next court appearance. while there was a rough start, i will release him pending the sentencing date. at which point roger stone presumably exhaled learning that he would not be put in jail that day to await his sentencing date. he was not going to go directly from the courtroom with the seven guilty verdicts right into federal custody. but then the judge did go on to do one other thing, which is quite unusual. the court orders that roger stone the court orders that roger stone kept defying during his pretrial proceedings and during his trial. those were largely related to this order that the judge had put on him, which we commonly call a gag order, which said that roger stone wasn t allowed to make any public statements or statements to the media about his case. that had been the rule that was supposed to govern his behavior in pretrial proceedings. and he broke it a couple of times and the judge kept yelling at him about it. ultimately he cooled on that sort of. the prosecutors are
and we have not had to deal with problems of that nature. he has been here for every court appearance. i have no reason to believe that he s not going to be here at his next court appearance. while there was a rough start, i will release him on his current conditions pending the sentencing date. at which point roger stone presumably exhaled learning that he would not be put in jail that day to await his sentencing date. he was not going to go directly from the courtroom with the seven guilty verdicts right into federal custody. but then the judge did go on to do one other thing, which is quite unusual. the court orders that roger stone the court orders that roger stone kept defying during his pretrial proceedings and during his trial. those were largely related to this order that the judge had put on him, which we commonly call a gag order, which said that roger stone wasn t allowed to make any public statements or statements to the media about his case. that had been the rule that w
nonspecific not individually targeted anti-corruption efforts that they were preparing and that they were pitching to the president, those were of no interest to president trump. quote, within a week or two it became apparent that the anti-corruption efforts on which we were making progress were not making a dent in terms of persuading the white house to schedule a meeting between the presidents. turns out the trump white house wasn t interested in pursuing the anti-corruption stuff. they just wanted investigations into joe biden, right? and that is very damning testimony. if the defense of the president relies on the idea that he really is all about anti-corruption efforts, and that was really what he was trying to get done there. when the people who actually worked on those things couldn t get their calls returned, couldn t make a dent, couldn t get anywhere with the trump white house while they were working on all anti-corruption because the trump white house did not care about that
quote, within a week or two it became apparent that the anti-corruption efforts on which we were making progress were not making a dent in terms of persuading the white house to schedule a meeting between the presidents. turns out the trump white house wasn t interested in pursuing the anti-corruption stuff. they just wanted investigations into joe biden, right? and that is very damning testimony. if the defense of the president relies on the idea that he really is all about anti-corruption efforts, and that was really what he was trying to get done there. when the people who actually worked on those things couldn t get their freaking calls returned, couldn t make a dent is his phrase, couldn t get anywhere with the trump white house while they were working on actual corruption because the trump white house did not care about that. they only cared about getting specific investigations into the president s domestic political rivals. well, tonight that career foreign service officer davi
we don t know the identities of the trump campaign officials who were in touch with roger stone directly and indirectly to talk about some of the sensitive matters. i have no doubt that mueller and his team, i m sure they know. i m sure they do know. i m sure there s a reason they didn t name the people by name. at least drop the bread crumbs for us to figure out. some of them we did, steve bannon was one of them. for some of the other people they held back a little bit because they don t want to rely on these witnesses, unless there is corroborating evidence, they have documents, they have text messages, recordings of the conversations. i think the special counsel has been hesitant to put anything out there unless they have evidence to back it up. in the case of roger stone, that leaves us wondering, who were all the other administration officials he was in contact with? if you listen to white house officials, they say roger stone wasn t charged with conspiracy or collusion. i