but the reason mr. stone is being prosecute asked the way prosecutors are carrying out this case that started today in federal court is like forget roger stone. i mean, yes, his criminal liability here is of interest, but forget roger stone. the case is about something way bigger than that, and we've known that was a possibility when we first saw the charges against stone in the way they laid out the case against him in the indictment, but i did not expect it to be like this in court today. just listen to this. we got the transcript today. i had no faith we would get it in time for tonight's show, same day that it happened, right? but just before i came down to the studio and we got on the air tonight, we got the transcript of what happened today in court. so i have marked it up. let me just lay it out here in terms of how the prosecutors are making this case because you can tell what it's about, and you do not have to care about roger stone to recognize this is big freaking hairy deal. all right, here's how

trump got off the phone with mr. stone, what did mr. trump say, the prosecutor asked gates. be coming, gates responded today at stone's criminal trial. gates testified that prior to wikileaks' first email dump, for months information had been talked about. after the july release, gates said the campaign was in a state of happiness. >> this just came out. wikileaks. i love wikileaks. >> reporter: gates' testimony flies in the face of denials from both stone and trump that the two ever discussed wikileaks. >> i know nothing about wikileaks. it's not my thing. >> reporter: in written responses to robert mueller's team, president trump said, "i do not recall any communication between stone and wikileaks." but the phone call and trump's reaction described in court today puts into sharper focus how much trump allegedly knew about how the russian hack and release of emails could boost his campaign. this revelation was ultimately redacted from the public version of the mueller report because stone's case was ongoing. during the 2016 presidential campaign, stone bragged about his cont

mr stone was on trial in washington on charges of lying to congress, witness tampering and obstruction about wikileaks‘ email releases in the 2016 presidential campaign. our correspondent alem maqbool says roger stone was found guilty on all seven counts. we are not going to find out the sentence that roger stone receives for a while yet but it is certainly going to be a jail term. it seems he could get up to 50 years, he is unlikely to get that much but for one of powerful lobbying figures campaign political figures in washington, it is quite a hard fall. but this all relates to that massive rush investigation. robert mueller‘s investigation into russian attempts to influence the 2016 election. during the investigation, roger stone was seen as someone, a close friend of donald trump and adviser to donald trump was trying to get in touch trying to get in touch with wikileaks, he was trying to co—ordinate with wikileaks, he was trying to get hold of e—mails that russia hacked from the democratic party. some of that came out during the investigation of robert muller conducted, boards rev

one, what are the implications for mr. stoneed to have engaged in a variety of criminal activity. and then what's the implication for donald trump? for mr. stone, it's very bad. it's very bad. because he -- his statements included flat out statements to congress that he did not know things, that he did not recall them -- that he did not know them. he did not use the phrase i do not recall or have no recollection. so for mr. stone, the gates testimony i think was quite bad. for mr. trump, it's pretty bad, but there's going to be a lot that hangs on the president's statements about, you know, i don't recall, no recollection. it's an astute thing for him to have done and it may be part of the reason that director mueller, special counsel mueller didn't charge him. but it undercuts the president's assertio assertions. whether it proves crime is something else. >> really bad for roger stone. pretty bad for donald trump. is it kind of bad for robert mueller here? because robert mueller made a decision to settle for these written answe

about wikileaks and he wasn't aware of any similar communications between mr. stone and members of his campaign about wikileaks. well, it turns out that there might be some material out there that might contradict it. namely, material that's within the possession of the justice department related to the grand jury proceedings. and so that's why the judiciary committee wants to see that material because it could bear on whether or not president trump was telling the truth when he answered those questions to bob mueller about stone and wikileaks. >> let's talk about gordon sondland. you're going to be talking to ambassador volker and ambassador sondland this week. both of whom have had sort of inconsistencies in their testimony. both of whom were very involved in the things that are going on. what are you trying to get at from them? because you have a whole bunch of people who built a case and sort of outlined what was happening prior to the call, during the call, and after the call and what happened with aid to ukraine. and then you had sondland who came back, fixed h

