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
taking on president trump over his behavior. that, of course, being chris christie and asa hutchinson. the rest, of course, are waiting to see if trump, in effect, self-destructs and they can pick up the pieces without having offended his base. peter, lastly, president biden and the white house have gone quiet on this. they told democrats to keep down, too. it s understandable. there is an open investigation into biden s classified materials of his own, as well as this expectation about charges on hunter biden in the weeks ahead. as democrats you speak to, those inside the white house and capitol hill, do they think at a certain point this should be something the president does engage upon, all these criminal matters, saying, look, this is simply we as a nation can t go through this and elect someone again who, frankly, could be incarcerated? at some point, they ll engage on the campaign trail when they think it is time, but nobody i ve talked to insides the white house, and maybe
self-destructs, senior government sources will analyze the remains at fbi processing lab. the airship flew over several military bases, weighed nearly 2000 pounds and was 200 feet tall. mike pompeo criticizing the biden administration for allowing something so dangerous to stay in the sky for a week. the chinese may have been able to blow this thing up themselves. imagine that, if you knew that, they didn t understand risk. brooke: the white house seems to be struggling to defend claims previous flew over in the trump administration. how is it possible this administration discovered three previous balloons, but trump officials didn t know it was happening. i think and we ve talked before about how when the prc
weigh in live next. a painting self-destructs after won at an auction. the buyer is revealing her plan. will she keep it or not? ed: didn t she pay big money for it over a million.