Underway tonight. And good evening, once again from our nbc news headquarter here in new york. Day 763 of the Trump Administration and we begin tonight with the fallout on virtually all the members of Donald Trumps circle of friends, family, employees, advisors, roger stone was in federal court today facing a federal judge and the roger stone roger stone on display tonight, sorrowful, had no resemblance to the man who made his bones on the side of politics. He appeared to be a very different man today. Thats because he was forced to answer for this. He posted this graphic with accompanying inflammatory language on social media a few days ago. And any graphic featuring a photo of the federal judge hearing your case with a gun sight style cross hair depiction in the upper lefthand corner is going to draw the attention of the court. The judge today didnt give roger stone what he deserved, she did what was prudent. In a surprise move, he took the stand. There wasnt supposed to be testimony at todays hearing but he got up and apologized for what he did and violating the gag order saying, i believe i abused the order for which i am heartfully sorry. I am kicking myself over my own stupidity. I believe the lapse of judge was the outgrowth of the extreme stress of the situation. Im being treated for emotional stress. Im having trouble putting food on the table and paying the rent. Stone testified he did not select the image on the posting but he did take responsibility. Judge jackson then quizzed him about the photo and the images that he posted and who might have up loaded it to his social media account if not him. She also asked him if he or his employees knew how to do a Google Search and she added, how hard was it to come up with a photograph that didnt have crosshairs in the corner . Stone replied i didnt recognize it as crosshairs. I didnt even notice it until it was brought to my attention by a reporter. The judge eventually told stone she found his explanations, quote, not credible and then tightened the gag order he was already under saying, quote, the defendant may not speak publicly about the investigation or the case or any of the participates in the investigation or the case. No statements about the case during interviews on tv, on the radio, with print reporters, or on internetbased media. No press releases or press conferences, no posts on facebook, twitter, instagram, snapchat or any other form of social media. Today i give you a second chance. But this is not baseball. There will not be a third chance. Stone has been free on bail since his arrest last month after the raid on his home. Seven counts. Today he could have lost his freedom. Some veteran stone watchers said today we might be witnessing a turning point for this man. Roger stones worlds are colliding right now. He was living in the political world. He didnt understand that there would come a time when he would be sitting in front of a federal judge who would be grilling him. In the political world people say thats bad you shouldnt do that. But theres not a set of established penalties that exist dealing with a federal judge is not the same thing as dealing with a candidate youre running against. Its always do what you can and what you can get away with until you get caught. He doesnt care. And hes the ultimately dirt bag. Donald trump relied on his Close Friends services in the early days of his campaign but earlier this month, trump tried to distance himself from his friend of 40 years. Roger stone didnt work on the campaign except way, way at the beginning, long before were talking about. Roger and somebody that ive always liked. Some people probably dont like roger. Roger is a character. The problem is that Netflix Documentary called get me roger stone shows just how long roger stone and his onetime partner have been focused on the goal of getting donald trump into the white house. In 1987, i suggested that trump should explore a bid for the presidency. I was like a jockey looking for a horse. You cant win the race if you dont have a horse and hes a prime piece of political horse flesh. Roger saw the value of the outsider image. He saw the value of somebody who brought business experience to the political process. He saw somebody that nobody else saw. Once he had conversations with trump about that, trump started to take sha seriously. That gentleman right there, former Trump Campaign chairman Paul Manafort now a convicted felony learned hell be sentenced march 8 in virginia for his convictions in just that jurisdiction for bank and tax fraud. He also awaits his other sentencing date, march 13, in a separate mueller case in washington where he pleaded guilty to conspiracy charges. Hes also been hit with additional charges of lying to federal prosecutors and a grand jury during his cooperation sessions. Mueller is expected to file a sentencing memo in that case in the manafort case tomorrow. So in effect we will know how harsh a sentence prosecutors are looking for. And former trump Attorney Michael Cohen has added more congressional testimony to his schedule. He turned up in washington today. Tuesday hell have a closed door session with the Senate Intelligence committee. Thats in addition to his public appearance wednesday before House Oversight and then a private session with the House Intel Committee on thursday. Let us bring in our leadoff panel for another busy thursday night. A courtroom veteran who spent 25 years as a federal prosecutor, chief White House Correspondent for the New York Times, and Senior Legal Affairs contributor for politico who was inside the courtroom for todays proceedings. And, josh, thats where id like to begin. What was it like, what was he like . Well, it was a moment of high courtroom drama when we heard that stone was going to take the stand. It wasnt something