sentence in britain for jumping bail to avoid extradition to sweden despite the swedish decision that mr stone still faces extradition to the u.s. where he's wanted on charges of computer hacking and espionage. mali's military says 24 of its soldiers have been killed in what it described as an escape an extremist attack troops from mali and operating in the side help me to track extremist links to so-called islamic states and al qaida when they came under attack more than 100000000 troops have died in an upsurge in assaults over recent weeks the. united nations says it has reports indicating that dozens have been killed in iran during days of rioting over increased fuel prices it's also urged restraint and condemned the iranian security forces use of live ammunition against demonstrators the government insists the price hikes on necessary to fund social welfare programs. now the 3rd day of the impeachment hearings against the u.s. president donald trump is underway in washington 2 senior officials left and colonel alexander vin man did tell her williams been giving evidence about a disputed ph

count it just one thing we have to figure out but you gave us two, are you telling us that lie is mr. stone have more than one source? or is lie he said rahn randy wht was jer jerome, and jury was lie woe. >> how do they resolve this. >> this is day one, what are you expecting? >> it is so difficult to read tea leaves, even old school of watch jury when they come out, if their heads are down a conviction, if they smile it is an acquittal, who the hell knows? they are off to a fascinating start, anyone who questions our system of justice, this case at least so far, is really should make everyone proud, have you jurors who are paying attention that mr. stone is in factory -- fact presumed innocent. they don't know his state of mind. then government has not proven corrupt intent if they don't know his states of mind, government has not given his intent to lie. and you want to make an issue of "the godfather," and. you may very well see roger stone walk out and maybe if not walk out with a an acquittal bua hung jury. kennedy: after today that could be possible, all more reason to pay attention

britain at the moment for jumping bail to avoid extradition to sweden despite the swedish decision mr stone still faces extradition to the united states where he's wanted on charges of computer hacking and espionage. mali's military says 24 of his soldiers have been killed in what it describes as an extremist attack troops from mali and knees yeah we're operating in the sa how the region to traffic stream is linked to so-called islamic state and al-qaeda when they came under attack more than 100 miles in troops have died in an upsurge in the so recent weeks. the 3rd day of the impeachment hearings against the us president donald trump is under way in washington 2 senior officials left tenant colonel alexander bin man and the jennifer williams been giving evidence about a disputed phone call between president trump and his ukrainian counterpart saying they had concerns about the cold. so we'll get the latest from d.w. our washington bureau chief alexandra for a welcome alexandra so what have we heard from today's 1st 2 witnesses. both witnesses today provided a 1st hand account of what happe

despite widespread dismay at the recent actions of the united states and turkey in northern syria mr stone sober and went on to reject the notion that the us was turning its back on that european allies but said that more german financial support was necessary. so does europe have the wherewithal to act as a strategic world power as president mccall suggests teri schultz is a d w correspondent a nato specialist he can't possibly think that europe can completely defend itself at the moment that's just not possible in any way not logistically there's not enough equipment there's not enough cord nation there's not enough trust so what mcluhan is saying that that europe needs to go off on its own is something we talk about all the time in brussels all the time it nato and it's not realistic and that's what secretary-general stolzenberg and even tenser miracle pointed out everybody believes that europe should do more to defend itself and that's why the discussion about germany equipping its own troops better recurs constantly but there isn't any way that nato will would survive if the us truly

mr. stone found lying to and obstructing congress.ing, convicted or pleading guilty. we still have a long way to go in this indiana query, but some of the closest to the president, they have haven't offered answers about what they knew a what actually went down. be on the lookout. it searches as a clear warning, starting with ambassador sondland next week. if you like, you'll likely get caught. this president has saved no one to day. thanks for watching. with the man d-lemon. >> be on the lookout for all the best people. >> drain the swamp, and by drain, i mean put the biggest nastiest alligator that even you down the bayou way has

mr. bannon, was that roger stone was the access point.ote just a receipt of passive information but when you have have somebody dealing with a campaign that has access to wikileaks, that shows close coordination. and the other thing i'll say -- >> let me hang you up there. you're careinal, i'm careful, too. is it coordination or is it one way? part of what mueller didn't ultimately do is find conspiracy. if there was enough coordination wad be somewhere past this point. >> i think that's a fair observation. but if roger stone is the access point and he's working intimately with the campaign, so intimately, ari, that he's getting on the phone with the candidate giving him a heads up about future wikileaks releases, i think it really does conjure up coordination not just a one-way passive receipt of information. so stone as that access point is reaching out to the corsi's giving him direction saying i want you to go to london, i want you to take messages and communicate things to assange for me. it really did seem like some active measures

