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specifically that federal agents picked the lock on his front door. that means that prosecutors had to persuade a federal judge that mr. manafort was likely to destroy evidence. most significant however is that mueller's team issued an unambiguous warning at the raid. prosecutors told mr. manafort they plan to indict him. cnn is also reporting that federal investigators obtained two secret court ordered to conduct surveillance of paul manafort's communications. if true, that means a judge saw indications of criminal conduct and was convinced there was probable cause to believe that manafort was acting as an agent of a federal power. concerns that manafort encouraged the russians to help with the campaign, according to

two sources. two of the sources questioned say the evidence is not conclusi conclusive. reacting to cnn's story a manafort spokesman released this statement late today. if true, sit a felony to reveal the existence of a fisa warrant. an investigation should be conduct into the leaks and to examine the motivations behind a previous administration's effort. i'm joined by former counsel of the office of director national intelligence and richard blumenthal of connecticut. matt, tell us about this report. first of all, the picking of the lock. why don't you just knock? >> that's how it usually geese, boom boom boom, we're in the fbi, open up and manafort comes down with his slippers on. this was a no-knock warrant,

they forced their way into the home. >> early in the morning. >> early in the morning. manafort was still in bed. they made off with a bunch of binders full of documents. they copied the contents of his hard drive and photographed the suits in his closet. >> why would they do that? >> when you're doing a money investigation, you want to know how much money you have in the bank open whether if he only has x amount of money, how is he pending y on suits and other luxuries. >> explain to us why a judge would give a warrant for this no-knock operation, this pick the lock thing rather than show some pleasantness to the guy you're investigating. what level has that reached that the judge would say break open the door basically? >> this investigation is being run like a major criminal enterprise l prize investigation or it reminds me of mayor criminal investigations. >> so the judge believes this guy is the bad guy?

>> they had reason to believe that evidence might be destroyed, files would be deleted. electronic data is to important that those hard drives or other electronic devices that he had, information that was on them were items that they wanted to take without any disruption. >> what do you make of the fact that the prosecutors or the fbi agents themselves told manafort he's going to be indict snd. >> they're clearly not -- >> why would you tell that to somebody? guess what, you're going to be indicted for federal crimes? >> it's a one-two-three. you search the house, tell them you're going to indict them and subpoena the lawyers. >> explain to me that strategy. >> they're trying to send a message or set a tone that they're coming for paul manafort. >> we have a prosecutor here, senator, thank you, attorney general of connecticut. what's the tactic you see here? >> the tactic is to persuade paul manafort that they mean

business, that he is going to be indicted if he does not cooperate. and i think the overlay here is that clearly he is being noncooperative. he is resisting. he's stone walling. and he's doing the same thing to the judiciary committee, very resistant, not responding and i think we're going to have to issue subpoenas to him consistent to what the special counsel is doing. this kind of resistance will be met with the very aggressive tactics that the special counsel is very rightly using. >> dianne feinstein answered questions today. let's listen. >> do you think that paul manafort will talk too us on the judiciary in light of this information about his wire taps? >> i think he will if he's under subpoena. >> how close are you guy to that right now? >> i can't answer that preci precisely. >> are you guys going to subpoena him? >> we should subpoena him.

and if he claims the fifth amendment privilege, he's entitled to do it but he should do it in the open, under oath and before the american people. i've been a long time advocate that he should be so pie thatted and donald trump jr. should be as well and everybody who participated in that june 9th, 2016 meeting plus, chris, very importantly in your question is absolutely key, all of the documents should be subpoenaed as well. we've received documents from these potential witnesses but we have no assurance that they are a complete set nor will we unless there's a subpoena. >> everyone is thinking how the president is going to protect himself from paul manafort when he begins to spin, begins to talk. what about the pardon issue is this something that the president is going to use quickly or wait fl he's subpoenaed or indicted. >> i don't know if the clock is tick fg you're bob mueller.

