mueller proffered his list of questions to trump, it included things specifically about stone and stone has bragged about his relationship and prior knowledge with both wikileaks and julian assange. this indictment could bring what has been activity across the atlantic, computer hacking in particular, onto our shores and close to trump. yeah. from the trump perspective, i mean, the indictments that have been on the russian side, the conspiracy to sort of tilt the election, sabotage it that they offered of russians. if stone were indicted that would be an enormousseismic. right. stone adds this up to a much lesser degree papadopoulos are the link between the campaign and wikileaks and the russians. so stone, that would be
robert mueller, to make sure the truth about donald trump gets out. listen to what he said earlier. i said that he had matters that would be of interest to this special counsel relating to pre-knowledge of computer hacking by donald trump. which, if true, if true, would constitute knowledge of a crime committed by a foreign government in hacking our computers, which was part of the indictment of 12 russians that the special counsel has already published. davis is on record saying his client does not want to be dirty by a presidential pardon. i would hazard a guess a presidential pardon is not something he has to worry about. eric: the president has a different reaction to paul manafort. the manafort verdicts yesterday even though the jury was hung on 10 counts clearly a
sentencing in order to organize everything and tie everything up into a nice neat bow. prosecutors will simply delay the sentencing as long as they need to in order to secure the level of cooperation that they want from this particular cooperating witness. you just mentioned big fish. do one of those big fish be michael cohen, especially when you have lanny davis on with rachel maddow saying he might have some information about the president here that could include topics of crime, computer crime of hacking, whether or not the president knew ahead of time about the crime or even cheered it on, could that be it? that was a mind blowing revelation to me because that was the first inkling or first suggestion that the computer hacking might be part of the bundle of things that donald trump is being implicated in or not too subtly implicated in as he was yesterday in court. when lanny davis said that that was the first time any of us yesterday really hearth computer hacking. i think man
opponent, totally legal and done all the time in politics. he s saying he did not know about it, but in this tweet he s saying he does now know about it. your thought about legal jeopardy, steven? collusion is not a legal term and it may be that collusion by itself is not necessarily a crime, but the conduct that s contemplated in that trump tower meeting from the summer of 2016 potentially exposes them to liability in a number of different ways. there is conspiracy to assist in the computer hacking which is criminal, there is also violations of federal campaign finance laws, receiving things of that you will that might assist in a campaign from foreign sources, and then the general conspiracy statute says it s a crime to conspire with others to defraud or reconstruct
this is an attempt this was an attempt and successful attempt to hack into the dnc. this wasn t just an influence campaign through social media. that was also there. this was a hack into the dnc. and a hack into john podesta s e-mails. there is amle evidence of computer hacking out of north korea, china, out of are you trying to i m trying to say that the issue of meddling in our elections is a real threat. and it is clear that russia was part of it. that didn t mean russia is the only actor that engaged in that not only in 2016 but before. and what we should do as a cub country is recognize the threats to our election process and make sure they don t happen going forward. that is all i m trying to argue and submit to the american people, why don t we solve the problem of election meddling at the root cause. do you think the president is aware of how it looks and how he is working against u.s. interests by standing next to vladimir putin and siding with him? i do ha