and there was roger stone. at the courthouse then, stone was defiant. stepping out before cameras after his court appearance. he threw up a pair of peace signs in the air, nixon style. remember, he has nixon tattoo on his back. but the crowd was chanting lock him up. now in the 24-page indictment, okay, we got it here, which details stone s lies to congress about his efforts to get dirt on hillary clinton from the russian-linked wikileaks and his efforts to get another witness to lie, too, team mueller writes, quote, after the july 22nd, 2016, release of stolen dnc, that s democratic national committee e-mails, by wikileaks, a senior trump campaign official was directed to contact stone about any additional releases and what other damaging information organization one, wikileaks, had regarding the clinton campaign. this is crucial because it s unclear who the senior trump campaign official is who reached out to stone. and the most important words
you may not know. i actually have answered the question several times. you just don t like my answer. no, no. did the president know or not? was it the president who made that direction or not? once again, i haven t read this document. i m not an attorney. i m not going to be able to get into to weeds on those specifics. what i can tell you are the charges brought against mr. stone have nothing to do with the president, have nothing to do with the white house. out front tonight, democratic senator richard blumenthal of connecticut. plett me ask you, the roger stone indictment, what they re referring to is this crucial line. perhaps the most important line in the 24 pages. after the july 22nd, 2016, release of stolen democratic national committee e-mails by wikileaks, a senior trump campaign official was directed to contact stone about any additional releases and what other damaging information wikileaks had regarding the clinton campaign. right? so you re talking about wikileak
sure does indicate coordination, collaboration, whatever. the other thing, and of course are trump s public statements at the time, contemporaneously. i recall at a rally speech he made, i think it was in june of 16, in which he alluded to some big revelation that was going to come out very soon, which didn t happen. yeah. and, you know, you start to put these pieces together. so today was a big deal as you said. let me read some of the indictment. it will help clear up something of t some of the things you said. part of it says during the time frame of june and july of 2016, roger stone contact the trump officials to let them know that organization 1, aka wikileaks, had information that would be damaging to the clinton campaign if they were released. and then this happens, right? on july 22nd, 2016, organization 1 again that s wikileaks
i believe this is a politically motivated investigation. reporter: it was a tense drama as fbi agents in tactical gear raided stone s florida home to arrest him. the fbi also searched his new york apartment. the indictment charged him with obstruction of justice, lying, witness tampering, not conspiracy. however the 24-page document chronicles a series of communications between stone, wikileaks and senior trump campaign officials about the content and the timing of the release of clinton campaign e-mails stolen by russia. according to special counsel s indictment, after the july 22nd, 2016 release of stolen democratic committee e-mails by organization one, which cnn has identified as wikileaks, a senior trump campaign official was directed to contact stone about any additional releases
the time, contemporaneously. i recall at a rally speech he made, i think it was in june of 16, in which he alluded to some big revelation that was going to come out very soon, which didn t happen. yeah. and, you know, you start to put these pieces together. so today was a big deal as you said. let me read some of the indictment. it will help clear up some of the things you said when you talked about the president and what he did, and on and on, with roger stone. part of it says during the time frame of june and july of 2016, roger stone contacted trump officials to let them know that organization 1, aka wikileaks, had information that would be damaging to the clinton campaign if they were released. and then this happens, right? on july 22nd, 2016, organization 1 again that s wikileaks released documents stolen from