself. "the new york times" adds this, quote committee

and other classified documents ended up at trump's florida residence, at mar-a-lago. white houseonal archives soon after trump lost the november election. while trump was trying to figure out how to remain in power, the once standard process seems to have gone awry. multiple sources say 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. 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. al

trump universe and the power grid, if you will. irs got to ask about the news today, that the biden white house is effectively clearing the committee to get access to the trump visitor, the white house visitor logs. what could be in those that might not be in the texts and we've ommunications that been privy to thus far? >> that is a very good question, and it is t actually, you know, i'm not all that certain that we're going to get that much from these logs just yet because as the reporting has born out in the last few week, we know this was a president who subverted, ignored and failed to follow most procedures, and it's unclear if these white house visitors logs were meticulously and accurately kept, or if the president was sort ofly again, sort of sneaking past these processes that were implemented for a reason, to document and keep, paint the most comprehensive picture of histore in order for the american public toto look back and to be able t potentially know who was visiting with the president at this crucial juncture in our democracy, but it's unclear if trump wasde doing that. on the other side of the coin here, any names

this is in addition to trump's known pattern of tearing up oval office documents, one white house sayingpt finding evidence trump was trying to flush papers down the toilet, all of which is completely normal. look, no president has been charged with theft of official records from his administration, even though trump's grab bag makes the nixon tapes look targeted. and i understand the key question here is intent. but when are we going to stop treating the ex-president like a malevolent child? ignorance can't be an excuse because there is no excuse for being persistently ignorant when you're president, especially because at least two chiefs of staff and a white house counsel reportedly told trump he was required to protect his documents. if that's not enough for you, trump certainly seemed to understand the need to archive documents when he was running against hillary clinton. >> people who have nothing to hide don't smash phones with hammers. they don't. people who have nothing to hide don't bleach, nobody has ever heard of it, don't bleach their emails or destroy evidence to keep it fro

white house. then there is a pushback. it says the information was from 2014 to 2017, that's the obama white house, not the trump white housemostly the obama white house but trump had been president for three weeks. we don't know what part of this durham fix is relevant. for durham's purposes, the obama information is relevant. he's not misrepresenting that it's obama information. it's relevant because what they were trying to do with the clinton campaign is cherry pique information and package it to suggest there was a nefarious relationship between trump and russia. durham is saying if you look at the full context of the information it's clear there was nothing unusual or suggestive of being nefarious in connection with what was going on in the trump facilities and russia. >> rodney joffe has a tech firm. did he work for hillary clinton's camp and the dnc, same thing. did he do what his government contract told him to do? did he start looking into a trump-russia connection, and when there was none, dishe trump it up? pun intended. >> if the question is was he signed on like an official member of the clinton campaign? no.

on what's next. >> the house select committee investigating january 6th had quite a lot to talk about. this week brought a flood of headlines how former president trump handled whiteds. maggie haberman reports white house staff found records clogging the toilet, believing trump was the one who flushed them. the national archives says trump also took boxes of records to mar-a-lago with him and some of that material may be classified. trump called the january 6th committee political hacks. for the latest on all this, we turn live to nbc capitol hill correspondent ali raffa. welcome to msnbc. so happy to have you. what impact do all the headlines have on the committee's work? >> reporter: good morning, lindsey. it's an honor to be here with you this morning. you mentioned it right off the top there. there were a lot of developments to talk about in this committee meeting yesterday, most notably the developments about how former president trump handled white house records. the revelations are the latest obstacles in the committee's repeated delayed investigation into what trump was doing in the hours that the capitol was being attacked. listen to what congressman pete

super bowl this sunday here on nbc. >>> also breaking tonight, a gap in white house records of phone calls made by then president trump during the january 6 attack on the capitol, and the national archives asked the justice department to investigate his handling of white house records. kelly o'donnell has more. >> reporter: new tonight, sources say the january 6 committee found a gap in official white house phone logs it received showing no calls to or from mr. trump for several hours after his speech that day when lawmakers have said publicly they spoke to him. are records missing? was a private cell phone used? evading official logs? unknown. in another development, the house oversight committee launched its own investigation of the former president taking boxes of official records to his personal home at mar-a-lago. when the trump white house packed up and moved out, memorable items, perhaps even classified materials that belonged to the u.s. government improperly went to florida, including letters from north korean leader kim jong-un, the hurricane map altered by a sharpie, and a handwritten note from predecessor

