Commercial breaks. And the next intelligence chief and Election Security boss short on exper tees, long on loyalty. Why the president s pick for acting director of National Intelligence is setting off some alarm bells. Welcome to the lead. Im jake tapper. We start with breaking news. Just hours after his longtime friend and adviser roger stone was sentenced by a judge to three years, four months in prison, President Trump just moments ago dropped some strong hints that stone might never see the inside of a jail cell. Roger has a very good chance of exoneration in my opinion. In terms of a pardon, President Trump said he would not take any official actions now since he would like to see the process play out. They make a determination at a later date. And in his view, stone was treated unfairly. Stone was convicted by a jury last fall of lying to congress and threatening a witness. The president has in the past attacked the prosecutors in the case and the judge in the case. Today he spec
Him up and pardon roger stone prayed he did not speak before getting in an suv. Convicted of lying to congress, tampering with witnesses and obstructing a house investigation into whether the Trump Campaign coordinated with russia ahead of the 2016 election. Live outside the courthouse with the latest. Tell us more, david. Roger stone is already on his way home. He is ordered to pay 20,000 and is out on bond. Not taken into custody, dana, theres a reason. He is awaiting a new trial. The sentence three years and four months, far less than the original department of justice sentence. You see him shortly after learning his fate. He did not stop to talk to cameras, because he is under a gag order. Amy Berman Jackson repeatedly, dana, admonished him for lying and blamed him for interjecting himself into the situation she is in. I want to read a quote. Said this is not Campaign Hijinks this is not just roger being roger. He lied to congress, he lied to our representatives. The reason that th
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Juror on all seven charges that included obstruction, lying to congress and witness tampering. The attorney general bill barrs move to lessen his sentence led to all four prosecutors quitting the case and the attorney general publicly rebuking the president for his tweets. That, though, did not stop the president from piling on and just this morning on twitter suggesting that he could be open to a pardon. Lets go to sara murray. This hour we could get the sentence . Reporter thats right. Things are about to get under way any minute now. We saw roger stone arrive with an entourage at court a little bit earlier and this is the judges chance to weigh in. Judge Amy Berman Jackson gets to decide what she thinks roger stones punishment should be for the crimes he was convicted of, obstruction, lying to congress and witness tampering. Stones attorneys say he should not get any jail time and prosecutors asked for seven to nine years before the attorney general inserted himself and overruled th