paul manafort and michael flynn. michael flynn's already said he wants to flip. >> yes. >> paul manafort's another guy who is a prime flipable witness for someone above him, and i think that if you look at the team that mueller has put together, you look at the way this investigation is going, they are moving full steam ahead, and they are looking to put equal amounts of pressure on those two guys to get one or both of them to flip as soon as possible. this move is extraordinary on a variety of levels, but that is what it signals to me. we are now moving into the next phase, which is we see what the case is. we're now going to try to go in and lock this case down. they're moving faster than i think anybody thought they would move. >> mieke, what we see now is there was a pre-existing investigation of manafort himself that mueller has taken over, and the range of possible investigative avenues with manafort are enormous, including this possibility of laundering cash through the purchase of new york city apartments. it

paul manafort's lawyer. so why did jared have to lose his russia lawyer because that lawyer worked at wilmer hale but paul manafort got to keep his russia lawyer who also worked at wilmer hale? it didn't make any sense there could be a conflict there for jared but not for paul manafort. it never made any sense. i'm going to figure this out. today we figured it out. today those pieces all either fell into place or fell apart, depending on how you look at it. we started to get reports earlier this evening that paul manafort's legal representation was getting a big shakeup. we actually called paul manafort's attorney at wilmer hale, we called reg brown, to ask if those reports we were true. he hung up on us. and then within about an hour it was official. paul manafort has now dropped his lawyer on the russia investigation. reg brown at wilmer hale will no longer be representing paul manafort on russia. instead paul manafort has a new legal team representing him on russia. one of his lead lawyers has a resume an

paul manafort. he's done an amazing job. >> what it means for an investigation more advanced than anyone knew. and what it means for the president of the united states. >> so to be clear, mr. trump has no financial relationships with any russian oligarchs? >> that's what he said. that's what i said. that's obviously what our position is. >> then the white house confirmed, the president is improvising his north korea threats. >> we were a super power. we are now a hyper power. >> and the growing back lash to the president's plan for opioid abuse. >> the best way to prevent drug addiction is that overdose is to prevent people from abusing drugs in the first place. >> when all in starts. >> a dramatic new chapter in the russia investigation. news of a pre dawn fbi raid at the northern virginia home of president trump's former campaign chairman, paul manafort. sources tell nbc news, the search is tied to the intense investigation into business dealings and fbi relationships, both in the u.s. and abroad.

paul manafort's spokesman confirming that, yes, fbi agents raided paul manafort's home in virginia, saying that they executed a search warrant and that mr. manafort has constantly, consistently cooperated with law enforcement and other serious inquiries and did so on this occasion as well. what's interesting about the time of this is, of course, it happened on july 26, just one day before paul manafort went behind closed doors with the senate intelligence committee to talk with them, interview with them and hand over documents. the day after, the same day as this raid, that was when paul manafort was supposed to appear before the senate judiciary committee as part of their foreign agents registration agent hearing. we know that that didn't happen. instead, the committee actually dropped the subpoenas in exchange for cooperation with paul manafort. on the congressional side, we know that paul manafort has been cooperating. in fact, we got word today that paul manafort actually turned over 400 pages of documents to the senate judiciary committee. however, at the same time that these congress

cnn has learned that paul manafort's son in law has met with the department of justice investigators within the past few months. why would they need meet with him? >> well, they are exploring the connections between manafort and his financial dealings and russia. just taking a step back, reminding everyone paul manafort was the campaign manager for the trump campaign. not an insignificant figure and subject to a no notice review of documents in his own house and now the investigation is looking at people around him. the son in law is actually about it to be, if not is a former son in law. there was a divorce, i believe this year, which also suggests there might be people willing to talk against each other who might not others with have been willing to speak. this is like -- let's just say this is not an episode of the walton's anymore. this is a high drama stakes going on amongst manafort and of course the trump family. >> interesting. so matthew, we have also learned that manafort has found new legal representation. so is there a significance there? >> well, he did go from a big law

