by side? this is the big lie that s spelled out in the indictment. roger stone says it s the guy on the right. actually, it was the guy on the left okay who cares? why does that matter why would the difference between those two paths to wikileaks be worth not only lying about it to congress, but doing back flips and making all these floor id baroque threats against another witness to prevent that from unraveling roger stone goes nuts that the cover story will be exposed as false. quote, stone wall it plead the fifth. anything to save the plan. he tells this witness he s going give up the cover story. he tells him to refuse to appear plead the fifth. do a frank pentangeli. he shows up to testify, but then
14th, the special counsel robert mueller made a request to congress he wanted an official transcript to the roger stone s testimony the committee said yes just before the president shut down the government that committee voted unanimously to turn over roger stone s testimony to the house intelligence committee which has taken place in december of 2017. now, in mid december the washington post flagged that as a sign that mueller might be moving soon to charge roger stone with making false statements in that testimony otherwise why would he need an official transcript of stone s remarks? the washington post was right. today the special counsel charged rojen stone with making five false statements to congress, which raises the question of whether or not mueller asked to look at anybody else s testimonies interesting question we have a single source tonight,
messages from roger stone in making the case for the seventh felony count in the roger stone indictment today, which is for witness tampering. i have a question about that if roger stone s alleged wannabe gangster style of pressuring a potential witness, if that s setting off a not very distant bell ringing for you, it may be because of other witnesses we ve seen along those lines about other potential witnesses, onl those other messages, those are ones that weren t conveyed in private text messages or e-mails, they re were conveyed in public. ones like this quote, lying to reduce his jail time, which the president tweeted last week about michael cohen when it looked like mr. cohen might offer new testimony to congress. quote, watch father-in-law watch father-in-law for what what is going to happen to father-in-law? here s my question roger stone got hit today with a felony charge of witness tampering for text messages and e-mails he s alleged to have sent in private to a potential wit
must be neat that they took such risks to cover up. today we see that again with roger stone. you know, there s a lot of color in the stone indictment with him, like, threatening that guy s dog when he was trying to stop that guy from testifying before congress. there s him quoting the godfather. there s the headline, the allegation from the special counsel that stone did not make his overtures on his own initiative a senior campaign official directed roger stone to get him to find out what wikileaks had on clinton everyone wondering who on the campaign would have the authority to direct a senior campaign official. everybody s wondering if that would be the candidate himself maybe. i don t know we don t know. special counsel doesn t say. but if you set all that aside for just a second, consider the overall dynamic we have seen
quote from page 20 ready? quote, you are a rat, a stoolle, you backstab your friends, run your mouth my lawyers are dying to rip you to shreds. according to the latest indictment today from the special counsel, these are tender greetings from longtime trump associate roger stone to a man whose testimony could reportedly have shown that roger stone lied and told a bogus cover story to congress. the indictment continues, quote, stone also said he would, quote, take that dog away from you, referring to the potential witness dog also subtly, quote, i am so ready. let s get it on. prepare to die, expletive. prepare to die, you expletive. drama much special counsel s office today laid out those threats and other