miami who were the same people that broke into the watergate complex three weeks later. all right, so where does stone fit in. stone was part of a counter demonstration on capitol hill that was organized by charles colson to deflect attention away from the cuban-americans they were like the shiny hand over here, stone was staging a demonstration to take attention so they could rush exactly. de know they would try to he did not. i don t think he knew. he was very junior. he was so junior, it was absurd it used to be a joke in the office that i brokerager rick, you ve covered stone for years. i think you ve interacted with him and messaging with him when he got we can talk about that if you want. well, what is his role? how central has he been in republican politics? he s often sort of, oh, that
complex. their job was to get up to the stage and basically to maim him or kill him. and what the white house did under the auspices of charles was to organize a counter demonstration as a way to deflect the police away from the individuals who were going to attack ellsburg. they recruited a number of college, high school kids to counter demonstrate against ellsburg, and roger stone was one of those people. as part of my investigation, i talked to anybody who had anything to do with anything on the capital steps that night, and roger stone showed up in my office with his attorney and just sort of sat there very hang dog looking. in the picture that you just showed, that was some ten years after i first met him. he was kind of a joke at the time i mean, such a joke that when people saw him come into my office they said, boy, you must have really broken that guy down because he looked so pathetic. i want to read some tweets
going out to talk to the people and say ok we got the message what do you want to talk about what are your concerns so this is part of this event is going to take place in a football stadium that could host fifteen thousand people a very strict security there and also a counter demonstration by the far right pro candidates group yet what can we expect there we are going to see another far right demonstration and likely another counter demonstration from the left wing well of course we ve seen how the far right has managed to mobilize protesters from all over the country in a very very short amount of time we saw that on monday we saw how the police were overwhelmed how the authorities completely underestimated what was going to happen of course also the events from this week have mobilized the other side so there will be a pro democracy rock concert next week but of course that will be big come to demonstrate demonstrations that today as well we can only hope that the authorities have
today we also know that there s going to be a group of students from the university of virginia which is also in charlottesville who will be occupying the area of the university that the white supremacist march originally kicked off from last year as a way to they say reclaim their space and take it back from these white supremacists so my you st charles who people are bracing themselves but in washington on sunday we re expecting demonstrations from white nationalists and extremist groups as well as a counter demonstration how prepared are the police to do with a potential clash. the police have said their biggest priority for these protests happening will be to keep people apart they definitely do not want a repeat of what happened last year and really no one wants a repeat of what happened last year so they said their goal is to keep people apart and they will also be scanning the crowds for weapons that means full on guns
a group of students from the university of virginia which is also in charlottesville who will be occupying the area of the university that the white supremacist march originally kicked off from last year as a way to they say reclaim their space and take it back from these white supremacists so my you saying shallots who people are bracing themselves but in washington on sunday we re expecting demonstrations from white nationalists and other extremist groups as well as a counter demonstration how prepared are the police to do with a potential clash. the police have said their biggest priority for these protests happening will be to keep people apart they definitely do not want a repeat of what happened last year and really no one wants a repeat of what happened last year so they said their goal is to keep people apart and they will also be scanning the crowds for weapons that means full long guns anyone carrying guns will not be permitted to even if they have