watch, it's paul manafort, don't tell anyone. there's a lot going on here. some of these questions have answers we ought to be able to get in the public domain, and we'll try to get to some of them this hour. some of the questions we won't know the answers for a long time. the story continues to develop tonight. federal investigators have approached paul manafort's son-in-law in cooperating in the investigation and what politico describes as an effort to increase pressure on paul manafort. federal law enforcement is powerful. it matters who holds the reins of power within that system. federal law enforcement has a logic that is interesting to untangle and follow when it is unraveling dramatic wrongdoing. but covering federal law enforcement actions, very rarely seems weird, right? very rarely takes a bizarre turn nobody was seeing. when it does, it tends to resonate not just for months, but years, tends to resonate into history. rarely since the start of this scandal have we watched a federal law enforcement action that has immediately provoked not just conc

paul manafort, he did make a huge mistake. paul manafort should have followed the examples of hillary clinton, debbie wasserman schultz, eric holder, and loretta lynch. paul manafort gets a predawn raid? what if they think he was going to do? what the democrats did in 5 minutes at 5:00 a.m.? probably take a little bit longer, a bleach pit and smashing devices. that takes a long time. they completely ignored this massive democratic scandal. a scandal we've been reporting on a night after night on this program. as we have seen, the media is it ready to literally jump to every conclusion and put paul manafort behind bars. the problem is, this russia collusion which junta has now gone on for 11 months. so far, it hasn't produced much of anything. where's the smoking gun? where is the mountain of evidence that you have been promised, day after day? the hysteria, conspiracy theories? now we have the media cheering on robert mueller who is conflicted and hoping he find something -- literally anything -- also, mitch mcconnell is actua

>> it's bad thing for paul manafort. it puts him at dead center of the robert mueller investigation. >> this clearly is not a case where we hear from paul manafort's spokesperson, his attorney, saying we are fully cooperating. they obviously feel something different. >> sean: what happened to innocent until proven guilty? i know it's so outdated and i still believe in it. geraldo rivera, judge jeanine pirro. the predawn raid makes me laugh. geraldo, what did they think? smash everything if they didn't go in and in the early hours? that morning after he hadhi testified the day before didn'tt he make a mistake not following hilary and debbie wasserman schultz and and loretta lynch and eric holder's lead? he could have bleacheded and hammered everything. what identity do that? >> the two scariest words in washington, "predawn" and "raid." the fact that it happens less than 24 hours after heai was cooperating presumably with the senate intelligence committee staffers, it's a clear indication. legally speaking that they were

paul manafort's lawyers have no doubt mentioned to paul manafort that the maximum penalty for federal tax evasion is five years in prison. president trump's criminal lawyer, john dowd, has expressed his outrage over the fbi raid of paul manafort's apartment in virginia. in an e-mail to a "wall street journal" reporter, attorney dowd called the raid a, quote, gross abuse of the judicial process by the special counsel's office. and then, and then donald trump's lawyer said something that his client, donald trump, surely would not approve of. donald trump's criminal lawyer said this about the fbi raid of paul manafort's home. quote, these methods are normally found and employed in russia, not america. donald trump's criminal lawyer, tougher on russia than donald trump because no one in the united states and possibly the world is weaker on russia than donald trump. joining us now, nick akerman, former assistant u.s. attorney for the southern district of new york and former assistant special watergate prosecutor, and michael mcfaul, former u.s. ambassador to russia and an msnbc contributor

it came out during the election, but paul manafort, who is a good man, also by the way, paul manafort was replaced long before the election took place. he was only there for a short period of time. >> there was discussion of paul manafort who played a limited role for a very limited amount of time. he was hired to oversee the delegates' operation. he was involved with the campaign for a total of just under five months. >> which brings us to our leadoff panel. hallie jackson has agreed to stay up with us, paul butler again, and sam stein who is also an msnbc an itself. welcome to you all. granted, he was only with the campaign a short period of time. what's been the reaction today, and tonight to the trump camp to this story of the raid? >> yeah, listen. i think you are seeing, obviously, the outside legal teams handling these russia questions, and that montage you played of donald trump and sean spicer talking about paul manafort is a revisionist history. he did not play a limited role for a period of time. he played a significant role for a good chunk of critical time when donald tru

paul manafort. he's done an amazing job. >> what it means for an investigation more advanced than anyone knew. and what it means for the president of the united states. >> so to be clear, mr. trump has no financial relationships with any russian oligarchs? >> that's what he said. that's what i said. that's obviously what our position is. >> then the white house confirmed, the president is improvising his north korea threats. >> we were a super power. we are now a hyper power. >> and the growing back lash to the president's plan for opioid abuse. >> the best way to prevent drug addiction is that overdose is to prevent people from abusing drugs in the first place. >> when all in starts.

