hearing will be expected to show cause as to why these actions by mr. stone targeting the judge should not result in her issuing a strict new gag order on everybody involved in the case, including mr. stone himself, and more importantly than that, stone s lawyers will also be expected to show cause on thursday afternoon why these actions by roger stone should not result in the judge modifying roger stone s conditions of release. because you will remember that roger stone was arrested and he was indicted. he was arraigned on seven felony charges. but thereafter he walked out of the courthouse, right? this judge that he targeted yesterday, this judge who is going to have this show cause hearing on thursday, this is the judge who set the conditions of release for roger stone. right? those conditions of release thus far have allowed mr. stone not only to be free and not in jail while he awaits the start of his trial. the judge was generous enough
russians knew this but that they likely had proof of this information. and that created a compromise situation, a situation where the national security adviser essentially could be blackmailed by the russians. finally, we told them that we were giving them all of this information so that they could take action, the action that they deemed appropriate. that was sally yates talking about something that happened at the very, very beginning of the trump administration, literally less than a week after the swearing in of the new president. it s just a few days into the new administration. sally yates, she s attorney general then, she s acting attorney general. she personally goes to the white house, to the new white house counsel to tell the new white house counsel that the brand-new president s brand-new national security adviser is compromised by a hostile foreign power and they needed to act in whatever way they felt was appropriate to act in response to that information.