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
privileged in the future. it s very overbroad, totally improper, they re going way beyond the scope. why are they being allowed to do it then, renaldo? because the republicans in congress aren t forcing their hands. and we saw it again today they issued a subpoena yesterday. it looked like they were getting tough with bannon, and now they ve given bannon a bunch of time before he comes in again so this way the white house can get its crap together and decide what executive privilege it wants to assert and this will probably die down by then. hope hicks and steve bannon both had their appearances, they had to push back again. renaldo just mentioned that, do you think president trump could have had something to do with that or maybe his attorneys? perhaps the attorneys did or the office of white house counsel. we re not quite sure. but it s telling, there s a playbook being followed. because if what ban anthonon s
and sophisticated. we re seeing it in three separate waves throughout the day. this is clearly a playbook being rolled out by somebody with ill intent and we re all feeling the brunt of it on the east coast of the united states today. planning to be watching some netflix or something tonight, you might want to make other plans just in case. no netflix and chill tonight. go see a movie at the theater maybe. right. thanks for explaining that. up next, we ve been teasing this. stunning developments in the bridgegate trial in new jersey. after two and a half years of silence, jurors and the whole world finally hearing from governor christie s former deputy chief of staff, bridget kelly, what she s revealing about the plan to close the george washington bridge as political rretribution. no knowledge or involvement in this issue, in its planning or its execution. and i am stunned by the abject