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Hopefully he was just playing quiet there. we will check back in a little bit. we will keep you on this hurricane. they have never seen anything like this in puerto rico. they are already banged up from irma. we will take you through it all morning monk. cnn learned the special counsel investigation into president trump's former campaign chairman paul manafort is examining activities going back more than a decade. it comes as we learn more about the tactics that bob mueller's team is using. let's bring in our panel. david greggry and chrigregory a. they were both pfizer warrants, which means...

Learned the last 24 hours a lock being picked to get into the house. an extensive search. lots of documents taken. i think it speaks to david's point, which is a lot of this i think is mueller and his team making clear here, number one, that they're going to be aggressive. number two, as it relates to manafort, they don't really trust him, right? you don't do what they have done to paul manafort if you think that he is being entirely forth coming. if you think that at the end of the day -- you know, he might be involved but there is no real there or there, it seems the folks in the investigati...

Think he could. what does he know beyond what he has told them. they seem to think there is more there. and he mike flynn seem to be the two central players. and the question always with this is how high up do these accusations go and what can you prove and what do they know? this is the stuff of sort of spy and detective novels what we have seen in the last 24 hours. >> david, there is a political backlash potential here also. they're going so hot and heavy against manafort. if they don't get the goods on him and all the reporting keeps suggesting at the tail end they anything conclusive yet,...

Push this across the line where he hasn't been able to bring conservatives before, where conservatives have not been before. >> can i just add, i think i understand david's point that this was misplayed in some way. i think chuck schumer and nancy pelosi are quite strategic they put this out there nothing, just like you said, david, that the president does need a win on this. the notion of border security is out there. but then ultimately let the president say, okay, you want to do this deal? we're going -- we don't know the specifics. he can take credit for the x, y, z of the specifics. >> di...

Like this done, and when i say this, it's something that, as you read earlier, joe had in his piece, many conservatives consider amnesty to everything they believe in. only way to get it done is to do it with democrats. republicans on capitol hill said time and time again, the ball is in the president's court. he's going to be the one to have to do it. with saw the beginnings of that last night. >> david, why would he want to get something done? >> because he wants to be able to say he can do something that nobody else has been able to do, which is to really beef up border security in a real w...