haunting the white house by thanksgiving and worse if it s still haunting him by the end of the year. roger stone will appear in federal court in washington, d.c. today on a seven count indictment in the special counsel s investigation. yesterday president trump s personal attorney rudy giuliani telling nbc news that the president has not discussed pardoning stone if he is convicted. while white house press secretary sarah huckabee sanders would not say if such talks were off the table. has the president ruled out a pardon for roger stone? i m not aware of that. haven t had any conversations regarding that matter. will you discuss that with him and leapt us know. i won t get into that at this point. does that mean he hasn t ruled out a pardon. i m not aware of any conversation regarding that or any for it. to follow up, can you guarantee that the president won t pardon roger stone. i m not is going to talk
trying to wait for it distance himself from roger stone, his friend of 40 years, writing, quote, roger stone didn t even work for me anywhere near the election. it has been reported, however, that mueller and his team are looking into phone and contact logs that show multiple calls between the then-candidate and stone back in 2016. today at the white house, the issue of possible pardons came up as it has so often before with trump allies who found themselves targeted in this by mueller. has the president ruled out a pardon for roger stone? i m not aware of that. i haven t had any conversations regarding that matter. does that mean he hasn t ruled out a pardon? again, i m not aware of any conversation even regarding that or a need for it. can you guarantee that the president won t pardon roger stone? again, i m not going to talk about hypotheticals that are just ridiculous of things i haven t talked about. the federal judge overseeing the outstanding d.c. case against
criminal counts, including obstruction of an official proceeding, witness tampering, and five counts of making false statements. today, white house press secretary sarah sanders, who held her first press briefing in 41 days, was asked if the president was considering a pardon for stone. here s what she said. is the president ruled out a pardon for roger stone? i m not aware of that. i haven t had any conversations regarding that matter. will you discuss it with him and let us know? i m not going to get into that at this point, but if need be, we ll let you know. just to follow up, can you guarantee the president won t pardon roger stone? again, i m not going to talk about hypotheticals that are ridiculous. today, mueller has accused six of trump s advisers or associates of lying multiple times to federal officials. raising the question of why they keep lying. the whitaker comment today comes moments before the house
guarantee the president won t pardon roger stone? again, i m not talking about hypotheticals that are ridiculous and things i haven t talked about. reporter: so far president trump has issued pardons to controversial people like sheriff joe arapahoe from arizona, the controversial conservative commentator, he hasn t pardoned anyone directly linked to the russian investigation, and legal experts point out if the president were to pardon paul manafort, roger stone, even michael cohen, and if he did it with corrupt intent as say a means of preventing any of those men from cooperating with federal investigators, the president would really open himself up further to scrutiny when it comes to obstruction of justice. let s talk a little about how this is all effecting the president. there s a quinnipiac poll that compares where we are january 29th when the latest poll was taken compared to january 15th. january 15th, the approval rating was 41%.
sanders would not rule out a pardon for roger stone. . has the president ruled out for roger stone? i m not aware of that. can you guarantee that the president won t pardon roger stone? again,ly not talk about hypotheticals that are ridiculous. stone is facing charges in the special counsel investigation and is yet another accused of lying about russia from his personal attorney to his campaign chair not just during the 2016 campaign but while after trump took office. snyder reports this raises the question, why. roger stone flashing his victory sign outside his ft. lauderdale. the trickster is expected to be inside tomorrow to face