Roger Stone

The New Washington

The New York Times

News, Politics

4.5 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 2 September 2017

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

The provocateur, political consultant and subject of a new Netflix documentary is one of President Trump’s oldest advisers. Michael Barbaro and Maggie Haberman listen to and discuss Barbaro's recent conversation with Mr. Stone about his views on the internal White House battle between globalists and nationalists, why he promotes conspiracy theories and mistruths, and what he sees as one of the worst things in politics — being boring.

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0:00.0	From the New York Times, this is the new Washington.
0:04.0	I'm Michael Barber.
0:05.0	Today, Roger Stone.
0:08.0	He knows you killed John Kennedy.
0:10.0	He's well aware that Lyndonen Johnson killed John Kennedy.
0:13.0	People like gossip.
0:15.0	They like the salacious.
0:16.7	Roger Stone has been Donald Trump's chief political advisor.
0:20.1	He planned and ran his presidential campaign and he's been his hatchet man.
0:24.5	He spent 40 years as a hatchet man.
0:26.7	Trying to stop Trump is like stepping in front of a hurtling freight train.
0:30.1	I value my relationship with the president and his family.
0:33.4	Try to impeach it. Just try it.
0:35.2	You will have a spasm of violence in this country,
0:38.4	an insurrection like you've never seen. See? I actually. I actually had a leftover egg roll and fried rice for breakfast.
0:54.0	It was pretty good actually.
0:56.0	Naturally.
0:57.0	Roger Stone.
0:58.0	Hey, how you doing?
0:59.0	How are you?
1:00.0	I'm good about you.
1:01.0	What are you doing in LA? I'm out here trying to make sure that the incredible Netflix
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