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Today, we learned he'll be sentenced next month in two cases. he is already in jail in declining health, could end up serving more than 25 years in prison. playtime is over for him. no fun and games either for michael cohen. he'll be going before three committees next week with some of his testimony on camera. and on top of all of that, robert mueller's report may land literally at any minute. now, whatever you think of all of this, things are getting very serious very quickly. as we said, playtime is over. i want to start with roger stone's day in court, why he was there, how he tried to expl...

So, he's allowed to talk about politics, he's allowed toe talk about trump. he's just not allowed to talk about his case. i think he'll abide by it, but we'll see. >> right. judge gertner, you heard jeff's account of what happened today in court. i'm wondering what you make of what stone told the judge, and do you agree with her ruling? she could have gone further, revoked stone's bail or order him jailed. >> the only reason she didn't revoke his bail or go further was because of the ambiguity of the initial gag order. the initial gag order told his lawyers that they couldn't say anything that...

Stand, and it begins innocently enough, he says i'm so sorry. this was a mistake. you know, it will never happen again. then he is asked a very simple question. well, what happened? how did this instagram post take place? and he couldn't explain it. well, there were these people who had his phone, and someone put a photograph in there, and i don't know where the crosshairs came from, but maybe they're not really crosshairs, that they're a celtic image from ancient history. i mean, the whole thing made very little sense. the judge, who initially didn't seem all that irritated, kept getting angr...

Others. she said that it was deliberate, that it sent a sinister message, and she was worried about the signal that that might send. and as you pointed out, anderson, she warned roger stone that if he did not abide by this latest gag order, she was willing to throw him in jail. >> what are the specific terms of the gag order? what can, what can't stone talk about? >> remember, the first gag order was pretty lenient. it said roger stone can't talk about this case around the courthouse. she said clearly you had problems abiding by the sort of spirit of this gag order, so now he is not allowed to...

Order. obviously the president has been telegraphing nice things toward roger stone. had they been in communication for any amount of time while he has been in office? >> i believe that there may have been some communications, either directly or indirectly at various points earlier on in the term. certainly i think not in recent months has there been anything. we know that the president has a lot of people on his roster of late night phone calls. but i think that he is aware that having interactions could be viewed problematically and he has done a lot of public signaling. he has been publicly...