good morning. 10:00 a.m. eastern. 7:00 a.m. pacific. president biden is set to sign a bill aimed at improving health care access for veterans exposed to toxic chemicals during war. we'll bring you the remarks. we begin with developments in the fbi's sinlg of former president trump's mar-a-lago home. right now the former president's

motorcade arrived at the new york attorney general's office for a deposition. we are getting new details about the fbi search. the former president's lawyer said trump's legal team was in talks with the justice department about records stored at mar-a-lago in the spring. she added the search warrant indicated an investigation io the handling of classified material. >> they said that they were looking for classied documents. evidence of a crime of classified documents goes. >> two sources familiar say fbi agents arrived monday morning at 9:00 a.m.nd left around 30 p.m. the sect service was given a heads up. trump called the search

unnecessary as well as politically motivated but didn't provide any evidence. joining us is justice and intelligence correspondent ken dilanian. ken, whacan we expect from the former president's deposition today? >> that's actually a bit of an interesting mystery because there is -- this is a civil investigation into donald trump's business practices and the attorney general already said she found evidence of fraud. saying now she needs to figure out who committed the fraud but there's a parallel investigation but criminal jeopardy there and might be the smart thing to refuse to answer questions and

take the fifth the way his son did more than 500 times but ivanka and donald trump jr. testified. he's given hundreds of sworn depositions and a difficult witness but jeopardy for him here if he is grilled about the business practices. this is about whether they lied to banks and insurance companies to benefit themselves and whether that amounted to fraud. not an easy couple of hours ahead for donald trump. >> yasha, what are the implicationsf a former president being deposed and the investigation into him? >> yeah. well, there's predent for even a sitting presint to be deposed in a civil case. that is with former president bill clinton. i think the catch-22 right now for trump is if the civil case

go to a jury and asserted the fifth a civil jury can take an adverse inference of that deciding the liability. the other thing he has on the line are financial penalties. this is not the first time that new york investigated his opations. several years ago they found that the charity misused funds and forced him to dissolve it and the children had to go to training to be fiduciaries. if he does answer questions and they are pertinent to the criminal investigation then this stalled new york d.a. investigation, the criminal investigatn into his finances and financial management, could

get picked up. so that's sort of his thread that trump -- t needle to thread as he moves through this deposition. >> ken, we are learning details about the timeline of the fbi search o trump's florida home? >> yeah. from kristina bob told us that the justice deptment was there in friendly negotiations with trump lawyers in may a je an tha the trumpeam turned ov doments, a hanul she said thatight he been presidentialecords and thas e property of the u.s. and t oplend n tru and said one expresse diy tt the documents wer n sure a put a loc on the door andhe fbi broke downearchihe

propty thi week. it dsn't answer whathanged betwn the time thereere the iendly notiations bween juste depament lawyers going down t mar-aago an now this aggressive search with 30bi agents o the propertyith a search warrant. that she's not able to say and the trump team doesn't have the affidavit that justified this search warrant. that's under sl. >> that'snteresting. luke you have reported on the ba and forth between the form president and the national archives. how did they get to this point? >> it is a build-up over time and i think we've seen increasing frustration from both the archives and the federal prosecutors working on the case. they did impanel a grand jury that did issue subpoenas back in the spring and then one of the subpoenas was for surveillance

video from mar-a-lago. miss bob did reference the to be official went down to mar-a-lago to meet with trump and trump's lawyers but recentl we understa that there's bn growing concern that trump did not return all the documents he should have and perhaps there were not totally forthright representations that were made to justice and i think it's important to note that the warrant, the search warrant was signed by justice department officials connected to national security so i think they're very concerned about the sensitive documents kept at mar-a-lago to perhaps could fall into the wrong hands so this is an unprecedented action that the justice department took but you can be sure that it was not done

lightly and that they had very serious concerns to take this step. >> you have been tweeting about viewing this through a national security lens. what did y mean by that? >> so what i mean by that is that the primary goal i think for the department of justice is to retrieve the documents and secure them. another frame to look at this that might be easier to understand is that this is stolen property. trump carried away property that belongs to the government of the united states and kept it at mar-a-lago and on top of that this property has the potential to gravely damage the national security of the united states. this is something that goes above and beyond for a normal person. if you robbed a bank and took a million dollars to the house the government would not take a year to get it back.

