at former president donald trump s mar-a-lago estate, about two days ago. the new york attorney general is ramping up the civil investigation into the trump family businesses. a lot happening. hello, welcome everyone. mike, great to have you again. mike: great to be working with you, i m in for john roberts in washington. former president trump taking the fifth amendment when questioned under after the deposition of two of his children, comes on the heels of an unprecedented fbi raid at the former president s former home on monday and as calls grow for attorney general merrick garland and fbi chief to address the matter. sandra: andy mccarthy will join us. the latest on the search to his home, but first david lee miller is outside of trump tower. david lee, unexpected that trump pled the fifth today? well, you know, sandra, we all know that mr. trump s behavior can be unpredictable, but this was not an enormous surprise, considering the fact that his attorneys have be
florida in just a moment. plus a new subpoena from the department of justice, this one to the national archives for white house documents it turned over to the january 6 committee. meanwhile, in georgia, rudy giuliani testified for over six hours over his efforts to overturn the 2020 election. now georgia s governor is seeking to delay his own testimony which was scheduled for today. willie. let s begin this hour in the state of florida. where at 1:00 p.m. a federal judge will hear arguments about whether to unseal the affidavit used by the fbi to search the florida home of former president donald trump. the justice department is arguing against that saying it could compromise an ongoing investigation. the fbi goes through the seized documents sorting those covered by attorney/client privilege to what is relevant to the case. joining us in west palm beach, correspondent sam brock. good morning. reporter: willie, good morning. and speaking to that specifically, the breadth
congressman and former republican governor charlie crist. and in the race to oppose senator marco rubio in the fall, cnn projects the democratic nominee is congresswoman val demings. first, the documents. we know a lot more tonight about the classified material the former president was keeping at mar-a-lago, including how much of it there was, more than 700 pages, how the former president tried to hang on to it for months, and how very sensitive some of the information in it was, more sensitive than previously reported, bearing a designation limiting access to only a select few officials. the reason we know this information is because of a move by one of the former president s allies and a liaison to the national archive. a move that the ally billed as bolstering the former president s case against the fbi search. but he may have done the precise opposite and then some. we have new evidence. justice news has obtained correspondence between various properties during the le
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which the national archive subsequently confirmed by releasing, also did apply to mr. solomon a contention about president biden s role in determining whether executive privilege applied. quoting from it now, president biden defers to determination in consultation with the assistant attorney general for the office of legal counsel regarding whether or not i should uphold the former president s purported protective assertion of executive privilege. concluding, quote, the question in this case is not a close one. the letter also fails to show as john solomon claims that president trump had anything to do with the search. what it does say is that the former president had more than 700 pages of classified material at his florida resort and that some pertained to special access programs, which are created when sharing certain information beyond the very highest levels could increase the risk of it getting out and damaging national security. so that s something we did not know when the searc