Judge Nap: Pre-Dawn FBI Raid of Manafort’s Home Tells Me ‘There’s a There’

RUSH EXCERPT:
NAPOLITANO: "Correct. They’re speaking together one day and suddenly out of the blue, predawn, the FBI shows up and raids the house and carts off documents and laptops and other materials they’re looking for that means the following. In order to do that, they needed a search warrant. In order to do that, a team of FBI agents and prosecutors went to the chambers of a federal judge and persuaded her that they could not get what they were looking for via this cooperation. Either the lawyer, an excellent lawyer and former federal prosecutor himself, either Manafort’s lawyer wouldn’t cooperate or Manafort’s lawyer couldn’t control Manafort and the FBI was concerned that what they were looking for would soon be missing. Hence this almost unheard of because Manafort had a lawyer who was working with them, predawn raid to seize these documents. This tells me there’s a there there. They had to explain to a federal judge critical curious federal judge what they needed, why they needed it and why they couldn’t get it from a grand jury subpoena."