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Especially underoath. it's tactics. my question is, were you aware of roger stone's indictment before it became public? >> congressman, that's as you know, an important question. it is also mr. stone is part of an ongoing investigation. but i have again been briefed on the special counsel's investigation. that would have been considered a development that i would have been briefed on and i was briefed on that. >> are you familiar that a cnn reporter was camped outside of stone east house when the f.b.i. arrested him? >> i am aware of that. it was deeply concerning to me how cnn found out about...

Or any body is wrong, especially under oath. that's not the issue. the issue is tactics. my question is were you aware of roger stone's indictment before it became public? >> congressman, that's a, as you know, an important question. it is also mr. stone is part of an ongoing investigation. but i have, again, been briefed on the special counsel's investigation. that would have been a -- that would have been considered a development that i would have been briefed on and i was briefed on that. >> are you familiar from public reports or otherwise that a cnn reporter was camped out outside of ston...

Heads and what the purpose of that is at this stage in the probe. >> i actually don't think that's so uncommon. i think prosecutors will often have a conversation with somebody that they're trying to potentially sign up as a cooperating witness where they will lay out all the charges and say this is exactly what you're facing. they don't do it as a threat, as a scare tactic. it's really so somebody has all of the information. so that they can actually make an informed decision. >> in your experience, how often does that result in indictment if the people don't play ball? >> almost always. it's...

>> no, it did not. it was an old computer that had not been being used. >> okay. in mueller's draft indictment, which you shared with the world, interestingly, it says between january and march 2017, you deleted all your e-mails from before october 2016. why? >> because the machine -- i had a 17-inch laptop that was dying and it needed new space. i also turned over the time machine application with the hard drive backup that had all e-mails, whether i'd erased them or not, and i knew they were all there. i was trying to keep an old computer running because i liked that 17-inch. to do so, i had...

The work that had been done over the years and came to the conclusion that we should not present charges to the grand jury at that time. >> it was decided, including me, we don't have enough to charge her. and i might say, at this point, there were six main people... that would have had information about this. vince foster's dead. jim mcdougal just died. two are in jail -- webb hubbell and susan mcdougal. two are in the white house. >> the creation of a draft indictment is not only ordinary, it's necessary. not to have a draft indictment would have been irresponsible. >> but we were obligated ...