i mean paul manafort was the campaign chairman. he was hired at a sensitive time when trump was fearing a floor fight at the convention. is it true there's no trust between the two men? >> well, there certainly was very top-level working relationship between the two men. he of course shepherded the trump campaign for a number of months as its campaign chairman. but in terms of did trump ever see mr. manafort as one of his trusted allies, as one of his true believers during the campaign. the answer is actually no. the president even during the duration of manafort's tenure on his campaign never saw him as a true confidant, someone who could be trusted with his deepest, darkest secrets or whatever. and in turn, in the way that manafort was pushed out of the president's inner circle, then candidate trump's inner circle, and has kind of been left to hang out to dry by not just the president but the entire white house apparatus itself -- >> and that's despite the fact he was former business partners with roger stone, who is certainly a

let's bring back the paul manafort story for a moment. we know that robert mueller has taken great interest in the june 9th, 2016 meeting that don junior organized, initially saying he had no idea who it was for and who he was meeting and taking it for a friend opinion and then disclosed emails that said he knew about it. and then there was paul manafort who was there and who has had other recommendations with the russians. back in february of 2017 donald trump defended paul manafort. let's listen to this. >> the other person people knew that he represented various countries but i don't think he represented russia. but knew that he represented various countries. that's what he does. people know that. that's mr. manafort, who is bit -- who is by the way a respected man. but i think he represented the ukraine or the ukraine government or somebody. but everybody -- people knew that. everybody knew that. so these people -- and he said that he has absolutely nothing to do and never has with russia. and he said that very forcefully. i saw his s

of real estate deals funded by paul manafort. they resulted in a series of bankruptcies. it could be possible motivation, why monoforth might be willing to talk to certain people or done certain things related to his own financial position. it's not necessarily surprising the son-in-law has been brought into this, but also doesn't mean these investigations are one in the same. it's more than the investigations are ongoing and overlapping in various ways. >> absolutely. susan, great to see you, thank you. >>> coming up for us, a reporter asks president trump if he thinks senator mitch mcconnell should step down. his answer, not doing anything to cool the tensions between them. details on that, ahead. >>> plus, here is something you don't see every day. a completely empty oval office. why? that's coming up. your insurance company won't replace the full value of your totaled new car. the guy says you picked the wrong insurance plan. no, i picked the wrong insurance company. with liberty mutual new car replacement™, you won't have

trump would not be president without paul manafort. at the point where where hi came into the campaign, and roger stone details this in his book, which is one of the best studies on how this came to be, manafort brought in all these delegates that were going to go to cruz. >> would you cooperate if you were paul manafort? >> i would. >> you two don't go anywhere. paul manafort has not been charged with any crimes to date, but man, i haven't had the fbi raid my house anytime recently. >>> how the stock market is responding to the escalating rhetoric between north korea and president trump. we are moments away from the opening bell. we're going to get a crack of that with my friend dom chu. to , causing a lack of sharpness, or even trouble with recall. thankfully, the breakthrough in prevagen helps your brain and actually improves memory. the secret is an ingredient originally discovered... in jellyfish. in clinical trials, prevagen has been shown to improve short-term memory. prevagen. the name to remember. he's happy.t's with him? your

and defend paul manafort. called him a good man. and the two of them were very close at the time of campaign when manafort it was campaign chairman and the most important adviser to the president, as he locked up the nomination. >> what were we seeing? was that the president trying to send a message to paul manafort? was that the president trying to sends a message to bob mueller? what do you think he was trying to do? >> i think he was just answering the question. i think he's trying to put out some support for paul manafort. he hasn't talked with paul manafort in quite some time. the one thing he didn't do, he didn't openly criticize the filibuster for conducting the raid or attorney general jeff sessions, for that matter, for the way this went down. he said it was tough and surprising but he stopped short of saying it was inappropriate. >> and in terms of that raid again, we learned about it yesterday. the president saying, hey, of this some tough stuff here. from the standpoint of a prosecutor, like bob mueller, was he trying on

