conspiracy that s interested in one thing, which is money for the family. i don t know what jared kushner may have done or said that got the cia s interest. it could be foreign policy or it could be money. yeah. that might have left him open to blackmail. that s the big question here right. and that s what connects all the different investigations in new york and washington. is this basically a giant rico case? that s what we re dealing with. lightning round of all the names named. as a reporter and former trump org expect. well, obviously, allen weissleberg. i go back to the watergate movies. when i came into the movie, it s follow the money. barbara? it s still follow the money because that s the ultimate motivation of this group of people. barbara? weissleberg. i love the description of donald s office. it was 100% spot-on. thank you. there you have an eyewitness and a former trump org exec. it s fascinating to see this play out on a national basis,
investigation, is also the decider. he s made it clear that nobody else makes these decisions on foreign policy. i m glad he had his military leadership there. those generals have found a way to speak honestly to him and to at times back him off of positions that he wants to take. but we are entering a period of unusually difficult foreign policy tests, just as the preds feels personally cornered. he said it so clearly, they broke into my personal lawyer s office, that s the way the president is feeling, as he has to make these key decisions. kasie hunt. all the people i talked to yesterday in my reporting lines up with what you re seeing on the front pages of the papers today, is that donald trump was as angry as he s ever been in the oval office, when michael cohen s apartment and rhotel rom and office at the rockefeller center were raided bit fbi.
because i was engaging in a crime. so one of the showings prosecutors often make in order to get a search warrant against a lawyer is to say that we need the actual documents. we re going to have an entire separate team of investigators and lawyers and prosecutors who are going to look at those communications to determine whether they are privileged or whether they fall into the crime fraud exception which only a prosecutor can know because they re the only ones that know the evidence so this is preserving the attorney/client privile privilege. and peggy noonan, i m curious what your thoughts are about these republican investigations not only from bob mueller s office and the fbi, now we ve got a republican who s a u.s. attorney from the southern district of new york that is conducting investigation of donald trump and then you have, of course, a democrat conducting an investigation, eric
rules a prosecutor has to go through to have a federal judge allow them to search attorneys records. tell us about those rules. joe, talking last night with a criminal defense attorney who looked carefully at the u.s. attorneys s manual, a couple things are important that we haven t mentioned. first, in any search like this where you are going into a lawyer s office, looking perhaps at records of his attorney/client relationships, you have to assure yourself there s no other way to get the material you re seeking. in other words, it s not possible to subpoena it. it may be there was a subpoena that wasn t in the view of prosecutors adequately honored. a second reason why sometimes prosecutors want to seek a judge s permission is if they fear there may be destruction of evidence. that s why you go in quick and fast the way it was done yesterday so those are some of the things that last night as criminal lawyers looked at this they were scratching heads. this is a pretty unusual thing
moment. and that goes to what is happening right now, mika, which is the top criminal defense lawyer for russia out, john dowd, within the last two weeks. now donald trump s top personal lawyer, his long time aid, a trump org exec since 2006 not out completely. the only person facing this raid was paul manafort, 96 days later he was indicted. and curtis jackson has said when the feds come in the game loyalty is limited. the quo is does michael cohen s loyalty change as he feels federal prosecutorial pressure? they may get access to paperwork whether he likes it or not. joe, i couldn t help but notice john bolton sitting next to the president yesterday. what a great first day on the job. what a difficult first day on the job and i m sure john bolton will face the same frustration as everybody else that steps into that position. peggy, i wanted to follow up on