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William bar to . we start at the federal courthouse in washington where roger stone will go before a judge officially charged after last week's 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 he's innocent and so is the president. >> i'm not going to testify against him because i possess no negative in...

Let's 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. it's possible that after if as expected he pleads not guilty, he walks out of the courtroom, he may make more remarks to the reporters waiting outside and to the small group of protesters chanting phrases...

>> 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 can't 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 we'd like to have them begin releasing now. >> what do you hear when you hear that? >> i think this is damaging. one of the perplexing pieces of the stone indictment...

Someone who does not shy away from the limelight. he's been out many times since his arrest on friday. we might expect to see him today. that's very unusual to see a defendant come before cameras themselves, but roger stone is not your usual defendant. >> that's for sure. i think if you're 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. let's talk through what the white house is saying about stone and the charges. >> reporter: the white house says that stone's arrests and in...