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Two instances, in my experience, it hasn't been warranted. >> we don't know -- the imminent destruction of evidence could have been part of the reasoning at play. >> what i'm saying is we don't know that. so i think looking at it makes some sense because we know there were no weapons in the home. and so unless there was imminent destruction of evidence going on, there's no reason to go in that way. and on imminent destruction of evidence, you do it more like the manafort raid was done, which was not with semiautomatic weapons and all the rest of it but just a knock and come in kind of raid to ...

Depending on what he told different teams. and manafort was really in the most hot water because he wasn't forthcoming. so we're going to see all of that now play out in realtime in court and see what comes next. of course, this isn't the only thing we're watching this week. cohen's sentencing is tomorrow. and maria butina will also come to this court tomorrow when she enters into her plea agreement, which could also have implications for the mueller investigation. >> also, you have the michael flynn matter finally wrapping up, but obviously on a different note than the manafort one. >> report...

Mueller investigation. >> matthew whitaker is the name you are looking for. >> they haven't said whether he is supervising, because he was on this network and denigrating it and there is an ethics issue about that. they haven't told us who is doing it. >> would having an opinion on the case be a basis of recusal? >> a lot of times they rule if you have taken public positions on something, i recused when i was at the justice department which i had taken public positions on in the past. even though i didn't have any involvement with the cases that were pending. that's a standard thing. the shock...

Whitaker was on this network and denigrating it and there is an ethics issue about that. they haven't told us who is doing it. >> would having an opinion on the case be a basis of recusal? >> often types it can be. the ethics oflgs will rule if you have taken public positions on something, i recused when i was at the justice department from guantanamo which i had taken public positions on in the past. even though i didn't have any involvement with the cases that were pending. that's a standard thing. the shocking thing is that the justice department four weeks in, we don't even know who is the...

Don't approve. i just want to say that. number two, i do think it's witness tampering, particularly since it's not just these tweets. these are tweets from somebody who is in a position who has pardon power. ordinarily when you have a witness tampering case, the people who are doing the tampering don't really have any power to do anything about it. this is witness tampering on steroids because the president is positioned to do something. if you look at this one and the manafort one and you look at the sort of umbrella of witness tampering, it's here, it's the dangling of pardons, it's the comm...