showmanship. the original political dirty trickster. this isn t ending anytime soon. your thoughts about the argument many of the witnesses vauc have often used, the false testimony to congress and to the special counsel is not accurate? more opposed forgetting as opposed to lying spoke about that yesterday on-air and followed by statements by stone. he seems to be positioning take a listen to this. i m confident that i told the truth to the best of my ability. i m also confident that my memory was terrible and i said repeatedly to special counsel, i can t remember and trying to, say, are you reconstructing or really remembers? or inventing by the end of 40 hours i couldn t distinguish i will prove in court that any failure of memory on my part was without intent and would be imperial i am human and i did make some
. welcome back to hardball. for roughly 50 years roger stone, a nixon and self-pro-claimed dirty trickster proudly pelgded his trade in the dark underbelly of american politics it was there he met donald trump. stone served as donald trump s first and longest serving political adviser. but the relationship dating back decades stone has also been closely associated with trump s 2016 campaign chair, paul manafort who s currently in jail awaiting sentencing. in the 1980s and 90s, stone and paul manafort for pandered together in a lobby and go consulting firm. as the washington post noted at the time, they had a list of clients that by 1988 already included donald trump. stone continued to be an intimate and top political
trickster, well, he says he s not going down without a fight today. look at this scene here after being arrested, charged and then let go on bond stone didn t go into hiding. he swaggered to the cameras and denied it all. re-roger, did anyone tell you to contact in the trump campaign to contact wikileaks no. i have addressed that before that is incorrect. the question is, did you in any way work with the russians to help president trump? categorically not no absolutely not stone also addressed questions about his relationship with trump i am one of his oldest friends. i think he is doing a great job of making america great again. there is no circumstance whatsoever under which i will bear false witness against the president. if you were convicted, do you think the president would pardon you? the only person i have advocated a pardon for is marcus
people as a government i also don t know what dangers or what concerns the agents or the fbi may have had had, but yes, i don t think we should wo go out of our way to publicly humility somebody on their way to the station. i think the ends don t justify the means but the ends were acceptable valid. thank you all. much more on this huge story tonight including a unique look at roger stone s long history as a washington dirty trickster i ve known the guy for years i have video of stone that shows how important and intimate a figure he is watch we re getting to the heart of who roger stone s. the other huge story tonight, president trump, the man who built his brand as the master deal maker has caved. the government is reopening for
he cut his teeth during watergate, he has an image of richard nixon tattooed on his back. and was once fired for having swinger fever. a look back at roger stone s long and sordid career. i m roger stone. reporter: he s been called a dirty trickster, the prince of darkness, even the cockroach of american politics. by the left leaning new republic. and roger stone flaunts many of these mondikers as he flaunts hs nixon back tattoo. his notorious rap sheet goes back to the nixon campaign, when the 19-year-old donated money to nixon s opponent. he gave the receipt to the press. it didn t get any more ethical from there. in 1980, stone began a lobbying firm with paul manafort that