court warrant and the government was able to convince a federal judge that in this instance, it was legit to surveil because of the possibility he was involved in some kind of crime, which brings us back to the new york times scoop tonight. we had known before now that the fbi mounted a surprise raid on paul manafort s house after midnight on july 26th this summer. there have been a few strange aspects of that raid that we ve 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 overreach or at least unnecessary and bullying because before the fbi got that search warrant and stormed into his house, muller s team and the
with what was going on with manafort in congress, the morning that his house was raided he spoke to the senate intelligence committee and the following day spoke to the judiciary committee. is it something about his congressional testimony that sparked the timing or this urgency or this aggression from muller? sure. to be totally honest, we just don t know. there are not a lot of coincidences in this world but to be totally honest, i don t know if that was something that muller s team saw in the initial back and forth between manafort and the hill, if he was trying to head off having testimony. i ve heard speculation he wants to try to head off manafort giving a statement to the hills so that, you know, manafort s statement is given to muller and not to the hill. honestly, we don t have reporting to say what the connection, if any, is. reporter for the new york times , help break this scoop tonight. thanks for helping us understand.
meeting despite all the other troubles that have playground this young administration about their undisclosed contacts with russian officials. for whatever reason, jared kushner did not disclose that meeting until it was reported in the new york times today. that alone is sort o problematic enough when it comes to someone with a portfolio with a desk and international portfolio that he s been assigned by his father-in-law in the new administration. troubling enough. but now buzzfeed adds their new scoop tonight. as i mentioned, this spy ring that got busted by the fbi, three russian guys, one guy who had what they call nonofficial cover who worked at this bank. the other two guys, their cover jobs were official government positions. one was a trade representative for russia. one of them worked at the russian mission to the u.n. when it came time for at home feed their stolen documents and intel from their spy ring back
kushner did not disclose that meeting until it was reported in the new york times a week ing a today. that alone is sort of problematic enough when it comes to someone with a portfolio with a broad range domestic and international portfolio that he s been assigned by his father-in-law in the new administration. troubling enough. but now buzzfeed adds their new scoop tonight. as i mentioned, this spy ring that got busted by the fbi, three russian guys, one guy who had what they call nonofficial cover who worked at this bank. the other two guys, their cover jobs were official government positions. one was a trade representative for russia. one of them worked at the russian mission to the u.n. when it came time to feed their stolen documents and intel from their spy ring back to moscow, what would happen is these two guys who had official cover, they would take care of that part of it.
house seems shaken by the offer. we haven t heard anything from the white house yet. i would expect sean spicer will be asked about this in the briefing tomorrow. that s going to be very telling. obviously if mike flynn says he has a story to tell, it s about his story working for donald trump presumably for the many months he was the advisor. we ll find out i suspect tomorrow if not before the briefing what the white house thinks of his offer. shane harris, senior national security wire for the wall street journal. congratulations on this scoop tonight. it s a big deal. thanks, rachel. on the one hand, this is as big a night for news in this country as we ve had in a long time. it sort of feels like thursday, you know. days that end in y have scoops in them these days. but there s a lot to get to tonight and we have a bunch of guests here tonight. stay with us.