. >> search and seizure, what does the pre-dawn fbi raid on paul manafort's house tell us about the super secret mueller investigation? >> the execution of a search warrant there was a concern that the individual has documents that are harmful to him that he may not turn over cooperatively. >> and family feud, president trump unprecedented attack on mitch mcconnell over the health care debacle, even though the republican senate leader happens to be married to a member of the trump cabinet. remember that awkward first cabinet meeting. >> thank you for getting this country moving again and also working again. >> and good day, everyone, i'm andrea mitchell in washington. as the new jersey white house tries to start coordinating its north korea strategy, kim jong-un calls the president's nuclear bluff threatening to attack guam or at least fire missiles around guam and dare the u.s. to shoot down those missiles after the state news agency calls the president senile and bereft of reason. kristen welker is in new jersey and ken delaney and nbc global correspondent bill neely in south korea and

our new reporting also has to do about paul manafort. meeting met with a russian lawyer and a russian lobbyiest. paul manafort took notes on his smartphone during that meeting and those notes have been turned over to congressional investigators and also to robert mueller. in those notes we have learned today manafort has some cryptic references to notice dagsz and rnc for republican national committee. and that has gotten congressional investigators very interested into any talk of donations came up at this meeting because it's illegal for foreigners to donate to american political campaigns as you know. is so investigators are very interested in finding out whether that subject was broached. the stated reason for that meeting had to do with sanctions and it came after an e-mail who was promising dirt on hillary clinton. whether that dirt was actually delivered is an open question. so this is a new focus on that meeting and paul manafort's notes. >> and a new wrinkle for a meeting that we've heard varying accounts of from the administrat

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he made a bad decision on paul manafort. he was a disaster in that campaign, no question about it, and he fired him when this stuff with the ukraine came out. >> but did he fire him or was it ivanka who wanted him to go? >> well, you know what? at the end of the day in that campaign, the president made the decision to bring him in. he made the decision to let him go. >> he made two bad choices, two bad hires. >> well, those were two bad hires, but my point is they were bad hires. having seen that, he was quick to fire them. he didn't throw good money after bad. >> paul manafort's in a heap of trouble. >> you think so? we'll let you make your point. why do you think he is in a heap of trouble? >> the ukrainian situation is very troubling, don. for what he did, the money flowing around there, how he got involved in that government. >> shouldn't he have extreme vetted him? >> perhaps. it was a bad hire. they didn't vet him enough. i don't want to be biased here. i was not a fan of paul manafort in the campaign. when he came in

paul manafort has given you about 400 pages. donald trump jr. in that meeting with manafort and the russian lawyer, 250 page. i know you're just starting to review some of this. what have you seen in there that would indicate to you or have you seen anything, the fbi would do the first raid of this type in history as john dean said? >> without going into what i have seen, again, what's been submitted so far, what's really profoundly significant about that fbi predawn raid not only seldom used but extraordinary is the distrust that it shows for paul manafort. so whatever he's made available so far, whatever he's turned over, the fbi and the special counsel are saying in that raid, we don't think he can be trusted to be forthcoming, to be fully honest, and we think there's a danger of obstruction, possibly destruction of documents, and we need to show him how serious we are. and all of this simply reaffirms the reasons that i fist called for a special counsel with these authorities. >> so in the documents that you've had, and i know they obviously

up next, federal investigators zero in on paul manafort. what is the political fallout for the trump white house? kit distance itself from the former campaign chairman? something it has tried to do in the past. you don't let anything keep you sidelined. that's why you drink ensure. with 9 grams of protein and 26 vitamins and minerals. for the strength and energy to get back to doing... ...what you love. ensure. always be you. for millions who suffer from schizophrenia a side effect of their medication... is something called "akathisia." it's time we took notice. >>> even before today's news about the fbi raid on paul martin's home, the white house had repeatedly sought to minimize the role he played in the 2016 campaign. his former secretary said a few months ago. >> a volunteer of the campaign and there's been a discussion for paul manafort who played a limited role. the way the term associates gets thrown out, you point out a gentleman employed by someone for five months and talk about a client that he had years ago. >> this raises scruti

