'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 he knows he's been the subject of investigation. If there were any evidence laying around he certainly would have gotten rid of it. But more importantly as somebody joked, I wish I could give credit but somebody joked recently if you wanted to catch Roger Stone all you had to do is say CNN wants to talk to you and he would come running out of his house. And that's completely true, right? If you wanted to catch Roger Stone just say hey we got an interview on the front lawn. Why don't you come out here and then put the handcuffs on him.

So one has to ask what was the purpose of the major raid. And I want to suggest that there's a reason that has not been considered and the reason that hasn't been considered is there's a reason that we just don't know what it is. One of the things I'm writing about in my new book which you'll see in a few months is that sometimes we draw conclusions based on our own lack of imagination.

So if you say to me Scott imagine all the reasons that you can think of that the FBI would have such a show of force to pick up Roger Stone when all of us believe we can't think of any reason that would be necessary unless they were just you know being jerks or they were overreaching or something like that. Yeah or maybe they were sending a message somebody says etc. Now maybe those are the reasons but do they pass the sniff test? Do you think there was somebody at the FBI who said this will be a good look for us? I think this will be good for the FBI if we send way too many people to pick up Roger Stone. I don't quite get how they thought that was the way to go.

So here's what I'm going to suggest. By far the most likely explanation of why they sent so many people to pick him up and in such a dramatic fashion was that there's something we don't know. Now I know you don't like to hear that because you like to think you've seen it all but by far the most likely explanation is some day you know maybe it's the head of the FBI will say okay what we didn't tell you is that we had this other concern and there was a reason we did it the way we did it. Or they might say it was simply, let me give you, I'll just brainstorm here. All right so this is just brainstorming.

Imagine that they decided to pick him up and originally they're just gonna send three or four people and if you saw three or four people show up you'd say oh that looks about right. Three or four people you know wouldn't that feel about right to you? And let's say the word got out the three or four people were gonna go do this job. Is it possible that other people said well maybe we'll be bac