according to prosecutors, stone lied to protect the president. mr. responded on twitter, "so they now convict roger stone of lying. what about all the others? didn't they lie?" while an informal adviser to the trump campaign, stone boasted that he was in contact with wikileaks founder julian assange. >> i actually have communicated with assange. >> reporter: but he denied ever telling mr. trump that wikileaks was going to release thousands of emails harmful to the hillary clinton campaign. can i ask you, did you have any interactions with president trump about those wikileaks releases? >> i did not. >> reporter: stone is the sixth trump associate convicted or to plead guilty in special counsel robert mueller's russia investigation. former independent counsel scott fredrickson said stone may be hoping for a pardon. >> did mr. stone go to trial with the expectation that a pardon would be forthcoming down the road before he ever had to be sentenced to prison? >> reporter: stone will be sentenced in early february, and because he was convicted on all seve

if the charges withstand any appeals, that would make mr. stone the seventh trump person convicted of or admitting to lying to investigators. so all this is swirling in the air. it's all very troubling to the president, so much that he tweets an attack in realtime during testimony. but then what happens? mr. trump ignores advice from the pentagon and just tonight pardons two officers and restored the rank of a third, all facing war crime allegations. the leadership of the defense department reportedly made every effort to convince him not to do this. so why did he do it, especially tonight? another distraction? maybe. but we have our eye on what matters. let's bring in our investigators, mr. mccabe and mr. bacon. thank you, on a friday night. out of the corner of my eye, i saw mostly nodding so i know i didn't get anything out grossly wrong. when we look at this week overall, we have this dovetailing of law and facts. the political part, not your bailiwick. but in terms of what came out and what it manifests in the case going forward, big spots fo

i think it was effective for the government to show that the reason mr. stoneo protect his friend the president. and we all know how that is likely to play with a d.c. jury. >> this is another person close to the president who may be convicted of lying. what does that tell you? >> it's remarkable. i don't know that we've ever seen a president who is so surrounded by a group of associates who find themselves accused of crimes and many of whom find themselves convicted or having pled guilty to lying. you've got of course michael cohen, paul manafort. now it looks like we would add roger stone to that list. >> juries can be strange. there's email evidence and written evidence here that could play in. we'll wait and see. i want to ask you specifically about two issues you're involved in. number one, the inspector general from the justice department looking into part of the overall russia investigation. we understand that witnesses are being contacted to look at this. the reports coming out soon. did you talk to michael horowitz or his people about this? >> i did. i

in fact, just more recently, before mr. stone was endured his trial, they were at it again, reproving the same info wars video and adding embellishment. >> i will quote what they said about you. we here at info wart wars this s roger stone speaking identified fiona hill the george soros insider who had infiltrated mr. master's staff may 21st, 2017. i presume you are not a globalist, leftist soros insider, correct? >> i think coal mining friends would be very surprised to hear all those things about me. leftistst perhaps not so much. the left in europe is a bit different than the left here, let's put it that way. >> i agree. interestingly, you stated in your deposition that a similar conspiracy theory had actually been launched against maria yovanovitch. >> that's correct. >> you said specifically when i saw this happening to ambassador yovanovitch, again i was furious because this is, again, just as whipping up of what is frankly an anti semitic conspiracy theory about george soros to basically target nonpartisan career officials

if this were a movie, it would be too much to have mr. stonewitness tampering on the very same day his old boss, donald trump, was doing the tampering in public. in fact, roger stone's former protege who mulultimately cooperated told us that unlike donald trump, roger stone was not going to get away with witness tampering. today that assessment proved true. >> the fact of the matter is the reason us three are essentially in there is because of stone. >> i get that. >> number two -- >> let sam finish. >> number two, roger is not donald trump. he's not going to get away with witness tampering. he should shut up. when he goes around and lies and says i was the only person he told as a joke he met with julian assange, give me a break. that was wrong. >> i'm joined now by that also former trump aide sam nounberg. sam, you said roger stone would not get away with witness tampering. that is true today. your reaction? >> i was actually surprised in light of credico when he said he didn't believe roger was going to thread his thought. irregardless, roge

more recently before mr. stone was -- endured his trial, they were at it again, reprising the same info wars video and adding embellishments. >> i'll quote what they said about you. we here at info wars, roger stone speaking, first identified fiona hill, the globalist leftist george soros insider who infiltrated mcmaster's staff. he said that may 31st, 2017. i presume you're not a globalist leftist soros insider? >> i think my family would be surprised to hear this, leftists so much, but the left in europe is different from the left here, let's put it that way. >> i agree. interestingly, you stated in your deposition that a similar conspiracy theory had actually been launched against marie yovanovitch. >> that's correct. >> and you said specifically when i saw this happening to ambassador yovanovitch, again i was furious because this is again just this whipping up of what is frankly an anti-semitic theory about george soros to target nonpartisan career officials. isn't that what you said? >> i did say that, yes. >>

