Whats happening, he knows what roger knows about him, how much negotiation is there going to go on right now with sentencing coming, the type of prison, whether its allenwood, lewisberg, something much less pleasant, where they dont have a tennis court, where theres white collar criminals or sleaze balls, how much negotiation is the president capable of right now . In terms of where roger stone is sentenced, if hes sentenced to prison, thats not up to anyone other than the bureau of prisons. Didnt barr get involved with Manafo Manafort . The bureau of prisons does report to the attorney general. But in almost every case ive heard of, its a designation based on risk and how much time
is to be served. A second point, i also think roger stone has rendered himself absolutely useless. He has lied almost every time hes opened his mouth. It would be very hard for prosecutors to turn to him now to get Additional Information that they could use against others. Roger stone is useless. Hes a conv
Welcome to bbc news, im mike embley. Our top stories tens of thousands of germans attend vigils for the nine people murdered by a far right extremist. Donald trumps former adviser gets a three year sentence for lying to congress, but the president is already talking about a pardon. An exclusive report, how a prisoner and her guard fled north korea. They tell us about their remarkable escape. And we speak to the actor Daniel Radcliffe about his new film, based on a true story of Political Prisoners in apartheid south africa. It is so genius and so brilliant, i was like, how has the story not already been told . How do normal people not know about this . Tens of thousands of germans have attended vigils for the nine people murdered by a far right extremist on wednesday. Authorities are treating the shootings in the western town of hanau as a terror attack. Many of those who died were members of the citys turkish community, who were at two local smoking cafes. One was romanian. Its believ
I was going to say, you should market it but it does kind of sound like a weird pregnancy line. The last word bump coffee cup. She did a solid eight minutes and that might be it. You discussed with Amy Klobuchar this issue that we, ive heard about on a lot of Television Talk about politics. The electability of a woman. Does a woman have a particular challenge . And i thought you dealt with that pretty wisely, obviously. That discussion is during repeatedly. Yeah. And i for one, and i dont watch every minute of cable news, but ive not heard one discussion of the electability of a gay man. I have not heard one discussion of the electability of a jewish man. Why is it that women, and apparently at this time, women alone are left to have to fight for the notion that they can actually win . Yeah. I mean, i think whats going on, you do hear some discussion about age, for example. And whether or not age is a limiting factor for some of the older candidates in the field. You heard that particu
And while President Trump is congratulating the attorney general, he is attacking Amy Berman Jackson. Shes the judge presiding over roger stones case. Its judge jackson who also handled the case of Paul Manafort. Lets go straight to the white house and Kaitlan Collins, shes in the midst of all of this. We also know that the president pulled the treasury nomination of a former u. S. Attorney who oversaw the roger stone prosecution. You tell me, whats going on . Reporter theres a lot going on. That nomination that was pulled is just one small part of all of this. Its a crucial point. That is someone who oversaw the u. S. Attorneys office. That is the office that handled the prosecution of roger stone. Theyre also the ones in charge of several other ongoing major cases including that one related to the deputy or the former deputy fbi director, andrew mccabe. This is jess see liu. She was nominated for this top treasury job. She left the u. S. Attorneys office in washington, was replaced b
Departments review of Rudy Giulianis dirtdigging operation in ukraine. We will speak with Kathleen Rice of the homeland department. And we will also talk about Andrew Mccabe and the rest of the top stories of the day. We go to white house with jim acosta and once again, there is a lash out of the prosecutors while praising the attorney general for taking ge says the president. Yes, the president is insisting that he did though heg the attorney general for bending to the wishes of the president. The republicans are not showing any signs that they intend to do anything about it. Reporter the president is all but blowing a kiss to the Justice Department for intervening in the case of the former Campaign Adviser roger stone who is facing a longer prison sentence in the role in the Russian Investigation until the president was complaining. The president claims that he did not mettle in the case. I want to thank the Justice Department for looking into this horrible thing and i did not speak