turning now to an extraordinary development inside a courtroom in washington today featuring opening arguments in the trial of roger stone. prosecutors with the trump justice departments laying out a case suggesting president trump may have committed a new crime in office by lying to the mueller probe. this was all part of the blockbuster opening statement by former mueller prosecutor himself aaron zelinsky now a regular do j, line prosecutor. he s telling jurors they can convict stone for lying to congress because stone lied about the fact that he twice spoke to trump before the 2016 election, something trump shot down by telling mueller i have no recollection of any communication with stone. we ve heard allegations trump was lying about that before. what s new here is that it is trump s own justice department insisting that it s false in
who s since been arrested. lev parnas it looks like might cooperate. one thing that s important to keep in mind. they weren t working for giuliani. he was working for them. exactly. and the person who was actually paying them was this oligarch name named furtash, who is a high level echelon associate of russian organized crime. who while you re at it as we ve been reporting on last night also employs the two fox news lawyer analysts who represent solomon who was writing in the hill about the ukraine theory to begin with. here s where it does get a little bit complicated, but i hope that people can unpack it enough to understand that part of what s going on here is that because our president is so insecure and so credulous and so kind of, you know, em peerically unbound that he can be manipulated by these sinister forces that have their own agendas and their own reason for wanting to get rid of somebody like marie yovanovitch who s an
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whistle-blower come forward alleging bribery blowing this thing open, but in october sondland was still in trump s corner there. no bribery, playing down this plot to congress. then you have taylor and others testifying that there was bribery and bringing along receipts. and tonight we re seeing how that full testimony for the first time, we re seeing the exchange. we re seeing what moved members of congress, but it didn t only move congress. it also moved sondland himself because he has just moved over very simply to the bribery side of this equation. he suddenly remembered bribery. he amended his own testimony to show it, and tonight you have donald trump over there increasingly on an island of the people involved in the plot, not yet congress but the people involved, the dip ldiplomats thy are on the bribery side. we re not only seeing the details, we re also seeing this public story from trump s own officials move away from trump and towards taylor.
trump, to take care of the post be kind of caretaker and he saw something that he just felt to his core was wrong, and he did what an experienced bureaucrat does in that moment. he wrote it down. he made a record of it, those texts to gordon sondland and ultimately in his testimony. let me read that to you because it jumped out to us as well. this is from the new testimony we got tonight. quote, i ve always kept careful notes. i keep a little notebook where i take notes on conversations. yeah. exactly. i mean, that s what you do because you want to have that record, and, you know, the last thing this white house wants is people who kept good records of what was going on, you know, there are a lot of people in this administration who are allergic to the written word, and who specifically don t want