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That roger stone hadnt yet entered the courtroom, but muellers lawyers and other prosecutors were already in the courtroom milling around, getting ready for what we would expect to be a fairly brief process. i say brief because arraignment is simply a time for a defendant to be served with the charges against him and to enter a plea of not guilty. but this one could be a little bit longer if, for instance, there is some sort of a renewed detention motion or as maya says a gag order. >> what does...

Before the break with regard to the fact that we need to allow this process to take place. the protesters, that great, but we need to let roger stone work through the process and not hand him a possible argument for a change of venue because of a hostile environment in the court where hes being tried. and by the way, it works both ways. nor will a judge allow stone to serve as kind of a ring leader at the circus with his big tent being the federal courthouse or courthouse steps. dont be surprise...

Litigating whether or not they have to testify in front of the grand jury. prosecutors can get leads right up to the last minute. its too soon to say that its over. >> garrett, let me come back to you on this bill bar vote that is set to happen. democrats are looking to delay this committee vote. can you walk us through whats going on with that? >> sure. this is a pretty standard procedural thing. today is the first day they could vote on bar. we expect theyll push it back a week. i talked to ch...

If stone was working with corsi to arrange for the release of wikileaks documents in an effort to blunt some of the impact of the access hollywood tape, that would explain why he tried to get him to put himself forward as the source of the interaction, and we could be in conspiracy territory if there were folks inside of the campaign involved in that. i think this was a damaging admission. its the reason why criminal folks who are subjects in criminal cases shouldnt go out on national television...

Hopefully conclusion that is supported by democrats and republicans. >> congresswoman, i respect you in keeping your cards close to the vest. thank you. >> thank you very much. you saw roger stone arrive in federal court here in washington. he is set to be arraigned in just about five minutes. top of the hour on the seven count indictment in the special counsels investigation. remember, stone has been a long time pal of donald trump. he has said he will plead not guilty. let me bring in now ou...

William bar to . we start at the federal courthouse in washington where roger stone will go before a judge officially charged after last weeks vooimt filed by the special counsel. stone faces seven criminal counts including obstruction, making false statements, witness tampering. prosecutors say stone lied about his communications with senior trump campaign officials in 2016. roger stone is now person number six inside the trump orbit to be charged by the special counsel. stone says hes innocent...

Lets get a check back on the federal courthouse in washington here. district court, roger stone, this was him a few minutes ago. you watched it live right here walking into the courtroom. he is set to be arraigned in a matter of, what, 42 minutes from now. you can see stone walking in not making comments over the last 72 hours or so. stone has commented plenty in front of television cameras. its possible that after if as expected he pleads not guilty, he walks out of the courtroom, he may make m...

>> do you have evidence or observation that suggests roger stone sought wikileaks help in timing the release of the e-mails around the access hollywood tape? >> i cant prove that at all. i had one call from roger as i recall it. roger disputes this, on the day that wikileaks began in october dropping the final e-mails on john podesta. roger was saying we have a timing issue because the billy bush tape is going to be released. and wed like to have them begin releasing now. >> what do you hear whe...

Someone who does not shy away from the limelight. hes been out many times since his arrest on friday. we might expect to see him today. thats very unusual to see a defendant come before cameras themselves, but roger stone is not your usual defendant. >> thats for sure. i think if youre a betting person, you might take that bet. if he speaks after this thing, julia, thank you. let me get reaction from the white house. jeff bennett is on the north lawn. lets talk through what the white house is sa...