that people expected. But as you alluded to in the intro, it seems that stone doesnt do abject contrition and kind of graveling apology very well. His talents are in the realm of provocation and this was not a place to pursue that kind of a strategy. And so to see him sitting there on the witness stand questioned by his own lawyer, questioned by prosecutors, crossexamined by a prosecutor and questioned by the judge, he seemed a bit shaken by the experience. He seemed rattled at one point. He was breathing rather heavily into the microphone and he insisted as we discussed that all these apologies were genuine but the judge wasnt having much of it. She made clear pretty early on that she wasnt buying it. She said his explanations were evolving even during that hearing today. And a lot of it frankly just didnt sound particularly creditable when he said that he almost immediately realized that this was a mistake. The problem was he went onto give two days of interviews where he defended the basic thrust of his remarks and said the media was making a mountain out of a mole hill. And the judge didnt see how those things could be consistent. If you saw any cable news today, you know there was a ton of second guessing what the judge could have done, what she did because theres being a federal judge and everybody else is in the cheap seats, you saw a potential trap in todays proceedings. What was that . I think the judge handled this just right. If she had revoked his bond and put him in jail, he would have likely then argued that she had found that he had threatened her, that she could no longer fairly sit on this case and give him an impartial trial. He would have tried to appeal that issue and knock her out from the trial. I dont think he would have ultimately been successful. But he could have tied the case up in the appellant courts for a long time. He could have done a lot of damage to the courts credibility. So the way she handled it today, she sort of gave him the last warning. And if he violates the pretrial release conditions again, shell then be well within her rights to put him into custody pending trial and he wont be in that same posture. So i think todays outcome was just the right one even though i understand that there were people who thought she should have taken him into custody. Peter, as you well know, roger stone and his friend of four decades, donald trump, kind of live off the oxygen of Public Discourse often one sided. On top of roger stone, what must be a deathly fear of going away for many years, theres now a fear that he wont be allowed to be roger stone. Thats exactly right. Obviously a gag order is a whole lot better than a jail term right now. But for a man who said the only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about, he makes his living off of that, but his identity is tied up in the idea of being a his whole identity is tied up in the ability of speaking out, saying outrageous things. Now hes under a penalty that goes to the heart of who he is. So obviously hes walking out of court today. Thats a better outcome for him than being sent away to a jail cell. But this is something that is, you know, a penalty of its own for a man like roger stone. I want to put up the graphic on the screen again showing the federal judge and in the upper lefthand corner this depiction of crosshairs for folks watching monday night. I reported that our standards folks had barred it from our air waves but they thought better of that decision and thought it a little less threatening now. I want to see it because im going to read you part of what you witnessed in court today about whether or not thats crosshairs. Judge jackson talking to roger stone, why are you now saying its a celtic symbolic . Apparently he was going for it all still. Because i researched it and thats how it comes up. Judge jackson, havent you also said publicly that it was actually an acult symbolic . What does it mean . Stone i dont know your honor. Im not into the acult. It just proves to you, though, he was in it to win it, josh. Yeah. He was trying to offer up defenses even as he said his apology was unqualified and he wasnt making excuses. So he was in a very difficult spot. There was a point in which when the judge was reading her sort of verdict on him today he looked back over his shoulder at the couple of the burly federal marshals who were standing behind him who were ready to take him into custody. The judge used the phrase if you dont get the message here, i have things i can do to i think it was adjust your environment, was the term she used. So i think if he wasnt scared by what happened today, the judge was clear if anything like this happens again, hell be either looking at a jail cell or some kind of a very severe form of house arrest. Federal courtrooms have a way of focusing the mind as joyce knows well. I want to pivot a little bit into mr. Cohen previewing the hearings at least the one were going to get to see on Live Television next week. Switch sides for me and if you were hired as chief counsel for the democrats doing the questioning, how do you take a guy like that and embrace and own the fact that he lied for donald trump . You dont have to embrace him very tightly because of course if youre the chief counsel for the democrats, you never chose Michael Cohen as your witness. Donald trump chose Michael Cohen as your witness and thats how you treat him throughout the proceedings. You do have to establish his credibility and i think with cohen its fairly simple. Cohen if he lies at this point will go to jail for much longer. He will face additional charges and he will look at more time. Right now he has a manageable sentence. Theres some possibility that if he continues to cooperate, the government could come back and ask for a further reduction in that