as you can see, the jury was asked to consider seven felony counts against mr. stone. decision was guilty, guilty, guilty, guilty, guilty, guilty, guilty. and in some ways this verdict, it's sort of tempting to see it as yet another trump campaign figure going to prison or at least another one of them awaiting sentencing after being convicted or pleading guilty to felony charges. there's a lot of them now, right? they're going to name a wing after them at some point. everybody from his campaign chairman to his deputy cam pair chairman to his foreign policy adviser to his lawyer and now to this guy too. it is tempting to just add this new 7-count felony conviction today to the pile. but it was also impossible to avoid the fact today that the felony from which roger stone is now facing the most jail time, of these seven felony the one he's looking at a potential 20-year maximum prison sentence is the crime of witness tampering. it was count seven today against roger stone, a violation of u.s. code 1812 b subsection one, we the members of the jury unanimously find mr. sto

we the members of the jury unanimously find mr. stone guilty. one of the most damning elements in the mueller report was the evidence that the president had tried to tamper with witnesses. in the russia case, including michael cohen, paul manafort, and others. he couldn't bring criminal charges against the president for that behavior or anything else. but the impeachment inquiry is not constrained in the same way. so within the hour that the president is hearing from the head of the impeachment inquiry about how seriously, how very, very seriously those committees take the crime of witness intimidation, here's his long-standing political advisor being convicted in a criminal court of witness intimidation. so that all being spat out of the volcano by the news gods at the same time was a very dramatic thing. but immediately after that happened in the hearing, while the hearing was still buzzing with what had just happened there in front of their eyes, we then got a brand new piece of information about the president's behavior here and the presiden

assange told mr. stone dump of e-mails that would damage hillary clinton's campaign. >> this week we're going to get into those conflicting stories. prosecutors do have to prove way more than just that stone was deceitful along the line. they have to prove he knowingly deceived congress or knowingly tampered with witnesses. the whole obstruction case grew out of the mueller probe. tonight, many are still trying to make sense of these brand new disclosures. this is something i'm about to tell you that we haven't had time to get to yet. long secret evidence that buzzfeed obtained by feeling a freedom of information request and these show another top trump official, who ultimately pled guilty, rick gates, was at the time quote very happy about the wikileaks e-mails. he even told investigators the rnc had non-public information about the timing of those wikileaks releases. why does that matter? it suggests some republicans in high places, including some who went onto be convicted of crimes they believe that rog

i have no recollection of the specifics of any conversation i had with mr. stone between june 1st, 2016, and november 8th, 2016, which was election day. i do not recall discussing wikileaks with him, nor do i recall being aware of mr. stone having discussed wikileaks with individuals associated with my campaign. although, i was aware that wikileaks was the subject of media reporting and campaign-related discussion at the time. >> can i unlegal ease that for you? >> please. >> that statement has been carefully lawyered and it really means in some i spoke to roger stone, can't remember what we talked about. i was aware people were talking about wikileaks in the news. that's it in a nutshell. and that is a very well-lawyered statement to really commit president trump to zero. he hasn't really said anything. >> right. >> the reality is, is it realistic that he doesn't remember talking to roger stone about something as important as a wikileaks connection? >> can he be in trouble for that, though? it's so well-lawyered where he didn't kind of say anything. is that the k

mr stone as well as. fueled by rudy giuliani and others. basically have attended anti-semitism to them at least well so now when they involve george soros they do i just like to point out that in the early 1900 hundreds of the czarist secret police produced something called the protocols of the elders of zion which actually you can sum up 10 on the internets and you can buy it's actually sometimes in bookshops inversion and elsewhere this is the longest running until trope that we have in history. on that show up against mr soros george soros was also created for political purposes and this is the new protocols of the elders of zion and actually intended to write something about this before i was actually invited to come into the administration i'm sorry an absolute outrage i'm sorry you've been kind of wrapped up in these a crackpot conspiracy theories let me turn to rudy giuliani you became increasingly concerned about rudy giuliani's increase you know increasing role in ukraine between january and march of 2900 correct correct and i know

