duration with the president. it s interesting, i will say, the president went out of his way to say people who know roger say he s not the type of guy that would do this. the fbi and the mueller team said is exactly the giend kind that would destroy evidence. he s the kind of guy that they ve charged him with obstructing justice and tampering with other witnesses. so it s exactly the kind of thing they were concerned about. i think that at the end of the day what they were concerned about is a firearm. roger stone says he doesn t have a firearm and he has an expired passport. i have no way of knowing whether that s the case. but it doesn t seem as if they turned up a firearm just base opened what we have heard. i think it is not a look, i think that roger stone egged on the mueller team over a very long period of time. he was seen by a lot of people, even his friends, as making himself a target. however, a lot of his friends also believe that there was an excessive display of for
your new day. alisyn is off. erica hill with me this morning. cold morning. it is very cold. it actually makes the studio feel warm for a change. the one time the studio feels warm. new evidence this morning that russia is attack the u.s. justice system, but the president s focus appears to be on how this system is treating his friend. the arrest of roger stone which was captured on video exclusively by cnn, this raid not sitting well with the president. in a new interview with the daily caller, the president says is he considering asking the bureau to review its use of force policy. stone was arrested and indicted on seven counts including obstruction of justice. the special counsel s team believed stone was a flight risk and was worried he could destroy evidence. but the president seems to think he knows better. he says when you have 29 people and armored vehicles and all of the other, other what i don t know, you know many people know roger and roger is not a person they would
says when he hasn t thought about it. it is interesting that his knee jerk reaction is to defend roger stone, his friend, and to criticize the manner with which he was arrested. in fairness, i don t think he was saying that roger commit nod crimes at all that he was charged with, he was saying the manner which this raid went down troubled him. and the president is not the only person who has said that, roger stone is not the only person who has said that. we know that the president s ally lindsay graham has written a letter to the fbi director asking for more information about this raid including how it is that cnn was present for it. so i mean i think this is something that conservatives across the board are upset about. i don t think it s a surprise that the president leaned into it. i agree with your assessment, this is not something that he had previously thought about in terms of trying to get the fbi to look at their policies or review them because of the way he answered. but i