we know from his time as a fib director, he doesn't like a meandering investigation. he's not on a time line. as to whether the president is going to pardon somebody, that's outside of my area. if he wants to pardon people, he can pardon people. >> what is the check on a pardon? is there anyone that can stop this president no matter what he thinks, he looks like he's about to flip, can he say at the last minute, i'm going to pardon him? >> there's certainly speculation that that is a strategy to not cooperate, they think they're going to get a pardon. article 2 is not a blank check for lawlessness. if the president starts pardoning manafort or anybody else in this investigation, senator like senator blumenthal, his colleagues in congress are going to have to recognize that -- >> what can you do if the president wants to pardon

people? >> the pardon power is absolute. but a pardon of paul manafort could be additional evidence of obstruction of justice by the president. it may be within his pow tore do it but not to abuse it if it is used to conceal evidence against him. and added to his firing of comey and the statement that he prepared for his son on air force one, apparently false statement that he apparently dictated and other evidence, it could be used in an obstruction of justice case against him by the special counsel. >> back to you because this creates an interesting set of possibilities if he decides to president the people who might be prosecuted to testify against him, he says i'm going to pardon you and then manafort says i'm not going to talk anywhere. but then the president has made a move that looks like obstruction. is he more vulnerable to an obstruction charge even though he's gotten rid of one of the

problems? >> remember on the pardon of paul manafort, he can still be compelled to testify. he can with subpoenaed to testify. and he's been pardoned, what's his fifth amendment claim. and he can be compelled to testify at the state level which is why the special counsel's cooperation with the new york attorney general which is apparently ongoing is so important. >> the fact that the federal judge allowed the no-knock rule, allowed the fbi agents to show up ap dawn, pick the lock before the guy can get out of his bed, come barging in, what does that fell you about the fisa court and what they decided to do to allow this level of action? >> i think those are probably two different court orders. the warrant authorizing the overt search, i that was a criminal court, a regular federal district court that authorized that. separate from that is the cnn

reporting that there were separate fisa orders that would have been separate -- >> are they wire taps? >> according to that report there were wire taps or possibly a search. it's unclear. >> communications, what does that mean? >> it could be star geted at e-mails, phone calls, anything like that, any type of different communication and it's authorized by the foreign intelligence agency court. under a different standard than a criminal order. it tells you there is a wide ranging investigation involving paul manafort that has aspects of criminal activity in terms of financial crimes and a counter intelligence angle. >> how do you put it all together if you're the reporter? i mean the fact is he working for russia? is he working to make money? is he working to make money by working with russia and helping trump get elected? is it all intermingled?

>> i mean look at the resource. over a dozen prosecutors. you take your tip l white collar investigation, you don't have near the resources like this. they're pulling out all of the different strains in a super aggressive way. they are using tactics that are not normal in a white collar investigation. >> closed door interview with the senate intelligence committee, michael cohen circulated his opening statement, arriving on capitol hill this morning, met with the committee staffers for an hour before the meeting was postponed. hear wacko hen h-- what cohen h say yards? >> was it your request to postpone? >> you weor the committee? >> what were you doing here? >> i'll be back and i look

forward to getting all of the information. >> the committee said that cohen violated an agreement they had with him with congressional investigati investigators and the interview will be rescheduled for next month in an open meeting. he was behind the real estate deal of the trump tower in manhatt manhattan. how do you read this? this business business business mixed in with running for president and money. money. >> i think matt put it well. who you have is a lot of criminal violations eng tangled, money laundering business abroad by manafort and donald trump jr. and others, you have potential money laundering involving members of the trump campaign and you have potential collusion between the russians and the trump campaign in the meddling in this election. and the russian playbook is to

entangle. to involve foreign officials were entrepreneurs in activities involving the russian oligarchs or the government itself and compromise it. >> i heard that from an fbi agent i went to school with years ago. get them to give you a press release. now were helpful before, now you can be helpful again. won't you be? thank you. we're going to have more on the russian investigation ahead in the program tonight. but coming up next, after all of the negative things president trump had said about the united nations, today was his day to say it to their face. and in his speech to the general assembly he threatened to destroy all of north korea and it didn't stop there, believe me. that's ahead. plus the washington post reports that congressional investigators believe that facebook is withholding information in the russian ploeb and that could mean that the russian influence goes beyond

