reid. we begin with more on the search at donald trump s mar-a-lago home. while trump and his allies have been raging the fbi and the justice department have remained conspicuously quiet. here s what we have learned. according to authority the federal authorities drew increasingly concerned that the man, i don t know, known for skirting the law for the last 40 years and his lawyers, have not returned all of the classified material that he carted off with him when he went scurrying down to florida after being booted out of office by joe biden. i a cording to the washington post officials, quote, blame, suspicious became suspicious that when trump gave 15 boxes of items to the national archives about seven months ago, either the former president or people close to him held on to key records. trump attorney christina bobb, the former oan reporter who helped spearhead the recount said trump s legal teams were in discussions with the justice department this spring about record
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 knew someone would identify that vehicle for us can which is exactly what happened. i love playing. i can t do this forever. sounds as though the u.s. open later this month will be her final tournament. it is wednesday, august 10, in washington the republican outrage machine is in high gear after the fbi search of mar-a-lago. trump allies are calling for attorney general miles per hour rick garland and fbi director christopher wray to be removed from office. republicans want answer after the first ever search of a former president s private home. meanwhile a source tells cnn investigators carried out the search because they suspected trump and his team were withholding documents that have national security implications. they also believer the trump team was not being completely truthful with investigators. another source tells cnn the fbi subpoenaed and received surveillance video of mar-a-lago from the trump organization. this is said to be related to the docume
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
peaked and how much you pay in your everyday life will soon go up. donald trump goes under oath and refuses to answer moments. a marquee moment into the investigation into the former president s finances. he faced questions from new york s attorney and lawyers in the new york attorney s office. we know trump did what he says only mobsters do, pleaded the fifth. trump saying, under the advice of my counsel and the above reasons i decline to answer is the questions under the rights and privileges to every citizen under the constitution of the united states of america. tell us more. reporter: trump around here at 9:00 a.m. he said he was going to assert his fifth amendment rights and not answer any questions. trump said what he said only mobsters do. today he is taking the fifth because the new york attorney general leading this investigation letitia james, he has called her racist and her investigation is politically motivated so he was not going to answer any questions.