another text message from september 18th in which credico says to stone, just remember, do not name me as your connection to assange. and then on october 1, which is six days before wikileaks does the dump of john podesta s e-mails where credico is saying big news wednesday. now pretend you don t know me. stone replies you died five years ago. and credico responds in the text, great. hillary s campaign will die this week. this is roger stone trying to get ahead of this and saying look, my source in this, my back channel, and here is the sources to prove it is randy credico. he is claiming he had no knowledge of any of the hacked e-mails in advance, and he was making these twitter previews that he said during the campaign as something that he was picking up from credico and that he learned publicly. and we have heard from roger stone again this week on the point where he basically is saying he did not do anything wrong in this. let s not forget the u.s. intelligence community conclude
fact that he is being made to sit down and give answers to these questions. but remember, wolf, this by itself is a kind of courtesy and an olive branch extended by the special counsel because he hasn t brought the president in as they brought a lot of other witnesses in to give testimony on this stuff. he also in this interview with the daily caller, he called the entire investigation, he said it was an illegal investigation, even though it s a justice department investigation. he says it was illegal. let s move on and get your thoughts on these text messages showing long-time trump ally roger stone anticipating the wikileaks increase, wikileaks release of hacked democratic e-mails. do you view those texts as evidence of collusion? well, what s interesting about roger stone and his testimony, he basically lied to congress. we asked him the question. multiple people in the room asked him the question about whether he had advanced
that russian intelligence, russian military intelligence did all the hacking of the dnc and john podesta and hillary clinton s e-mails and all of that. they then gave to it wikileaks to submit to make public al those damaging e-mails. all right. kara scannell reporting for us, thank you very much. we re also following breaking news on the florida election recount. round one now over. close u.s. senate races head for a second recount, this time by hand. let s go to cnn s ryan nobles. he is in tallahassee, the florida capital for us. what are you learning about this next phase of the recount? well, the secretary of state s office right behind me, wolf, officially put out the word there would be a manual recount of the overvotes and undervotes in u.s. senate race between bill nelson and rick scott. but what we are just learning in the last few minutes is there were at least three counties who did not finish the machinery count, the first stage of recount on time, including two big dem
as early as tomorrow. we ll watch that closely. amidst all of this, there is new indications from long-time trump ally roger stone. he appears to be clearly in robert mueller s crosshairs. you have some text messages that he released, roger stone, discussing wikileaks, the plans to release the hacked e-mails from the dnc and from john podesta. tell us about what these e-mails show. these were released by roger stone. he is clearly trying to support and bolster his claim that, you know, his back channel to any information about wikileaks was coming from this new york radio personality randy credico. so we have some e-mails starting back from august of 2016. and in one of those e-mails, this is a text message sent from randy credico to stone, just days after credico had interviewed julian assange, the head of wikileaks in which credico tells stone wikileaks has kryptonite on hillary and please don t out me as your source.