sentence. But hes still in for a rocky ride. The republicans are going to go after his credibility throughout the entire hearing. And, joyce, is there one area of questioning out there that looms out there that youre surprised no one has gone down, no one has written about, is there anything you would want to go after him on . You know, the problem with cohen is that hes such a target rich environment and the most that he has to offer is his personal interaction with the president and his ability to put the president right at center court. So far theres been a lot of evidence thats become public that people are still asking questions like what did the president know and when did he know it . Was the president involved personally in these negotiations with russia . Michael cohen is probably the man who can answer a lot of those questions and it will be very interesting to see if he does that when he testifies on the hill. And peter back to your beat on pennsylvania avenue. Its very possible, we have split screen coverage next week of one donald trump in vietnam with the dictator of north korea and his longtime personal Family Company lawyer in washington, d. C. , that has to be at very minimum a distraction for the traveling white house . Yeah, absolutely. Its a big deal when a president goes overseas to meet with a foreign leader, particularly one like north korea. No president had met with any north korean dictator until donald trump came along. To have this split screen story going on, is rather extraordinary. Not novel in this particular administration. I was on the plane with him when he left for saudi arabia amid reports that he had just met with the russian minister after firing jim comey. He said that releases the pressure on me and another report that Jared Kushner might or might not be under scrutiny. Another time when he was meeting with the queen, it was the moment when Rod Rosenstein came out and announced the indictment of russian agents who interfered in the election. So hes seen this before and its a distraction because of course it focuses attention away from the very important and serious issues that hes going to be confronting when he gets to hanoi. A great thanks to our initial three guests tonight. Thank you all very much. And coming up for us, with this heightened anticipation surrounding a Mueller Report, sooner rather than later, if these stories are to be believed, Congress Wants their say as well. And later the president about to leave the country as we said during what promises to be an unusually eventful week even by these standards. As we are fond of asking, what could go wrong . The 11th hour just Getting Started on this particular thursday evening. At booking. Com, we cant guarantee youll find gold on your wild west vacation. 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Earlier today trump attorney Rudy Giuliani told usa today its been weeks since the mueller team has contacted the attorney. We expect something in the next two weeks. He said the legal team has been preparing a report of their own. If mueller clears the president , we walk away and say thank you. If its damaging, then we will respond. Also today former acting u. S. Solicitor general who was our chief lawyer before the Supreme Court and who at the department of justice helped draft the original special counsel rules of the road wrote an oped in the New York Times about what we might expect from muellers report. He writes this, quote, the report is unlikely to be a dictionary thick tome which will disappoint some observers but such brevity is not necessarily good news for the president. In fact quite the opposite. A concise Mueller Report might act as a road map to investigation for the Democratic House of representatives and it might also lead to further criminal investigation by other prosecutors. A short Mueller Report would mark the end of the beginning, not the beginning of the end. For more with us tonight, White House Reporter for the associated press, former federal prosecutor and alumny of the clinton administration. Welcome to you both. Jill, is the white house near ready for this report to come out and as you guys say, if im allowed a followup, how could they be . The white house is certainly ready for the Mueller Investigation to be over. This has been a cloud that has been hanging over the president s head since the day he took office. He has been very eager for this to all be over. The question of course is whether even if after mueller submits his report whether it actually will be over as neil argued in that New York Times oped. Even if this is a very brief, very short piece of summary that winds up being released to the American Public after mueller submits his report to the attorney general and if the attorney general decides to release some of it publicly, theres still so many tentacle of this investigation that could continue, various investigations into different courts by different governments that could continue on long after the Mueller Report is over. That said, the white house has been very careful to try to distance itself from anything to do with the Mueller Investigation. You have to remember that this has been an administration with a tremendous amount of turnover. So there arent that many individuals who worked in the campaign and there arent that ma who worked in the white house of the flynn back and forth and all of that in the early days when some of the obstruction of justice accusations were circling. And as a result, theyve really tried to push all of the pr, all of the pushback to the outside counsel and specifically to Rudy Giuliani, the person whom the president hired who has spent months and months now trying to discredit the mueller team, trying to discredit this investigation. Hes been out there saying if theyre unsatisfied