Up to the bar on what counts as weird anymore. but here today, some of this stuff seems weird. the president s campaign manager for example, he s been told by pros k prost cue to prosecutors they plan to indict him. he s expected to promote the time that aims to break up the nation and government of iraq. he s promoting the kurdish inwe dependence referendum despite the fact that hundreds of thousands of american troops fought there for well over a decade to try to keep something like this from happening. that independence referendum, which had paul manafort has a paid consultant was held in northern iraq today. we re still waiting on a result. but given the turnout, which was very high, it looks increasingly possible that that independence referendum in northern iraq will have passed. i should mention we re trying to figure out if the president s
Intersect. here they do, you would imagine. i think what we need to do, and i m sure it s happening even as we speak. a lot goes on off the radar screen that we don t know about. we need to sit down with the authorities in china and in no uncertain terms say we can either wrap this up with a military confrontation that s going to be devastating to the peninsula and to you. they are right there. or we can find a way to resolve this. whether that means regime change, fostered by the chinese authorities, whether it means some type of effort with unification. with the chinese authorities right there. who knows? eboni: the fbi raids the virginia home of former trump campaign chair men paul manafor manafort.
mark: how required it is when the fbi want to go knocking on your door at four in the morning. i don t necessarily think this means paul manafort is eboni: i don t think anyone thinks that. chris: everything this white house does is leaked in an instant. how bizarre that this comes out now. i find that profoundly bizarre. also donald trump kicked manafort out some time ago because of this thing. and comey himself said if there is something going on as it relates to russia, let s get to the bottom of it. this continues to be a cloud of russian conspiracy surrounding trump but it s been 21 has done something, i feel like trump pushed all along, let s get to the bottom of it. manafort hasn t been tied to trump for many months. mike: i agree. the mechanics of it, you re
Raid of paul manafort s virginia home. fox news confirms that on july 26, agents executed a search warrant. according to the washington post, the fbi agents work with special counsel robert mueller. eboni, they don t really give out warrants for no reason. eboni: there is a requirement, probable cause. it felt a little aggressive. arrayed? really? paul manafort and his legal team has so they are cooperating. that felt a bit dramatic. you have to have a probable cause requirement. for a judge to issue a search warrant. kat: why the predawn thing? sounds intense. mike: not something you
Always looking for leverage on potential witnesses. who knows what they re looking for. it would be speculation to say but if they are going in there, it s highly likely they are looking for information related to payments from foreign countries. mark: he has done business with russia for 20 years. you can t do business with russia for 20 years without doing something that falls afoul of some technical regulation in the united states. eboni: even if that s true, that doesn t put donald trump on the line for it. kat: wonder whether paul manafort would take the fall for whatever happens. he was the campaign manager, he was at the height of the speculation. now he has the raid on his hous house. chris: in any normal news cycle we would ve known about that same morning it happened. why are we finding out about it today?