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In the indictment, they allege roger stone not only lied but mischaracterized things. he said he didnt talk to someone over e-mail. then they had the e-mails. thats an argument the president is making. you can continue to expect the president not only to make that but also we have seen roger stone mount a big defense coming out publically after he was indicted, speaking to the crowd saying as much after the first court peappearance. you can expect that to continue. >> go ahead, jeffrey. >> can i...

I think they realize they have a fight against the government here, because there is tons of evidence. >> he calls this a process crime. he says maybe he said things to congress that werent true, or he didnt mean it or his recollection was bad. but the key to congress, which he made clear, if you are caught lying to congress, youll be hauled into court. the indictment said a senior campaign official was directed to contact roger stone to move forward. what else in wikileaks now? whats going to h...

The -- what he calls process crime, this lying to congress, because they probably thought they had a better case. he is innocent until proven guilty. maybe less solid case on all these e-mails between him and corsi, between the summer and fall of 2016, which might fall into the intelligence. >> democrats, they have no confidence in the acting attorney general. do you think they have more confidence in bill barr, who is about to be confirmed in the coming days before the senate to become the atto...

>> i think thats about right. because look at the nature of the most recent indictments. roger stone for a process crying. it is proof yet again that there is no known evidence of trump-russian collusion. this is a process crime that is an offense against mueller essentially, an offense against his investigation. if he had some evidence of trump-russia collusion and stone was conspiring with wikileaks or julian assange or the russians, he would have been charged and so would others. >> martha: t...

Campaign associates. if you so, guy, when you look at what they say about process crimes -- they come out of investigation and might never have been on the surface if it has not been for that investigation. what he say about that? >> guy: first of all, i get a kick out of stone saying, "i think this is about silencing me." if mueller is trying to silence robert stone, he is feeling miserable impurities on tv 24/7, it seems like. when you look at the litany of excuses from roger stone about his l...

Perjury case against roger stone and im not going to have it. roger is my mentor. roger is like family to me. and im not going to do it. >> this picture is from a few days later when nunberg did indeed imply with robert muellers subpoena to talk about roger. sam joins me now. hes a former aide to donald trump. good to have you here. what do you think rogers calculation is? >> i think its the same calculation michael probably had. remember, early on the president and his team said that michael wa...

Said, well, roger, this has nothing to do with the campaign. my god, this is just another process crime. lets see what happens a month or so from now. roger -- just to finish very quickly. roger and donald trump are very complicated love/hate relationship. >> elaborate on that. >> they have known each other for over 40 years, at least since the 80s. these are people that they have not spoken for three years. they have fought, they have fought publicly, they have fought behind the scenes. there w...

The republicans, by contrast, failed by saying, you know, the president -- they stuck to the tired line of no collusion and didnt go any further. john: let me connect a couple of dots. this is a, quote, process crime, and roger stone claims hes broke. listen here. >> no matter how much pressure they put on me, no matter what they say, i will not bear false witness against donald trump. i are not make up lies to ease the pressure on myself. john: that was actually the wrong sound. lets play the r...

John: well, a process crime is still a serious crime. >> the presidents right, digging up dirt on a political opponent is called opposition research. it is not collusion. i mean -- john: but if youre working with an organization thats working with russia -- >> it is not criminal activity. >> to johns point, the issue isnt that they were trying to dig up opposition research, they were trying to see what roger stone knew about wikileaks, having information they obtained via russia. >> digging up d...

The republicans, by contrast, failed by saying, you know, the president -- they stuck to the tired line of no collusion and didnt go any further. john: let me connect a couple of dots. this is a, quote, process crime, and roger stone claims hes broke. listen here. >> no matter how much pressure they put on me, no matter what they say, i will not bear false witness against donald trump. i are not make up lies to ease the pressure on myself. john: that was actually the wrong sound. lets play the r...