when you have the man that set up the illegal server taking the fifth, i think it s disgraceful. have you seen what s going on in front of congress? fifth amendment, fifth amendment, fifth amendment. horrible. horrible. lawyers are deposing him in a civil investigation by the new york attorney general looking into the trump organization s allegedly misleading lenders and insurers and tax authorities by providing them inaccurate financial statements. now, this case is separate from the federal criminal probe of presidential documents. that one led to the fbi search of trump s florida home on monday and the two cases join a whole host of legal troubles facing the former president who may soon announce a 2024 run. cnn s kara scannell is outside the new york attorney general s office. so two questions here. why did he refuse to answer questions? also, how is he explaining this apparent hypocrisy on the fifth amendment? well, victor that was a quite a montage that you just p
the illegal server taking the fifth, i think it s disgraceful. have you seen what is going on in front of congress? fifth amendment, fifth amendment, fifth amendment. horrible. horrible! the lawyers are deposing trump in a civil investigation by the new york attorney general. she s looking into the donald trump organization s allegedly misleading of lenders and insurers and tax authorities by providing inaccurate financial statements. add this to the list of legal troubles facing the former president. including a probe of documents. monday s search has his supporters urging him to move up the announcement of the 2024 run. cnn has the latest on the deposition from outside the new york attorney general s office. what is the president saying about why he took the fifth? reporter: well, victor, as you have played in the montage, you can see it s a different tune today that the former president saying he s not answering questions and asserting his fifth amendment right. in a l
attorney could be a very big deal. now i m gonna give you the best legal advice you re ever gonna get in your life. get a great effing defence lawyer, you re gonna need it. all in starts right now. good evening from new york. i am chris hayes, and it is great to be back after two weeks of vacation with my family which was amazing. i want to send a huge thanks to charles braun, many house, and alyssa mudd and is for following him while i was away. it s august, first two weeks, you think would be slow. it turned out to be ludicrous sly eventful two weeks, and that is not slow down today. we have lots going on. we have more developments in the criminal investigations plural in donald trump and his associates including his former lawyer rudy giuliani who is now a target of the criminal probe into the alleged infection election interference in georgia. we will have more on that later in this hour. but i have to begin tonight of course with the aftershocks of the of the eye s
good evening from new york. i am chris hayes, and it is great to be back after two weeks of vacation with my family which was amazing. i want to send a huge thanks to charles braun, many house, and alyssa mudd and is for following him while i was away. it s august, first two weeks, you think would be slow. it turned out to be ludicrous sly eventful two weeks, and that is not slow down today. we have lots going on. we have more developments in the criminal investigations plural in donald trump and his associates including his former lawyer rudy giuliani who is now a target of the criminal probe into the alleged infection election interference in georgia. we will have more on that later in this hour. but i have to begin tonight of course with the aftershocks of the of the eye search of the ex presidents florida residents this last week. i ve been watching this as donald trump and his allies have desperately attempted to spin this story. the headline normally is like, fbi sear
Removed from trump and. self he is scheduled to give testimony which he had fought in court as lindsey graham had as well, but he was gonna go on wednesday. the thinking now is that he will not given his criminal exposure. do we have any updates on a? i have heard from his legal team officially anna, i haven t heard. just seems that when you are a target relationship changes. his lawyers said they were just as surprised to learn this given that the da s office had called him immaterial witness up until this point. there is a big debate, because he had a medical procedure so he couldn t fly to georgia. they talked about busing down and there s a big fight about how to get him down to testify before the grand jury, but now maybe off the table. this seems in some ways the most acute present criminal threat to trump s inner circle that we have seen so far. obviously, mar-a-lago was