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major portions of the world are in conflict and some in fact are going to hell. the american people hope that one day soon the united nations can be a much more accountable and effective advocate for human dignity and freedom around the world. >> welcome back to hardball. that was a dark speech today at the united nations. president trump warned that parts of the world are going to hell. according to the "the new york times," this speech was drafted by his hard line policy adviser stephen miller, the guy responsible for trump's

so-called american carnage inaugural address. here's more from today's performance. >> this is a small group of regimes that violate every principle that the united nations is based. the irani deal was one of the worst and most one-sided transactions the united states has ever entered into. frankly, that deal is an embarrassment to the united states. the venezuelan people are starving and their country is collapsing. >> he did it today and repeated his insulting nick naim for that country's leader, kim jong-un calling him rocketman. let's watch. >> no nation on earth has an

interest of seeing this band of criminals arm itself with nuclear weapons and missiles. the united states has great strength and patience. but if it is forced to defend itself for his allies, we will have no choice but to totally destroy north korea. rocketman is on a suicide mission for himself open for his regime. >> so what's behind this talk? is this about feetding his base? he's talking to the world and i understand whatever president trump says is going to all around the world, hundreds of countrie countries. but what's the point of saying so? what does he gain in the world by trashing that part of the world that's having the worst time right now? >> i think there's a way to talk honestly and openly about deficiencies in the united

nationed. he's not wrong when he talks about the mismanagement of the united nations but he on skbscu that message with his rhetoric. we've never seen an address by either president from either party to the leaders of the world like that with really the vulgarity of rhetoric there. >> well it sounds like what he said about african-american neighborhoods during the campaign, remember? some of the tough neighborhoods but what good is it to trash them. let me go to north korea. if a guy has a gun in his hand, you don't make fun of the guy. you don't say fatso or rocketman. he's got a gun. a suicide belt on this guy. a huge amount of rocket territory that he could let go into south korea tomorrow morning. >> we don't know a lot about the north korean regime. we don't know what makes him

tick. this is as closed a society on earth. everybody in the world understands america's nuclear deterrent and the awesome power of this nation which is why the president of the united states can walk softly. he doesn't have to bluster in the manner of kim jong-un. history teaches us that leaders believe that they control events. but history teaches that events control leaders. and when the events start to control the leaders, it's when the miscalculations begin. >> is he talking to the world or is he talking to his base? >> i think that was a domestic political speech and i think he's confused about the duty. it's not a speech that if you're the british prime minister, the german chancellor, you've had occasion to meet donald trump, taken his measure and i don't think that speech today made any of them fall out of nair chairs. >> there are a lot of country in

the world that have real problems. the washington post noted after the speech just to be clear the president of the united states threatened to wipe a country of 25 million people off the map. what do you make of that in. >> well -- >> it sounds like he's talking nuclear weapons. >> of course he is. you've never heard an american president talk as loosely about the use of our nuclear forces as has donald trump. >> why is he doing it? >> why is he doing it? i think it's a function of his unpreparedness of the president of the united states. never had a president bluster about the use of nuclear weapons. at the end of the second world war, chris, douglas macarthur in his surrender speech he talks about that we no longer have the option of war of the type that was just thought because of the scientific advancements of the use of nuclear weaponry. we would have to come up with better institutions than the ones we've had before. it's remarkable to see a

president in front of the united nations blustering about the united nations. >> when i interviewed him, he seemed to not understand that you have weapons for deterrence. he said why do we have nuclear weapons if we're not going to use them. you use weapons. he didn't seem to understand they've been there since 1945 as a deterrence. >> he has no idea of america's muck triad over the course of the campaign. he zdemonstrated that. he clearly doesn't understand that we have these weapons so they will never be used. you've never seen an american president talking as loosely about nuclear weapons as you did today. >> let's watch that. that's the woe is me case. >> the united states will forever be a great friend to the world and especially to its a y

