Today on Valsh, Donald Trump's campaign calendar is about to collide with his legal calendar.

We'll have the latest on the twice-impeached, twice-indicted ex-presidents' most pressing legal entanglements.

Plus, the stroke of a pen in September 1974 let one unrepented ex-president off the hook,

but it might have also helped set the stage for the dangerous behavior of another unrepented ex-president off the hook, but it might have also helped set the stage for the dangerous behavior

of another unrepented ex-president. And my friend Soledat O'Brien's here to talk about why black

ownership in media is so rare and why representation matters, not just on screen, but in ownership

as well. Then today's featured author in the Velshi Band Book Club says sex education that excludes same-sex

couples as, quote, institutional homophobia. So she did something about it. She wrote,

this book is gay, a funny, informative, and crucial guidebook that's currently number 10 on the

American Library Association's list of most banned books. Velshi starts now.

Good morning. It's Saturday, June 16th. I'm Ali Velshi. Let's cut right to the chase.

Former president and current presidential candidate Donald Trump is alleged to have

absconded with top secret classified documents belonging to the United States government. His defenders

are debasing themselves and their political party to defend their dear Donald. But first things first,

Trump did not just mishandle these documents. Mishandling is carelessness, a mistake perhaps, not having state secrets spilled on the floor of

an unsecure closet at your golf club, not taking U.S. battle plans from the White House,

keeping them in violation of the law and a subsequent court order, and then waving them

around in a meeting with a writer and a publisher, neither of

whom's have security clearances or the need to know any of that information. But perhaps most

damning is Trump's public defense against the indictment. The fact is he's not really denying

the key points, the facts, as alleged, in the 37 counts. Trump is readily admitting on the campaign trail in public that he took the documents

and that he indeed had them at his golf club.

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