see how little it costs to get covered. visit coveredca.com today. connecting people. .uniting the world. on halloween 2016, a week before the election, franklin ford published this piece at slate.com about mysterious contacts that happened during the presidential campaign between a computer server at the
the e-mails were sent on october 4, 2016, hours after the wikileaks founder, julian assange, told reporters in a weird videoconference that he would soon release, quote, significant material related to the presidential election. bannon then e-mailed roger stone that day saying what was that this morning. stone replied, fear, serious security concern. he thinks they are going to kill him and the london police are standing down. however, a load every week going forward. three days later the load began. wikileaks began releasing the e-mails that were stolen from hillary clinton s campaign chairman. joining our discussion now dahlia, senior editor and legal correspondent for slate.com. also joining us is joyce vance, former u.s. attorney for the northern district of alabama and also an msnbc legal contributor. dahlia, as i say the whole stolen e-mail question is something the media has never
chairman. joining our discussion now dahlia, senior editor and legal correspondent for slate.com. also joining us is joyce vance, former u.s. attorney for the northern district of alabama and also an msnbc legal contributor. dahlia, as i say the whole stolen e-mail question is something the media has never figured out, but these seem like they were just handed to the the new york times to get roger stone in more trouble. i think so. and also stone today he tried to scoop the times by putting them out minutes before himself. that was the donald trump, jr. strategy when his e-mails were under suspicion. but i think you re quite right, we haven t figured out what we mean when we talk about stolen e-mails in the media. at a min fm calling them stolen is big improvement over hacked when they re actually stolen. joyce vance, what are you
mueller investigation. he s cooperating, allegedly, under a deal that grants him immunity from prosecution in exchange for his testimony. so because of him, because in the middle of that strange story, they ve got a cooperating witness whose already got immunity. he s already in the tractor beam of the special counsel s office here. i think that this story is one of the more intriguing mysteries of the russia scandal that we may ultimately get an explanation for. that one may ultimately be explained. for my money, though, the single most fascinating story in all of this is what has just been reported by veteran investigative journalist dexter filkins at the new yorker. just before the presidential election, on halloween, october 31st, 2016, franklin foer published this fascinating and very controversial piece at slate.com. and honestly, it has been driving me nuts ever since. we ve talked about this reporting a few other times on the show. you might remember, it was about
this foreign firm right after the campaign. he paid this foreign firm that had offered this mysterious pitch to the campaign in 2016. george nader is now a cooperating witness for the fueler investigation. he is cooperating allegedly under a deal that grants him immunity from prosecution in exchange for his testimony. so because of him, because in the middle of that strange story, they ve got a cooperating witness whose already got immunity. he s already in the tractor beam of the special counsel s office here. i think that this story is one of the more intriguing mysteries of the russia scandal that we may ultimately get an explanation for. that one may ultimately be explained. for my money, though, the single most fascinating story in all of this is what has just been reported by veteran investigative journalist dexter filkins at the new yorker. just before the presidential election on halloween, october 31st, 2016, franklin phora published this fascinating and very controversial p