according to language of roberts mueller -- manafort's alleged crimes and lies about a variety of subject matters. okay. if you're donald trump, that is not good. remember, trump has already submitted written answers to mueller. he can't take those back. today after attacking michael cohen, trump then praised his former campaign advisor roger stone whose mueller team is investigating as it looks into possible trump/russia collusion. stone has vowed not to testify against trump, prompting trump to tweet, nice to know that some people still have guts. that's one way of putting it. earlier this year, stone wrote a book called stone's rules in which he laid out the maxims that have guided his eventful career. here's one of them. quote, admit nothing, deny everything, launch counterattack. admit nothing, deny everything, well, sounds familiar, doesn't it? during the campaign stone bragged about his contacts with julian assange of wikileaks which of course released the e-mails that russia stole and made public as part of its effort to help get trump elected.