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| 0:00.0 | When you're gonna commute the sentence of your old friend who got convicted of a bunch |
| 0:16.4 | of felonies after trying to help you get elected, it's best to do it late on a Friday night. |
| 0:22.0 | That's when President Trump commuted Roger Stone's sentence. |
| 0:26.4 | Clearly not one of his prouder moments. |
| 0:29.2 | As President or, in the words of Republican Senator Mitt Romney, quote, |
| 0:33.8 | unprecedented historic corruption, an American President commutes the sentence of a person |
| 0:39.6 | convicted by a jury of lying to shield that very President. |
| 0:44.6 | On today's show, we're gonna explain why this commutation matters more than most, maybe |
| 0:49.6 | more than all of them. |
| 0:51.4 | And we're gonna start with a story of Roger Stone because it kind of perfectly builds |
| 0:56.8 | to this moment. |
| 0:57.8 | Here's Vox reporter Andrew Prokop from an episode we made a while back called The Man |
| 1:02.8 | with the Nixon tattoo. |
| 1:05.4 | So Roger Stone. |
| 1:07.9 | Roger Jason Stone. |
| 1:10.0 | Roger Jason Stone. |
| 1:11.4 | Junior. |
| 1:12.4 | Roger Jason Stone, Jr. |
| 1:15.4 | Self-proclaimed dirty trickster. |
| 1:17.1 | Donald Trump's albino assassin. |
| 1:19.1 | Roger Stone. |
| 1:20.1 | Roger. |
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