mr stone's trial in washington was an offshoot of investigations into russian interference in the 2016 ukraine who was fired by donald trump has told an impeachment hearing in washington that she felt threatened and intimidated by the president. maria ivanovic told the congressional committee that donald trump is my personal lawyer had worked to discredit her and that government had been manipulated by corrupt foreign interests. john sopel reports from washington. this was devastating and powerful testimony in what turned out to be a day of edge—of—your seat drama. the us ambassador to ukraine, marie yovanovitch, thrust into the centre of a poisonous brew. she fell foul of a diplomatic back channel set up by donald trump's personal lawyer, rudy giuliani, and was fired without warning. the smears against her were all untrue, but in thejuly 25 call between donald trump and his ukrainian counterpart, astonishingly, the us president attacked her. so, what did she think when she learned of this a couple of months back? i was...shocked and devastated that i would feature in a phone call betw

mr stone's trial in washington was an offshoot of investigations into russian interference in the campaignthe country's next president. security and develop and have been keyissues security and develop and have been key issues with the election coming seven months after a terrorist attack that killed more than 250 people. the final result is affected to be announced by monday. anti—government protesters in chile are back on the street a day after the government agreed to hold a referendum on replacing the country's constitution. the current one dates back to the era of military leader augusto pinochet. project leaders on any new constitution to declare that health and education are responsibilities of the state. referendum will take ways in april next year. —— take place. the deposed president of bolivia has said that he will stand for office again in any rerun of last month's election if the socialist party wants him to. speaking from exile in mexico, the morales also told the bbc that elections could go ahead without him. for almost a week, teargas strikes and chaos have been the normal.

authorities side and it is disproportionate that is has been going well so right about that ok so mr stone still in his arms is now serving a prison sentence in britain for skipping bio to avoid being extradited to sweden is he now likely to be released or will he be kept in jail. a songe is not being kept in prison in the u.k. primarily with a view to next edition request from the united states the british artists who sued him again and disproportionate money which has nothing to do with the easiest clearly outside any extradition requests from the swedish also or it is and it's. unfortunate. 'd that the proceedings also in new k. and of course the backdrop for this is in the. negative you. also are to many countries take a mistress arch says work it with leaking works and. basically these procedures are made up. and the courtroom review has not been effective just not very credible . oh i'm afraid we thank you for your insight professor us from the university thank you thank you. now to some all of the day's top stories are the united nations says it has reports indicating it doesn't mea

trump got off the phone with mr. stone, what did mr. trump say, the prosecutor asked gates. he indicated more information would be coming, gate responded today at stone's criminal trial. gates testified prior to wikileaks first email dump for months information had been talked about. after the july release, gates said that the campaign was in a state of happiness. >> this just came out. wikileaks, i love wikileaks. >> reporter: gates' testimony flies in the face of denial of both stone and trump that the two ever discussed wikileaks. >> i know nothing about wikileaks. >> reporter: in written responses to the mueller team president trump said i did not recall any communication between stone and wikileaks. but the phone call and trump's reaction described in court today puts into sharper focus how much trump allegedly knew how the russian hack and release of emails could boost his campaign. this revelation was ultimately redacted from the public version of the mueller report because the case was ongoing. during the presidential campaign stone bragged about his contacts with jul

has president trump insulated himself from mr. stone? kevin: roger stone was found guilty on seven counts by a federal jury in florida within the last 15 minutes. he was convicted of lying to congress, lying under oath to members of the house intelligence committee. he was also found guilty of witness tampering as it relates to his connection with being a conduit with wikileaks. in that two week trial, there -- as well ases rick gates, who was paul manafort's top deputy. his being found guilty is a warning sign to all of the individuals at the state department as well as others who have been called to testify before the house intelligence committee, both publicly and privately. david: that is a good point. thanks to kevin cirilli reporting from capitol hill. now we will turn to damian sassower talking about hong kong. things are not looking good hong kong. there a lot of public disturbances affecting the economy. damian: the past week, the violence has caused a complete dislocation in the front end of the interbank lending curb. -- lendin

