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Keep coming out. but its such a puzzle. mueller has in plain view -- and remember the rule with mueller is always theres so much more we dont know, but been about the business of constructing all of the misdeeds in russia. and then starting to tie it up with whats hand in the state, and weve got this huge final link in the bridge and were supposed to think that he just puts it to rest with this bland russtation, heres who we indicted, heres who we investigated. a core, at least a core part of hi...

Thing. anyway, the issue with the stone -- with stone is that he sent out an image on social media, instagram, that basically had a picture of the judge with essentially a shooting crosshairs in the background behind her head. and everyone sort of immediately in the public space sort of the reacted with sort of a whoa, easy, guy, thats a really bad idea. i mean, i know a lot of lawyers who are simply like gob smacked by it because its such a dumb way to piece offss off a judge holds your freedom...

Agreement jerome corsi showed the word and he hasnt been charged yet. he fits in with stone and wikileaks. so theres a lot of questions here. clearly stone is playing for a pardon and playing to his base from which he is raising money that hes going to stand strong and fight the deep state, which robert mueller to him embodies. >> we had andrew mccabe yesterday, former acting fbi director. he writes about in his book staying the course with manafort and the context is in this climate where donal...

In terms of stone digging himself a little deeper as this goes on. i still would be kind of surprised if she throws him in jail. but to be honest, some of stones answer have made it more of a toss-up to me than i expected when this hearing started. >> ryan riley is joining our conversation now. hes just out of the courtroom. i understand the judge banned roger stone from making anymore public statements about his case. >> thats right. essentially he said she cant trust him anymore. she set off g...

Tampering and false statements, is in court this afternoon being questioned for the very first time by a mueller prosecutor in a hearing he largely brought on himself by posting a photo of the judge in his case with the cross hair behind her head. the self-described warrior against the deep state and by extension the rule of law facing tough questions about that post and his public antics, as he awaits trial in his criminal case. the judge today doesnt seem to buy stones contrite apology. she to...

Bunch of data and files from his home. no one has signaled any sort of all clear where roger stone is concerned. and any questions that remain about whether or not there was coordination with the russians usually have a roger stone thread running through them. what did you learn today, or what are you hearing from sources that explains or begins to attempt to explain the stupidity and recklessness of his conduct? >> no source can complain that, nicolle. i like devlins word gobsmacked. this whole...

The courtroom. and here at the table sam stein, politics editor at the daily beast is here. amy stoddard is making her way to the table. thats how we go here, if theyre here, theyre here, ready when theyre ready. we will start with you, devlin. what are you watching in this stone proceeding? if you could just sort of rank on sort of the scale of corruption to stupidity, brazen to devil destructive, finger in the eye of rule of law, and this is also a case of sort of spiting himself. roger stone ...