wrapping up his first term in office with a tradition that goes back decades, hosting the previous president for the unveiling of his official presidential portrait. on that day, in may of 2012. obama made this statement about the point of these portraits, as an enduring member of the presidents temporary time in office serving the people. now the white house is many things at once. it is a working office. it is a living museum. it is an enduring symbol of our democracy. but at the end of the day, when the visitors go home and the lights go down, a few of us are blessed with the tremendous honor to actually live here. i think it is fair to say that every president is acutely aware that we are just temporary residence. we are renters here. we are charged with the upkeep and tell our lease runs out. but we also leave a police of ourself in this place. we are renters here. charged with the upkeep until our lease runs out. in 2012, we did not know how precious those remarks wer
things at once. it is a working office. it is a living museum. it is an enduring symbol of our democracy. but at the end of the day, when the visitors go home and the lights go down, a few of us are blessed with the tremendous honor to actually live here. i think it is fair to say that every president is acutely aware that we are just temporary residence. we are renters here. we are charged with the upkeep and tell our lease runs out. but we also leave a police of ourself in this place. we are renters here. charged with the upkeep until our lease runs out. in 2012, we did not know how precious those remarks were. there was no president biden fighting for the soul of this nation. there was no president trump fighting to stay in office, no insurrectionists storming the capitol. no top secret classified records taken from the white house and stored in a florida closet. none of that had happened yet. in fact, we wouldn t see an official white house portrait unveiling again for an
new charges against steve bannon this morning, welcome to viewers here in the united states and all around the world. long-time trump adviser and ally steve bannon expected to surrender to prosecutors in new york thursday to face state charges related to his fundraising effort to build a wall along the southern border. bannon allegedly defrauded donors who contributed to a we build the wall campaign. the crowd-funded border wall raised more than $25 million. according to prosecutors bannon falsely told donors that all the money contributed would go toward the construction effort. bannon in a statement calls the indictment phoney charges and a partisan political weaponization of the criminal justice system. federal prosecutors charged bannon with the same alleged crime in 2020 but president trump pardoned bannon as he was leaving office. presidential pardons do not apply to state investigations, of course. cnn s kara scannell is joining us now with the details. what s the la
but, you know,. i ll just say, i m luckier than perhaps some of your viewers, because i usually get to touch base with you at least once a day, even without twitter. there you have it. have a great show. have a great weekend. thank you, nicole. welcome to the beat. i am ari melber. this is one of those busy news fridays. we begin with the bombshell that s led trump s team to really be on alert or in damage control mode even though they have gotten some procedural steps, victories of sorts in this mar-a-lago case. now the news is, donald trump s team lied to the national archives long before they ever got his home searched. the washington post reports, the archives were actually told none of that material that remains a big issue in this criminal investigation was sensitive or classified at all, that trump had 12 boxes of news clippings. well, that s blatantly false. we know the fbi found hundreds of classified documents. we know this went way beyond news clippings.
9:00 a.m. on the east coast, 6:00 a.m. out west. we have a lot to cover this hour including the latest on the investigation into the scores of documents recovered at former president trump s mar-a-lago resort and how the justice departments findings may undercut calls from team trump for an outside evaluation. also why didn t they ask for this a long time ago. this is been going on a long time. i know. also president biden will deliver a prime time address on the continued battle for the soul of the nation. this thursday we ll get a live report from the white house on what is in store. and, has the next race for the white house begins to heat up, author david priess has a reminder, that not everyone needs to run for president. that conversation is ahead. as we talk about joe biden having a speech about the soul of the nation. and we talk about donald trump and overshadowing this and talking about this, this hour, overshadowing are republican senators who are threatening