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The shadow as well giving a very threatening look. when you put all of this together, it's no wonder people were comparing this optically to nazi germany. when you add his wording as well was poor all the way around. we've looked for years and decades at the nixon/kennedy presidential debate, the first national presidential debate as a thing that worked and didn't. i think we'll look at this for years to come as something that optically a president or politician should never do. >> kevin: before we get to your low light -- and i want to bring a sound bite from michael, presidential historian, ...

Say they've received mccarthy's letter. no news on potential hears. i expect to hear a few more from the former president in a few hours. he's got a political rally in pennsylvania saturday night. kevin, it's very likely he's going to be speaking at length about the justice department's actions. i'm sure there'll be a few headlines out of that. kevin? >> kevin: thank you so much, mark. in the meantime in a thursday night speech in front of independence hall in philadelphia, president biden repeatedly accused so-called magga republicans for being a threat to democracy. the tone didn't sit well ...

He called stone's conviction a double standard, claiming hillary clinton, adam schiff and even robert mueller had lied. stone declined to come on a possible pardon. >> mr. stone, what's your reaction to the verdict? >> no comment. >> will you be seeking a pardon from president trump? >> no comment. >> sara murray, cnn, washington. and joining me now is david cats, former u.s. assistant attorney. thank you so much for doing so. seven felony charges, seven guilty verdicts, lying to congress, witness tampering, could mean 20 years in jail. how does this hurt donald trump and the trump narrative...

Are usually the ones that would meet with servicemen and women, and nobody had heard of them. so all i can conclude is that it was the general u.s. policies that we were implementing that might have been of concern to them. >> at any point did you ever try to reach out to the prosecutor general, mr. leschenko, and find out why he was participating in this concerted campaign? >> no. >> why didn't you do that? >> i didn't feel there was any purpose to it. >> why not? >> he is -- he clearly had, i would say, animus for doing this, and he was working with americans. so i reached out to the america...

An extremely rocky start when roger stone violated his first instances of a gag order and psted what many perceived to be a pretty threatening photo of this judge. that continues to put stone in this really difficult position. anderson, you have watched him work over the years. this is someone who sort of relishes a political fight, relishes coming to his own defense, and that is not what we saw during this trial. i think he and his attorneys made the calculation that he would probably do more harm than good by taking the stand in his own defense. instead they played audio of him testifying be...