Whats happening, he knows what roger knows about him, how much negotiation is there going to go on right now with sentencing coming, the type of prison, whether its allenwood, lewisberg, something much less pleasant, where they dont have a tennis court, where theres white collar criminals or sleaze balls, how much negotiation is the president capable of right now . In terms of where roger stone is sentenced, if hes sentenced to prison, thats not up to anyone other than the bureau of prisons. Didnt barr get involved with Manafo Manafort . The bureau of prisons does report to the attorney general. But in almost every case ive heard of, its a designation based on risk and how much time
is to be served. A second point, i also think roger stone has rendered himself absolutely useless. He has lied almost every time hes opened his mouth. It would be very hard for prosecutors to turn to him now to get Additional Information that they could use against others. Roger stone is useless. Hes a conv
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uncovered by the committee from the house budget and appropriations committees that documents omb placing a hold on the ukrainian security assistance on july 25th. without objection. so let s review. on july 18th, omb announced to all relevant agencies that the military aid would be withheld from ukraine. on a call with ukraine on july 25th, president trump says do us aen favor, though, and ask ukrae to investigate his political rival. also onic july 25th, in the hou following that call, both the ukrainians and the americans took action specifically related to that military aid. the ukrainians began asking about the status of their military aid. and omb took its first official action to withhold that aid. mr. goldman, i am placing on the screen in front of you an email from ambassador sondland to members of the white house administration in which ambassadorra sondland says i wod
whistle-blower identified and the president wants this whistle-blower punished. that s that. he got caught. that doesn t make this any less odious. americans may be watching this and asking why should the united states care about ukraine? why should we care about ukra e ukraine. gordonsnap shotted. all he had was zelensky. not whether they had passed some new anticorruption reform.