iranian assassination plot in addition to former national security adviser john bolton. stand by for new details on federal charges against an iranian operative. later, i ll have a one-on-one interview with ambassador bolton. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. former president trump departed the new york attorney general s office just a little while ago, after he invoked the fifth amendment in a deposition in the probe of his business dealings. cnn s senior washington correspondent pamela brown is joining us with the late breaking developments. this follows the unprecedented fbi search of trump s florida home. yeah, what a week it has been for the former president, donald trump. he asserted his fifth amendment constitutional right today. he says in part because of the search on his home on monday by the fbi. and tonight, we re learning new details about why the fbi took that extraordinar
good morning. and welcome to way too early. on this tuesday, august 9th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for being with us. it is an extraordinary day and we begin with that dramatic escalation in donald trump s legal problems and the fbi searches his estate in south florida yesterday unannounced. the former president posted just before 7:00 p.m. last night that mar-a-lago was quote currently under siege, raided, and occupied by a large group of fbi agents. adding, they even broke into my safe. a source familiar with the search tells nbc news that the investigation is related to the transfer of class fy classified government documents from the white house to mar-a-lago when trump left office, in february it was reported that 15 boxes were taken improperly to the president s estate. and at the time, the department of justice was asked to investigate. a source familiar with the investigation tells nbc news that boxes of documents were seized during yesterday s fbi search. the for
listening to taylor swift. it is called literacy lit rather c and. and if i took that class, i d be a better man. all right. thanks for joining us. i m christine romans. so it turns out the national archives has been after donald trump to turn over documents since the waning days of his presidency. good morning, everyone. good morning, kaitlan collins. quite the greeting for everybody waking up. it s been going on a long time. enjoy your coffee. we do begin with new cnn reporting overnight. an email from the national archives reveals how long donald trump has been holding sensitive documents that he should not possession. the email indicates that records were not returned despite a determination by a top white house lawyer that they should be. a source says there were a dozen emails and calls over the course of 2021, 2021, this is last year, including a may 2021 email from the national archives to trump s lawyers that reads in part, quote, it is also our understandi
these are live pictures from atlanta s jackson airport where you can see long security lines already forming this morning. we re tracking hundreds of delays and cancellations at airports across the country. where we re seeing those slowdowns and where the weather could impact your travel plans right now on new day. we re so grateful that you re starting your holiday weekend with us. it is saturday, july 2nd, just two sleeps away from fireworks and hot dogs and all the good stuff. thanks so much for waking up with us. good morning, kristen. good morning, boris. yeah, just two days away if you can get there as you look at all of these major travel disruptions that we re seeing this morning at airports across the united states. they re threatening to spoil the holiday for millions of americans. airports being put to the test as the number of people traveling by plane this fourth of july weekend climbs to near pre-pandemic levels. but staffing issues, cancellations and su
cassidy hutchinson. her two hour blockbuster appearance before the january 6 committee included testimony that the former president and top aides were warned that some supporters at the elipse were armed with weapons like knives, guns, bear spray, tasers. hutchinson had a unique vantage point critical to conversations never revealed before yesterday. she said that trump grew irate that the security screenings on january 6 were apparently deterring his supporters, his armed supporters, from joining the crowd. so furious that he ordered his aides to have the metal de detectors removed. another leading reason, likely the primary reason, is because he wanted it full and he was angry that we weren t letting people through with weapons. i overheard the president say something to the effect of, you know, i don t fing care that they have weapons. they are not here to hurt me, take it away. they are not here who hurt me. and she testified about trump s determination to join his su