To book your free consultation. All right. Good morning, everyone. It is the top of the hour. Were so glad youre with us on this monday and a busy one already. New polling, new arraignment. Polls, polls, polls, and they all the same thing. Thats the most important. Theyre not focused on one poll. Ill die on this hill. Its a good hill to die on. To the law this morning, a second trump employee scheduled to be arraigned in the classified documents probe, as the former president says he did not direct anyone to delete Security Footage at maralago. And will thousands of smalldollar donors to trumps Political Action committee care all the that their donations are being spent on legal fees. Theyve already spent 40 million this year and thats double what they spent last year and its only july. And theres a giant x at twitters headquarters. San francisco are investigating whether the sign is a permit violation. This hour of cnn this morning starts now. This morning, the Property Manager who al
boxes. the new york times reports this, quote, during president trump s years in the white house his aides began to refer to the boxes full of papers and odds and ends he carted around with him almost everywhere as the beautiful mind material. it was a reference to the title of a book and movie depicting the life of john f nash jr., the mathematician with schizophrenia played in the film by russell crow. one trump official who spoke anonplacely to describe the situation said while the materials were disorganized trump would notice if someone rifled through them or they were not arranged in a particular way. it was the person said, quote, how his mind works but the times describes trump s organized chaos was nothing new. here s a look at his office at trump tower back in 2015 from an interview with wall street germ. this office is all you, and it s a little bit junky. yeah. you know what? this i just got a few weeks ago. this is from the marine corp. that s the chair f
whether it s a mental illness or not having enough food, these are just not intractable problems in the least. they are uniquely exacerbated in the united states as it relates to developed countries. but absolutely solvable problems. especially here in new york city. a city awash in wealth. that s right. among a very few number of households. i appreciate that you are staying on top of. it thanks alex, have a great weekend. thanks ali, have a great show. the validity of the public debt of the united states shall not be questioned. that is america s constitutional mandate. and who in the current negotiations between president biden and kevin mccarthy appears to be violating that? who really knows what s going on with the white house negotiations with kevin mccarthy ten days before a potential default date. here s the update. talks briefly resume tonight with no progress after republican negotiators abruptly left a meeting with the biden administration officials t
briefly resume tonight with no progress after republican negotiators abruptly left the meeting with officials this morning saying that they needed to quote, press pause, and quote. calling the talks not productive. the republicans exit was widely seen, not as an order from the speaker, kevin mccarthy, but rather as kevin mccarthy taking marching orders from the chaos caucus. otherwise known as the house freedom caucus. and it s spiritual leader, donald trump. who said today, quote, republicans should not make a deal on the debt ceiling unless they get everything they want, including the kitchen sink. that s the way democrats have always dealt with us, do not fold. exclamation, exclamation, exclamation. and quote. that the chaos of kevin mccarthy s speakership taught us anything, it s that kevin mccarthy does not control his caucus. and now those hard-liners who one unknown concessions from mccarthy to make and the speaker, seemed to be calling the shots. a source familiar wit
the beat with ari melber starts now. happy friday. happy friday, nicole. hope you enjoy your weekend. it s been quite a week. welcome to the the beat. i m ari melber here on the beet both beet. up top, there are a lot more developments in the unprecedented story that broke last night. if you have been busy, you maybe didn t hear it. the new york times dropping this bombshell news that donald trump is likely to be indicted in new york. tonight trump s lawyers acknowledge a key point in that account. the d.a. has indeed invited donald trump to testify to the grand jury. this isn t hypothetical. this isn t some day. this is next week. an invite to testify next week according to trump lawyers. they are in florida over the weekend discussing strategy, taking this as a real thing. seriously, they tell nbc news they have no plans to meet with the manhattan d.a. mr. bragg. so, let s get some clarity up top. there are many stories we cover we say here is this thing and here ar