ally s phone. and a judge s ruling that trump s tax returns can go to house lawmakers. each headline a major development on its own in the legal sphere. here is the big picture when it comes to the legal pressures trump is facing. two department of justice probes. one involving classified documents. the other january 6th. there is also the house select committee investigation into his role in the insurrection. then in georgia trump s infamous fine the votes phone call, the crux of an election interference case. then there is his taxes, his finances. there are three separate investigations here and, today, there was a deposition involving the civil probe in new york. that is where we want to begin with cnn s kara. would the former president answer questions or would he assert the fifth? he chose the latter. reporter: yeah. that is right. that was the big question this morning. donald trump arrived here about four hours ago. he is in the building just over my shoulder at the
primaries. good morning and welcome to way too early on this wednesday, august 10th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for being with us. we ll begin with the latest developments in the fbi search of donald trump s south florida home. sources familiar with the matter tell the washingt post that federal authorities were concerne that trump had not returned to the national archives all the material head improperly taken to mar-a-lago after he left the white house in january, 2021. he returned 15 boxes about 7 months ago, but 12 more boxes were seized in nday s search. trump s attorney christina bob says the former president s legal team had been in discussions with the justice department sin the spring about whether additional records were being stored at mar-a-lago. e says that trump s attorys me at m-a-lago on two occasions. source tell nbc news at some point during the pro trump even personay showed investigators showedhe room ere the materia were being ke. here is what
not even bothering to disguise their identities. and why should why you should not buy into the hype that the fbi search at mar-a-lago is somehow unprecedented. good evening, i m jason johnson in for joy reid and we begin 24 hours perhaps after the biggest story of the american presidency, that for the first time in history the fbi conducted a search at the home of a former president, that of donald trump. we have learned a lot more about what went down in his mar-a-lago residence, but there are still a lot of up answered questions. a source familiar with the matter tells nbc news that the search was tied to classified information trump allegedly took with him when he left the white house. remember back in february the national archives asked the justice department to investigate if trump s handling of white house records violated federal law. it came a month after the archives retrieved 15 boxes of presidential records taken to mar-a-lago. nbc news that the fbi notified tr
judge permitting them to enter. the search by a large uniformed team ununiformed team, excuse me, took hours and included getting into trump s safe. mr. trump who announced the search in a statement on his website railed against it claiming prosecutorial misconduct and political persecution. he was in manhattan at the time in preparation for an upcoming deposition, part of the civil investigation by the new york state attorney s office into his organization s finances. the former president s lawyer was at the scene in florida and called it an unannounced raid to seize paper. white house officials tell nbc news they had no prior knowledge and justice department officials are refusing to comment. we have the story completely covered throughout this hour, including a deep dive with legal experts and historian michael beschloss, as well as the political fallout. we begin with nbc s kerry sanders, ken dilanian, ryan reilly and josh daucey. we did hear from donald trump during
offers more threats nearby. state side a number of critical republican primaries have the attention of washington and bedminster. looks like we already have winners if you can believe it or not inner missouri and michigan and the polls have just closed in arizona. now this hour s going to be a high wire act as we bring you all of these breaking stories but we begin tonight with threats and truth. that is the focus of tonight s angle. five years ago, speaker visit taiwan. it was completely wrong. the u.s. draw a lesson from it instead of making repeated mistakes. laura: it s now, well, let me just tell you one thing. 10:00 a.m. in taiwan and, to her credit, nancy pelosi didn t back down when china essentially threatened to shoot her plane out of the sky. now she s been the ground for what, about 12 hours or so landing here just after 10:30 a.m. eastern today. we re going to bring you news about the specifics of her meetings at any moment. now, remember, trip details have b