Trump: Roger Stone has "very good chance of exoneration"; Frontrunner Sanders faces new attacks at fiery debate; Trump appoints staunch ally with no intel experience as Acting Intelligence Chief;

The Lead with Jake Tapper

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🗓️ 20 February 2020

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Trump: Won't pardon Stone now, but "good chance of exoneration"; Bloomberg: Nominating sanders would be a "fatal error"; Contentious debate sets stage for caucuses in less than 48 hours; Sanders: I've talked with Obama multiple times in last month; Bloomberg: Trump was the "real winner" of Dem debate; Buttigieg camp on Bloomberg: "worst debate performance" ever; Members of Nevada's largest union express fear over Sanders' "Medicare for All" proposal; Trump's pick for Acting Intel Chief has history of making misogynistic, incendiary comments; U.S. Amb to Germany appointed Acting Intel Chief; WH Official: Trump became irate with Acting DNI Maguire last week before replacing him; Mulvaney admits Republicans are hypocritical on deficits;To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Roger Stone gets three plus years but could friends in high places keep him
0:06.2	from spending even one night behind bars? The lead starts right now.
0:10.0	Breaking just minutes ago President Trump weighing in on the sentencing of his
0:14.9	former political pit bull and attacking the jury foreperson in the case and
0:20.0	dropping hints that he might use his pardon power to free the man who broke the law in service to him.
0:27.0	He rolled snake eyes in Vegas, but he's still up 64 billion.
0:31.0	Did Mike Bloomberg's bad showing on the debate stage last night
0:34.9	change any minds today in those states where he has essentially taken over
0:39.3	commercial breaks and the next intelligence chief and election security boss short on expertise
0:45.6	long on loyalty to President Trump. Why the president's pick for acting director
0:50.0	of national intelligence is setting off some alarm bells.
0:55.0	This is CNN breaking news.
0:58.0	Welcome to the lead, I'm Jake Tapper.
1:00.0	We start with breaking news just hours after his longtime friend and advisor
1:04.2	Roger Stone was sentenced by a judge to three years, four months in prison.
1:08.9	President Trump just moments ago in Las Vegas dropped some strong hints that Stone might never see the
1:15.1	inside of a jail cell.
1:17.0	Roger has a very good chance of exoneration in my opinion. In terms of a pardon President Trump said he would
1:26.0	not take any official actions now since he would like to see the process
1:30.0	play out but the president also suggested he would make a determination on the matter at a later
1:34.6	date and that in his view Stone had been treated unfairly. Stone, of course, was convicted
1:39.5	by a jury last fall of lying to Congress and threatening a witness.
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