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
public and stop this. kevin mccarthy was not the only republican calling on donald trump to put an end to the violence on that day. in fact, we have learned that at least 11 other republican members of congress reach out to the white house, or at least made some kind of public statement that day to implore the president to do something. to do anything to stop the violence. in fact, his eldest son, don jr., texted then white house chief of staff, mark meadows saying, he s got to condemn this asap. the capitol police tweet is not enough. and he has to lead now. it is gone too far. it is gotten out of hand. three different fox news host, sean hannity, laura ingraham, john all of them texted meadows saying trump needed to make a statement telling people to leave. that is what we know is happening outside of the white house during the 187 minutes from trump s speech on the ellipse, urging supporters to fight like hell. and when he finally released a video telling the rioters quo
you probably won t hear him talk this way again. but, i want to play this for you. this was with the top house republican, kevin mccarthy said on live television back on january six, 2021, as the attack on the capital was unfolding in realtime. i ve spoken to the president. i asked him to talk to the nation, and don t stop this. i told him we need to talk to the nation. i told him what was happening right then. i was very clear with the president when i called him. this has to stop. he s gotta go to the american public and tell them to stop it. he has to go to the american public and stop this. kevin mccarthy was not the only republican calling on donald trump to put an end to the violence on that day. in fact, we have learned that at least 11 other republican members of congress reach out to the white house, or at least made some kind of public statement that day to implore the president to do something. to do anything to stop the violence. in fact, his eldest son, don j
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
Demonstration activity. cease and desist or you will be arrested. earlier today, more than a dozen members of congress you saw there marched from the u.s. capitol building to the supreme court. joining a crowd of demonstrators protesting against the abortion ban states are enforcing since the supreme court overturned roe last month. after officers warned the protesters, as you heard in that video, including members of congress to cease and desist, those lawmakers sat down, in the middle of the street. chanting, we won t go back. and at that, point police began to make arrests. they arrested a toll of 35 protesters, including 17 members of congress. democrats like congresswoman barbara lee, carolyn maloney, alexandria ocasio-cortez, elaine omar, and it doesn t others were escorted out one by one. this comes just days after the house passed two bills that aimed at protecting women s autonomy and their right to abortion. one bill codified roe into law,