>>> RICHARD NIXON IS FINALLY GOING TO PRISON ON ROGER STONE’S
BACK.
BACK. ROGER STONE STARTED HIS CAREER
AS A REPUBLICAN POLITICAL
OPERATIVE 50 YEARS AGO IN THE
ERA OF HIS IDOL, THE SGRAFD
PRESIDENT RICHARD NIXON WHO WAS
PARDONED BY PRESIDENT FORD FOR
ALL THE CRIMES NIXON COMMITTED
WHILE PRESENT.
WHILE PRESENT. ROGER STONE BECAME DONALD
TRUMP’S LONGEST SERVING
POLITICAL ADVISER.
POLITICAL ADVISER. ROGER STONE WAS FOUND GUILTY
TODAY BY A WASHINGTON, D.C. JURY
ON ALL SEVEN COUNTS OF LYING TO
CONGRESS, TAMPERING WITH A
WITNESS AND OBSTRUCTING THE
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
INVESTIGATION INTO THE RUSSIAN
INTERFERENCE IN THE 2016
ELECTION.
ELECTION. ROGER STONE IS NOW THE SIXTH
ASSOCIATE OF PRESIDENT TRUMP TO
BE CONVICTED OF CRIMES SINCE THE
PRESIDENT TOOK OFFICE.
THAT IS THE FASTEST RATE OF
CRIMINAL CONVICTION OF
PRESIDENTIAL ASSOCIATES IN
HISTORY.
HISTORY. WHO’S NEXT?
WHO’S NEXT? GORDON SONDLAND HAS ALREADY
CHANGED HIS UNDER OATH TESTIMONY
ONCE TO AVOID PERJURY CHARGES
AND TODAY’S REVELATION ABOUT THE
DETAILS OF HIS CELLPHONE CALL
FROM A RESTAURANT IN UKRAINE TO
PRESIDENT TRUMP WILL REQUIRE
GORDON SONDLAND TO CHANGE HIS
TESTIMONY ONCE AGAIN NEXT WEEK
IN PUBLIC.
IN PUBLIC. BUT WILL THAT BE ENOUGH FOR
GORDON SONDLAND TO AVOID ROGER
STONE’S FATE?
STONE’S FATE? BACK WITH US, GLENN KIRCHNER WHO
HAS BEEN AT THE COURTHOUSEROGER
WAS THERE TODAY WHEN THE VERDICT
CAME IN.
CAME IN. GLENN, WHAT DOES THIS VERDICT
MEAN GOING FORWARD FOR THE
INVESTIGATION AND FOR POSSIBLE
WITNESSES LIKE GORDON SONDLAND?
>> I WOULD SAY, LAWRENCE, GORDON
SONDLAND BETTER SIT UP AND TAKE
NOTE OF WHAT HAPPENED TODAY TO
ROGER STONE ON THE WITNESS
TAMPERING FRONT.
TAMPERING FRONT. AND WHEN HE RAISES HIS RIGHT
HAND AND HE SWEARS TO CONGRESS
TO TELL THE TRUTH, HE HAD BETTER
NOT PLAY ANY GAMES, BECAUSE, YOU
KNOW, WHEN YOU LOOK AT WHAT HAS
HAPPENED TODAY ALONE ON THE
WITNESS TAMPERING FRONT, YOU’VE
GOT PRESIDENT TRUMP SENDING OUT
THAT TWEET, THAT DEFAMATORY,
THREATENING TWEET TO AMBASSADOR
YOVANOVITCH AS YOUR PREVIOUS
GUEST, PROFESSOR LAURENCE TRIBE
SAID, THAT SORT OF FITS THE BILL
FOR WITNESS INTIMIDATION.
AND THEN OVER IN FEDERAL COURT
TODAY YOU HAVE ROGER STONE BEING
CONVICTED OF WITNESS TAMPERING.
YOU KNOW, YOU HAVE TO START TO
WONDER, WHEN APPLICANTS FOR JOBS
APPLY TO THE TRUMP
ADMINISTRATION AND THEY SHOW
THEIR RESUMES, DO THE FOLKS LOOK
AT IT AND SAY, WELL, YOU KNOW
THAT ALL LOOKS GOOD BUT HOW ARE
YOU AT TAMPERING WITH WITNESSES?
AND THAT’S A LIGHTHEARTED TAKE
ON A VERY SERIOUS ISSUE.
WHEN YOU CONSIDER THE SEVEN
CHARGES THAT ROGER STONE WAS
CONVICTED OF TODAY, THE FIRST
SIX CARRY A MAXIMUM PUNISHMENT
OF FIVE YEARS IN PRISON.
THE SEVENTH, WITNESS TAMPERING,
CARRIES UP TO 20 YEARS IN
PRISON.
PRISON. I THINK GORDON SONDLAND BETTER
PAY ATTENTION TO THAT.
>> GLENN, A WORD ON HOW CLOSE
THIS ROGER STONE CASE GOT TO
DONALD TRUMP.
DONALD TRUMP. ONE OF THE THINGS HE’S CONVICTED
FOR WAS LYING ABOUT A PHONE CALL
THAT ROGER STONE HAD WITH
PRESIDENT TRUMP.
PRESIDENT TRUMP. AND IT’S ONE OF THOSE PHONE
CALLS, A CELLPHONE CALL DURING
THE CAMPAIGN THAT’S OVERHEARD BY
SOMEONE, IN THIS CASE RICK
GATES.
GATES. >> HOW CLOSE DID IT GET?
IT BUMPED RIGHT UP AGAINST
DONALD TRUMP.
DONALD TRUMP. BECAUSE OF THAT PHONE CALL,
WHICH SHOWED, ACCORDING TO
GATES’ TESTIMONY, THAT PRESIDENT
TRUMP WAS INTIMATELY INVOLVED IN
REAL TIME, COURTESY OF ROGER
STONE, WITH THE WIKILEAKS DUMP.
SO THAT SURE LOOKS MORE LIKE
JUST PASSIVELY RECEIVING
INFORMATION.
INFORMATION. IT LOOKS LIKE COORDINATION AND
IT LOOKS A LOT LIKE A
CONSPIRACY.
CONSPIRACY. >> GLENN KIRCHNER, THANK YOU FOR
DOING DOUBLE DUTY THIS WEEK,