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Doubling down on the claim he is innocent after the indictment by the special counsel with seven charges of witness tampering and making false statements. joining me now is former prosecutor doug burns and news writer for "vanity fair" abby hyde lets start with you, danny. you see the list there of what he is being charged with in the seven counts roger stone is not charged with conspiracy does that surprise you >> two ways of looking at this one is mueller is waiting to charge the global larger...

Thats the power of conspiracy law. one of the problems with liability might be computer hacking looking at roger stone and the jerome corsi situation. any conspiracy against the united states to achieve that unlawful objective probably falls within federal conspiracy laws. you can call it conspiracy, but in reality, conspiracy law is presumed to be so broad even picking up a phone and making a phone call could expose a defendant to liability under our conspiracy law in the federal system. >> sha...

So stones deposition is the first time muellers team has asked. why is his congressional testimony a concern for mueller. >> there are two main avenues. first, was stone and his co-tore repart of this collusion to commit some kind of computer hacking, but even if he wasnt, did roger stone lie in his multiple testimonies and interviews with congress or elsewhere? and if he did, hes liable for section 1,001, false statements. but going back to the russia and lucky weeks, but even if he was, in ord...

Penalties for china? do we want to take this? listen for a quick moment and james well come back to you. >> 90% of the departments cases economic espionage over the past seven years involve china. two thirds involving thefts of trade secrets are connected to china. in the last few months of this year alone, our department has announced charges in three separate cases alleging crimes committed at the behest of a branch of the chinese ministry of state security. it is unacceptable that we continue...

Ground? if you were a prosecutor in the case and you heard a defense attorney with this argument, what would you think? >> rudy kind of answered his own question there. he says in one breath, collusion is not a crime. no kidding, its a word that rudy and the president kind of made up. but in the very next sentence, he says the crime would be conspiracy to commit computer hacking. yes, if the proof bears out that the president or roger stone or people around them were involved in the effort to ha...

Aimed at moscow. seven russian military intelligence officers have been charged with launching global cyber attacks and other crimes. our senior national correspondent is covering the story for us. tell us more, alex, about this indictment. >> reporter: well, the indictments that came down from d.o.j. today span a whole range of crimes from computer hacking to wire fraud, identity theft and money laundering and of the seven russians who were indicted today by the d.o.j. we learned that three of ...

Mueller proffered his list of questions to trump, it included things specifically about stone and stone has bragged about his relationship and prior knowledge with both wikileaks and julian assange. this indictment could bring what has been activity across the atlantic, computer hacking in particular, onto our shores and close to trump. >> yeah. from the trump perspective, i mean, the indictments that have been on the russian side, the conspiracy to sort of tilt the election, sabotage it that th...

Robert mueller, to make sure the truth about donald trump gets out. listen to what he said earlier. >> i said that he had matters that would be of interest to this special counsel relating to pre-knowledge of computer hacking by donald trump. which, if true, if true, would constitute knowledge of a crime committed by a foreign government in hacking our computers, which was part of the indictment of 12 russians that the special counsel has already published. >> davis is on record saying his clien...

Sentencing in order to organize everything and tie everything up into a nice neat bow. prosecutors will simply delay the sentencing as long as they need to in order to secure the level of cooperation that they want from this particular cooperating witness. >> you just mentioned big fish. do one of those big fish be michael cohen, especially when you have lanny davis on with rachel maddow saying he might have some information about the president here that could include topics of crime, computer c...

Opponent, totally legal and done all the time in politics. hes saying he did not know about it, but in this tweet hes saying he does now know about it. your thought about legal jeopardy, steven? >> collusion is not a legal term and it may be that collusion by itself is not necessarily a crime, but the conduct thats contemplated in that trump tower meeting from the summer of 2016 potentially exposes them to liability in a number of different ways. there is conspiracy to assist in the computer hac...