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Release of stolen democratic e-mails, a senior president trump campaign official was directed to contact stone about any additional releases and what other damaging information organization had regarding the clinton campaign. stone told the trump campaign about potential future releases of damaging material by organization one. organization one is wikileaks. the indictment makes that clear. not clear who the senior campaign official is nor who directed him or her to contact roger stone, but ther...

>> the charges today relate in no way to russian collusion, wikileaks collaboration, or any other illegal act in connection with the 2016 campaign. >> reporter: the dissenter, it could damage hillary clintons presidential race in coordination with the trump campaign. >> no, i have addressed that before, that is incorrect. >> reporter: the mueller probe paints a different picture. back to july 2016, when wikileaks releases thousands of stolen documents from the dnc, damaging to hillary clinton. a...

I believe this is a politically motivated investigation. >> reporter: it was a tense drama as fbi agents in tactical gear raided stones florida home to arrest him. the fbi also searched his new york apartment. the indictment charged him with obstruction of justice, lying, witness tampering, not conspiracy. however the 24-page document chronicles a series of communications between stone, wikileaks and senior trump campaign officials about the content and the timing of the release of clinton campa...

Obstruction, witness tampering and an attempted cover up of stones efforts to get dirt on hillary clinton from wikileaks in 20 seine. and for the firs time ever the indictment traces those efforts back to the presidents campaign. after the july 22nd release by organization one, a senior trump campaign official was directed to contact stone on what other damaging information they had regarding the clinton campaign. we dont know who it was but it would have to be somebody high-ranking enough to gi...

Organization one, a senior trump campaign official was directed to contact stone on what other damaging information they had regarding the clinton campaign we dont know who it was but it would have to be somebody high-ranking enough to give ordardsers to a senior campaign official and that came beor the candidate himself did his own fishing for clinton dirt >> russia, if youre listening, i hope youre able to find the emails missing i think youll be rewarded mightily by our press. >> when they re...

This verb ang here, our whole team, the cnn legal team is pouring over this document right now. this is the first time weve learned that. this is the first time that we have been told officially by the special counsels team that a trump campaign official directed contact with wikileaks, directed roger stone to figure out what was going on here. this is new. >> thats zbliright. >> anne, how significant is that? >> its enormous. i think weve all known or suspected from the trump tower meeting they...

Ultimately be charged with. they felt like he had not concluded, th colluded. that he had not obstructed justice. think the question going forward is what does the special counsels office want him for? do they want him on these obstruction of justice charges because they do think he could provide more information about his contact with wikileaks and his contact with the campaign and ultimately they want to put pressure on him and they want him to cooperate? or are they looking to bring these cha...

Campaign officials about organization one, which has always been wikileaks, is my understanding, and information it might have had that would be damaging to the clinton campaign. stone was contacted by senior trump campaign officials to inquire about future releases by organization one. explain the significance of that right roe,ger stone and the tru campaign, it seems to me, had conversations in the summer about wikileaks. >> reporter: this is one of the huge questions is whether roger stone ha...

Basically anything other than what the american public was seeing since releasing it. but this indictment does suggest that the special counsels office believes he got some kind of information, was in touch with some folks at the trump campaign about these releases. >> and what does it tell you that he has been indicted on these seven counts by a grand jury yesterday, arrested this morning if people are just wablingi waking up, roger stone has been taken into custody, about false statements and ...

Trump campaign officials that he had information indicating organization one, wikileaks, had documents whos release would be damage together clinton campaign. head of organization, thats wikileaks, organization one was located at all relevant times at the ecuadorian embassy in london, united kingdom. now this. after the july 22nd, 2016 release of stolen dnc e-mails by wiki leekds, a seep, could trump campaign official was directed to contact stone about any additional releases and what other dam...