This morning, brand new reporting on Donald Trump's obsession with keeping troves of newspaper clippings and documents with him after leaving the White House,

something his aides apparently referred to as his beautiful mind boxes.

This, as Trump's defense comes under scrutiny, even by some conservatives like

Karl Rove, 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 John Flemere. Thanks for starting your day with us. So one week after the latest indictment

of Donald Trump, there is 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 and their contents throughout his presidency

and even after he left office. The staffers reportedly referred to

the boxes as Trump's, quote, beautiful mine material in reference to the book and movie

about Nobel Prize-winning mathematician John Nash. That was Russell Crow in the starring role there.

Nash was diagnosed with schizophrenia as an adult and covered the walls of his office with newspaper clippings and documents, believing he was hired by the U.S. government to crack a Russian code.

Two people familiar with the practice tell the times that Trump was meticulous about putting things in specific boxes and could generally identify what was in the boxes that

most immediately around him. The fore-president also reportedly had a habit of bringing documents

with him from the West Wing to the White House residents and even went around his own staff

system for tracking that material.

And since leaving the White House, sources tell the times that Trump has maintained that behavior,

even filling up new boxes when those close to him have suggested he condense his collection or review it to see if it had any classified material within.

Trump, for his part, continues to insist that documents belong to him.

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