judy: and just finally, andrea bernstein.ll this is going on in new york, down in florida, having to do with the fbi search of the former president the -- his estate at mar a lago. a judge ruled today that the justice department needs to go back and redact any language who -- it doesn't want made public and the affidavit that ended up being used seeking that search warrant. how does that play into any other legal worries the former president has? >> well, it does seem like it's a very big worry when you have the us justice department investigating you, as we now know under the espionage, espionage act and other potential crimes, but we it looks like we may learn more. now this has many steps to go through. obviously the judge has asked the justice department to come back. it can be appealed. it doesn't seem like we will see anything tomorrow but we see a pattern here, which is the president hiding things, the president not revealing things and a president being investigated from everything to whether his company being investi

to discuss what this means for the former president i am joined by andrea bernstein who covers donald issues for npr. welcome back to the "newshour." we know the former president himself is not charged but how unusual is it for the company of a former president to be involved in criminal charges like this? reporter: i think this is the only time it is ever happened. there has never been a post-presidency like trump's. what was so extraordinary about the plea deal was here you had a man who was sort of the closest thing you could come to a physical embodiment of donald trump's business saying, yes, your honor, i committed these crimes 15 times. judy: and what exactly, remind us of what exactly did he plead ill d2? reporter: just over a year ago, the manhattan districtttorney charged him with 15 felonies. the scheme which lasted over 15 years was for him to lie about his income and say it was lower than it was by taking his income in things like a luxury apartment, mercedes-benzs for he and his wife and private school tuition for his children avoiding taxes on millions of dollars. what

jared bernstein, a good day for the white house on a lot of levels. thanks. >> thanks very much, andrea. >>> and a big win for senate democrats, as we've been saying. their party's tax, climate, and health care bill, senator kyrsten sinema of arizona, the last vote they needed on the democratic side, signing off after negotiating those key things, sealing a big win they can deliver to the voter on the campaign trail if it hold in the next couple of days. joining us now from capitol hill is ali vitali, who has been following every twist and turn and now knows that she's going to have to work on saturday for a rare saturday session. and i guess they're going to be working all weekend as they rye to finish this up. senator schumer's got a really tough schedule. >> yeah. a really tough schedule. we have got our coffee here on capitol hill. and everyone's ready to go for the weekend, because, look, for democrats, andrea, they've wanted to get this done before they go back home for august recess because it's such a moment for them to be able to show what happens for voters when democrats are