appointed director of the fbi, responds to threats against asians in the aftermath of the search. d-against agents in the aftermath of the search. good morning to all of you, welcome to way too early , that is the show on this thursday, august 11, it is not just the time on your clock. i m alex witt for jonathan lemire. we begin with the latest legal fallout from donald trump s deposition from the ag s office and the former president pleaded the fitchth amendment, his right against self incrimination for 450 times in four hours. it is all part of the new york a. g. s probe into the trump business practices with the former president s attorney saying the only question he answered wa about his name. the attorney said trump took the fifth on questions about evaluations of items, and golf clubs, signing documents, mortgages, loans and the size of his apartment. the former president said in a statement that he did it because his family, company, and all the people in his orbit
thank you for sticking with me, i will be back tomorrow night. laura coates is sitting in for don lemon tonight, and that show begins right now. hey, laura. hey, sara sidner, thanks so much, great show as always, and this is don lemon tonight. i am laura coates sitting in for don. and look, we are learning many more details about the fbi s unprecedented search for documents at former president donald trump s mar-a-lago home. and tonight, a source tells cnn that authorities did not believe that trump and his aides had returned all the documents and other materials that had been taken to mar-a-lago when trump left office. the documents, as you well know, are the property of the united states government. they don t belong to trump. some 15 boxes of materials were previously returned to the national archives, but apparently, investigators had concerns about whether there was any additional materials, including, perhaps, classified documents and with potential national security
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
he won t get it unless there ever comes a day when he is charged. but he does have something. exactly. he does have what we call a search warrant. does he have a copy? yes. can he release it? yes. however, there s fairly limited information in this document. it s one page. this is it, this is a sample of it. it tells you where is to be searched, mar-a-lago, what are they looking for. it will say things like documents, papers, computers, it won t guess into specificity usually, who is the judge and when does the fbi have to conduct the search warrant by. however, sometimes there is an attachment to this and that can tell you here are the crimes that prosecutors allege may have been committed. so donald trump does have that document, but it will not give chapter and verse. another important document that donald trump has will answer the question of what did the fbi take from mar-a-lago. now, this is called a return. it s basically an invoice. it s a receipt. the fbi will sa
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