there is no circumstance whatsoever under which i will bear false witness against the president, nor will i make up lies to ease the pressure on myself. kind of a wild scene. you can hear all the chanting outside the courthouse. now, according to the indictment, during the summer of 2016, stone spoke to senior trump campaign officials about organization one, presumably wikileaks, and information it might have had that might be damaging to the clinton campaign. stone was contacted by senior trump campaign officials to inquire about future releases by organization one. also from the indictment, after the july 22nd, 2016 release of stolen dnc e-mails by organization one, a senior trump campaign official was directed to contact stone about any additional releases and what other damaging information organization one had regarding the clinton campaign. stone thereafter told the trump
through roger stone. and so it s a very significant piece in terms of establishing those lines of communication. whether it adds up to a criminal charge based on those communications, as mimi was suggesting, is a different question. but certainly it lays out the facts about those communications. one of the things that a lot of people have looked at so i want to get your take on it was what we read at the top of the show. after the july 22nd, 2016, release of the stolen dnc males by organization one, wikileaks, a senior trump campaign official was directed to contact stone about any additional releases and what other damaging information organization one had regarding the clinton campaign. it would seem that there are a limited number of people who will could direct a senior campaign official. right, absolutely. and the way it s written, it s frankly designed to not give us any hints about who that is, right? normally you would say a person who was involved, you know, in the cam
political machinations. the president has tweeted this last hour, greatest witch hunt in the history of our country, no collusion, border coyotes, drug dealers and human traffickers are treated better, who alerted cnn to be there? because cnn was there and clearly knew that arrest was going down in the predawn hours. chuck todd, a lot of interesting facts emerging in this indictment as with the other mueller indictments, there is a narrative here, and i m really struck by something chuck rosenberg was also calling to our attention earlier, which is that back in the indictment it says, after the july 22nd, 2016 release of stolen dnc e-mails by organization 1, which is wikileaks, a senior trump campaign official was directed to contact stone about any additional releases and what other damaging information organization 1, wikileaks, had regarding the clinton campaign. stone thereafter told the trump campaign about potential future
there is a statement coming so we ll update you as soon as we get it. you and i have been working the phone since about 6:30 this morning when this broke. the white house taking the posture that this doesn t have anything to do with the president. of course the legal documents make that argument a lot more complicated, hallie. there s another piece of this indictment that sanders responded to. talking about how after the july 22nd, 2016 release of those stolen e-mails by wikileaks, contacting stone about any additional releases, and what other damaging information wikileaks had regarding the clinton campaign. a senior trump campaign official was directed to contact stone. who directed that official to get out and get in touch with roger stone? sanders was asked about this, right? was asked about that as well,
rewarded mightily by our press. reporter: and the indictment appears to identify wikileaks for the first time as organization one, saying it released the e-mails and documents stolen by the russians and july 22nd, 2016, right before the start of the democratic national convention. the deputy attorney general briefed president trump on the charges before he left for his overseas trip and today stressed politics should stay out of what is a serious, legal and national security matter. we need to work together to hold the perpetrators accountable. we need to keep moving forward to preserve our values, protect against future interference and defend america. jessica, thank you. roger stone, who we just heard from in jessica s reporting appears to be the unnamed person indicted, rather cited in the indictment cited in the indictment, having contact with an online persona used by the