Door this morning armed with battering rams and they took him in 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 will with conspiracy against the united states for everything he was involved with, they ve got him on obstruction, 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. but to your point, roger had a tweet in 2014, just as a siege of the square was happening in ukraine and he said where is paul manafort today? is he loading gold bullion on to
And i think what 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 kretico, if you believe he s person two, 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 congressional committees that were investigating this rather than lying that s one of the big open questions. part of the reason it s such an important one is that roger stone was pretty adamant, according to the indictment, in trying to push randy kretico to
Appealing to people like roger stone. yeah, if you look at just the number of people, you know, there is the book the everything trump touches dies. look at the number of people who have gone down here. associates indicted or pled guilty, papadopoulos, manafort, michael cohen, roger stone, to say nothing about the russians, it s all sort of falling apart to tim s point, craig, they are invoking mob language. it is extraordinary to read that roger stone was texting and e-mails threats to randy credico that you better not be a rat and literally writing be this character in the godfather. right. what is this weird sort of mob-like thing happening roger is very weird he revels in the sleaze. he and manafort were known as the torture s lobby. they delighted in representing saddam hussein or marco ruball of them roger has this wonderful tattoo
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, say tannic 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 and didn t think was the right guy to do nixon one better
And i think the people who latch on to trump latch on to his enormous ability to create chaos. and that s why trump is appealing to people like roger stone. yeah, if you look at just the number of people, you know, there is the book the everything trump touches dies. look at the number of people who have gone down here. associates indicted or pled guilty, papadopoulos, manafort, michael cohen, roger stone, to say nothing about the russians, it s all sort of falling apart to tim s point, craig, they are invoking mob language. it is extraordinary to read that roger stone was texting and e-mails threats to randy credico that you better not be a rat and literally writing be this character in the godfather. right what is this weird sort of mob-like thing happening roger is very weird he revels in the sleaze he and manafort were known as the torture s lobby. they delighted in representing saddam hussein or