of what they told the white house. and it has been a persistent mystery since then that they had no reaction and flynn stayed on as national security adviser for 18 days thereafter. the white house had no visible response to this whatsoever for 18 days before flynn finally departed. ultimately to be charged with a felony, plead guilty and become a cooperating witness. last year i was able to interview sally yates, and i asked her here on this program whether with the passing of time she had any better insight into why the white house took so long in responding at all to that warning that she brought them. is there anything that you can tell us now or even just remind us of now about the urgency with which you warned the white house about him? for me, i m asking because of this persistent mystery about
minute order. and this, of course, follows the genius move by roger stone yesterday to when he decided to post a photo of the judge who was hearing his case on his instagram account. the photo included a close-up picture of the judge with little crosshairs next to the judge as if she was being targeted by someone looking through a rifle scope. after initially posting that yesterday, stone took down that image and replaced it with the exact same image but cropped a little differently so the crosshairs aren t there. he did still, though, leave up the same written caption for the photo targeting the judge. then yesterday evening somebody apparently decided to finally open up and start reading those 5,000 text messages i imagine were sent by his lawyer over the course of the day. i mean, a lawyer he s paying good money for. i am guessing that s how it went down because by this time last night even the second iteration of that instagram photo
order from the federal judge in washington, d.c. who was hearing the roger stone case. minute order as to roger j. stone jr. and here it is. quote, defendant is ordered to show cause at a hearing to be held on thursday february 21st at 2:30 p.m. as to why the media contact order entered in this case and/or his conditions of release should not be modified or revoked in light of the posts on his instagram account on or about february 18th, 2019. and then it is signed by the judge. that is the whole thing. just a minute. just takes a minute. maybe not even a minute. but that minute order was issued today, and that is how we learned that the president s longtime political adviser roger stone in all likelihood, he will be packing a toothbrush on thursday when he is ordered to appear at this show cause hearing in his case that we learned about today in this
with roger stone that she allowed him not only to be free, she allowed him to be released on bond without him actually having to put up a single dime to secure that bond. he didn t have to put up any money for it at all. well, now those matters will be revisited in light of mr. stone s subsequent behavior. that show cause hearing will happen thursday at 2:30 p.m. eastern. and we knew this case was going to be nuts. right? we knew this. this case is proving itself to be everything we expected and more. but that news from federal court in d.c. today broke just before we got this ton of bricks dropped by the new york times. a several thousand word piece on the front page of the times as of this afternoon that is basically an omnibus look at obstruction of justice issues this white house and this president may ultimately have to answer for sam day, somehow in the russia investigation. everything from one of the
targeting the judge in his case had also been taken todown by m stone and mr. stone s lawyers filed an apology with the court. they tried to make it look like it was a formal motion. like notices of apology are norm athings that come up in federal court. not until this president. the lawyers themselves filed that notice of apology. they also included in this improvised little wannabe notice to the court a statement signed by roger stone himself in which he wished to humbly apologize for the error of posting this thing on his instagram account. that said, this morning mr. stone was back at it, publicly linking to a right-wing blog post that defended him for posting the image targeting the judge on his instagram account. he posted that this morning. ultimately that came down today, too, and now we ve got the minute order from the judge. who says she will see him in court on thursday. roger stone s lawyers at that