welcome to the lead. i m dana bash in for jake tapper. we begin with our politics lead. donald trump today invoked his fifth amendment right in a deposition with a new york attorney general who is investigating the trump organization s finances. this deposition lasting more than five hours. in a lengthy statement, the former president claims he had no choice, saying he s the target of an unfounded politically motivated witch hunt. this from the man who once asked if you re innocent, why are you taking the fifth? this is one of at least seven criminal, sifcivil, and congressional investigations trump is facing. that includes the probe that led to the fbi search at his mar-a-lago home on monday. that was died to the doj s investigation into the handling of classified documents cnn s sara murray has more on today s derailed deposition against the backdrop of the extraordinary legal jeopardy trump faces. what s your message to your supporters? as donald trump s legal woes
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
an escalation of the investigations into donald trump and his inner circle that would require approval from the highest levels of the justice department. sources are saying that monday s search at trump s residence in palm beach is part of doj s probe into his handling of presidential records. some of the documents were classified. cnn has learned that agents left mar-a-lago with additional boxes of items, and sources also tell cnn investigators visited trump s home previously, then meets with his attorneys about the material taken from the white house. trump wasn t there at the time of yesterday s search, however, but he definitely has plenty to say about it. let s start with cnn s leyla santiago live in palm beach, florida. what more are you learning about the fbi search? reporter: kate, i can tell you that here at mar-a-lago it s been pretty quiet. we still see some law enforcement at some of the entrances for mar-a-lago, and then out where we are right now, the bridge b
even as unemployment ticked up. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. wolf blitzer is off today. i m brianna keilar and you re in the situation room. our top story tonight, the newly unsealed inventory from the fbi s mar-a-lago search and the questions that it s raising about former president trump s handling of highly classified material. cnn s senior justice correspondent evan perez is following the investigation for us. so evan, this full inventory shows more than 48 empty folders with classification banners as well as some personal items mixed in with government documents. what exactly does this more detailed list reveal? well, that s exactly right. you look at some of the haphazard way seemingly haphazard way in which some of these items were being stored, mixed in with items of clothing and news clippings and magazines, you have classified information, for instance, 18 documents that were marked top secret. 54 documents marked secret. a
of mind and it s all raising more questions about the potential charges against his father. here s cnn s senior national correspondent, ed lavandera. reporter: in the mayhem of the shooting at the highland park fourth of july parade, new details are emerging from a witness that provided key surveillance video which helped identify the alleged shooter. see people running, he s walking. reporter: it was a camera connected to a building owned by habim. he captured the alleyway the shooter used. started looking at the camera here. he was on the film at 10:07 into the alley. and 10:14 coming out. when he comes out, he s holding an orange bag in the rifle butt, something in the bag hits the guardrail and drops. and he looks at it and that s when we caught him on his camera so we knew who it was and then he left. reporter: newly released documents paint the picture of a depressed teenager with a history of drug use and a home life marked by domestic incidents. a report fro