we are learning the fbi seized the cellphone of a republican congressman in relation to the january 6th investigation. more on that in a moment. but first, just in, the former president is about to be deposed. sometime in the next few hours donald trump will face prosecutors from the new york attorney general s office. this is the culmination of a civil investigation into the trump organization s finances that has lasted for more than three years. investigators are probing whether the trump organization used false or misleading asset valuations in its financial statements to obtain loans, insurance benefits, also tax benefits. kara scannell who has been all over this story for years joins us now. great to see you. so the former president being deposed. what can we expect today? it s a big day and a long time coming. sources tell us that donald trump will be deposed today, will face off with the lawyers from the new york attorney general s office and, you know, this is som
the illegal server taking the fifth, i think it s disgraceful. have you seen what is going on in front of congress? fifth amendment, fifth amendment, fifth amendment. horrible. horrible! the lawyers are deposing trump in a civil investigation by the new york attorney general. she s looking into the donald trump organization s allegedly misleading of lenders and insurers and tax authorities by providing inaccurate financial statements. add this to the list of legal troubles facing the former president. including a probe of documents. monday s search has his supporters urging him to move up the announcement of the 2024 run. cnn has the latest on the deposition from outside the new york attorney general s office. what is the president saying about why he took the fifth? reporter: well, victor, as you have played in the montage, you can see it s a different tune today that the former president saying he s not answering questions and asserting his fifth amendment right. in a l
iranian assassination plot in addition to former national security adviser john bolton. stand by for new details on federal charges against an iranian operative. later, i ll have a one-on-one interview with ambassador bolton. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. former president trump departed the new york attorney general s office just a little while ago, after he invoked the fifth amendment in a deposition in the probe of his business dealings. cnn s senior washington correspondent pamela brown is joining us with the late breaking developments. this follows the unprecedented fbi search of trump s florida home. yeah, what a week it has been for the former president, donald trump. he asserted his fifth amendment constitutional right today. he says in part because of the search on his home on monday by the fbi. and tonight, we re learning new details about why the fbi took that extraordinar
30 minutes ago, flanked by his attorney from new york, bob costello, and as he exited the vehicle, i was able to ask him a couple of questions, including if he lied to georgia lawmakers when he appeared before them three times in the wake of the 2020 election. listen to his answers. mr. giuliani, when you met with georgia lawmakers, did you lie to them? we will not talk about this until it is over. it is a grand jury and grand juries as i recall are secret. do you believe president trump is the ultimate target of this investigation? i m not going to comment on the grand jury investigation. what do you think their ultimate goal is here? what are you expecting to talk about here today? they ask the questions and we ll see. will you be cooperative? your attorney in new york says he can t promise how responsive you ll be? good-bye. reporter: a bit of an awkward moment for giuliani, he got here just before those doors opened in the fulton county courthouse, so he
media with his talent off the field. and the big honors being awarded to nbc news and this very broadcast. announcer: this is “nbc nightly news” with lester holt good evening i m kate snow in for lester tonight in a rare move, the u.s. attorney general merrick garland is speaking out, saying he personally approved the fbi search of former president trump s home at mar-a-lago on monday. while he said he could not provide more details about the basis of the search, he did say the department of justice is asking a judge to make the warrant that was issued public. mr. trump reacting on social media saying with no warning mar-a-lago was raided. that message resonating with trump supporters, some ridiculing, even threatening law enforcement. today the attorney general pointedly saying he would not stand by silently seeing his agents integrity attacked just hours before in cincinnati, an armed man walked into an fbi field office shooting a nail gun more on that in a mom