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
via the winds this is cnn, the world s news welcome to the whole story. i m anderson cooper on june 6, 1944, american, canadian, british, and other allied forces launched the largest amphibious invasion in history. nearly 160,000 troops landed along five beaches in normandy, france. and what became known as d-day it was a turning point in the war in europe world war ii was fought against fascist regimes and germany and italy and imperial japan the victory of democratic principles was hard. one but 80 years have passed since d-day. and we thought it a good time to take a look at the state of our democracy today over the next hour, cnn s jake tapper looks back at d-day sacrifices. so many young men made on those beaches in normandy that day. and what it means to us now what were we fighting for? we were locked a battle with fascism. we re fighting for our freedom, for the freedom to think as we wish kopan with they gave their life to preserve and protect that constitution the
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style we re seeing fighting in foxholes and hand dug trenches, so it s really tough going. and i think what s really concerning to many people in the pentagon is that ukraine has been losing a lot of western equipment that the west has been given including u.s. equipment, but that s something i think ukraine has expected and i think everyone s tamped down expectations on this counter offensive in the last couple of months, and i think we re going to see this probably last into the fall or winter. the last counter offensive last year was so successful they re trying to say, hey, a little different this time around, it s going to be harder. today secretary of state antony blinken will head to beijing with chinese officials. obviously this was a trip initially scheduled months ago, postponed because of the sky balloon incident over the u.s. talk to us about the hopes and agenda of this meeting. i think the idea is to get relations to thaw.