senior campaign official if not the most senior people in the campaign so we re looking at the likelihood that neither the candidate himself, family members or someone else at the very top of the campaign is calling the shots. and robert, you covered the campaign you know how small a universe that was tell us, you know who could have been in that circle? it was a very tight circle. the 26th floor of trump tower in new york the president at the center directing his surrogates and his advisors from his office on the phone, didn t use a computer and always just making his aides do his work there s no direct connection yet to the president and there s language that points perhaps in that direction, but we ll have to see what mueller concludes. what is the president who makes so many suggestions all of the time privately and is known to
2004 democrats trying to find an opponent to george w. bush joe leishman, and he was number one at this point and a very tenuous number one, but keep in mind, look who was in the cellar it was howard dean and howard dean surged and was the front-runner briefly and didn t get the nomination and someone sitting way back in the pack right now and certainly plenty of time and an opportunity to catch fire and very briefly, steve, we saw in 2016 in particular third-party candidates had a big percentage, more than 5% of the vote in that very narrow race decided by 77,000 votes in three key electoral states so what about will the effect that a third-party candidate self-financed howard schultz could have particularly for democrats? the reaction for howard schultz has been one of frustration and public
long-time trump associate roger stone says he is not ruling out cooperating with special counsel robert mueller. on tuesday stone will be a rained in washington, d.c. on multiple charges including witness tampering, lying and obstruction. his indictment draws a distinction between him and wikileaks in the trump campaign. stone denies the charges, calling them politically motivated. now trump is distancing himself from stone, friend of 30 years? trump tweeted, roger stone didn t even work with me anywhere near the election. after repeatedly saying he would not testify against the president, today stone now says he is open to testifying. any chance you ll cooperate with special counsel robert mueller if he asks? you know, that s a question i
roger and what s donald. while it will be clearly a trump presidency, i think it s influenced by stone philosophy. as a lawyer, i think you d probably tell these people, stop talking, right? or they record these things? and the indictment of stone, it shows that there are e-mails. there are texts. the special counsel s investigation has many communications through the evidence they ve gathered between roger stone and multiple individuals in the trump campaign. and the hardest thing that i think is going to be for them to separate is there is this timeline in the middle of july 2016 where roger stone was going back and forth between people in the campaign and people he was taught communicating with that were going back to assange, the head of wikileaks and in the middle of that time is when donald trump went out and said, russia if you re listening, will you go find something of hillary clinton s e-mails? when you match up that date with the exchanges that were going
to be. of course, steve martin returning to snl taking on the character of roger stone who faced a judge on tuesday in d.c. and he is set to be arraigned on multiple charges including witness tampering, lying, obstruction. stone denies the charges, calling them politically motivated and says he plans to plead not guilty. that indictment, by the way, draws the clearest link we have seen between the trump campaign and wikileaks. now, president trump is attempting to distance himself from stone, it seems. in part, quoting, roger stone didn t work with me in the election. joey, good to have you here. you wrote an op-ed for cnn. you said this indictment doesn t just speak, it sings. what do you mean by that? first, good morning, christi. saturday night live always has a way to put things in perspective to put them in a humorous context. of course, in reality this is is not so humorous at all.