but with paul manafort, something is a little different. and it's been this way for a few weeks now. specifically when it comes to his treatment by the mueller inquiry. just a few weeks ago we learned that the fbi executed an early morning raid on manafort's house in virginia. tactically that's unusual. for this scandal. in manafort's case it was dramatic, them banging on his door, storming into the house and waking him up in the predawn hours to go through his house and seize documents. tactically that was unusual. the timing was also unusual. july 25th manafort had given congressional testimony in the russian investigation to the senate intelligence committee and then this raid happened basically that night. it was early morning on the 26, predawn on the 26 after he testified on the 25th. on the 25th he gave his testimony, went to bed that night after having, you know, spoken to the senate intelligence committee, before his alarm went off the next morning to wake him up, the fbi was in his house pounding on his bedroom door. now, could be

i've always found paul manafort to be a very decent man. and he's like a lot of other people probably makes consultant fees from all over the place. who knows. i don't know. but i thought that was a very pretty tough stuff. to wake him up, perhaps his family was there, i think that's pretty tough stuff. >> wow. there is a lot to what the president said there and a lot more. we're going to break it all down for you right now in our breaking coverage. but first, consider the president saying he hasn't spoken to paul manafort in a long time. that's new. he says he was surprised to see this raid, and he drops that manafort probably makes consulting fees from all over the place. something he apparently knows in his story line without having spoken to paul manafort. what we just saw particularly on russia was a tale here of two donald trumps. on the one hand a man offering a parsed and even at times informed breakdown of these issues, unveiling a new chapter in what looks like a legal strategy in saying that if there are alleged crimes, they are

>> paul manafort was officially part of the trump campaign, five months. campaign chairman for three. this development another sign of how close this investigation is hitting to the president's inner circle. the special counsel's office declined to comment. anthony. >> thank you. >>> in pittsburgh today, 18 members of a swat team were rushed to a hospital after a drug raid that exposed them to a chemical, possibly, fentanyl. an opioid, at least more potent than heroin. officers reported feeling dizzy, numb. were medically cleared. four people arrested in connect, with the raid. >>> this could be the most active hurricane season in the atlantic since 2010. scientists at noa, predict as many as 19 named storms end of november. so far, six. the latest hurricane, franklin, expected to hit the gulf coast of mexico tonight. with heavy rain and gusts up to 90 miles an hour. >>> the devastating floods that swamped new orleans last weekend cost a number of officials their jobs. the demarco morgan is there. >> reporter: as heavy rains saturday created flooding scene

we are also learning more about the investigation of former trump campaign chairman paul manafort. u.s. officials tell cnn that investigators became more suspicious when they found intercepted communications of suspected russian operatives. we are told the russians were discussing efforts to work with manafort to coordinate information that could hurt hillary clinton hfs campaign. the "washington post" obtaining transcripts of the president's very tense phone calls with the leaders of mexico and australia soon after his inauguration. he asked the mexican president to stop publicly refusing to pay for the wall even though mr. trump doesn't expect mexico to pay. i have director leon panetta. first let's talk to our cnn justice correspondent pamela brown. what are you learning about this new grand jury in the russia investigation? >> we have learned special council has issued grand jury subpoenas related to the donald trump jr. meeting in trump tower. this is according to a person familiar with the matter and subpoenas seek both documents and testimony for people involved in that meet

big legal shift for paul manafort. and finally yesterday president trump asked about the early morning raid on manafort's apartment. here he is. >> mr. president, was it appropriate for the fbi to raid the home of paul manafort predawn? >> i thought it was a very, very strong signal or whatever. i know mr. manafort, i haven't spoken to him in a long time. i know him. he was with the campaign for a relatively short period of time. i thought it was a very -- they do that very seldom. so i was surprised to see it. i was very, very surprised to see it. we haven't really been involved. >> have you spoken to the foik director about it? >> i have not. but to do that early in the morning, whether or not it was appropriate, you'd have to ask them. i've always found paul manafort to be a decent man. he's like a lot of people, probably makes consultant fees from all over the place. who knows? i don't know. but i thought that was a pretty tough stuff. >> just as a point of fact, paul manafort and donald trump have known each other

paul manafort, trump attorney michael cohen and the trump jr. meeting. plus, what putin spokesman has to say about that e-mail on trump tower moscow. also, the president hits the road to sell a tax plan. the only problem, there's not much of a plan to sell. instead, he's warning congress not to disappoint him. >>> and the number out tonight of mearpds americans who believe president trump is tearing the country apart. "the 11th hour" begins now. >>> good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. i'm ali velshi in for brian williams. there was day 223 of the trump administration and tonight, harvey has been downgraded to a tropical depression after a dramatic day of rescues played out on televisions across the nation. the president had hoped to win the news cycle with tax reform after his speech in missouri, but instead, and again tonight, it's russia providing a slew of dramatic headlines. just in the past few hours from the "new york times," trump lawyer vehemently denies russian collusion. from the "wall street journal," paul