they execute a search warrant. i think because continuing the negotiations kept putting our country at risk because there's traffic at mar-a-lago. if the documents are not properly secure it's a target. it's a jackpot. the secrets would be the thing that other countries and particularly adversaries would want to get the hands on. >> what kind of documents? none of us have seen them what kind of documents are those? >> wenow that some of these documents were marked top secret and i can only speculate but again what kind of things would cross the president's desk? let's say, for example, valuable intelligence and if someone gets a hold of valuable intelligence, reporting that are, say, that we're gting from other countries they can reverse

engineer where the source is from the information and the source can dry up or put that person in danger. another thing could be our own plans. military plans. technology. things that we are developg here that gives an advantage in the world and in the hands of competitors we lose that. we have to underand that these are very sensitive documents that are classified for a reason because they can cause damage if released and the counter intelligence export control section of doj paid a visit to see what is going on and of course they can't take it at that moment because they're in trump's home and nee a search warrant to do it and what they finally did. i would add i wonder whether they told the trump lawyers if you don't give this bk we will

issue a search warrant. i think he had a ads up this would happen. >> trump had din every at the new jers home with republican lawmakers? >> i have never seen president trump as fired u as whate was tonight. he is noteterred or phased by what the doj has done to them. everyone encouraged president trump to run for president again and campaigng the better. >> what are you hearing about what happened last at that dinner? >> the team on capitol hill reached out to the roughly dozen or so republicans with the former president but haefring from some of them publicly, indiana republican congressman saying the meeting lasted around three meetings. they talked about republicans'

plans if they take back the congressional majority in washington and heard from leader mccarthy if that happens republicans will turn the tables and launch investigations. jim banks saying as you saw there they are encouraging the former president to announce the potential bid for the 2024 presidential office. the earlierhe better saying he was not deterred after the search by the fbi and adding to the chorus to hear from congressional republicans and trump allies. we heard from senator graham say he spoke with the former president after the search by the fbi and more convinced than ever that trump will announce a 2024 candidacy

we heard from florida governor desantis, several other possible 2024 contenders rallying around the former president. the search galvanizing the base. jose? >> luke, the head of the house freedom caucus congressman perry said the fbi seized his phone. >> this is a significant development. the phones of three key players in the buildup to january 6 are now on the possession of the fbi, including scott perry. the oths are jeffrey clark that justice department officia who strategized to send false letters to states to install him as attorney general and john eastman, the conservative lawyer who advised donald trump s -- yeah. >> i got to -- i'm sorry. i just want to goo the president speaking right now at

th white house. >> actually i just want to say a number. zero. today we received news tha the economy has 0% inflation in the month of july. 0%. here's whathat means. ile the pce of some things wept up last month the price of her things went down. the rult is 0% inflation. but people are still hurting. zero inflation last month. econists look at inflation that ignores food and energy prices and call it core flation. lowe in seral months. when you couple that with the booming jobs report, 3.5% unemployment, it underscores the economy we have been building. we see a stronger labor market

where americans are working and seeing some signshat inflation may be beginning to moderate. that's what happens. the wealthy d very well and everyone has a chance. i want to be clear. with the global challenges we face from the war in europe t disruption of supply chains we could face additional headwinds. our work is far from over. first the economic plan is working and second building an economy that will reward work. wages are u this month. provide opportunity. help the middle class and still have work to do but we are on track. theecond point is we need to pass the inflation reduction act right away. that's the most consequential thing theongress can do to keep the progress on inflation from getting worse. keep it moving in the right

direction. itill bring down the cost of prescription dru and energy costs. making big corporations pay the fair share. which can reduce the deficit without raising a penny i taxes on people making less than $400,000 a year. we are moving in the right direction. so some good economic news today and work ahead. now to the reason wre here and the most important rson to assemble in this roomn a long time. danielle, when you were here f the state of the union i had hoped you would be back to sign this -- for the bill signing. that is working. mo i remember how strongly supportive of this you were when i met you a long time ago just in awe of your family's courage. i really mean that. through the pain you found

purpose to demand we do better as a nation. today we are. i kw you miss your daddy but hes with you all the time. he is inside you. he's going to whisper in your r wn you have hard decisions to mick and he will behere. he will be there for you. see the little guy next t that's my grandson. his daddy lost toheame burn pits and h knows what you are going through. guess what. you will do this. you will be really, really strong. it's hard to take care of mommy and a grand mom but you got to do it. okay? all right. to the veterans and families here today, around the country, we can never fully thank you for the service and the sacrifice. that's a literal fact. less than 1% of you risk everything to defend 99% of the population.

