while allegedly bullying someone out of testifying to congress. prosecutors found it important, they quoted that very reference in a case against stone. the case includes a charge of tampering with a witness. when stone was indicted in january, bob mueller s team alleged he told creditco meaning hide what he knew or lie to congress. mr. stone is fighting all the charges and he has explained the god father reference as a nod to randy credic o s impression. in addition to interviewing julian assange he is a comedian who does do impressions. when i interviewed him about this case on msnbc, he told me that stone is a liar, but he also broke out into some of his impressions during the news interview. you re going to do a tricky dick, richard nixon on me. roger stone is a trickster. roger stone is a shady character. okay.
mueller investigation. those attempts made, yes, back through mr. mcgahn. his testimony has been blocked by the white house. judiciary chairman jerry nadler announcing today, compelling mcgahn s testimony is the next legal battle. all of that together is the what, the evidence. in court, more than in politics, it s not just the what, it s the why. why do you get typically secret evidence? what is the authority. where in law or the constitution does it give congress this kind of power? and is it so clear that a judge can then order around the doj or white house to provide it? this is an interesting part today because the why, in this potential arcane legal brief, the why went off like a rocket today. the why is the impeachment power. which is in the constitution. it s one of congress s greatest potential powers right up there
click, stone urged credico, adding, i know roger stone he was in the olive oil business with my father but that was a long long time ago so i told them roger stone this, roger stone that. now, prosecutors are calling stone on his drama here, saying since he brought this up as the foundation of what he told a witness to do, they intend to show jurors exactly what stone is referring to, adding to not show the clip at trial would deprive jurors of significant context for understanding critical messages in this case. and the god father series, the message was lie to the feds, lie to the prosecutors, lie to congress, or somebody gets hurt. now, prosecutors are telling roger stone quote that gangster attitude as your mantra at your own peril. i was in the olive oil business with his father but that was a long time ago. that s all.
don t go into grand jury with the witness unless there s something important that they need to pin down, something important that they want to preserve, so not getting that full flavor means congress may be lacking some of the best evidence, the most sensitive information. if i were in congress, i would be demanding this material too. i expect it will be productive. we re almost out of time, but ben, to joyce s point, rarely do you see great method actors appearing under subpoena. i mean, there were a lot of clues that mr. mueller was not going to give much of what some were hoping for. there sure were. so anybody who expected bob mueller to be charismatic and narrative and really sort of tell the story in a capacious fashion has no experience with bob mueller. that is not who he is and to the extent that we kind of conditioned our expectations of
there was an impeachment inquiry going on and so by situating the current request as part of an experiment investigation, the democratic leadership makes it more similar to the proceeding that took place in judge serika s courtroom. this is a clearly strong precedent to super size the request that congress already can make. joyce, the other part of this that is different is you can make a broad argument that this time around they got the road map, the mueller report is the road map. it s hundreds of pages. and while mueller spoke very carefully as he warned he would, he told everyone he was going to be a hostile witness. that s why there was a subpoena. we have reason to believe that his prosecutors and the experts who helped write that report, saw it as a road map because several sections made the case that the evidence showed the