Exclusive: Randy Credico, key witness in Roger Stone case, on Stone's 40-month sentence

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Pushback with Aaron Maté

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🗓️ 22 February 2020

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Roger Stone has been sentenced to 40 months in prison for lying to a Congressional investigation of Russiagate and threatening a witness, Randy Credico. Stone falsely claimed to have a secret backchannel to Wikileaks, and that Credico was his source. Stone then tried to intimidate Credico into not contradicting his falsehoods. In an exclusive interview with Pushback, Randy Credico responds to the Stone sentencing and tells the real story of what happened. Guest: Randy Credico, political satirist and broadcaster.

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0:00.0	Welcome to pushback. I'm Aaron Mate.
0:06.0	Roger Stone, the longtime Republican operative, has been sentenced to more than three years in prison.
0:12.8	Stone was convicted of lying to a congressional investigation into Russia Gate and trying to intimidate a key witness.
0:21.2	Well, in an exclusive interview, that witness joins me now.
0:25.1	Randy Critico, longtime broadcaster, comedian.
0:28.2	Hello.
0:28.7	Hey, great to be here, Aaron.
0:30.8	Thank you for having me on.
0:32.1	This is the only show that I'm doing, and I'm going to get out of town.
0:35.7	No one's going to be able to find me because I've been flooded with calls today by media.
0:43.4	This has consumed your life.
0:45.0	This has consumed you for a long time now,
0:46.9	and you're actually going off to go to the UK to be there to support Julian Assange,
0:51.8	and we can talk about that more.
0:53.2	Yes.
0:53.2	It has consumed a lot of my life.
0:55.6	This has consumed my life since, you know, the end of 2016, this entire affair.
1:01.6	So it has been a complete upheaval of my regular way of life.
1:08.5	So let me ask you your reaction to the sentence,
1:11.2	and we should point out that this was a sentence
1:13.0	that you tried to avoid.
1:14.1	You wrote the judge and asked her to go easy on Roger Stone,
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