with muellers findings, theyve got their own report theyre going to put out. Theyre trying to undermine whatever muellers findings are. As we knew theres been a lot of discontent among the white house concerned that hes not the right person and has been not effective in defending the president. And at this point thats who the president has got on his team. Jills News Organization has been very cautious about the reporting on this. Some are going all in just stating as a fact the report is coming out. Muellers work is about to wrap up. I noted with great interest some comments you made to one of our producers. Youre a contarian on this and youre not sure at all that its coming to a rapid end . I asked myself why now . Why would this be the time that mueller would choose to conclude his investigation and issue his report . Hes just indicted roger stone. Roger stone could someday be a cooperative witness. Mueller would be crazy to ever put roger stone on a witness stand because the man is a walking credibility gap. But stone could give him an amazing road map to what the president told him, what he said to assange, what he said to corsi, lay it all out and give mueller the ability to then go and develop the further evidence, classic technique, why end when the roger stone story isnt done. We had that Supreme Court case over in d. C. Circuit case over the last several months litigating mueller trying to get evidence from a stateowned foreign corporation. He hasnt gotten that evidence yet. You got the corsi piece of litigation out there, youve got miller who was sued doing it. Theres a lot of loose ends here. Why now . The only reason is, Rod Rosenstein is about to resign. But and rosenstein has been the gatekeeper and the protector of the Mueller Investigation, but bob bar is now in the attorney general seat and barr is a principled man, a very serious mainstream lawyer and hes also an old friend of bob muellers. They served together in the bush 41 Justice Department. Bob barr described him as, quote, a good friend in his confirmation hearings. I think mueller even attended barrs daughters weddings. So mueller should trust barr to handle the report properly. Why do it now . It doesnt quite fit for me. But it could be true. There were way more than enough quotes in what nelson just said for a dandy ap piece on the Mueller Investigation. But lets keep this in context, jill. Even if these reports are correct that it is coming to a rapid end, youve got everything else, you have a democratic controlled house of representatives and you have these spinoff cases including but not limited to, the Justice Departments new york office, the Southern District of new york. Exactly. So even when this case comes to a close and to be clear, all indications are that this now is wrapping up at some point, whether this happens before or after the president s trip to vietnam for his second north korea summit, it is expected to be wrapping up sometime soon. There are signals that that is the direction that this is headed in. This is by no means the end of this. We have the two other investigations, the Michael Cohen investigation thats working its way through the Southern District of new york. Weve got that investigation into the president s Inauguration Fund and whether he was accepting the that Inauguration Fund was accepting illegal contributions from foreign governments. We have at this point its unclear what mueller might tell us about other threads, other investigations, other leads that he might have for the Justice Department to pursue. But also for other agencies to pursue. We also of course have the democrats who are now in charge with subpoena power in the house. And as neil argues in that New York Times oped, you could have Mueller Report serving as a road map for all of those different investigators, all of these different trails, all of these different areas. And whats different between the Mueller Investigation and for instance the House Democratic committee is the president has no purview over the House Democratic committees. The president has no purview over what the new York Attorney general decides to do. And so this saga for the president doesnt appear to be anywhere close to being over. Im fascinated what you just said about the attorney general and i want to go back at that as my last question to you. This ag has as i see it, three audiences, the American Public, members of congress, and the man who just appointed him attorney general. Do you think if we took a poll of guys of your age and ilk and similar resume, they would view him as a steady institutionalist, they could express the kind of hope in him that you just did. Because the members of the opposition are going to be looking at this attorney general with yeehope in their eyes that does when called upon by history and Robert Mueller the right thing . Certainly barrs reputation in washington going back to the reagan years, going back to the bush 41 years is of a very serious sober mainstream lawyer. He then went onto serve as general counsel for some great companies. Hes had a great career. Its hard to believe that a man like this would want to go out and end his clear. He didnt have to come back and be attorney general for a second time. He had done that job when he was in his 40s. Why come back and do it a second time . Only to handle it in a way that most lawyers that he knows would think was a swing and a miss. Hard to believe that he would not handle it in the straightup, straight forward fashion that we might have expected from a Rod Rosenstein. Another serious lawyer who believes in the Law Enforcement and believed in the principles of a Justice Department. What a terrific conversation were indebted to you both for having it. Thank you both for coming on tonight. We appreciate it. Coming up, Michael