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Just another self-promoter who enjoys the limelight, even if it is on CNN. Kristol does not challenge the search as having no connection to the “collusion” investigation. Rather, he simply says, and we are supposed to agree, that the search was proper because Mueller gave the order. I wonder how accepting Kristol would be if the government searched his attorney's office and took records of his interaction with his own lawyer. No doubt, Kristol would rediscover the importance of attorney-client privilege, and look through the fiction that a third party (who works for the FBI) will read everything and not allow privileged records to be used. If the government had issued a subpoena for the records, Cohen's lawyers could have redacted anything covered by the privilege and the government would have been required to convince a judge that the records were relevant and should be produced. A search warrant does away with that pesky little requirement.