A significant number of indictments. former cia director john brennan made that prediction, a significant number of indictments by robert mueller in the next 60 days 20 minutes after a dozen armed fbi agents arrested former trump campaign official and longtime ally roger stone at stone s home in florida. meanwhile, on the same day roger stone was being booked in federal cork, shackled the at his wrists and ankles, trump s former campaign chairman turned convicted felon paul manafort appeared in court for a hearing in which muller team prosecutors told the judge manafort should not, not get credit for cooperating, which will be a factor in his sentencing roger stone is now the sixth trump associate to be indicted or convicted predictably today the white house claimed roger stone, one of the president s oldest friends and advisers, has absolutely nothing to do with donald trump roger s, you know, relationship with trump has been so interconnected that it s hard to define what s roger
Reason to have security because there was concern about destruction of evidence. maybe officers safety but, joy, 29 armed fbi agents, 17 squad cars, a s.w.a.t. team, a 6:00 a.m. raid, that s extra, and what i think mueller was doing was sending a message to roger stone. if this is how the criminal justice system treats people who are presumed to be innocent, imagine what happens if you re convicted of a crime your dude, paul manafort, he s sitting in solitary confinement right now. if you don t want that result, you are looking right now at jail for the rest of your life you better think about making a deal with us interesting betsy, you know, the other thing was, you know, roger stone, randy credico, if you believe he s person two, was telling him per the indictment, why don t you just change your testimony to the truth any reporting on why roger stone persisted in not updating or revising his testimony to the
But i could be proven wrong. roger stone has spent the better part of the last year and a half thumbing his nose at the law and the law arrived at his front door this morning armed with battering rams and they took him into custody you know, one of the things i was talking to david corn, who wrote a very insightful piece today about this indictment. there is a missing element in this indictment. they did not charge him with a conspiracy against the united states for everything he was involved with, they ve got him on obstruction, they got him on tampering with witnesses, they got him lying to federal officials, but they didn t get him on the big charge, essentially being an agent for the russian government to undermine the 2016 election. why not? it s possible that mueller s team is keeping that card in their back pocket. yeah. they re going to say to him, there is more we can do to you. yeah. and we won t do it if you cooperate. interesting will he cooperate? i don t know.
Themes, the underlying themes of his campaign, and at least per the indictment was also attempting to funnel the the hacked e-mails, the wikileaks the wikileaks-obtained e-mails to the campaign. right well, it s important to remember that trump s relationship with roger stone goes back roughly 40 years to 1980 when stone and manafort were part of the reagan team and he was very much they both learned at the both manafort and stone learned at the knee of richard nixon and roy cohn, sort of the dark, satanic prince of that era he was the icon of mccarthyism back in the 50s and often describes the essence of pure evil stone learned at his feet and they worked together in the early 80s and he s been a powerful, powerful influence on trump. you know it s interesting because one of the things this documentary kind of hints at is that, you know, that roger stone loves richard nixon and was sort of looking for another nixon got sort of bored with bob dole
Arrested former trump campaign official and longtime ally roger stone at stone s home in florida. meanwhile on the same day roger stone was being booked in federal cork, shackled the at his wrists and ankles, trump s former campaign chairman turned convicted felon paul manafort appeared in court for a hearing in which muller team prosecutors told the judge manafort should not, not get credit for cooperating, which will be a factor in his sentencing roger stone is now the sixth trump associate to be indicted or convicted predictably today the white house claimed roger stone, one of the president s oldest friends and advisers has absolutely nothing to do with donald trump roger s, you know, relationship with trump has been so interconnected that it s hard to define what s roger and what s donald, but it will be clearly a trump presidency i think it s influenced by stone philosophy joining us now is craig ungar, author of house of