roger stone. he did work for him on website and e-mails and a person that mueller wants to question about perhaps all about work that they were doing for roger stone during the 2016 campaign. >> and why is mueller so interested in roger stone? it seems there are all of these people connected to stone who are now in the cross hairs of this investigation. >> yeah. certainly does. also seems that they're moving quickly to -- for grand jury action for something to happen. all these people we know of at least three now that have -- mueller wants to appear before the grand jury. that are connected to roger stone. so it could be for many reasons. for one, roger stone had communications with what we now know was a russian intelligence officials according to the fbi and department of justice. communicating with him. so there's that. also, roger stone himself had made statements to people that he was communicating with julian assange, then he jokes that he was just joking about it. and then another individu

so jim, all of this swirling around roger stone, mueller's team really keying in on roger stone right now. >> okay, jessica schneider. thank you very much for all of that. for more on these developments, let's bring in cnn legal analyst laura coates and cnn chief political analyst gloria borger. the story seems to come back to roger stone from time to time. why is that? >> well, roger stone has been an associate of donald trump for decades. he is known as a trickster. he proudly present himself as one. he continued to talk to the candidate, as you know, because you covered it during the campaign. but i think most importantly, there are questions about whether he was communicating with wikileaks in any way shape or form. so-called guccifer 2.0. there were some direct messages. there were some e-mails with other trump associates in which he said, i believe it was to say i'm having din we are julian assange, which he then said was a joke. so i think obviously roger stone looms large, particularly if you're looking for any link between the russians, which is wikileaks, and the trump campa

she is a close friend of trump confidante roger stone. let's bring in our political legal and national security experts to assess. susan hennessey, how does this fit in, this manhattan madam development into the broader russia investigation? >> so this woman kristen davis has a long-standing relationship with roger stone. he actually was even her campaign strategist in a 2010 race for the new york governor, and she worked for him in 2016. but from the outside we actually have no idea how this individual might be connected to the russia story. what that tells us is there are a lot of things that robert mueller knows that we don't know. so in special counsel filings, they have said there are multiple nonpublic lines of inquiry. that's their way of saying there is not just facts you don't know, there are entire matters being investigated that the public doesn't know about. >> what does it say they're interviewing her before they interview roger stone? >> it's not uncommon in these investigations to start at the edges and work your way into t

i've read some of the e-mails he sent threatening roger. >> why would roger stone -- he's no stranger to doing things with people he doesn't like. but why would he listen to randy credico about wikileaks if he doesn't like him or trust him? >> well, i think randy credico had some information that seemed credible at the time. and so -- >> do you remember telling roger don't listen to this guy? >> i'm pretty sure i said something to the extent of, why are you friends with that douchebag? and i said the same thing in the grand jury room. >> you won't give me any specifics about the questions, but that word you're more than -- thank you for injecting that for the audience. appreciate it. so you told him watch out for this guy, but roger believed he might have known something about what was happening with wikileaks? >> well, roger tends to give people numerous chances. so if you come to him and apologize a little bit and want to work with him on something new, he'll forgive you and move forward. he's an understanding guy. >> do you think that roger stone had contact with wikileaks and knew

roger stone is the child's godfather. roger stone did provide a statement to cnn and in that statement today he said kristin davis is a hong-time friend and associate of mine. i am the godfather of her two-year-old son. she knows nothing about russian collusion, wikileaks collaboration or anything else which is i thought was the subject of this probe. i am highly confident she will testify truthfully if called upon to do so. sources say the special counsel's team wants her to testify in front of a grand jury which is the latest indication that their focus on roger stone continues. brooke? >> sara, thank you so much. for so much more on this i have dylan back with me today, the director of the netflix film "get me, roger stone." so you know a lot about these two. starting with tell me the story of just how they first met. >> roger had been an antagonist, a hired antagonist of elliott spitzer when joe bruno and elliott spritzer were battling and he got fired when he left drunken messages on elliott spitzer's father's phone