1% risk 99%. we owe you. you're the backbone, the steel, the sinew, the very fiber that makes this country what it is. that's a fact. we have many obligations. i'm saying this for a long, long time. a sacred obligation. to equip those we send into harm's way and to care for them and their families when they come home. we have a lot of obligations but that's a truly sacredbligation we have. [ applause ] today we are one step closer to fulfill that sacred obligation with the bill i'm about to sign into law, the most significant bill our nation has ever passed

to help millions of veterans exposed to toxic substances. you know secretary mcdonough can tell you i was gng to get this done come hell or high water. a lot of staff knows that's true. part of my agenda tt i announced in the state of the union address. i announced four things that all american cans agr on. one is beating the opioid epidemic. the mental health crisis. three is ending cancer as we know it which we'll do come hell or high water again and three supporting the veterans. big issues that unite us. we're told that republicans and democrats can't workogether. when i ran i said a reason is to unite the country. that's theld days. you used to be able to do that. i don't believe it.

we never have failed to there are a lot of issues to disagree on but there are issues to wk together on and this is one of those issues. so many of you here today remind us that we fought for this for so many years. veterans, sve family members, advocates like jon stewart. i want to thank you again. i wanted to comep and hang out on the capitol steps but secret service said that would be a pain in the neck. they wouldn't let me do it. at least we did a video there. what you have didn't matters. under know. it really matters. your refusal to let anybody forget. refuse to let them forget. we owe you big, man. we owe you big. [ applause ]

all the rest of you, you never gave up the fight. you never quit. you didn't stop. think about it. think about how distant this looked five years ago, seven years ago. i want to thank senators tester and morgan. if you want tester in that foxhole with yo where are you? john here? [ applause ] only problem is john made sure i brought the combine in the foxhole with him and john boseman and representatives taconto and bost and thether members that supported this bill. many of whom are here today.

i would like you to stand. all the members of congress pleasetand. [ applause ] you know, we learned a horrible lesson in vietnam. after vietnam how harmful effects of agent orange took to manifest. leaving too many veterans unable to access the care they needed and deserve. that's why back in 1991 we support veterans exposed to toxic substances in vietnam. that laid the groundwork to aggress exposure and the bill i will sign. veterans of the wars of iraq and afghanistan not only faced dangers in battle but breathed toxic smoke from burn pits. because i was vice president and

chairman before that i was in and out of iraq over 20 times and all those places. you could actually see some of it in the air. burn pit it is size of football fields that incinerated waste of war. and a lot of the places where the soldiers were sleeping were literally a quarter mile, half mile away from it. or they ate the chow. it was there all the time. toxic smoke thick with poison spreading through the air and into the lungs of the troops. when they came home many were not the same. headaches, numbness, dizziness, cancer. my son is one of them.

his son hunter is here and going back to high school my friend ronnie with general frank who was the commander of the national guard when bo was there. i want to thank them. to us and many of you it's personal. personal. sergeant first class robinson 39. 39 years old. they held his hand for the last time. at age 39. pact act is the least we can do for the men and women who may be in this room who suffer toxic exposure while serving their country why the law extends health care benefits to veterans. they move quickly to determine service members' illness and service to see if they qualify

and for families of veterans who died from toxic exposure there's a monthly stipend, an access to life insurance, tuition benefits and help with health care. it means new facilities, improved care, more research and retention of workers treating veterans. this matters a lot because these conditions have already taken such a toll on veterans and families. i told the department to treat all 23 presumptuous conditions applicable the moment i sign this bill. i urge the veterans of the wars to promptly file for the claims. the va will move as quickly as possible to resolve the claim and get you the care and

benefits you deserve. just go to va.gov/pact. va.gov/pact. file the claim and apply for your va health care now or go to the local va hospital or reach out to the veterans service organizations from the disabled american veterans to the american legion. if you need additional assistance, just call. call. this law becomes on top of the administration's efforts to pioneer ways to link toxic materials to diseases. we build a database to track and assess exposures. expand the eligibility for

veterans. earlier this summer i signed nine veterans bills into law that will do everything from providing mammograms and screenings to compensating veterans with cancer from the world war ii nuclear program. we are not stopping here. it's a part of the cancer moon shot initiative and today i'm proud to name dr. monica -- get it right, doc. betinoli. i better get it right. i got a problem. okay? but she's a leading cancer surgeon from a family of veterans and new director of the national cancer institute.

