impressions. 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. i know roger stone and i m doing my reagan right now. as nixon, you know, he worked for nixon. all kinds of impressions. so which is it, a bizarre reference to those impressions or a menacing reference to the felony of witness tampering. roger stone s freedom may depend on the answer and while mueller handed off this case to career prosecutors in washington, they re doubling down on this point that it was a felony, and the god father proves it. and you can see this today in their new court filing headline governance motion to admit movie click, stone urged credico,
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.
and it happens before the conversations that we know about i always thought the big puzzle is stone has said he told reporters that he was his intermediary and he never said anything about jerome corsi. so my questionall why is he so careful? why is he lying? allegedly committing the crime to correct the corsi channel but telling everybody about credico? my hope is mueller knows and one day he ll inform the rest of us. but i think the trump tower meeting revelation might be more important. because that gets to the issue of whether trump himself knew that the kremlin was trying to
they will come back to haunt both the president and roger stone. why? why is that extremely unwise? because, look, when we look at these indictments, the stone indictment for example, i ll tell you, chris, 30 years as a fer federal prosecutor, i ve drafted more indictments than i can recall. but one thing i can tell you, when we indict one person, roger stone, we do a relatively modest indictment. so, for example, if roger was roger stone was indicted for a witness tampering charge, the indictment on that count would read something like, you know, on january 1st, 2019, in the district of columbia, defendant roger stone tampered with a witness by trying to interfere with the witness truthful testimony before a proceeding. period. right. what we have the roger stone indictment, chris, is a conspiracy indictment. there is no conspiracy charge contained in it, but it sets out the misconduct and the complicity of so many other people, of corsi, of credico,
and if you look at the record of what he was doing with credico, it s blatant material. it makes sense that the judge would be concerned about that. that he will get. he ll stay far away from anything like that. with regard to him speaking out, but i think he wants to speak out and continue to signal to the president that he s the poster boy for him and he should be pardoned. did doesn t seem like the mueller investigation is wrapping up any time soon. i get that they re talking about the trial starting in late summer or early fall. it doesn t make it seem like the mueller investigation is wrapping up any time soon or can we not read into it in that way? there s no indication that it s going to wrap up soon other than the statement by whitaker. at this point, i have no expectation. thank you. thank you very much. coming up, senator corey booker joining a growing field of democrats.