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the special counsel is looking into paul manafort's business dealings. in criminal investigations, prosecutors try to flip witnesses in exchange for their cooperation, they lessen their legal liabilities. mueller could be trying to do that now to pressure paul manafort. >> if they think he has information about the campaign, they would undoubtedly squeeze him for that. he would be in position from a prosecutor standpoint to tell you, what is going on. who was doing what. who knew what, when? >> paul manafort was officially part of the trump campaign, five months. campaign chairman for three. this development another sign of how close this investigation is hitting to the president's inner circle. the special counsel's office declined to comment. anthony. >> thank you. >>> in pittsburgh today, 18 members of a swat team were rushed to a hospital after a drug raid that exposed them to a chemical, possibly, fentanyl. an opioid, at least 50 times more potent than heroin. officers reported feeling dizzy, numb. were medically cleared. four people arrested in con

not giving a subpoena for paul manafort, to one of his lawyers to hand off to paul manafort. but subpoenaing the lawyer, asking for documents and testimony. that's an unusual, to say the least, for the government to subpoena someone's lawyer to come testify about their client. special counsel also issued a subpoena to paul manafort's spokesman, which itself is a strange thing. we knew all that as of last night's show, talked a little bit about that on last night's show. then tonight we get more late breaking news concerning him and the way he's being treated by the mueller investigation. politico.com is reporting tonight that special counsel bob mueller is working with the attorney general in the state of new york, eric schneiderman, to look into paul manafort's financial transactions. this is according to several people familiar with the matter, unnamed sources. the mueller team and the attorney general schneiderman's office, they have begun collecting and sharing evidence related to potential crimes, including possible money laundering. they also have reportedly been in reg

>> well, it doesn't surprise me that paul manafort was in that june 9th meeting back in 2016. he's also somebody who had worked with pro-russian forces in ukrainian politics. and so he is somebody that we would like to hear from as well. and i imagine if you're bob mueller, conducting were criminal probe, he's also a person that you want to understand just what was his relationship with the russians at the time that they were interfering and trying to help donald trump. >> congressman, i want you to standby, there's yet more breaking news that's unfolding. we'll take a quick break. resume all of this right after the break. for your heart... your joints... or your digestion... so why wouldn't you take something for the most important part of you... your brain. with an ingredient originally found in jellyfish, prevagen is now the number one selling brain health supplement in drug stores nationwide. prevagen. the name to remember. jack knocked over a candlestick, onto the shag carpeting... ...and his pants ignited into flames, causing him to stop, drop and roll. luckily jack rece

is this a good thing for paul m manafort? >> it puts him dead center of the mooueller investigation. it's not surprising given his connections. >> fascinating. a lot more to learn on this. thanks. great to see you. >>> following this, tough talking, tough tweeting. a day after president trump warned of fire and fury if north korea continues to threaten the united states, he sends out a statement on twitter about the state of the u.s. nuclear arsenal. here is the tweet. my first order as president was to renovate and modernize our nuclear arsenal. it's now far stronger and more powerful than ever. hopefully, we will never have to use this power, but there will never be a time that we are not the most powerful nation in the world. still, both here in the u.s. and abroad, folks are reeling from the president's choice of words towards pyongyang. today, secretary of state rex tillerson says his boss is speaking a language kim jong-un can understand. >> i think americans should sleep well at night. i have no concerns about this par

we find out that fbi raided the home of paul manafort late last month. his spokesman says he's consistently cooperated with law enforcement and the fbi, while not denying that ray declined to comment. they say they cannot comment and open investigations i understand that. let's go back to the top of the story and this idea of sending notes through your counsel to the person who is looking into the investigation. >> judge napolitano: i think the president has stopped his rhetoric of referring to the special counsel investigation as a witch hunt because they persuaded him that that's counterproductive. you are taunting fbi agents who have the power to make your life miserable, don't do it. let me, his lawyer, deal professionally with them. i'll tell them you appreciate their work. that level of professional cooperation is what normally exists when the fbi is investigating someone in what we call white-collar crime. these two things are connected. the realization by donald trump that it would be better for him to cooperate then condemn the special counsel a