Cohens testimony just one item as we said on a crowded calendar ahead, a preview of whats shaping up to be another consequential week. This is decision tech. Its Screening Technology that helps you find a stock based on whats trending or an investing goal. Its realtime insights and information, in your own customized view of the market. Its smarter trading technology, for smarter trading decisions. And its only from fidelity. Open an account with no minimums today. Were looking ahead to a high stakes week in politics. President trump travels to vietnam for his second summit with the north korean director kim jongun. Vice president pence will be in columbia, Jared Kushner headed to the middle east to present his peace plan which will include a meeting with mbs, mohammed bin salman. The point here is not that ivanka is going to be left to run the country. The point instead has to do with a number of Foreign Policy priorities and potential distractions while things heat up back home starting with Michael Cohens testimony next week. Hes a man with a lot to say, as weave said. We could be looking at a week of split screen coverage taking place against the backdrop of reports that the Mueller Report is expected soon. With us to talk about all of it, a veteran print journalist, now executive editor of the news startup calls news guard, and also a political veteran journalist, hes a veteran political journalist, hes not terribly political as a person or employee, he happens to be our National Political reporter. Welcome to you both. John, rate the stakes as we head into next week. We say this about every passing week, how consequential they all are. This is one of the few cases where just a glance at the calendar does set ourselves, our stars up pretty nicely. The calendar is like an escalating tournament in vegas, brian, where every week more and more chips get pushed in. But it does feel like were getting towards those later rounds and the president and Robert Mueller and Vice President pence and Jared Kushner are putting more and more chips on the table. The president is zrdesperate foa win. He went to singapore to meet with kim jongun last summer. I was there for that. Ill be in vietnam next week. He wants a win badly. Last summer he declared a victory. Since then, kim jongun has continued to pursue his nuclear program, there was a deal announced but no actual deal. I think we can expect Something Like that again from President Trump even though his own Senior Administration officials are telling us that this is just another step in the process. And at the same time back home, hes going to be dealing with Michael Cohen testifying on capitol hill. Hes going to be dealing with the expectation as youve been talking about on this program all night that Robert Mueller is getting closer, perhaps, to dropping this report on all of his findings. Youve got roger stone whos back in court today obviously not having his bond revoked quite yet, but maybe eventually having his bond revoked. All of these things are coming together and the president is desperate for a victory and that makes the stakes of all of this so high and it puts him in a weaker position when hes negotiating with kim jongun. One of the reasons this is being held in vietnam, theyre not sure, any of the aircraft, the buckets of bolts that are part of air un, the aircraft available to the district tor can make it as far west as europe, some of the Capital Cities where you would normally have a summit like this. So they meet again in asia. Okay. That was fun fact number one. Question to you is, arent we in the market for a massive shiny objective . For the third consecutive time ive been on this show, i come to you from broadway having seen true west. Two hours of mutual destruction. Youre ready for next week. Two brothers. So you brought up the whole notion of the interesting optical split screen dynamic of next week. Whats fascinating to me is to think 12hour time difference. Just about the time that hes either testifying before the Senate Intelligence committee, figure its about 11 00 p. M. In hanoi. I dont know how we bet on this. Do we really truly expect the president to go to bed in the hotel in hanoi . What happens when hay come back from lunch and its about one or two in the morning. Do we expect any sort of selfrestraint as he sit there is watching whatever hes going to watch and Michael Cohen with perhaps the same sort of venom that one seems in the sam shepherd play, starts answering questions about what did he tell you and when. And heres someone sitting a long way away who craves the limelight, this is going to be a really interesting challenge, how do you deflect our attention, how do you deflate the potenty of the cohen testimony with over everybodys shoulder, as you noted the Mueller Report. Another great question. Would anyone in vegas have bet on it snowing in vegas this week. Well continue our questioning right after this. 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If anything our president has been spooling up his attacks on news media in our free society to an even greater degree in these last few days, most notable his response to the New York Times report about the president s efforts to disrail and derail and discredit the investigations around him. He wrote on twitter the New York Times reporting is false. They are a true enemy of the people. It prompted this front page from another of his hometown papers today and this from the New York Daily News editorial board, quote, at a time when partisans already too often make their own reality, in a world where dictators jail and torture dissidents, the socalled leader of the real world brand invent truths as threats to the state. Among many symptom turning legacies, its his most stickening. Theres a statement from the publisher of the