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're just things we'll never know about what happened there. I'm not sure we'll ever have an answer so it's hard to have an opinion about that. Oh the Stone raid. Yeah you know a lot has been said about the Roger Stone raid and I don't think that I would have anything to add to that. I think we all have the same impression which is why in the world would you need to raid a guy who of course says h…

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kup for you just in case. And then maybe you just sort of drifted into too many people showed up and then they all had to act like they were doing something so they all stood around looking menacing and it was just way too many people. So it's possible that the FBI is like any big organization where you call a meeting and you say all right I've invited six people and twelve people show up. Have you ever been in a business meeting where you're sure that only six people were invited but you sit down and there are 12 people there because each of them invited two other people? All right so it's possible that there's just nothing to it. There was just a big administrative situation where just too many people showed up.

Yeah now I'm not saying that that's likely. I'm saying that you always have to assume that when you have these hard-to-explain situations that maybe just maybe the explanation is something you don't know, something you haven't considered. So keep that in mind. That's why I don't have a firm opinion about whether this was the worst thing in the world or just some weird mistake that the FBI did. They wanted to be there for historic. Yeah it's entirely possible that people in the FBI just wanted to be there because it was gonna be a good show you know just wanted to be part of history. That's possible. And then maybe nobody stopped them. Yeah okay well you're here anyway. That's not how law enforcement works. Yeah I'm not suggesting that that what I'm brainstorming with no thought whatsoever is what actually happened. I'm just saying that in general you can't always know all the things that went into the backstory.

Razor carefully planned. People don't show up. Well you called it a raid. What if it was never a raid? What if it was always four people who were gonna knock on the door and the other FBI agents in the neighborhood knew that was going to happen? Maybe the FBI heard that CNN had cameras there. If you heard that CNN had cameras would you bring extra people just to make sure that the media was controlled away from the working situation? I think you would, right? If you knew that there was a camera crew outside of Roger Stone's home would you bring more FBI agents or fewer? I think you'd bring more because you'd have an extra population to control.

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possibilities but I think we can, we're all on firm ground in saying we do need an explanation. I think the public needs an explanation but don't assume it's going to be some evil intention. It could be just we don't know. Star Trek STD. Are you watching? Is anybody watching the new Star Trek on CBS? It got bad reviews but I think it's the best one actually. I love the new Star Trek. All right t…

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