alli allies. but we can no longer be taken advantage of or enter into a one-sided deal where the united states gets nothing in return. as long as i hold this office, i will defend america's interest above all else. >> well, that's for home. okay. that's not going to hurt anybody. but you know if every country gave that speech we'd have a hell of a united nations. he said something about the human rights commission of the united nations. sort of a joke. libya was on it, ga daf ddafi. you've got membership like china. that's a bullseye. i'll give him that one. >> totally agree. but there's no country that has benefitted more from the liberal global order that emerged at the end of the second world war than the united states. what he's talking about whether it has domestic rez innocence in

this case or not is not truthful. it's not reality. it's a constricted vision of the world and our country's place in it that doesn't hold up under any rigor and scrutiny. >> do you like the way he said, welcome to new york, it's my town. it happens to be in new york. it was pretty bullying. i understand the mentality. it's sort of a new york thing. up next, congressional investigation gators are concerned that facebook isn't being forthcoming, honest, when it comes to the russia investigation. they believe the social media site facebook is leaving out critical details on how the russians have been working. we're talking about what facebook is hiding here, maybe giving to mueller but not to congress about how the russians used facebook to put across their message. this is "hardball" where the message is.

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we have some breaking news. a powerful 7.1 magnitude earthquake hit central mexico today. buildings collapsed and thousands ran into the streets. at least 119 people have died. that is according to the associated press quoting local officials. the number is expected to climb as rescue efforts continue. the earthquake hit less than two weeks after another one that killed close to 100 people there. president trump expressing support tweeting quote we are with you. now for the latest on hurricane

maria from our meteorologist. we have a new update in. unbelievably it is intensifying on its way to puerto rico. this is as scary as it gets. we're 18 hours away from landfall. this will be the worst storm ever to hit mupurr to rico. the forecast path takes it over puerto recoand then it stays away from the land for five days. this is the key map here. later on tonight towards midnight they'll get as close as they're going to get to st. croix. they're already losing powpower. unfortunately for puerto rico the line goes over the top. it doesn't look like a miss whatever. we're looking for a catastrophe from 160, maybe 175-mile-per-hour winds. we're tracking the eye of the storm here is and is what we're

tracking. whether every this eye goes is who will get the devastation. this has the 175-mile-per-hour winds in it. we need that to avoid land. unfortunately it has its eye on spur tour to rico. we'll have more updates throughout the night. now back to "hardball." we need to know the full extent of their use of social media to influence us from facebook, from twitter, from any social media or search engine. they need to be fully forthcoming and i'm confident that will. i think they need to come testify before congress because there's a lot we need to know about this. >> that's for sure. that was house intelligence committee ranking member adam schiff on facebook's cooperation

or lack therefore. the company's openness is being questioned saying they're increasingly concerned that facebook is withholding key information that could illuminate the shape and extent of a russian propaganda campaign aimed at tilting the u.s. presidential election. the full internal draft report from an inquiry the company conducted this spring into russian election meddling but did not he lease at the time. information including ads bought by a kremlin-linked company has been shared with special council robert mueller but not with congressional investigators. i'm joined by jim hines and carol of the washington post who wrote today o's story. tell me how it's believe that facebook aided the russian misinformation or intervention in our campaign, our presidential elections.

what was the facebook role? >> yeah. it's hard to say because you know we have not yet gotten the kind of information and cooperation that we want not just from facebook but from other social media companies. twitter, remember that roger stone admitted to using twitter direct messaging to talk with julian assange of wikileaks. i don't want to get too much into the specifics of the investigation, but generally speaking we face resistance, and i think it's because these companies, twitter and facebook want to go to their customers and usering say, we only provide information when we're absolutely compelled by the government, usually via subpoena or a warrant. that's what we're experiencing right now. >> if the yuan bounyuan yuna bo facebook, wouldn't they have to give the information out? >> they have to whatever whether it's the unibomber ormueller.

