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Today, Explained

The Man with the Nixon Tattoo

Today, Explained

Vox

News, Daily News, Politics

4.310.3K Ratings

🗓️ 25 January 2019

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

It’s been quite a day for Roger Stone. Arrested before dawn. Released on $250,000 bond. Called Alex Jones. Gave a circus of a press conference. Vox's Andrew Prokop explains the latest development in the Mueller investigation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Andrew Procop, you cover the Mueller investigation for Vox pretty conveniently.

0:17.2

The president temporarily reopened the government without wall funding today.

0:21.9

The same day his good friend and former campaign advisor had a very bad day.

0:28.5

What happened to Roger Stone's morning?

0:31.0

So early in the morning, FBI agents showed up at the home of longtime Donald Trump advisor

0:38.7

Roger Stone in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

0:46.6

And they arrested him and soon Mueller's office publicly released an indictment of stone

0:55.9

for allegedly lying to Congress and attempting to obstruct the congressional investigations

1:04.6

of what happened in 2016 between the Trump campaign and Russia.

1:09.8

So what's he being charged with?

1:11.4

He was charged with one count of attempting to obstruct an official proceeding, which

1:17.7

refers to the House Intelligence Committee's investigation, then five counts of making

1:24.1

false statements to the House Intelligence Committee and one count of witness tampering,

1:30.4

basically trying to threaten and intimidate a witness to give an allegedly false story

1:37.3

that would help stone.

1:40.0

Okay, so we have these seven charges.

1:43.8

Abstruction of an official proceeding, making false statements and witness tampering.

1:49.4

What is the obstruction of official proceeding, making false statements portion of it?

1:55.6

So back in 2016, Roger Stone repeatedly claimed to have some information about what

2:04.6

WikiLeaks or Julian Assange were going to do.

2:08.4

We know they eventually released emails of Hillary Clinton's campaign chairman, John

2:13.8

Podesta.

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