reporter: corsi claims before the tape was released publically, stone knew it was coming. he called corsi with a request, convinced wikileaks founder assuage to release clinton campaign chairman s hacked e-mails. don t be shy. reporter: less than half an hour after the tape was released, wikileaks dropped its first batch, e-mails they obtained from the russians. corsi suggested he should get credit for some of the wikileaks document dumps. he denies he communicated with assange. i believe i figured out that assange had podesta s e-mails. i told this to roger and others. it turned out i was right. that was deduction on my part as best i can remember. i was putting together the dots. reporter: the tape rocked the trump campaign. chris christie, the former new jersey governor, recalls in his new book. the tape was hard to watch.
former national security advisor michael flynn. our thanks to hallie jackson for that report. roger stone associate jerome corsi has filed a formal complaint against robert mueller with the department of justice yesterday accusing mueller s office of misconduct in its investigation. corsi claims that mueller s team tried to pressure him to admit that he lied about his efforts to learn about wikileaks s efforts to release hacked campaign e-mails of john podesta. corsi claims that he forgot about the messages he sent to stone and others. he said he later changed his testimony after he found the messages. the new york times is reporting that as late as mid may of 2017 the president s former campaign chairman paul manafort flew to ecuador and met with the country s president offering his services to secure foreign investment.
two reported targets of the mueller probe. earlier today, the daily caller reported of an early copy of book written by author jerome corsi. in this book, corsi claimed that he testified to mueller s grand jury that just one month before the 2016 election, roger stone, asked limb to contact julian assange about releasing podesta s e-mail. corsi claims that was because stone had advanced knowledge of the release of those access hollywood tape and advance knowledge of the e-mails themselves. corsi was asked about this earlier tonight on our own tucker carlson. this is a political witch hunt. i did not have a contact with assange. i have figured out that assange had podesta s e-mail. i told roger stone and told many people in august.
corsi claims that he came up with a prediction that podesta s e-mail would be hacked and released right before the election. that theory, he said, he shared with stone, who then tweeted something to that effect. and then, of course, that prediction turned out to be true. corsi denies that he has any ties to or sources inside wikileaks. roger stone also responded to this news of the plea deal on the radio this afternoon, and denied also that corsi told him that the podesta e-mails would be stolen and then published. i m unaware of any plea bargaining. i have no idea what this is about. other than to say that the assertion that jerry corsi knew in advance that john podesta s e-mails had been obtained and would be published would be news to me. this idea that jerry corsi could implicate me is simply no evidence whatsoever. and stone also said today that corsi is under what he called a tremendous amount of