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welcome to the lead. i m dana bash in for jake tapper. we begin with our politics lead. donald trump today invoked his fifth amendment right in a deposition with a new york attorney general who is investigating the trump organization s finances. this deposition lasting more than five hours. in a lengthy statement, the former president claims he had no choice, saying he s the target of an unfounded politically motivated witch hunt. this from the man who once asked if you re innocent, why are you taking the fifth? this is one of at least seven criminal, sifcivil, and congressional investigations trump is facing. that includes the probe that led to the fbi search at his mar-a-lago home on monday. that was died to the doj s investigation into the handling of classified documents cnn s sara murray has more on today s derailed deposition against the backdrop of the extraordinary legal jeopardy trump faces. what s your message to your supporters? as donald trump s legal woes
So the alternative, what we have now, is a system where our biggest newspaper in the capital city is the private broadsheet of the richest man in the world, jeff bezos, who is responsible,t in part, for the destruction ofr the media. the media can t exist independently now that jeff bezos has the biggest megaphone in the city of washington, that doesn t seem like a dystopian outcome? of course it is, the free press should not be the plaything of rich monopolies, but it is. that is a devastating situation that we are in right now. the solution is pretty simple. if you are a communication network that people have to use, so if you are a monopoly thatt people have to use to get information from them to their friends or family or otherpl businesses, you should not also be able to run an advertising business. break them up. it s very simple. we ve done it before, we can do it again. it s a simple fix.