not any of the underlying activity that gave rise to the lie is viewed by mueller as a crime in and of itself. so we have to see going forward whether or not mueller views contacts with wikileaks to be violations of criminal laws or campaign finance laws. that s not yet known from this indictment. stone has not only criticized after the arrest, being awakened yesterday morning, he criticized charges and blasted the fbi for the way they showed up to arrest him. then in the same respect, he complimented them in the way in which they conducted it with him. listen. i don t have a valid passport. either that or it is about to expire in a few days. i have no previous record. i do not own a firearm. i am not violent. and there was no need to have 29 fbi agents with assault weapons
they do them two ways. one is a no knock warnrant, or knock and announce. 6:00 a.m. is the prescribed time. give them enough time to get to the door. if they don t answer in the amount of time necessary, you take the door down. i have no problem with the amount of people they sent. i can tell you the most dangerous people i encountered in 25 years in the fbi, it wasn t the violent street gang member, it was somebody with the most to lose, a wall street exec taking funds from pensioners, a church executive that might have been infected with pedophilia. it is people that have the most to lose. you have to get in, make it happen quick so they don t hurt themselves or the agents that are there. michael, even stone says in the indictment it doesn t make mention of collusion, that he is not charged with any criminal activity. so he is calling it a process
presidency. i ve got to give my best advice but mr. trump makes the decision and frankly the polls so far reflect voters like it. reporter: a year later in 2000, stone took credit for disrupting the florida recount by organizing a republican riot at the miami-dade elections office. all the while the stone list of dirty tricks and black ops continued to grow. stone took credit for the downfall of then new york governor eliot spitzer, saying he found out about spitzer s penchant from prostitutes from a sex worker he met at a miami swinger s club. welcome to the stone zone. reporter: through his online channel the stone zone and national tv appearance, stone has for years peddled countless deranged conspiracy theorys. i m not a conspiracy theorist. i m a conspiracy realist. reporter: and through all of this there has been a main stay, his longtime friend donald trump. who reportedly continued confiding in stone, even after firing him from his campaign in
socialist alliance and gave the receipt to the press. it didn t get any more ethical from there. in 1980, stone began a lobbying firm with paul manafort that unapologetically catered to human rights abusers. stone once boechted they, quote, lined up most of the dictators in the world we could find. pro-western dictators of course, the good ones. nevertheless, the questionable consultant s resume is filled with work for republican stars. nixon, reagan, bush sr. and of course i m a political adviser to donald trump. reporter: while working for bob dole, stone s personal life caused add public stir. he was forced to resign from dole s presidential campaign after a tabloid revealed he and his wife placed an ad for a sex partner in a paper called local swing fever. stone did not go away. he continues to stir the political pot. in 1999, stone helped donald trump navigate his first short-lived campaign for the
and side arms and hand grenades in a battery to smash the front door. they could have called my attorney, i would have surrendered voluntarily. so when you don t have evidence, you use theatrics. so james, what is the logic behind this type of approach. there are a variety of ways someone can be arrested, their home or business can be searched. why this method, what were they calculating? sure. listening to mr. stone speak. talk about prone to hyperbole. fbi agents are not armed with grenades. that s a military weapon. that s not something fbi agents have. my understanding of it is roger stone s attorneys were in talks with the special counsel office, but apparently things broke down and the special counsel office was concerned there might be potential for destruction of evidence or mr. stone could be a flight risk. when fbi agents serve warrants,