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This verb ang here, our whole team, the cnn legal team is pouring over this document right now. this is the first time we've learned that. this is the first time that we have been told officially by the special counsel's team that a trump campaign official directed contact with wikileaks, directed roger stone to figure out what was going on here. this is new. >> that's zbliright. >> anne, how significant is that? >> it's enormous. i think we've all known or suspected from the trump tower meeting they were looking for dirt on clinton, there was an appetite to get whatever they could on her. but...

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 counsel's 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 charges against him and to move forward and do they not need his help and his participation? and that'...

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 had an early independent occasi indication that wikileaks was going to release information that would ...

Basically anything other than what the american public was seeing since releasing it. but this indictment does suggest that the special counsel's 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 witness tampering. none of those are about the crimes of collusion, this is about the crimes of cov...

Trump campaign officials that he had information indicating organization one, wikileaks, had documents who's release would be damage together clinton campaign. head of organization, that's 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 damaging information wikileaks had regarding the clinton campaign. stone thereafter told the trump ca...