the former president is being questioned under oath this morning in new york s long-running civil investigation of his family s business finances. the state attorney general s office is trying to determine whether the trump organization improperly inflated the value of its assets in order to obtain loans, insurance and tax benefits, but also there are new details about why fbi agents searched trump s florida home. the search happened because authorities believe the former president or his team didn t return all of the government records that were taken when they left the white house. documents with national security implications, let s begin with trump under oath today. cnn s kara scannell is live outside the ag s office right now. donald trump put out a statement saying he s not actually answering questions. what is this all about? yeah, kate. so this deposition began about an hour and a half ago. trump arrived at the office building just behind me around 9:00, and he just
blastoff. nasa will try to launch the rocket again on friday for the six-week test flight if it can the fix that engine. if it is successful, artemis is poised to carry astronauts back to the moon nearly 50 years since astronauts last walked on the moon. new fallout from the fbi search of president trump s florida home. the director of national intelligence is launching an assessment of the potential risk to national security, including to human intelligence sources. a florida judge appointed by trump is prepared to grant his request for an independent official to review everything seized by the fbi. the judge is set to get a detailed list of the material from the doj tomorrow to make her decision. a u.n. watchdog agency team is set to arrive in ukraine to assess potential damage to the nuclear power plant. first to those classified documents seized from former president trump s home. joining me is ken delanian, jonathan lemire, former u.s. attorney and law professor joyc
this morning. welcome back to the fourth hour of morning joe. it s 9:00 a.m. in theeast, 6:00 a.m. out west. elise jordan and jonathan lemire still with us. we have a lot to get to this hour, including more on that critical inflation report just released that shows consumer prices rose less than expected last month. yay, inflation only at 8.5%. wait a second that s sti a lot. it is lower tha expected. fuel prices droppg as quickly as they have probably helped. also we have the latest development on the justice department s investigation of donald trump, this as the 45th president will be questioned under oath today in the new york attorney general s civil investigation into his real estate dealings. release the warrant, mr. president. if you care about transparency, release the warrant. you have it. let us see it. stop playing your followers as dupes. you know, doj needs to be as transparent as they can be while being fair to this possible criminal. we don t know yet,
loan borrowers faces legal and political hurdles. exits about opportunity. it s about giving people a fair shot. the people who will benefit will love it for the question is is it fair to everyone else? cooksville as former white house senior advisor cedric richmond who now advises the dnc about this election your gamble. then, the u.s. announces the single largest share of weapons to be sent since the war in ukraine began too. this announcement as part of our efforts to ensure ukraine military can continue to defend its people. will discuss the u.s. response there six months after russia invaded. and the state of afghanistan one year since the last american forces left with retired general frank mckenzie who oversaw the controversy with draw. and a judge orders the release of a redacted version of the affidavit used to search for her president trump s mar-a-lago estate. we will ask our sunday panel whether there was ever any national security risk. then, researchers ma
search of donald trump s mar-a-lago resort. it s the first time in american history the bureau has searched the home of a former president. sources say agents removed boxes of items and trump s attorney confirmed papers were taken. cnn has learned the warrant is tied to an investigation about how presidential documents were handled, including ones that were deemed classified. the former president, while at trump tower in new york, confirmed the fbi was in his home and he says broke into his safe. top republicans are rallying behind the former president after the search, which likely was approved by leaders of the justice department, including trump appointed director of the fbi christopher wray. joining us now, cnn s gabby orr, and katelyn polantz, unprecedented, as we said, what do we know about the search. this was a search that began in the morning yesterday, and as far as we know lasted quite some time. law enforcement went in to mar-a-lago. they were focused on trump s