newspaper clippings and documents with him after leaving the white house, something his aides apparently refer to as his beautiful mind boxes, this as trump s defense comes under scrutiny even by some conservatives like carl rogue who say trump invited this indictment. plus, there s even more legal trouble for the former president as writer e. jean carroll s second defamation case gets a court date. we ll run through it all straight ahead. good morning and welcome to way too early on this friday, june 16th. we are all glad it is friday. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. so one week after the latest indictment of donald trump, there s new reporting that pokes holes in one of the former president s defenses. despite claiming earlier in the week that he, quote hadn t had a chance to go through all the boxes that he took with him to mar-a-lago, former white house aides are telling the new york times that trump was unusually attached to those boxes
welcome back. as we take a look at some of the morning s other top headlines. a federal judge has set a date for e. jean carroll s second defamation trial against former president trump. in 2024 a jury scheduled to hear carroll s amended complaint in the still pending case against trump where carroll is seeking new damages of at least $10 million. this follows remarks made by trump during a televised town hall appearance last month. carroll s team alleges that he doubled down on his prior defamatory statements during that televised event. carroll s second defamation trial against the former president is now set to fall just before the first gop primaries and is one of a series of upcoming trials against trump. new york state attorney general letitia james lawsuit alleging trump inflated his personal net worth to gain favorable loan agreements is set to go to trial in october. trump has unsurprisingly called
trump s aid. i think that s the way things are most likely to play out. as a new contributor here around here mara, you know how to be great in 45 seconds already. tell me about this week in terms of american women and are we more divided than ever? did we come a little closer today by dent of this one senator s actions? i think that it was an exhausting week, not just for american women but for those who love us and those who we love, those who believe us, those who are hearing our stories, sometimes for the first time and sometimes not. you know, i ve talked to a lot of my friends, and we are exhausted but we re also extremely empowered seeing dr. blasey ford telling her story and watching it really upend a supreme court nomination, and so there s a lot of power in telling our stories. i just hope that americans give women the respect they deserve
congressional approval. the judge said basically members of congress your vote has been nullified because you haven t been given the chance to make this decision the constitution requires. in this rare case i will allow you to proceed with a lawsuit. in the seconds we have left, remind our viewers some of this work that has earned you a pulitzer prize, some of these investigations have been spread out? yes, we ve been looking at aspects of president trump s charity, which has result instead this lawsuit filed by the new york attorney general against him, and one thing we ve been looking at in the last couple of years is trying to understand how his businesses are doing and to understand what these lawsuits are trying to get at. who is using the president s businesses to influence the president s administration. how is mowpower making him mone and how are other people using his businesses to influence his power. david farenthold of the washington post, always a pleasure. thank y
journalistic cause. let s play a little common sense here. so you re the emir of kuwait and you have your choice in d.c. hotels, it would make absolutely perfect sense for you to rent out a couple of floors in one of trump s properties. is this the kind of thing that people can t believe is happening in plain sight? well, so we don t really know that much. we don t know the full details of what president trump s company has been doing with foreign governments. we do know some examples. you mentioned kuwait, they rented out big ballrooms at trump s hotels in d.c. foreign heads of state have stayed there. we saw some internal documents from trump s hotel in new york in central park where they said we weren t having that great of a first quarter, revenue s been declining but thank goodness a whole bunch of people traveling with the crown prince of saudi arabia stayed at the hotel. it saved the whole quarter for us. we know there s this business there, but we don t really know exactly wh