mr. credico. do you believe that it is fair that the prosecutors are introducing those texts as evidence that roger stoneidate mr. credico or harm him or his pet? >> i don't believe that roger stone was trying to intimidate him. i think you're only seeing one side of those texts. the two of them have had a horribly abusive frenemy relationship for a couple of decades. >> have you been a personal witness to that? >> i have been. in 2010 at my gubernatorial campaign event, randy credico started heckling me and they got into a fistfight. i've taken phone calls from randy high at 3:00 in the morning, screaming at me about roger stone, he's going to testify against him in some unknown investigation. i think at this point, from what we've seen, from randy credico today, it's pretty evident that he just pulled a very serious dirty trick on roger stone. he admitted on the stand that he accepted a message to pass along to assange. so the whole time he's pretending to be a back-channel and playing roger and embellishing his role with assange and -- >> let's dig into that. this is a very important point. it relates

trump got off the phone with mr. stone, what did mr. trump say, the prosecutor asked gates. d be coming gates responded today at stone's criminal trial. he testified that prior to wikileaks first email dump, for months information had been talked about. after the july release, gates said the campaign was in a state of happiness. gates' testimony flies in the face of denial from both stone and trump that the two ever discussed wikileaks. in written responses to robert mueller's team, president trump said, i did not recall any communication between stone and wikileaks. the phone call and trump's reaction puts in sharper focus how much trump allegedly knew about how the russian hack and release of emails could boost his campaign. >> this just came out. wikileaks. i love wikileaks. >> reporter: but that revelation was not included in mueller's public report. it was redacted because stone's case was ongoing. during the 2016 presidential campaign, stone bragged about his contacted with wikileaks founder julian assange. >> i actually have communicated with assange and i think it is

. >> mr. stone, what's your reaction to the verdict?ment. >> will you be seeking a pardon from president trump? >> no comment. >> sara murray, cnn, washington. >>> and joining me now is david cats, former u.s. assistant attorney. thank you so much for doing so. seven felony charges, seven guilty verdicts, lying to congress, witness tampering, could mean 20 years in jail. how does this hurt donald trump and the trump narrative? it certainly sends a message. >> well, it hurts terribly, really, because something happens with wikileaks that was very, very vicious. and as your speice showed, stone took credit for it. but stone didn't take credit to know it so he can publish it. he took credit for it so he could use it and he bragged about the fact of how much he was helping trump. its will be pretty ironic if he ends up in prison during the trump presidency because it looks like he will. he was one of the two or three people who encouraged trump to run for president but then he didn't end up being part of the campaign because of his past. se

proceedings not a good day for president trump today on the front page of the eye, mr roger stone whon different accounts and tampering with witnesses all in an attempt to protect president trump. —— front of the the i. he faces a long time injail as a result of that. meanwhile on this very day is what we had evidence being given by the former ambassador to the ukraine. in the impeachment hearings against mrtrump. ukraine. in the impeachment hearings against mr trump. and i ukraine. in the impeachment hearings against mrtrump. and ijust ukraine. in the impeachment hearings against mr trump. and ijust sat there aghast at this because i was not aware of this and here is a lady who apparently went into the ukraine to try to crack on corruption and find yourself the victim of a smear campaign read by rudy giuliani, former mayor of new york,... the head —— the government essentially stop with mr giuliani and other smear here with allegations made by the very people she was trained to condemn for corruption. moreover, she was walking —— phoned one o'clock in the morning by a state departmen

. >> mr. stone, what's your reaction to the verdict? >> no comment. >> will you be seeking a pardon from president trump. >> no comment. >> reporter: sara murray, cnn, washington. >> roger stone is the sixth person convicted or found guilty in the russian investigation. >>> president trump ignored advice of senior military commanders and intervened in controversial war cases. we'll tell you what he did when we come back. but this season, a more thrilling journey is calling. defy the laws of human nature. at the season of audi sales event. itso chantix can help you quit slow turkey. along with support, chantix is proven to help you quit. with chantix you can keep smoking at first and ease into quitting. chantix reduces the urge so when the day arrives, you'll be more ready to kiss cigarettes goodbye. when you try to quit smoking, with or without chantix, you may have nicotine withdrawal symptoms. stop chantix and get help right away if you have changes in behavior or thinking, aggression, hostility, depressed mood, suicidal thoughts or ac

trump got off the phone with mr. stone, what did trump say?ates said he indicated more information would be coming. now, this was a conversation that happened back in july of 2016, july 31st, in an suv with rick gates, donald trump and secret service agents on their way to la guardia airport, and that is when donald trump received a call from roger stone that indicated that there was going to be more dumps coming, more information out of wikileaks. that is what rick gates testified to. i want to just recall for everyone, bring everyone back to the mueller investigation. this was a key point in the mueller investigation. in fact, it was a question that mueller had asked donald trump, writing in a question to donald trump, asking if he had any conversations with roger stone or anyone else regarding wikileaks? and basically donald trump says that he did not recall having those conversations. rick gates, on the other hand, said, yeah, these conversations did take place. donald trump in the written questions that he submitted and the answers that h