witnesses will come voluntarily. that's not the experience that we have again for business reasons that you can sort of get. that's not the experience that we usually have with the social media companies. >> we know that the russians were involved in using facebook to send advertisement into our country to influence voters. who are the people who helped them from the american side. do we know that yet? >> we don't know that yet actually, chris. and part of the reason is facebook is saying that they didn't determine that from their own vantage point whether or not there was a u.s. person colluding with the russian small murky mysterious troll farm company in st. petersburg russia. they don't know if somebody was working with that company here in the u.s. to help the trump campaign target specific voters, specific facebook users or even people on twitter. remember that facebook divulged to us and to congress some weeks

ago that 470 accounts it had shut down were essentially fake ones created in russia by this funny mysterious company called the internet research agency. and all we know is that somebody in russia was funding this effort. it's a group very much associated with the kremlin. and we can't tell yet whether or not there was a u.s. person. i think you are hearing and understandably sharing with your viewers the frustration that congress has that they can't get all of the answers to their questions about how this worked. because facebook really feels that it can only answer these questions in full probably to federal investigators looking at whether or not this is a crime. >> well, i guess congressman last thought, you're an equal france of government. mueller is able to grab these people and force them to influence in his role as special counsel to tell him who the

russians are, whereas congress doesn't get that respect. >> a congressional subpoena in terms of how you respond to it no different from a law enforcement subpoena. you continue answer a congressional subpoena or have one of the narrow exceptions like attorney-client privilege, you answer that subpoena or you're in contempt of congress. not a place you want to be. what is different here is bob mueller has a very big team. he can get these subpoenas out. he's not going to look for voluntarily cooperation as he did with respect to the manafort raid. our process we usually ask for voluntary cooperation first and traditionally or typically the companies says no, saying we only provide information if we're compelled by law to do so. >> so there's nobody in congress trying to protect facebook from giving this name? >> no, i don't think so. there's a fair amount of memory

and in some circles resentment -- remember the old apple-san bernardino issue? apple resisted hard in cooperating with the fbi in terms of getting into that individual's cell phone. there's sort of a sense in the congress that we're not -- and look, we understand the commercial everyone occasions of this. but there's a sense that you know law enforcement and the congress is probably not getting quite the level of responsibility and reaction that we would like to get from some of the technology companies. >> it's the old slippery slope argument that the nra uses. carey, you had a thought. go ahead. >> keep in mind this isn't just about disclosing secrets. it's the embarrassment factor. mark zuckerberg said around the election time that his platform that is part of the american fabric was not being misused, that there was a lot of claims of fake news being promulgated

on his site. he said 99% was actual authentic news and now some months later he's having to acknowledge that there was a lot of face news being pushed on facebook under their noses and they weren't looking hard for it. until senator mark warner asked om questions about this in may, facebook did not look at ad purchases on their site and this is how they found the most recent trove of fake accounts. >> thanks so much for coming on. and congressman jim himes of connecticut. up next, new reporting that trump's national security team schooled him on the importance of america's presence around the world. so did any of that shape his u.n. speech today? apparently not. they shad to teach him how to be president in the world. the round table is going to weigh in on that baby. you're watching "hardball." fisher investments avoids them.

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i think it went very well. i said what i had to say and i think the united nations has great potential. if they get there it will be something that will be very very special. but i think the united nations has great great potential. >> that was his review of himself. that's the president saying how grow great he was. ahead of the speech the associated press is reporting that the president's top cabinet members felt like they had to give the president a crash course in what they call american power 101. according to the ap back in july trump's national security team had become alarmed by this president's frequent questioning of the robust american presence in the world. the sessions laid out the case using charts and maps the way the businessman turned politician would like it. anyway, did the home work pay off or did the president break

the bonds of his globalist chains on the international stage today. apparently he ignored everything that he was taught. i'm joined by our round table tonight. ruth, i got to go to you. my international person here. they pull him in, it's a scene from the movie "dave." this is china over here, africa over here. we get gold over here and mi minerals over here. trying to explain why we have strategic concerns in the world. and then he goes into the speech today like a bull in a china shop. made fun of poor countries, said he's going to bury north korea. that's all anybody is going to hear. your thoughts in. >> bull in a china shop, yes, he didn't take on china too much.

but in "dave" the guy playing president was diligent. i remember him sitting there with his accountant going through it and figuring out the complexities of the budget. this speech didn't quite achieve that level. >> who was he talking to and why did he ignore his lessons? >> he put in some lessons, he mentioned the marshal plan. you can see these okay, that's on the test, that's on the test but he could use the refresher course or the second semester of that. because fundamentally he wasn't speaking to the world leaders there. he wasn't speaking to try to say okay you've heard about this guy donald trump and you're worried about him. i'm here to calm you done. he was speaking to a domestic audience. >> here's my theory, michael. let's get to 202, not 201. i think what he was doing was balancing his a act.

