the timing, as i mentioned, is a function of the collection of the facts, the evidence and the law and a determination that it was sufficient to present the indictment at this time. as i mentioned, i did brief the president. today s indictment of 12 russian spies led to increased pressure from a number of democrats telling the president to cancel his impending closed door meeting with russian president vladimir putin on monday. sarah sanders told nbc news the trump/putin summit is still on. the president provided this preview. i know you ll ask will we be talking about meddling. i will absolutely bring that up. i don t think you ll have any, gee, i did it, i did it, you got me. there won t be a perry mason here, i don t think, but you never know what happens. but i will absolutely firmly ask the question.
online and asked the person, what do you think of the info on the turnout model for the democrats entire presidential campaign. the person responded, pretty standard. looks like this is stone. right. and if you ll recall, in the indictment of paul manafort, all of the court documents that surrounded that, many, many times there was a person in there referred to as person a, someone that was never identified. subsequently that person was identified as the russian intelligence operative kilimnick. so we have seen before mueller has included people in these indictments that have some kind of connection to the people being charged that aren t necessarily named until later. so we may very well see that roger stone will be named in a later indictment. he himself has said that he expects to be indicted by mueller s team. he hasn t said for what, he has said it will be unrelated to potential collusion between the campaign and russia. but of course roger stone was at the center of all of this
might. we know he used the materials stolen by russia released pie wikileaks on an almost daily basis on the campaign trail. the president of the united states was the beneficiary of the criminal conspiracy outlined today in mueller s indictment and he is continuing to cover for the alleged perpetrators. in an official statement responding to the indictment today, the white house did not condemn russia s election interference, not even close. they did confirm the president is still planning to meet one-on-one with vladimir putin just three days from now, ignoring calls to cancel. rosenstein said he had briefed the president on this new indictment earlier in the week. and yet despite knowing what mueller had found, the document that was about to land, despite knowing what was coming, the president this very morning spoke warmly about putin and blasted mueller s investigation. i think i d have a very good relationship with president putin. i think that we re being hurt very badly by th
actually got and today we had confirmation that they did so. nick, what jumped out at you. what jumped out at me, you take that in combination with roger stone s conversations with guccifer 2.0, which are part of which is put into this indictment, which show that in fact they re talking about analytics. it says the voter modeling. voter modeling, it s the same thing. what they were doing is all part of this cambridge analytica program to actually go in to depress the hillary clinton vote. if you know who it is she thinks she s relying on and you take that to send out fake news, phony stories, disparaging information, that s how you suppress the vote. but what really strikes me in this entire indictment is this conspiracy that s charged. it s not just the hacking into the democratic national committee. it s also the staging of the e-mails that were hacked and the documents that were hacked. so once you start talking about the staging, you re talking
se some leadership said he should meet, he shouldn t meet. now, they are saying cancel the summit with president putin, one, because he can t demand that putin cut it out. donald trump doesn t believe in the investigation. i don t think he understands the gravity and the severity of what s going on. two, we can t trust even the president in what he would say in this meeting. donald trump has not been clean on this issue. i would not put it past him to lie in the meeting or lie coming out of the meeting. i don t think the summit would be helpful. i think it s important for democrats to go with that point. something interesting that happened, on july 27, 2016, candidate trump says this to russia, if you are listening, i hope you can find hillary clinton s e-mails. okay? he said that in the middle of the democratic national convention. this indictment notes that on or