The timing is kind of remarkable. The fact that the white house knew nothing about it a kind of goes hand in hand with the attorney general, merric garland, keeping his cards very, very, very close to the vest. From my experience of reporting on criminal cases and criminal investigations that involve high level politicians, they take place very slowly, in berately. So to what we are just talking about, that this has to go through several layers of approval, most likely.
Florida man's beach house searched by FBI.
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