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To the new york times skop tonight. we had known before the fbi mounted a surprise raid on paul manafort's house after midnight on july 26th this summer. there have been a few strange as spebl spects of the raid that we've really been puzzling over for a few weeks now since we first learned about the raid on manafort's house. the biggest and for me, the most perplexing question about that raid is whether it was really necessary. people close to paul manafort have raised the prospect that the raid was over reach or at least unnecessary and bullying because before the fbi got that search warrant...

Warrant that allowed fbi agents to get into manafort's house without knocking, by picking the lock on his front door presumably to keep manafort prom being able to destroy evidence once he heard agents knocking. at least that's why we think judges tend to approve that tactic with a search warrant. we've known that the muller inquiry was afwresz sieggressiv questioning but before tonight, before the reporting from the new yo"new york times", before t we didn't know all this stuff. quoting from the times, december spen -- dispensing with the pace. mr. muller's team used what some describe as sho...

The justice department has been heavily and aggressively involved in this gigantic corruption case to try to get that stuff back. so president trump bringing that prime minister of malaysia to the white house while that prime minister is in the middle of the gigantic corruption investigation by the u.s. justice department. that of course, was the white house and this president spitting in the eye of the fbi and justice department. but that ends up being important beyond just that insult to american law enforcement because aside from malaysia, the other known major target of the fbi's kelp tocr...

Surveillance on the ukraine stuff stopped. petered out. fbi no longer had the evidence to be able to convince a court that they ought to be able to continue to listen in on paul manafort talking about matters involving money looted out of ukraine. the surveillance some point in 2016 stopped. but then we also know last year the fbi started a new investigation you have that heard of related to the russian attack on last year's presidential election to try to influence the election in donald trump's favor and also the fbi's investigation that started last summer into whether or not the trump camp...

Sources a lot of what they got to work with against paul manafort on the russia issue isn't stuff they need somebody to confess to, necessarily. not stuff they need witnesses to describe or corroborate. it now sounds like a lot of what they have got about paul manafort on the russia thing is on tape. it's stuff they captured on intelligence intercepts. remember, john brennan, if he was correct when he testified to congress that it was cia interest, that sparked the initial criminal inquiry what was going on with russia in the election and russia in the trump campaign, well, the cia doesn't mon...