Chris Cuomo asks the tough questions to newsmakers in Washington and around the world. Appoint him. If hes a superior officer, the senate has to confirm him. And hes not really being supervised closely by rosenstein. Hes basically given free rein. Hes indicting Russian Foreign agents. He has a specific mandate. Rosenstein reviews it. Weve seen that decisions have been made to parse out Different Things that mueller started looking at and then went to the Southern District so that, you know, theres been a judiciousness in terms of what he can do. I dont see why you think thats a clear question. Well, no. It is because in terms of the supervision, Rod Rosenstein basically does not effectively control the actions why not . Well, because you see that there has been no limits on rosensteins on muellers jurisdiction and authority. He is now going after manafort, which is has nothing to do with the russian investigation. But in the mandate, it says that things that arise from it. Sure. And it
We have to wear these goggles because the ashes coming off of there so fast, the winds are speeding up so much right now. This is the problem every afternoon here. And theres no end in sight right now. Theyre expecting these red flag warnings to continue. Stephanie, thank you. Stay safe. The news continues right now. I want to hand it over to chris and cuomo prime time. Chris . Thank you, anderson. I am chris cuomo and welcome to prime time. A roger stone confidant is facing a Contempt Charge in the Special Counsel probe. Is this about hiding the truth . His lawyer says, no, its about exposing it. Hes here to make the case to you. And looks like trump wants to give himself another tax cut. A rule that is good for him and people like him, not so good for the rest of us. One of the architects of the original trump tax plan is here to test it. And as charlottesville braces for the return of White Supremacist marchers, trump calls out wouldbe protesters. The problem is hes talking about nf
around him. how far away from somebody, how small a role can somebody play in someone s life and still get called before a grand jury? look, they are clearly looking at the people in roger stone s orbit to see what they know before they decide to call roger stone to the stand. they want to get the information, corroborate the information that they may already have, and then eventually get to roger stone and put him on the stand and ask him what he knows and what contacts he really had. so they can show that there was some activity that would equate with collusion? well, i think they re right. i mean that s the purpose of the investigation is to look. it was an intelligence investigation to begin with, a foreign intelligence investigation to begin with, looking at interference with the election. and there was some discussions and public statements made by stone about his relationship with julian assange. right. and, again, he did say that was puffing.
relationship are that person? why would she know anything? because she served add a clerical who worked with him as scheduling and calendar and issues around that. perhaps there is something to be had about the corroboration of sam nunberg who said that he told him he was talking to julian assange, was with him at different points in time. so perhaps she could give him information about that particular aspect of it. but then stone said he was just puffing when he was talking to nunberg, and nunberg says that could be true. so how do you see the decision to have kristin davis on the stand? i see the decision as one that s a comprehensive investigation to not leave any stone forgive the pun unturned because you have a good pun by the way. you have to have good corroboration about things like that. you can t take anybody s word if credibility is a factor here. schultz, let s come in on this. the idea is how tenuous are you going to get? you haven t called stone. if y
going to verify that. okay. they re going to verify that information and then call him in. so one more thing on this, laura. go ahead. if i can just say, though, if he is a target of the investigation, he himself, and the goal is not to get to perhaps somebody more directly in with the campaign like donald trump, then they would never call him. they would be trying to get everyone around him to talk about the information they have. he himself may be the target. you got an indictment of those 12 gru agents where they talk about somebody who is an american citizen, who was in cahoot. and stone had said he didn t think that was him, but it was so obvious it was him. he admitted it was. on my show. thanks for watching laura coates. i think it s a little premature to label him a target. that would be rationale for not calling him. i get your point. but everything that could be speculated about, alleged about roger stone were true, what s the crime?