we covered the white house, the trump white house together. and incrementally since then, mike pence has said things against trump and that, you know, it was un-american what he was suggesting, but this was his most forceful rebuke yet. >> no question about it. we have heard vice president pence previously say that he and donald trump will never see eye to eye as it relates to the events of january 6th, but that is really as far as former vice president mike pence has gone, up until yesterday. in a speech at the federalist society event outside of orlando, florida, the former vice president delivering a stinging rebuke, certainly the most forceful, most aggressive rebuke of former president trump, specifically responding to those comments from the former president arguing that mike pence could have overturned the results of the election. here's the vice president yesterday. >> i heard this week that president trump said i had the right to overturn the election. president trump is wrong. i had no right to overturn the election. the presidency b

department after confirming there were classified documents in the 15 boxes that donald trump took from the white houseother concerns about the trump white house's recordkeeping practices including trump ripping up documents even after being warned not to. jessica schneider is out front. and jessica, this information comes from multiple letters released from the archives, so tell me what more you're learning tonight. >> reporter: these letters show the archives they've been concerned for years the trump white house wasn't properly preserving these documents, and it's not just physical papers but also online messages from social media accounts. so what we're seeing here is that the archives warned the white house council's office back in 2018 that trump's reported practice of ripping up papers, as he was known to do, was a clear viles of the presidential records act. but despite that warning it seemed like it continued to happen. and when the archives received documents after trump left office, they're now saying those papers some of them were still in torn up form. others had actually been taped back t

documents to the house select committee investigating the january 6th insurrection, some of the trump white house records had been ripped up and taped back together according to three people familiar with the records. former president trump was known inside the white house for his unusual and potentially unlawful habit of tearing presidential records into shreds and tossing them on the floor. creating a headache for records management analysts who meticulously used scotch tape to piece together fragments of paper that were sometimes as small as confetti. despite the presidential records act which requires the preservation of notes and faxes and communications related to the president's official duties, the former president's shredding practices apparently continued well into the latter stages of his presidency of the national archives today said in a statement that records turned over from the trump white house, quote, included paper records that had been torn up by former president trump. the statement came in response to a request from the "washington post" about whether some january 6th record

trump. literally. some of the white house records handed over to the committee were reportedly torn and taped back togetherbe sent because they were already gone. the destroyed documents highlight former president trump's reported habit of ripping up papers despite that being against federal law. first reported by "politico" back in 2018, then president trump's staffers had to piece together papers he had to tore because of the presidential records act. that is the federal law that requires administrations to keep their files. trump himself seemed to reference the law when he criticized speaker nancy pelosi's ripping up of the state of the union speech in 2020. take a look. >> i thought it was a terrible thing when she ripped up the speech. and first of all, it is an official document. you're not allowed. it was legal. she broke the way. it was terrible, so disrespectle to our country and actually very illegal what she did. >> double standard much? "new york times" reporter peter baker tweeted his response to the story, quote, trump got elected in part by attacking clinton for deleting emails that she deem

. >>> president biden ordered the release of trump white house visitor logs to the house committee investigatinghe january 6 attack on the u.s. capitol. former president trump sought to block their release by asserting executive privilege. mr. biden rejected that claim. the logs show appointment information for people allowed to enter the white house including on the day of the insurrection. it's unclear if mr. trump will change the release in court. a previous attempt to national archives from releasing record was rejected by the supreme court. >>> turning to the winter olympics in beijing where it was a rough evening for team usa. the women's hockey team lost to canada 3-2 in the gold medal match. the americans fought back from a 3-0 deficit. they scored their second gold with 13 seconds left, but they just ran out of time. the u.s. beat canada four years ago to win the gold medal. >>> and on the slopes, mikaela shiffrin skied out in the alpine combined and was unable to finish. for the third time in five races. she lost her balance about ten gates into her run. the two-time gold medalist will

a statement, the national archives said the records should have been turned over before trump left the white house. a requirement that also applied to his predecessors under a law called the presidential records act. but trump appeared to show little regard for preserving official records. according to the archives, many of the records that were turned over when he left office had been torn into pieces by trump himself. some of them later taped together by his aides. others still in pieces. it's unclear why trump took these mar-a-lago. simply where he took the records with him to mar-a-lago we have called his spokesperson and not received any answers. so we don't know whether he was simply taking mementos with him when he left the white house or if he had another reason for taking 15 boxes worth of what are presidential records out of the white house when he left on january 20th last year. jonathan karl, abc news, washington. >> jonathan, thank you. >>> and the former president is cashing in with his new coffee table book. cnn says "our journey together" has grossed $20 million in less than two mo

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