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
Implication of a fifth amendment, in a civil case, they can. in fact, not only can they know about it, they are instructed that they may draw an adverse inference from the fact that the person invoked the fifth amendment. you can assume the answer would have been bad for him if he answered the question because you can only invoke your right against self-incrimination if you believe the answer could reasonably be expected to expose to you criminal prosecution. okay, so if you haed add that, another way to look at this, does pleading the fifth make it easier for letitia james which will be a one-sided perspective to the grand jury which then decides whether civil charges should be brought against donald trump? so the civil case here, you may remember, needs to be proved only by a preponderance of the evidence. 51%. and so we a brief that she filed earlier this year, where she laid out the documentary case, and she showed about how the