in october, that s eight months from now. the judge said she thought july or august might be more appropriate, but do not rule out a fall start date. she also warned stone no to treat the criminal case against him like a book tour and added she was considering issuing a gag order to stop stone s media blitz. he repeated the nixon thing he has literally been doing since he was a teenager as seen here in his high school yearbook exclusively obtained by all in. still a bunch of outstanding questions about stone and his role in the wikileaks e-mail dump that came on the heels of the access hollywood tape being made public. it has always been the case and it is highly suss spanish that just a half an hour after the worst bombshell moment of any presidential campaign in recent memory was published, wikileaks just happened to start releasing e-mails that furthered a damaging narrative about hillary clinton s campaign. e-mails that were, of course, stolen by the russian government s hacker
julian assange and senior trump campaign officials, including someone who directed a senior trump campaign official to try to coordinate with stone to get even more damaging wikileaks information. you know, ian, we re now, you know, we re at this point where the big question to me has always been that day, october 7th. the tape comes out and then the wikileaks dump happens. and, you know, i always say if you re a publisher that s a weird time to publish because you re publishing this enormous story that is going to get swallowed up and it s a friday. which october 7th was. wait until monday. why would you publish then? if you re trying to distract attention it makes a lot of sense. we now have corsi saying stone was trying to shake the tree loose and the indictment says well done afterwards. the map, i wish i could pulp
says mueller has evidence the timing was not a coincidence. and the roger stone indictment says someone texted him well done after the e-mails were posted. joining me now congressman ted liu of california. i think i know the answer but i will ask it anyway, congressman, do you believe the president when he denies he ever instructed roger stone to get involved with wikileaks? thank you, chris, for that question. donald trump has lied thousands of times on matters both great and small. i don t think we can take his denial to mean very much. i m a former prosecutor, and what was interesting to me about the roger stone indictment is that special counsel mueller included information in there totally unnecessary to the actual charges. the sentence that a senior trump adviser was directed to contact stone, that was directed that was not necessary and i think it s very interesting that mueller included it because it sends a signal there that is somebody pretty high up that was in on this c
date in doucourt. he is out on bail. president trump is denying the one who was referred to as the mysterious person who gave an order direct to a senior to a senior person in this mueller indictment of roger stone. tell us about that. in the indictment, there s a reference two references to a senior official in the trump campaign who told someone else in the trump campaign to tell roger stone, find out what s going on with wikileaks. the question, of course, is is that order giver candidate donald trump? it certainly raises that possibility, because trump and stone go back to the 1980s. they have had an on and off again friendship for all that time. they had been in touch at this point during the campaign, both of them have said, publically, they did not communicate about wikileaks. that s certainly a question a
to and what else they have. at about the same time that candidate trump was asking the russians to go after hillary clinton s e-mails. right? the fact that mr. stone also seemed to know that mr. podesta was next in the barrel, he seemed to know all these things ahead of time. then later denied it when it was embarrassing to him and the president of the united states. the senate intelligence committee has seen rortds shrec was not president trump who donald trump junior was talking to on a blocked numd befo eed n trump tower meeting. have you seen any evidence on this? look, this is one answer that we have asked for for an extraordinary long period of time. we weren t able to subpoena anything. now we know 100 contacts around 28 meetings and 18 trump