going out of their way to destroy michael cohen and his relationship with me in the hope that he will flip. she has covered trump for years. i think that it was very hard for him to read that it is possible that michael cohen could flip and it is possible that he could have helped do something to make that happen. and to be clear, people don t flip unless there is something to flip on. the president also tweeted that cohen is someone who i have always liked and respected. and later that day he sent a random tweet about the possibility of pardoning a long dead boxer just days after pardoning scooter libby, chief of staff for former vice president dick cheney. he just out of the blue completely issued this pardon four days after the search warrant execution. looks to me he s sending some sort of message there. when asked directly if he was considering a pardon for cohen, he said stupid question. even if cohen doesn t flip,
that he could have helped do something to make that happen. and to be clear, people don t flip unless there is something to flip on. the president also tweeted that cohen is someone who i have always liked and respected. and later that day he sent a random tweet about the possibility of pardoning a long dead boxer just days after pardoning scooter libby, chief of staff for former vice president dick cheney. he just out of the blue completely issued this pardon four days after the search warrant execution. looks to me he s sending some sort of message there. when asked directly if he was considering a pardon for cohen, he said stupid question. even if cohen doesn t flip, the raid on his office could yield trouble for the president. a source tells cnn deputy attorney general rod rosenstein has told the president he s not a target in the investigation of his personal lawyer, but that doesn t mean much. what seems clear, donald
a lot of people who, like myself, are non-lawyers, just observers of this today, have been making a big deal out of the fact that this was a pre-dawn raid. abc news reports that manafort was awakened in the midst of this raid when fbi agents were knocking at his bedroom door, which would imply that they got in through the front door without his consent. is there any are we reading too much into those details? do those details tell you anything as a former u.s. attorney as to the circumstances here? i ve been wondering about the same thing all day. so 6:00 is a little bit of a cutoff. typically search warrants happen during normal daytime hours. to go earlier than 6:00 in the morning, you would have to convince the judge that there was a good reason to authorize you to go ahead and hit to begin the search warrant execution that early. not clear exactly what time this took place at. and then there s this whole issue of did they actually make entry into manafort s house and reach
convince the judge that there was a good reason to authorize you to go ahead and hit to begin the search warrant execution that early. not clear exactly what time this took place at. and then there s this whole issue of did they actually make entry into manafort s house and reach the bedroom door before knocks? i tend to think that that s just a little bit of confuse in the reporting. that would be what we call a no-knock warrant and typically that s used when you believe someone is going to flush evidence into the toilet if you ma if this sort of thing happened while you were a u.s. attorney in alabama and a sneaky reporter like me started asking you questions about this as an ongoing investigation, you wouldn t see beep about it, would you? i would probably smile very nicely at you and tell you, you just have to wait. yeah. i m starting to get that feeling. joyce vance, former u.s. attorney for the northern district of alabama, it s a real