welcome back. there s so much we don t know about robert mueller s special counsel investigation, but lately we ve been hearing a lot about and from these two men. right wing conspiracy theorist jerome corsi and former trump campaign advisor, roger stone. a draft court document obtained by nbc news shows stone sought documents from wikileaks and two months before the document dump there was questioning of the information. we don t know whether they were the go between. president trump reportedly told mueller in writing that roger stone did not tell him about wikileaks. are stone and corsi two characters at the heart of a conspiracy with wikileaks or just two conservative activists who happened to stumble into a much larger conspiracy? joining us is anna shek ter wch
and it was speculation, deduction. i just happened to be right. i believe these podesta e-mails would destroy hillary. now why did i think they were coming out in october? because i said to myself, if i had these e-mails, i d use them as the october surprise. so you essentially told stone exactly what was going to happen? yes. okay. unfortunately for jerome corsi that story fell apart almost as soon as he put it out. they put out a draft court document laying out what mueller has an corsi, a plea arrangement he has rejected, included in that document are emalgs from corsi to stone about the wikileaks e-mail dump word is friend in embassy plans two more dumps, one shortly after i m back, second in october, impact planned to be very damaging.
an attempt to build this case. manafort going to visit julian assange would be a huge and potentially more damming piece of evidence in building that case because that was well before we got into the stage of those visits. et would potentially suggest some forethought. that said, what you should just said we haven t confirmed that. it s obviously something that we re interested in. to your previous question about rudy giuliani and sort of like what the allegation that manafort is being mistreated. he s in solitary confinement for his own safety. his own people have said that. got to quibble with the presentation there. that s a good point. the other story is this jerome corsi, roger stone e-mail exchange and this draft court document that was obtained. it shows corsi laying out the
says president trump did nothing wrong, but this time, there s no blanket denial of wrongdoing for those who were in his inner circle. and not sharing intel. is the white house blocking the cia director from briefing u.s. senators on the murder of a u.s.-based journalist by a saudi hit team? and is the trump administration trying to shield the saudi crowned prince? i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. announcer: this is cnn breaking news. breaking news. cnn has now obtained draft court document which is may show the special counsel, robert mueller, is getting closer and closer to making a collusion case. the papers lay out moves allegedly made by longtime trump confidant roger stone in seeking information from wikileaks on democratic e-mails stolen by russia. meantime, the guardian newspaper reports former trump
but telling us manafort s testimony is no good because he s a serial liar. meanwhile, nbc news has obtained a draft court document sent to one of roger stone s associates, which includes an e-mail asserting stone sought documents from wikileaks in 2016 and then he was told by an sort that wikileaks would be releasing information damaging to the clinton campaign, which as you all know, it did. i m joined by barbara mcquade, who is an msnbc contributor and former u.s. attorney. she is here with tonight s panel, jonathan, nbc news political analyst and ap white house reporter. a former clinton campaign adviser and susan del percio, msnbc political analyst and republican strategist. barbara, i do want to get this straight from you, there are a lot of different prongs to the news out today. there s the manafort lying,