as always, a great show. this is don lemon tonight, and i am laura coates sitting in for donovan. there are big developments on the fbi search for documents and former president donald trump s marlowe go home. the wall street journal reporting tonight that an informant tipped off federal investigators that they were more likely to have more classified documents at the property at the national archives. they took away 15 boxes of material earlier this year. an informant amar legault? cnn has not confirmed this part of the story, but we have reported investigators believe down trump has not returned all documents. they also believe that trump representatives are not being entirely honest with them. trump, meanwhile, since to be hiding behind a 5th amendment, which is his right to do, and he did so today during today s admission with new york attorney generals office, who is investigating the trump organization. i will give you my take on that, a little later in the show. for no
as always, a great show. this is don lemon tonight, and i am laura coates sitting in for donovan. there are big developments on the fbi search for documents and former president donald trump s marlowe go home. the wall street journal reporting tonight that an informant tipped off federal investigators that they were more likely to have more classified documents at the property at the national archives. they took away 15 boxes of material earlier this year. an informant amar legault? cnn has not confirmed this part of the story, but we have reported investigators believe down trump has not returned all documents. they also believe that trump representatives are not being entirely honest with them. trump, meanwhile, since to be hiding behind a 5th amendment, which is his right to do, and he did so today during today s admission with new york attorney generals office, who is investigating the trump
that s just how it works in a civil matter. that s an important point because many people who may have thought, michael, if hold on, if he pled and took the fifth, why would this go on for hours? why would you? you have to ask every single question because then you can raise that adverse inference for every single question. it doesn t have to be, hey, i m not going to answer questions, let s all go home. part of the point is to lock in that answer, to draw that negative adverse inference. speaking of information, i want to what you make of this wall street journal reporting tonight that somebody may have tipped off investigators about they re still being more classified documents at mar-a-lago. we played a lot of the montage is all throughout the day, of the idea, remember this comment about the fifth amendment? but i also remember lot of comments about those who might be leakers, the idea of snitches, the idea of people in forming and the problem with that. what do you think his rea
journal reporting tonight is that u.s. government and saudi officials are working to minimize what role the crown prince and the king had in the killing. and i m afraid that will dim the moral leadership we ve always had in the world that keeps us safe here in the world and order across the globe. congressman eric swalwell, really appreciate you joining us tonight. stay with us. joining us tonight. stay with us to most, he s phil mickelson, pro golfer.
so here is the breaking news right now, a possible summit between president trump and vladimir putin. let s talk about it with congressman eric swalwell, a member of the house intelligence committee. good evening, sir. good to see you. you too, don. let s talk about this wall street journal reporting tonight that the white house has early talks for a potential trump-putin summit that s going to focus on syria, ukraine, nuclear arms control. what do you think? we have to get something out of it, don. we shouldn t take meetings like this just because the president thinks it would be great for us to be friends with russia. of course it would be great to be friends with everybody in the world. but with an enemy like russia or at least an adversary like russia we should have an objective going into the meeting. and i think being friends with russia only helps us if we can confront them on what they did in our last elections and what they continue to do in syria by supporting bashar as