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That any criticism of meaningless, political motivated and not based on anything important. >> when the president says a lot of people have problems with their government forms in washington, is that accurate? >> well, omissions are common on things like sf-86s, failure to register foreign agents, those tend not to be criminally charged, but it doesn't mean they cannot be. if you have a special counsel that may be trying to get leverage over a witness, they will often put pressure on those spots and make it clear that you're all alone, and as "game of thrones" would say -- winter is coming. so...

Spoken to him in a long time, but i know him. he was with the campaign for a very short period of time. but i've always known him to be a good man. i thought it was a very, you know, they do that very seldom. so i was surprised to see it. i was very, very surprised to see it. >> have you spoken to -- >> we haven't really been involved. >> we haven't really been involved. the president kind of minimizing the role of his campaign chairman in the campaign saying, yeah, you know, for a short period of time he was running my campaign. and then saying about this raid, oh, you know, we haven't really...

According to "the wall street journa journal", the president's attorney then said that the raid on manafort's home was extraordinarily invasive and a gross abuse. he ahedlleged that the fbi seiz confidential material prepared by mr. manafort by his counsel to aid in his cooperation. the president's lawyer said quote these failures by special counsel to exhaust less intrusive methods is a fatal flaw in the warrant process, would call for a motion to suppress the fruits of the search. so this is not paul manafort's lawyer sending these complaints. this is the president's lawyer. this is presiden...

Know, they do that very seldom. so i was surprised to see it. i was very very surprised to see it. >> have you spoken to -- >> we haven't really been involved. >> we haven't really been involved. the president kind of minimizing the role of his campaign chairman in the campaign saying, yeah, you know, very a short period of time he was running my campaign. and then saying about this raid, oh, you know, we haven't really been involved. the president made those remarks today in the 4:00 eastern time. at 5:03 eastern time he was proved very dramatically wrong in that assertion. at 5:03, "the wall...

A cooperating witness against his father-in-law, paul manafort. his son-in-law as in fact met with federal prosecutors on these issues and that comes on the heels of news first broken by the washington post that the fbi launched a predawn raid at paul manafort's home in west virginia. the president himself was asked about that fbi raid today and he gave a response that -- not even within hours, within minutes started to factually fall apart. >> mr. president, was it appropriate for the fbi to raid the moment home of paul manafort predawn? >> i thought it was a very very strong signal or whatev...