please stand, doc. all working as one team. we may be in separate teams but one team. perhaps one of the most important things to do is working the bring down the rate of suicide among service members and veterans. an average of veterans die by suicide a day, 17. it demands a whole of country working together. let me close with this. as commander in chief i have your back. i promise you. that includes finally delivering justice. includes -- includes always fighting for the care and

benefits you more than earned and deserve. this law is long overdue and we finally got it done together. together. i don't want to hear the press tell me democrats and republicans can't work together. we got it done and we got it done together. so god bless you all. you are the backbone, the very spine of this country. now may god protect our troops. no i'll walk over and sign that legislation. >> president biden about to sign the important bill after speaki fromhe white hoe. the family member of th -- the person he was speaking to right before heegan the forl remarks.

she gets tirst pen. presidt sninghe bill tha expandenefits f veterans exposed to burn pits. turning now to some breaking news out of new york city where former president trump in a new statement said he pleaded the fifth amendment today at the new yorkttorney general's office. back with us is nbc news justice and intelligence correspondent kenilanian. at do we know about this deposition the former predent

had moments ago? >> trump issued a lengthy statement that was written well in advance laying out the reasons for taking the fifth amendment and acknowledges tt he once said if you're innocent why are you taking the fifth endment and said the mob takes the fifth in 2016. he refused to answer questions because he believes that this investigation by the new york state attorney general is illegitimate, a witch hunt and attacked state ag laticia james. every time she's gone to court in this case and sought things whether testimony or documents from the trump organization judges ruled in her favor and held trump in contempt of court and required that they gave the

sworn depositions but this answers the mystery. one of donald trump's children eric took the fifth but ivanka and don jr. testified and we're told answered the questions. he said, when your family, your company and the people in the orbit are targets of a witch hunt you have no choice. he said that the raid on mar-a-lago cemented in his mind that he shouldn't be cooperating with an investigation. criminal defendants often talk this way. people under investigation speak this way. millions of people across the country as we know from personal experience will believe every word that donald trump says despe the fact that the courts found that this isegitimate

civil fraud investigation. >> thank you. appreciate it. i want to turn to taiwan which says chinese military drills off the coast are far more than just a rehearsal for an invasion. the self governing island china claims as territory. china began a series of missile launches, live fire exercises, air and nafl drills as house speaker nancy pelosi visited taiwan last week >> this is about democcy in taiwan. we cannotllow the chinese government to isolate taiwa they may say to them you can't go to the world health organization but the won't say who can go to taiwan.

yes, it was worth it. what the chinese are doing is what they usually do. >> with us is taiwan's representative to the united states. representative, i thank you so much for being with us this morning. how are people in taiwan holding up as china continues to ramp up the pressure both diplomatically, militarily and even cyberwise? >> the people of taiwan are trying to carry on with their lives. we have been seeing the threats from china for decades. this is not new to us although the intensity of the recent exercises are truly alarming but we are not letting that affect the way we live our lives and the desire to breathe the air of freedom. >> that is a stark difference between how people in taiwan

live their lives, fulfill and follow the dreams and what the people in mainland china have to deal with. repressive government that gives no opportunity for political freedoms. china released a white paper today accusing taiwan's ruling party of damaging the chances of peaceful unification and not ruling out the use of force. what do you make of this? >> their current strategy is to use intimidation and coercion to force us to accept china's political terms. those terms in this white paper is a formula that they have been using with hong kong and one country two systems formula. unfortunately we have seen the tragic backslide of basic rights in hong kong. the deprivation of the freedom

of speech and association and press and not what the people of taiwan want. we won't be intimidated or coerced into sacrifices the hard earned democratic rights that we fought so hard to achieve. >> the problem is and you know this better than most, china has a vast military apparatus and willing to use it not only domestically as they have since the 1st of october 1949 but to strike out other places and so how do you, representative, deal with or help guarantee that the people of taiwan can continue living in democracy with a threat that's so close and so real? >> we have also been working to fortify the defenses. we do not intend to engage in an arms race with china.

