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
the rest of america, and we ll have more to say when we get some news this morning. all right, we ll still be looking for that. and speaking of the supreme court we are coming up on the one-year anniversary of their decision to reverse roe v. wade, and we ve seen since that moment abortion rights being challenged in a number of states by republican legislatures. we noted the vice president is going to be on the road. tell us more about how the white house and the president himself are going to mark this anniversary. what is their message to americans whose lives changed a year ago? well, the president has been really consistent since the dobbs decision came down a year ago in fighting to protect women s access to reproductive rights, to reproductive health care. and in addition to the actions he s taken, he s continued to fight to push for a congress that will codify the protections of roe into law. you may have heard yesterday the vice president will be headed to north carolina