i us as found paul manafort to be a very decent man. i thought this was a very, this is pretty tough stuff to wake him up. perhaps his family was there. i think that's pretty tough stuff. >> welcome back to "hardball." that was president trump reacting on an fbi raid on his campaign chairman paul manafort. his lawyer calls it a gross abuse of the judicial process, telling the "wall street journal" that these methods are normally found and employed in russia, not america. additionally the daily beast is reporting behind the scenes, trump aide's fume the former campaign chairman is at least partially responsible for the president's deepening legal woes. it comes as bloomberg says manafort divulged the infamous june 9th meeting between the campaign and russians close to the kremlin. a meeting manafort attended. hes can closed it to lawmakers three months ago, that's roughly two months before it was publicly revealed in july. members tell abc news they want to question trump's personal secretary because her name appeared in the e-mails sett

and, two, is it good or bad for paul manafort? >> we don't know. i it this big evidence -- seven talking about documents here. but fit were if it were me, all search warrants include compute aer ers and data to be seized. i think the real proof -- >> you say data. does that mean that paul manafort texted a friend or a family member, that same day and said you'll never believe the meeting i just had. that is something they could have gotten out of his home? >> sure. they could have gotten that out of the computer. they could have seized his phones. they could have seized usb sticks. all kinds of data devices. and that's where they're going really find the evidence. if you go back to that june 9th meeting, certainly what i would be looking for are all of the connections voun connections vounlding tha connections surrounding. that i would look it you unallocated space of the computers to determine whether document has been destroyed. >> which itself would be a felony. francesca said this is seismic in his legal view. do you agree with that assess ment

i think it's very clear that bob mueller is looking very hard at paul manafort. he's looking at his activities long before he went to work for donald trump, and he's looking at his activities while he worked for donald trump. and the problem that manafort has is that he's both a big fish in his own right. he has individual criminal liability for things dating back years. and also is potentially the key to catching an even bigger fish, the president of the united states. so bob mueller is coming at him with everything he has. i think he can expect that to go on for some time. >> historically, matt, in cases like, this you know, they go out and get this federal warrant. what do you have to demonstrate in order to get a warrant like that, to search manafort's home in the early morning hours? >> you have to show probable cause. you have to show a judge probable cause that you will find evidence of a crime at that residence. and what is unusual in this case is usually someone who is represented by counsel as paul manafort is, you would send a subpoena, work through co

paul manafort. it was reportedly a pre-dawn raid one day after manafort met with senate intelligence investigators. sources tell our sara murray that news of the raid took trump's team by surprise and rattled a few cages of the inner circle. this is pretty stunning. we're saying he met with senate intelligence investigators and then in the early hours of the next morning fbi investigators raided his home. it's a pretty stunning thing. what are you learning about the raid? >> reporter: in a dramatic escalation this coming after paul manafort's team said they had been cooperating with congressional investigators and federal investigators as part of this probe and then this pre-dawn warrant coming to his house and raiding his house, potentially even waking him up in this no knock warrants a sign these investigators were concern that paul manafort could have potentially been willing to destroy some documents that they were trying to obtain. what we do know is they did get some financial and tax records

paul manafort? >> well, it suggests that -- it could. we don't really know. i think it suggests that there were some things learned from that, that they're zeroing in on this particular campaign. they've already subpoenaed documents from these firms. as you mentioned, it's a significant step, suggesting that specifically with regards to paul manafort, this is picking up speed. >> finally, carol, as you and i know from reporting these kind of cases, what happens inside a well-functioning grand jury is totally secret. what happens outside tends to keep leaking. do you have an indication that more subpoenas will like a? leak? . >> yes, and you described it accurately, that's where things tend to leak, nobody is bound to talk about the fact that they're being subpoenaed. once they start issuing those, that's how reporters like us get wind of it. >> rachel often has on people from all the places driving and breaking these stories, "the journal," "the post," "the new york times." you were obviously among