our ultimate goal is to deter and worked on a strategy where we fortify the capabilities to deter the chinese from actually utilizing military force to achieve their political ends. in the meantime strengthening the public immunity to such tolls of intimidation with military threats but also economic coercion, cyber attacks, political influence campaigns in our society. china has a broad tool kit and we have to respond in a diversified way but we need friends internationally. we need friends to stand with taiwan at the critical time. we need friends to assert with us that the use of force is disruptive not only to taiwan and peace in the taiwan strait but it is disruptive to the world and theorld will not

tolerate the use of force to resolv political disputes. >> as far as speakin about friends of taiwan and support to taiwan, there's bipartisan suort for the people of taiwan on capitol hill and the country. one of those senator bob menendez is pushing a bipartisan bill to bolster u.s. defense assistance, deepen ties with taiwan and help taiwan on the world stage. the white house seems to be pushing back a bit saying it could upset the balance with china. what would that bill mean for taiwan? >> taiwan appreciates the bipartisan support from congress that again has been there for decades. i think china's belligerent actions prompted greater

attention to addressing and to working with taiwan in responding to such threats. so we are grateful for a number of legislative initiatives in congress and hope that these initiative provide effective tools for us to work together to counter such aggression and preserve the peace in the interest of all of us. >> representative, i thank you so much for being with us this morning. i invite you to come back and continue the conversation going forward. i thank you for your time. >> thank you. coming up, we'll have more on donald trump pleading the fifth in his deposition. and a whole lot more. you are watching "jose diaz-balart reports" on msnbc. free cancellation on most bookings. it's a bit functional. but we'll gladly be functional. so you can be free.

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news we're following this morning. former president trump pleading the fifth during a deposition for e new york aorney general' civil investigation into the business practices. the fbi concted a searc of the florida residence. trp and allies called it politically motivated without evidence. the justice dartment has not commented. with us now former u.s. attorney vance and legal analyst and david rhode with new yorker.com. joyce, your reaction? >> entirely predictable. although he made statements in th past in 2016 this only members of the mob had to plead guilty he put that in a fresh context today saying that the new york attorney general is biassed claiming she is on a witch hunt and no matter what he said it would be used against him. we sawhis coming from a long

ways away, jose. >> david, h has said the investigation i politically motivated, same thing about the search. is that a tactic that's working for the former president? >> it has been working in terms of republicans. it meant the many other challengers to him for the republican nomination and the next presidential election backed him on this. i'm not surprised either. he loves to say he is a victim and spreads conspiracy theories and pleading the fifth lets him do that. >> is there anything stopping for example the former president from calling his own press conference and turning over the bits of the search warrant and the inventory from the fbi o what they took? from what he was gen by the

fbi? >> there is absolutely nothing that prevents that. we can be certain if it was beneficial for him t do that he woulhave done it minutes after having access to the materials. we can draw the inference that the search warrant document has minimal information on it but that's incriminating. we say search warrant. it is actually at least four pieces of paper. the government fills out an application to get a search warrant and usually list the cres tha they' investigating and the search warrant, the application is under sl. e search warrant has some information about the places to be searched and the things the government is entitled to look for and then attachment b to list places to search that's too

long for the form in an attachment to the search warrant. trump likely has that. he has a return of service. that's an inventory that shows what agents took away. in this case because there are national security implications that might be vague or obscured but still interesting. of course we would like to see an affidavit that an agent submits for the search warrant. that too is under seal and neither trump or anyone outside of the justice department and the courts have that. from the documents in his possession if they benefited him we would have seen it. >> is it unusual for them to be under seal? is there no possibility of getting that information unsealed? >> it's really not. we are hearing the cries of wimp

hunt from the far right. we live in that country that protects people under criminal investigation. we believe that people are innocent until proven guilty. we don't drag reputations through the mud based on incomplete information. at the time of indictment doj is limited to discussing material that appears within the indictment document's. doj tries the cases in courtroom. we don't dirty up defendants before the point in time where evidence is being presented der strict rules used in court even then we limit prejudice to them. if we want to be a different country where defdants are charged and convicted in the press that seems to be ironically what republicans suggest a better practice. i'll stick to the rule of law

and defending defendants until proven guilty. >> silence is not an option for garland. what did you mean by that? >> i think there's questions. members of congress will be asking. [ inaudible ] i agree that we shouldn't be smearing defendants. that's a key american ideal but there's a vacuum and trump is filling it with false claims. when he testifies sometimes in a high profile investigation there's limited information given so eventually he will have to speak because leaving the vacuum to donald trump it will undermine public faith in the justice department and help trump. >> david, joyce, i thank you so much for being with you this morning. wall street seems to be liking the latest report on consumer prices.

