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
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
search broke. let s go outfront. and good evening. i m erin burnett. outfront tonight, the breaking news. new details just in about why the fbi searched trump s mar-a-lago home. cnn learning tonight that investigators grew increasingly concerned that trump or his lawyers had not turned over all of the documents and other materials that were government property. officials also came to believe that trump s representatives were not being completely truthful when it came to the documents trump may have had in his possession. according to the washington post, the fbi also removed about a dozen boxes in monday s search. and it comes as new details are emerging about the lengths the fbi went to to keep the search under wraps. a search tells our whitney wild the secret service only had a one-hour heads up before the fbi showed up to execute the search warrant. only one hour. a source tells cnn that secret service agents validated the warrant, they met the fbi agents. they
primary for governor and beat rebecca kleefisch, and the trump-backed candidate wins in wisconsin. it will run against tony evers in november. it could be a close race. there is a primary in connecticut this week for the united states senate this. may not be the most competitive race in the general election but again what makes this interesting is we re taking the temperature of the republican party. donald trump coming in with an endorsement days before this primary at the last minute this an upset, his candidate wins the connecticut republican primary. so another win for trump there. and more significantly for trump though this week, we ve got some final results from out in washington, and a primary in washington state, they were actually held a week ago, but they take a long time to count their votes out there, and lear we got the third strict here, remember, it is called a top two primary in washington state, and democrats, republicans, and they run on the same ballot, and the
doubts about the election results. i m going to create an office of election integrity under the umbrella of the department of justice with real law enforcement authority that can use our frorensic auditors to stop fraud before it starts. we are going to have election integrity here in wisconsin. as trump has remained obsessed with overturning the state s results after losing the 2020 presidential election by more than 20,000 votes. the election was rigged and stolen, and now our country is being systematically destroyed. but while trump has called for the election to be decertified or overturned, kleefisch says it s not possible. no, it s not constituticonstitutionally possible. the gop is aiming to flip the governor s mansion in this critical swing state. the winner will face democratic governor tony evers in november. this is the third time trump and pence have endorsed different