. >> mr. stone, what's your reaction to the verdict?> no comment. >> are you receiving a pardon from president trump? >> no comment. >> don't do that, no comment. >> 67-year-old is still under a gag order as he awaits sentencing, which is in february of next year. stone is the sixth trump associate to have been convicted of a crime since the president took office. all of those cases stemming from the russia investigation. >>> and president trump has ignored advice from his defense secretary and pentagon officials and abosolved three service members accused of war crimes. cnn's warren brown with more. >> president trump making a major decision on three high-profile military justice cases on friday. pardoning two u.s. army soldiers and restoring the rank of a navy s.e.a.l. who had been convicted of posing with a corpse in iraq. the first what lieutenant clint lawrence who had been convicted of second degree murder for ordering his troops to fire on an afghan man. and major matthew golcy who had been charged with murder after killing an un

mr. trump wanted from ukraine. and amid all of the drama, the president's long time associate on friend, roger stone, has been found guilty on all seven counting include iing telling l to congress that protected mr. trump. we'll get to that, but first, some details of today's dramatic testimony by the ousted u.s. ambassador to ukraine. jessica schneider is working the story for us. it was very, very powerful. >> it was, wolf, and yovanovitch recounted and she said she was vilified by rudy giuliani and his associates and even after her ouster as ambassador to ukraine, she said she felt threatened when she learned the details of the president's july 25th phone call to mr. zelensky and then today, she was forced to react in real time as the president tweeted about her testimony in the midst of the hearing. tonight, the president is facing accusations he crossed the line, sending a tweet democrats allege amounts to witness intimidation against marie yovanovitch as she testified on capitol hill. >> miss yovanovitch, as we sit here testifying, the president is attacking you on twitter. >> i mean i can't speak to what the

. >> mr. stone, what's your reaction to the verdict?eeking a pardon from president trump? >> no comment. >> reporter: sara murray, cnn, washington. >>> and tear gas filling the streets of paris as police clash with yellow vest protesters gathering on the now one-year anniversary of the start of that demonstration. we go live to france, next. that's ensure max protein, with high protein and 1 gram sugar. it's a sit-up, banana! bend at the waist! i'm tryin'! keep it up. you'll get there. whoa-hoa-hoa! 30 grams of protein, and one gram of sugar. ensure max protein. there's a company that's talked than me: jd power.people 448,134 to be exact. they answered 410 questions in 8 categories about vehicle quality. and when they were done, chevy earned more j.d. power quality awards across cars, trucks and suvs than any other brand over the last four years. so on behalf of chevrolet, i want to say "thank you, real people." you're welcome. we're gonna need a bigger room. (groans) hmph... (food grunting menacingly) when the food you love doesn't lov

there's a similarity between the climate around mr. stoned what we're looking at with mr. giuliani. >> interesting take from one of our contributors, who was the director of the nixon library. that's an interesting take. but just the collision of mueller, another trump insider going to prison in the middle of the impeachment thing, and to tim's point, with dirty tricks getting evidence against your opponents, doing anything to dig up dirt on your opponents front and center. >> the timing was quite striking. this hearing is going on on capitol hill, you have marie yovanovitch sitting there testifying and down the block essentially you have roger stone being convicted of all these counts. and it does show you a pattern of behavior at the very least by the people who president trump sounds himself with. and if you believe the evidence in the stone trial, which seems like the judge and the jury did, that involves the president himself, and that he is totally fine with. and existed in a campaign realm before, but is now in the oval office because

mueller that, quote, i do not recall discussing wikileaks with stone, nor do i recall being aware of mr. stone wikileaks with individuals associated with my campaign. rick gates testified at the roger stone trial that he heard donald trump on the phone with roger stone discussing wikileaks. before submitting his written testimony, president trump insisted that he wrote all those answers himself. >> my lawyers are working on that, i'm working on that. i write the answers. my lawyers don't write the answers, i write the answers. i was given a series of questions and the questions were seriously answered by me. by me. >> joining us now, prosecutor who was at the roger stone trial last week. glen, what do you make of the president's conduct with the testimony of the roger stone trial? >> you know, lawrence, i watched the testimony unfold in the stone trial. it became pretty obvious that the president's answer in his written questions to bob mueller, at least with respect to his conversations with roger stone, were just flat out false. what are the implications of that? we all know it's not likely

