sign for the u.s. economy. inflation finally starting to cool off and it was flat for the month of july. consumer prices increasing by 8.5% year over year. that s slightly lower than the 9.1% increase back in june. and we ll be talking about what that means in just a moment. it is really good news for every consumer out there. plus, former president trump set to be deposed today by the new york attorney general s office. this is in connection to a civil investigation into the trump organization s finances. we have details on that. we are also learning this morning much more about that fbi search of president trump s mar-a-lago home. the justice department was concerned that trump had not returned sensitive documents, which could have national security implications. new details this morning about how trump may frame his defense in all of it. let s get straight to the good news. relatively speaking, on the economy, this morning. wall street poised for a positive open in 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
as we first reported last night, an extraordinary escalation of the investigation into former president trump s handling of certain documents from his presidency. tonight, we re following the major political and legal implications of this truly fast moving story. cnn s senior crime and justice reporter katelyn polantz is here with us in the situation room. she s got the latest on the search of the resort in florida. wolf, republicans are attacking the justice department and fbi today. but this is a serious federal criminal investigation. everything we know about it so far really does appear to be by the book. the justice department is following protocols including keeps things secret at this time. what we know about what played out on monday is that it wasn t the sort of thing that you would call a raid, where fbi agents go in guns blazing, knocking on doors, yelling. instead, it was agents going to mar-a-lago and working, beginning in the a.m. with lots of people looki
because this is a night where you are going to remember where you were. yes. wylie coyote, thanks. you finally caught the roadrunner. me. well, the search warrant served our mar a lago this morning, had donald trump s name on it. but the real target of this investigation isn t trump the real target of this investigation is you or anyone who dares to call out and take the rank corruption of the dc establishment. this is the deep state s revenge. they re trying to show all of us that we ll be destroyed if we fight them. if we question the repeated failures of the pentagon leadership, if we make serious i m talking about serious moves to disrupt the status quo here in washington. you know, the status quo that protects a powerful as long as they play the game now for decades they got away with selling us out by letting in twenty million illegals flooding across our border. they sold us out by sending our manufacturing jobs to china. they sold us out by wasting trillions on stupid
including some marked as top secret, and meant to be only available in special government facilities. a list of items removed from the property shows fbi agents took around 20 boxes of items as well as binders of photos, at least one handwritten note and a document about pardoning trump s ally, roger stone. also included was information about the president of france, according to the three-page list. that list contained in a seven-page document also includes the warrant to search the premise which was granted by a federal magistrate judge in florida. the list includes references to one set of documents marked as various classified tssci documents, an abbreviation that refers to top secret sensitive compartmented information. it also says agents collected four sets of top secret documents, three sets of secret documents and three sets of confidential documents. the list didn t provide any more details about the substance of the documents. to the extent that anybody is back to