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
went away, and, you know, essentially nothing has been further done with regards to burisma. during your tenure in ukraine, has there ever been any focus on reexamining allegations, whether it s of burisma or other powerful interests like sochevsky, reexamining it? is that on the part of the ukrainian government, is that what you re talking about? yes, leaning on the prosecutors general to clean up the oligarchical system? yes. as i mentioned earlier in my testimony, the u.s. was welcoming of mr. lutsenko s nomination to the position of prosecutor general because we were hoping he would clean that up. that in fact is not what
least the perception of that concern addressed? as i said, i arrived in august of 2016. several months before the elections and several months before president trump took office. and it was not a focus of what i was doing in that six-month period. okay. was the issue ever raised at all? you know, not he was still on the board, i think, at the time. yeah, my understanding from newspaper accounts was that he just recently left in 2019. never met him and never tald to him and i am sorry, what was your question? you were still on the board when you arrived at post, i am just wondering at least a perception problem was brought to your attention as the ambassador? i was aware of it because as i told you before and the