The White House isn't big enough to hold the staff that make the executive office run.

So across the way through an underground tunnel, there's an office building where a lot of

the work happens, like preserving presidential records.

His thing was he didn't tear what records was.

He frequently tore up memos or things and just threw them in his trash.

This is Solomon Larte, a records management analyst under four U.S. presidents, Clinton,

Bush, Obama, and Trump.

So it took somebody from the White House staff to tell him like, look, you can't do that

because everything is a presidential record.

And I don't think he understood that.

And at the beginning, I don't know if he understands it now, but that's what it was.

The law says every piece of paper that passes the president's desk must be preserved.

Anything that comes in there from a lawsuit, like I say, from a kid right in a letter to

a picture being sent out to somebody is a presidential record, everything.

From an administration to administration, the nature of Larte's job changed only a little

bit until Trump.

That's when he began to receive Manila folders containing fragments of paper about the size

of your thumb torn by the hands of the president of the United States.

It's like a do-on-a-puzzle, an adult puzzle.

We would use a clear tape so it could be perfect as possible.

We had to line it up and send it to the archives.

In Solomon Larte's experience, Trump didn't shred everything.

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