- and i quote -- i do not recall discussing wikileaks with stone, nor do i recall being aware of mr. stonewith individuals associated with my campaign. can you explain that? >> well, it's a very convenient answer there from the president, and we now know why -- certainly this tells you why the lawyers for the president didn't want him sitting before the mueller team, because they could have pulled out the phone records and said, well, here we have that on the day that it was revealed that the dnc was hacked, you and roger stone were talking. there are other instances during the entire wikileaks thing, as they're threatening to push out more emails, where roger stone is contacting donald trump. so they could have confronted him with this information and said, well, how do you not recall? we have these records that indicate that you called. they certainly spent the day -- the opening statement was from a mueller prosecutor really going through painstaking detail of all the phone calls, and you can certainly see where they're going. they're inferring that the contact between roger stone and d

mr. stoneo jared kushner and political director jim murphy to debrief them on the developments of the dnc announcement. question, on july -- were there any brainstorming sessions done at that point? >> answer, oh, yeah. prior to that point there were brainstorming sessions on the idea of if the information was leaked what would the campaigns say and respond. and once wikileaks did release the hacked material, question, what was the campaign's action towards the release? >> answer, the fact the information had come out, the campaign was in a state of happiness. when the trump campaign heard that specifically the russian government had hacked the democratic party, they thought that was great for them. they thought they could definitely use that to their advantage. they then held brainstorming sessions about how they'd plan to use this stuff that had been hacked and stolen by the russian government. and when the material hacked by the russian government was indeed actually released, which they say

then that the president denied knowledge of himself or anyone else discussing wikileaks dumps with mr. stonetion of whether trump will pardon his friend still remains. multiple sources told my colleague kaitlin collins this is something he's been weighing for the last several months and didn't take long after the verdict for trump to get on twitter and say it was unfair but he has some time. not going to be sentenced until february. >> wow, convicted on all counts. thank you so much, brynn. and we'll be right back. 134 to . they answered 410 questions in 8 categories about vehicle quality. and when they were done, chevy earned more j.d. power quality awards across cars, trucks and suvs than any other brand over the last four years. so on behalf of chevrolet, i want to say "thank you, real people." you're welcome. we're gonna need a bigger room. so why haven't you started building? tyler's off to college. and mom's getting older. mhm, and eventually we would like to retire. td ameritrade can help you build a plan for today and tomorrow. come with a goal. leave with a plan. td ameritrade. come

nor do i recall being aware mr. stonediscussed wikileaks with individuals associated with my campaign. today brought some amazing testimony from trump's own deputy campaign manager rick gates who told a very different story than the one trump told in his written testimony. joining me now is dan freedman a reporter from mother jones who has been covering stone's trial and was in the courtroom today. his news piece was headlined stone trial reveals trump likely lied to mueller. the gaetz testimony today was sort of the big jaw drop moment. dan, what happened? he was of course a senior adviser to the trump campaign, a senior aide. he said on july 31st he was in a car with trump and heard trump on the phone and when trump got off that phone call he had wikileaks which had just released a bunch of national emails that disrupted the democratic national convention, trump told gates 2/3 be more information released from wikileaks. of course that means trump was talking to stone about wikileaks and what emails wikileaks would be r

tell us what we'll see from this trial, including are we going to see mr. stone himself testify?own at this point, jim, but jury selection begins this morning. opening statements slated to start tomorrow and then it could be quite a cast of characters who take the witness stand, including that potential of roger stone himself testifying. we're not sure yet. but up to this point the bombastic former adviser to president trump has really been precluded from talking to the media or even posting online. that's because of a gag order imposed by this judge. so we'll wait to see if stone takes the stand and what is expected to be a 2 1/2-week trial. roger stone is charged with seven counts, including obstruction of justice, witness tampering and lying to congress. all of this revolving around whether he attempted to create a back channel to wikileaks, to obtain those hacked emails from the dnc server and then whether he lied to house investigators and potentially intimidated other witnesses. and, really, since this investigation was a segment of the mueller probe, we could even hear fro