efforts to see you lens alex jones who is one of my greatest supporters and proponents are part of this war. so, i intend to plead not guilty. i believe i will be vindicated. it s funny to watch bahara on cnn say this is a slam dunk, calls me a liar. here is a guy who a judge lashed for lying in the william walton case. you are the liar, preet. watching the lawyers jump to conclusions, tucker saying oh, well, the trump campaign official who directed stone to find out about wikileaks was donald trump. no, it was not. there are several things in here in the indictment that are simply not true. tucker: who was it if it wasn t the president? well, i have to speculate about that. since it never happened, it appears to me that they have composed testimony for someone. perhaps rick gates, perhaps steve bannon. perhaps someone is bearing false witness against me. but, knowing what s in my
powerful and well-connected, former attorney generals, for example, another standard for barefoot 66-year-old men with unfashionable political views. some people skate, others are destroyed. it all depends on who you know. that s what america is becoming and we ought to fight that roger stone joins us tonight. he has been in the news all day author of new book called the myth of russian collusion. roger stone, thank you for joining us. thank you, tucker. i m a little tired but i m glad to be here. tucker: so, just to get the mechanics of what happened this morning out of the way, we have seen the tapes by cnn remarkably across the street from your house very early this morning. and we saw the very large number of armed federal agents bringing you out of the house. is there something we don t know? do you have an arsenal at home? had you made threats against prosecutors such as violence? is there context we don t have? no. first of all, it s disconcerting that cnn was aware that i
chuck schumer joins us tonight. chuck, it s a simple question. why wouldn t the mueller investigation just call up grant smith who is the lawyer for roger stone and say we are going to indict you and meet us downtown and surrender? i agree. i have talked to you about this before. i don t like the militarization of our police force and i think wherever possible we should treat people like innocent until proven guilty. i don t like the big show of force. i don t know what those reasons are. i m not going to second guess law enforcement. i know that roger stone was asking a witness to do a frank, he not only lied to congress he then went and killed himself if you watched the godfather movie. that s a big problem. i don t think that s necessary. tucker: wait, it s a problem because theatrical character from a 70 s in a movie killed himself. i don t see the connection to the criminal case unfolding before us. well, roger stone, he did tell somebody to do that exact thing. so that s pa
wikileaks had as you pointed out in your interview with stone there is no charge in the indictment that stone, who is facing seven felony charges was in any kind of a criminal conspiracy with weeks. all thiwikileaks. all this is about is the process of investigating the trump-russia conspiracy which it seems to me not only didn t exist but they have long nona it didn t exist. tucker: i m fixated on the cnn tape of this raid on stone s house this morning because, i think like a lot of people i looked at that and i thought this is not at all the country that i grew up in or want to live in. if a prosecutor says we go to the house of a 66-year-old man who we know doesn t have a passport or a gun, who list with his older wife who is deaf and there are dogs and cats and we need 27 armed federal agents, each with a side arm and an ar-15, is there anybody who says you know what? that s just wrong. that s overkill? we don t need to do this?
tucker: of course we are getting punked. i don t even care on a day like this, after a week like, this after a two year period like, this i m so excited that wally is an emotional support alligator i don t want to know the truth. he also has another one. i just gout word that he rescue you had a smaller alligator named scrappy. does scrappy like chicken wings as well? we need to know this. tucker: will you do me a favor in closing tonight, carley? will you not and i know you are a reporter and it will be hard for you to restrain yourself. don t check the facts, this is a story too good to check. you have the pictures it s on the internet. tucker: it must be true. absolutely true. tucker: as long as you promise not to get to the bottom of it. i promise i won t. tucker: i feel better already. carley shimkus great to he so you. thanks, tucker. tucker: that s it for us tonight. we will be back at 8:00 p.m., sorry. prepositions go as the day goes on. we will be back at