New York Times, the multigeneration family of publishers, were going to put it on the screen talking back to the president. The phrase enemy of the people is not just false, its dangerous. It has an ugly history of being wielded by dictators and tyrants who sought to control Public Information and it is reckless coming from someone whos office gives him broad powers to fight or imprison the nations enemies. We had a whi we know that every single president weve covered is talking about the treatment, barack obama all the time, the difference here, obviously, is signaling us out and attempting delegitimize us. Theres the difference. But the ironies are so ratify particularly when it comes to the New York Times and the response to the 38yearold 5th generation sulzberger who was pleaded with him to stop doing this. This is a guy from queens even though hes from a fancy neighborhood, who craves the imprim tour of his big hometown paper. Theres been some ways more accessible to us than anybody. Its not even a close second the amount of interviews he gives. Its not just to fox news, its to the New York Times and Washington Post which he claims to hate. He has taken pedestrian traditions that we have all been involved in, like the pool spray, the president of the United States with some dignitary, then youre ushered out of the room, hes taken that as a mean to gab about anything he wants to gab. There was a pool spray at a Cabinet Meeting a month or so ago. He went on for about an hour. So the irony to me is incredibly substantial. He craves it. Overseas trips afford a chance for a pull aside time to get to know the person youre covering better. Is he likely to treat you folks as enemies of the people . I doubt theres going to be a lot of oneonone time for most reporters with the or even a small handful of us. It looks like sean hannity from fox will get an interview with the president. Its possible there will be a press conference at some point during that period. And hes been generally speaking on foreign trips available to the press in that format. They tend to be pretty expansive. Press access is not a problem with this president. Attacks on the media have been part of a pattern for him. If he doesnt like what hes hearing, he labels them enemies. If he doesnt like what he reads the in the press, he labels them enemies. When he doesnt like what he hears from his own political appoints, whether youre talking about Jeff Sessions or your talking about cliff sims or youre talking about Michael Cohen, he labels them rats and enemies. This is somebody who attacks the person that says something bad about him whether its true or not. In this case the enemy of the president is not the president , it is the truth. And i think its interesting and were going to find out when you cover the 2020 campaign, to what extent is this inadvertently setting the tone for even greater hostility among his supporters. You have to go talk to your colleague, talk to the bbc camera man who got slugged recently. To what extent will this animus being ratcheted up. Two great writers, friends of this broadcast, thank you both for coming on. Coming up, a potential change to the new congress and a big change in north carolina. [cell phone rings] where are you . Well the squirrels are back in the attic. Mom . Your dad wont call an exterminator. Can i call you back, mom . He says its personal this time. If youre a mom, you call at the worst time. Its what you do. If you want to save fifteen percent or more on car insurance, you switch to geico. Its what you do. Where are you . Its very loud there. Are you taking a zumba class . You wont find relief here. Congestion and pressure . Its very loud there. Go to the pharmacy counter for powerful claritind. While the leading allergy spray only relieves 6 symptoms, claritind relieves 8, including sinus congestion and pressure. Claritind relieves more. Through the testimony ive listened to over the past three days, i believe a new election should be called. Its become clear to me that the publics confidence in the ninth district seat general election has been undermined to an extent that a new election is warranted. That was a surprise and it came after days of testimony concerning the results of north carolinas ninth Congressional District election. Republican mark harris, that man, won on Election Night technically, a narrow victor over democrat dan mccready, that has been under investigation ever since. This weeks hearing has been looking into allegations that that mans team was guilty of ballot fraud. At the center of those accusations is a political operative, Leslie Mccrae dowless, who allegedly hired people to collect and tamper with absentee ballots. For weeks, harris urged the election board to certify his victory. He argued the number of manipulated ballots was not near enough to overturn the results. Todays sudden turn of events came one day after harris own son, who happens to be an assistant u. S. Attorney, took the stand. You had suspicions from about mccrae dowless from the start. Yes. Since the 2016 primary election based on those results. And youve expressed that the to your father . I did. I told him that collecting ballots was a felony. Yesterday mark harris was visibly upset while his own son testified. Today the elder harris, who once had reason to believe he would have the title congressman prior to his name, tried to explain why he continued to work with dowless despite his sons verbal and emailed warnings. Obviously i read these emails today in a very different intellectual light than when i read them when my 27yearold son, who is a sharp attorney extremely sharp. Extremely sharp. But im his dad and i know hes a little judgemental and has a little taste of arrogance and some other things. 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