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the government says the consumer price iex that measures what consumers pay for goods and services was unchanged from june to july. so zero monthly change. prices were up 8.5% compared to july 2021. down from the 9.1% increase between june 2021 and june '22. prices for food, for shelter, electricity and rent rose last month, food prices up nearly 11% from this time last year but gas prices, they've been falling. they fell nearly 8% from june. still 44% higher from july 2021. we're seeing the change at the pump as gas prices continue to fall. aaa says the national average for regular is just over $4 a gallon down from $4.68 a gallon a month ago. with us now to talk more about this, cal perry in glendale, california and ben white correspondent and host of

"politicooney podcast." what should we take away from this report? >> let's focus on the goodews first, the headline number which had been 9.1, which is really, really bad annually and now it's 8.5%. so a drop whi is good. that's what everybody wants to see prices come down. the problem with it is most of that annual drop is as you said, gas prices, those are hugely volatile and based on what happens with the war in ukine, if that goes south and gets worse again, gas prices could go up and we could seenflation overall go up and there was se bad news in the report on rt and food as you mentioned, still going up very fast and then overall it balanced out to basically unchanged in core ination. the headline is good. 9.1 to 8.1. we like to see that. the fed likes to see that. most of that is gasprices, some airline fares but the overall

number is high and putting a pinch on consumers in a lot of areas. we want to see it come down. >> it seems as, though, ben, the fluctuation, the huge fluctuation is something we haven't seen in oil. it had been stae up and down just a bit. >> yeah, we haven't really seen this massive volatility since the late '70 early '80s with oil embargoes and the lastime we had run away inflation and crackdown and raise interest rates on the back of the inflation. that's a big fear now is that this price increase, a these price increases don't come down fast enough and gas goes back up and the fed has t move hard to bring prices down and that really slows down the economy. you're absolutely right. it's something most people aren't used to. most people have never seen and alt with this inflation before and it's both an impact from the war on ukrainend after effects from the covid epidemic and the

fact that it screwed up our supply chains a you have a lot of goods and not a lot of demand, not a lot of supply. >> yeah, a cal, i mean, how is this affecting folks out in the mainland? >> well, we talk about the k shaped economy. the wealthy are better prepared for inflation and people that live in lower economic areas are not and we're seeing that play out with consumer goods. families have to make hard decisions. we heard this in earnings call, five below, mcdonald's, chipotle saying revenue is up in rich areas and down ipoorer areas so families are making that hard choice. we spoke to an economist about this yesterday. take a listen. >> we're starting to feel some budget constraints and so there is a lot of data showing that consumers are pulling back on buying goods, on buying the

parol because they're spending more food at the grocery store and gas pumps. >> you heardhe good news on theas prices, as it comes back to school time where we're at now, what we've seen and studies show wealthier families will spend more on back to school supplies and poorer families n' spend as much, which is all the more tragic wh families list that as a priority. >> thank you. we have breaking news from the justice department about an iranian plot to kill donald trump's former national security advisor john bolton. let's get back to news. nbc news justice and intelligence correspondent. ken, what do we know? >> jose, this was just announced minutes ago and we're still digesting the court documents. the justice department indicted a person they say is a member of iran's kuds force, the revolutionary guard special operations force and charged

that person with participaing in iranian plot to try to kill john bolton, former u.s. national security advisor john bolton in retaliation for his involvement in the strike that killed solomon. they thanked him for tracking the threat and put to american citizens. he said not much can be said publicly, one point is disputable, iran's rulers are liars and terrorists of the united states. this is a plot that spanned the end of last year through even into the spring and this iranian person who is not in custody as i understand it was communicating with a confidential human source of someone working with the fbi which is how they got on to this plot among other ways.

this harkens back, jose, to e iranian plot to kill the saudi ambassador in 2011 and ever since the stre on sulamani they are concerned about the plots. that theynveiled one of them. >> ken, i mean, thi person part of the revolutionary guard, that's essentially the iranian government. >> absolutely and making no bones in the news release and court documents they think this was hatched and sponsored by the iranian government to kill an american official. major, major provocation. >> thank you for that breaking news this moing. that wraps upheour for me. i'm jose diaz blt. you can reach me on twitter or instagram at jd balart.

thank you r the privilege of your time. there is more news right now. good morning, i'm lindsey riser at msnbc headquarters in new york. as we come on the air, we're following new developments in multiple investigations, involving former president donald trump. trump spent his morning at a new york city office being deposed under oath by lawyers from the new york attorney general's team. in a new statement out in the last 45 minutes, he says he is pleading the fifth. this deposition is tied to the civil investigation into the business practices of the trump organization. at the core of the a.g.'s case, whether donald trump and the trump organization misstated financial documents to meet their interests. before heading into the deposition, trump used his social media platform truth social to slam the new york a.g. as quote racist and he turned to