filling the vacuum as trump lawyers refused to release the fbi search warrant. plus, how a new crop of maga primary winners raises the stakes for the midterms. and explosive new reporting on the secret history of family separation. american people don t like the idea that we re separating families. we never really intended to do that. the atlantic s kaitlan dickinson has the untold story of an american catastrophe, when all in starts right now. good evening from new york. i m alicia menendez in for chris hayes. 48 hours later there are many unanswered questions surrounding the fbi s search of donald trump s florida home. right now, the ex president is not even in florida, he s new york city to testify in a different investigation into his conduct. this is a civil investigation into the trump organization led by the new york state attorney general letitia james. trump said he would not answer any questions, instead invoking his fifth amendment right. something as you well
the former president is being questioned under oath this morning in new york s long-running civil investigation of his family s business finances. the state attorney general s office is trying to determine whether the trump organization improperly inflated the value of its assets in order to obtain loans, insurance and tax benefits, but also there are new details about why fbi agents searched trump s florida home. the search happened because authorities believe the former president or his team didn t return all of the government records that were taken when they left the white house. documents with national security implications, let s begin with trump under oath today. cnn s kara scannell is live outside the ag s office right now. donald trump put out a statement saying he s not actually answering questions. what is this all about? yeah, kate. so this deposition began about an hour and a half ago. trump arrived at the office building just behind me around 9:00, and he just
ally s phone. and a judge s ruling that trump s tax returns can go to house lawmakers. each headline a major development on its own in the legal sphere. here is the big picture when it comes to the legal pressures trump is facing. two department of justice probes. one involving classified documents. the other january 6th. there is also the house select committee investigation into his role in the insurrection. then in georgia trump s infamous fine the votes phone call, the crux of an election interference case. then there is his taxes, his finances. there are three separate investigations here and, today, there was a deposition involving the civil probe in new york. that is where we want to begin with cnn s kara. would the former president answer questions or would he assert the fifth? he chose the latter. reporter: yeah. that is right. that was the big question this morning. donald trump arrived here about four hours ago. he is in the building just over my shoulder at the
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
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