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good morning i'm phillip mena. >> and i'm cori coffin a judge has handed down the fate of roger stone, but will it stick, or will president trump intervene? longtime adviser and friend to the president was sentenced to just over three years behind bars for obstructing a and the oner is a movie from congressional investigation of south korea. what the hell was that all russia's 2016 election meddling. the judge avoided any direct about? we got enough problems with references to the elephant in the room, if you will, south korea, with trade. mr. trump's frequent complaints on top of it they give them the that the prosecution of stone best movie of the year was unfair was it good? but the president has left the i don't know door open to a pardon. >> that's our president. doesn't seem very pleased with our justice department correspondent pete williams has more "parasite"'s history making win at the academy awards this year. >> reporter: 13 months after he president trump went on to say was arrested by the fbi, roger that he wants movies like "gone stone, a former trump campaign with the wind" to come back. adviser, came to court to learn his fate his lawyer said given his age, neon, the american distributor for parasite responded on 67, and declining health, he ge that's a good he clearly detention. but prosecutors urged the judge didn't even see it. >> yeah. and i don't know if he knew any to consider all the criminal conduct listed in the justice of the best picture contenders either this year. >> i don't know. just some affinity for department's original sentencing recommendation, the one submitted before attorney general william barr directed nostalgia, right. >> make movies great again the government to urge a less

harsh punishment >> bring coal back stone said nothing in court, bring the black and white movies perhaps hoping his lawyers can back you know, i don't know. get him a new trial. >> can't roll my eyed hard he was sentenced by federal judge amy berman jackson, the enough on that one. sean "diddy" combs surprises same judge in a photo stone posted last year on social media with what looked like a gun a group of fans battling cancer sight crosshairs near her head and it all went down on the judge jackson said stone showed ellen show. >> diddy, come on out. a flagrant disregard for ♪ american democracy when he lied to a house committee about his efforts to find out what wikileaks founder julian assange was up to with emails hacked by the russians about the hillary clinton campaign this was no political case, she said quote, you were not prosecuted for standing up for the president. you were prosecuted for covering up for the president in a clear reference to >> well, those kids got the president trump's relentless surprise of a lifetime tweeting about the case, she of course as you see, they got to dance with diddy onstage. said it's appropriate that stone is judged by someone neutral, they're all battling different not by a person who benefited forms of cancer. they went viral back in december politically from stone's after posting this danceeon you. conduct. outside comments about the case she said were entirely inappropriate. diddy says he was inspired with the sentence, 3 1/3 years in that video andof prison, well below the maximum under federal guidelines his songs. >> i worry that people won't i don't know who was more believe this is a fair outcomed

excited onstage, them or him. happens in federal court >> as a kid of the 90s, i'm >> reporter: stone's lawyers are proud of every single one of asking the judge to order a new them for bringing that back. trial. i was just thinking at the they claim one of the jurors was beginning, how do those kids know who diddy was and you told biased against president trump for now, stone won't have to the story they all chose his report to prison until the judge rules on that but it seems like song pretty cool. try saying this three times such a long shot, it's unlikely fast poor painted potbellied pig. she'll grant it. >> pete, thank you that's exactly what one kentucky roger stone is the sixth couple found on the side of the road trump associate convicted in a this little chunk was abandoned case stemming from special and covered in spray paint counsel robert mueller's the heroic couple took her home, washed the paint out of her investigation. president trump weighed in on the sentence, saying he thinks eyes they now have adopted her as his friend will ultimately be their own. she's reportedly in good cleared while hinting at a condition and as friendly as can possible pardon. be >> i hope that they're able to nbc's peter alexander has more get the paint off at some point as well. >> gosh, that's so horrible, but >> reporter: president trump relishing his power to pardon. >> i love doing it there are good people. >> therell good people >> reporter: but for now, out there. holding back on granting just ahead, bill karins has clemency to his longtime ally your friday forecast. roger stone. and some very lucky puppies >> roger's definitely a character. i'm following this very closely, are a fisherman's surprise catch of the day and i want to see it play out. we'll tell you how he reeled them in. >> reporter: at a commencement in las vegas celebrating second chances, the president congratulating former inmates and on stovetops moving on from the justice for an amazing clean,

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out without injuries the runway was shut down for a anytime you like we'll see you on sunday morning. full inspection, delaying flights until it could be deemed >> we'll be watching safe for other planes. probably his coolest interview the cause of the crash is under yet. investigation. an indianapolis freeway is meet the newest member of back open this morning after a th tanker explosion officials say a truck hauling depames 9-year-old carter escob. thousands of gallons of fuel he is reporting for duty lost control, coming around a nbc's kevin tibbles with the boy curve on the ramp and whose wish is inspiring america. overturned the accident led to multiple >> reporter: walking the beat, explosions police say the semi was hauling honorary officer carter escobar 4,000 gallons of jet fuel when it erupted, sending dark clouds of the fort worth police, a of smoke and debris barreling into the sky kiddie cop dedicated to fighting three good samaritans pulled the crime and his own rare cancer. driver from the flames, and >> i, officer carter escobar police say the driver has been >> i, officer carter escobar identified as a 59-year-old man. he is listed in critical >> reporter: with all his condition at this hour officials believe the unsafe friends watchingn speed he was going was a factor checked off another item on the in the crash we are this close to the 9-year-old's bucket list he's been in a ferrari, chowotes weekend. want to know what it's going to be like out there. good morning, bill. >> yesterday's big story was the he even got a shout-out from snow moving through area new shaq. >> carter escobar! mexico -- north carolina we're just about done with the storm. only a little left in eastern

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