trump is a showman. he says i'm going to have to give away a daca. once you get a good name, a good brand, you're okay. i'm going to have to make a deal on the debt ceiling. i'm going to have to leave the iranian deal the way it is. what i'm going to do is a lot of hillary clinton golf ball because of her head, knock her down, do all of this stuff to appeal to the guys on the bar stools right now and they'll love it so i can get away with the other stuff. >> i think that's three-quarters right. and the reason i say three-quarters, i still think there are aspects of donald trump where he is going to push that envelope and try to get his way. this speech is a good example of that. you could tell the trumpisms, calling out north korea and kim jong-un as a rocketman, putting his slangy twist on it to let the folks in the room know yeah, i can do the diplomatic thing

but i don't really want to. >> who is that for? >> two people. i think it's the base and i think it's for trump. i think it's for his own self satisfaction that he cannot be controlled even no moments like this that those sides of him show through. >> i think it's interesting because how do you -- he's talking to the base but how do you talk to the american people. i mean not the american people but do the world leaders. but even if president trump had come out there and not had the trumpisms in the speech, i wonder how much of an impact it would have when he's on twitter the next day hitting golf balls at hillary clinton. i wonder as a world leader when you're looking at president trump, do you go, you know what, the scripted side of president trump, is that really what we pay attention toe? >> i was looking at boris johnson today. he's the sane one at the table. that was weird. >> i pay attention to both sides. i pay attention to teleprompter trump and i pay attention to

tweeting trump because they show two different sides of him. the fact that this teleprompter trump speech was so bella kos, was so i'm going to say i may way with rocketman and threats of destroying a country, with the use of the word sovereignty more than i think probably any world leader has said that word before the world nations. >> what does that mean to you? >> it means america first, america primary. that he understands the role of countries promote their national interests, not solely but primarily. and the notion of america as a sort of exporter of american values, as a champion of human rights around the world, that's just in regimes that we don't like but in regimes that we like but know can do better on human rights, it's a transactional universe that he lives? >> putin would love it.

the president began his speech with a nick messadomestic messa. let's watch this statement. >> fortunately the united states has done very well since election day last november 8th. the stock market is at an all-time high. a record. unemployment is at its lowest level in 16 years. >> he's pretty good at beating that drum. >> and that was one of the things that stood out to me. he's starting out the speech at the united nations say look, i've done a really good job as president. guys reelect me. >> he's the guy you want to sell your house for you. >> that's the domestic consumption side of this speech for the washington -- for the new york/washington aund yens maybe but certainly for the middle of the country. >> i wish al gore could brag as

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let me finish tonight with bad news for the first amendment.

according to a national poll of 1500 college students, about one in five think it's okay to use violence if you don't like what a public speaker has to say. if you believe it is disgusting or hateful. they have a right to use means to silence such views. many more of the students surveyed, half in fact said it's already to create so much disruption in the room that a speaker can't be heard. the partisan break down for such views is disturbing. democratic college students are more likely to say it's okay to disrupt the public speech. men are more likely than women said it's okay. men are more likely than women to back the use of out right violence to silence words they consider hateful. when i was in school the liberals defended the free speech of communists without violence or disruption. freedom of speech is a basic

right to protect those with unpopular views. popular views are easy to defend. unpopular views are not. that's why we have this constitution. boy, is that "hardball" for now. thanks for being with us. all in with chris hayes starts now. tonight on all in -- >> mr. manafort who is by the way a respected man. >> more fallout from the wire tap reports as the president's personal attorney is sent packing by senate investigators. >> it was a request of the senate intel to postpone. i will be back. >> the latest on the investigations into trump and the russians and then -- >> simply put, trump care is a sham. >> new movement to repeal obamacare. >> paul ryan told me to my face, if you pass it, we pass it. >> the president brings his tweet storm to the un. >> rocket man is on a suicide