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>>> WELCOME BACK.
I’M JOINED BY CONGRESSMAN TED LU
IN CALIFORNIA.
HE WAS AT THAT BIG HEARING TODAY
AS WELL AS A MEMBER OF THE
COMMITTEE THAT WILL OBVIOUSLY BE
QUESTIONING ATTORNEY GENERAL
BARR NEXT MONTH.
THANKS FOR BEING HERE, SIR.
>> THANK YOU.
LET’S START WITH, GIVEN THAT
YOU’RE ON THE COMMITTEE FOR
FOLKS WHO DIDN’T WATCH ALL THAT
WE’VE SHOWN WITH THE EXCERPTS.
WHAT DO YOU THINK IS IMPORTANT
THAT CONGRESS LEARNED THAT WAS
THAT IT ON THE RECORD TODAY?
>> THANK YOU FOR YOUR QUESTION.
LET ME FIRST SAY THAT AS A
FORMER PROSECUTOR, IT HAS ALWAYS
BEEN CLEAR TO ME, THE ONLY
REASON WE CAN DEPRIVE SOMEONE OF
THEIR FREEDOM AND LOCK THEM UP
IN PRISON IS BASED ON THE
CONSENT OF THE PEOPLE.
AND THAT CONSENT IS BASED ON OUR
SHARED UNDERSTANDING THAT NO ONE
IS ABOVE THE LAW AND THAT
PROSECUTIONS ARE FAIR AND BASED
ON THE EVIDENCE.
ONE OF THE GREATEST DANGERS TO
DEMOCRACY IS WHEN PEOPLE START
BELIEVING THAT PROSECUTIONS ARE
BASED ON POLITICS OR BASED ON
WHO THE DEFENDANT HAPPENS TO
KNOW, AND UNFORTUNATELY, BILL
BARR HAS PERVERTED THE
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE WHERE
FRIENDS OF DONALD TRUMP GET
SPECIAL FAVORS AND NO ONE ELSE
COULD.
WHAT EVIDENCE SHOWED TODAY IN
THE HEARING, ROGER STONE GOT
SPECIAL FAVORS ACCORDING TO THE
PROSECUTOR, AARON ZELINSKY, THAT
NO ONE ELSE EVER COULD.
HE GOT A REDUCED SENTENCING
RECOMMENDATION BECAUSE DONALD
TRUMP WENT NUTS ON TWITTER AFTER
THE FIRST RECOMMENDATION WAS
MADE PUBLIC BY THE DARREL OF
JUSTICE.
>> IS THAT A LEGAL TERM?
HE WENT NUTS ON TWITTER?
>> THAT IS A LEGAL TERM AND
WE’VE SEEN IT UNFORTUNATELY
HAPPEN QUITE A BIT WITH THIS
PRESIDENT.
>> LET ME PLAY.
YOU BRING UP STONE AND WHAT HE
WAS IN TROUBLE FOR.
THERE ARE THINGS HE WAS
CONVICTED OF.
SO A JURY OF HIS PEERS FOUND
THAT.
AND THERE WERE OTHER THINGS THAT
AND HE THE WHITE HOUSE AND THE
TRUMP CAMPAIGN HAD MADE ABOUT
WHAT MUELLER WAS INVESTIGATING.
WHICH IS HOW MUCH FOREIGN
COORDINATION WAS THERE.
AND EVEN IF IT DIDN’T RISE TO
THE LEVEL OF A CRIME, CONGRESS
HAS AN INTEREST IN PREGNANTING
AGAINST THE FOREIGN INTERFERENCE
IN OUR FREE DEMOCRACY. TAKE A LOOK AT THIS EXCHANGE
TAKE A LOOK AT THIS EXCHANGE
FROM TODAY.
>> THERE WERE DOZENS OF CALLS
BETWEEN STONE AND THE TOP TRUMP
OFFICIALS.
CORRECT?
>> CORRECT.
>> WITNESSES TESTIFIED THEY WERE
PRESENT WHEN TRUMP SPOKE TO THEN
CANDIDATE TRUMP.
>> MR. GATES TESTIFIED TO THAT
AT TRIAL.
MR. COHEN TESTIFIED TO THAT IN
CONGRESS AND MR. MANAFORT TOLD
THAT TO THE SPECIAL COUNSEL’S
OFFICE.
>> I ALWAYS TRY TO BE CLEAR AND
FAIR.
SO I’M EMPHASIZING THAT BOB
MUELLER DID NOT CHARGE CRIMES
RELATED TO THAT FOREIGN
INACTION, IN FAIRNESS.
STONE IS A CONVICT FOR OTHER
REASONS.
BUT FROM A POLICY AND DEMOCRACY
VIEW
VIEW.
DID YOU THINK THAT WAS IMPORTANT
TO YOUR COMMITTEE AND IF SO WHY?
>> ABSOLUTELY.
I’M GLAD YOU BROUGHT UP THAT
EXCHANGE.
THIS IS WHY WE HAD THIS HEARING.
IN 2016, THE RUSSIANS EVERYBODY
GAUGED IN A SWEEPING AND
SYSTEMATIC ATTACK.
ROGER STONE TOOK PART WITH
WIKILEAKS WHO TOOK THE EMAILS
FROM THE HILLARY CLINTON
CAMPAIGN AND THEN COORDINATED
WITH MEMBERS OF THE TRUMP
CAMPAIGN AND SPOKE TO DONALD
TRUMP HIMSELF.
THEN THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN USED
THESE EMAILS.
THEY BASED A CAMPAIGN MESSAGING
ON IT.
AND ROGER STONE WAS THEN
CONVICTED OF MULTIPLE CRIMES AND
BILL BARR STEPS IN AND LOWERS THE SENTENCE.
THE SENTENCE.
THAT IS A PERVERSION OF JUSTICE.
>> OBVIOUSLY WE’LL BE COMING
BACK TO YOU AND YOUR COLLEAGUES