investigators apparently interested in her ties to longtime trump adviser, roger stone. she and stone have been close friends for a decade. investigators also expressed interest in having davis testify before a grand jury. the latest indication prosecutors are aiming to building a case against stone. davis' lawyer declined to comment. in a statement, stone tells cnn, kristin davis is a longtime friend and associate of mine. i am the godfather to her 2-year-old son. she knows nothing about russian collusion, wikileaks collaboration, or any other impropriety related to the 2016 election, which i thought was the subject of this probe. i understand she appeared voluntarily. i am highly confident she will testify truthfully if called upon to do so. davis once ran a high-end prostitution ring and went to jail in the scandal surrounding then democratic governor eliot spitzer. >> the remorse i feel will always be with me. >> reporter: she has worked with stone over the years. and in late 2016, she joined his payroll to help him with clerical tasks. mueller's team has been lookin

roger stone and his attorney declined to comment. i can tell you the sentiment in the orbit of roger stone's friends and allies is they really do sort of now believe the president's line on this, that this is a witch hunt. they're saying, you know, why are people -- why is mueller's team calling witnesses asking if roger stone has a love child? they pretty much all believe it's only a matter of time until roger stone gets indicted. they believe there will be something that has to do with potential collusion between roger stone and russians. remember, he talked for a while openly about how he had been in contact with julian assange during all this information coming out about hillary clinton during the campaign. he later walked that back. they sort of think there will be a top line allegation about him having something to do perhaps with hacking, perhaps with russian collusion. it could be followed by charges that have something to do with his finances. they maintain, and roger stone did not comment for this piece, but he's previously

roger stone, political adviser to the president, roger, good to have you with me. i appreciate your time tonight. i was reading your article that you wrote and you said that you got this whistle blower who has informed your lawyers that your name is in the carter page fisa application and that it was clear in there that there was a fisa application to surveil you. have you actually seen that fisa warrant? are you sure that it exists? >> well, first of all, "the new york times," the newspaper of record as you know, erin, report t -- report ted this on page onen a story that said that carter page, roger stone and paul manafort were all subject to fisa warrants. a whistle blower has told my attorneys that this was referred to in the redacted portion of the fisa application for carter page and cline also reported it from a separate source in his book. i believe it to be true. obviously we would explore this if there is any effort to bring a bogus charge against me. i believe on the basis of many of the questions that lawyers for those who have gone to the grand jury an

that person is roger stone. glenn. >> so katy, it looks like the circle continues to constrict around roger stone. this is sort of a classic investigative tactic. bob mueller and his team are going to the people who are closest to mr. stone both personally and professionally. miss davis we have heard reporting has both a personal relationship and a business relationship with mr. stone. andrew miller apparently was more of a business relationship. but if he was roger stone's scheduler, he could be a bonanza of potentially incriminating information. as but one example, we came to learn when roger stone testified before the house intelligence committee behind closed doors, he was apparently asked about meetings with russians and he said he had none. however, we then heard he did have that little meeting that he forgot about with henry greenberg, not his real last name. he was a potential russian operative. mr. greenberg was looking for $2 million in exchange for dirt on hillary clinton. how mr. stone could forget t

>> we know that they're circling around roger stone. for weeks they've been interviewing some of his key associates, people like michael caputo, long-time friend of roger stone, and others. they have not spoken with stone, which is also a suggestion they want to talk to people in his orbit before talking to him. i think it also signals more broadly the trump team wants this to conclude by september. this is not going to conclude by september. this investigation is ongoing. there's a lot we don't know. there are some key people yet to be interviewed. they ultimately have to determine how to move forward. >> to that point, there's no hard and fast rule the special counsel has to shut down. there's a general principle that within 60 days or so, you don't deliberately do anything that could interfere with that election. james comey is recent exhibit a in how people say don't do it that way. here's jay sekulow, one of the president's lawyers. they continue to make the public case that mueller has a responsibility to shut it down. >> this nee

bob mueller closing in on roger stone. donald trump says jeff sessions is not a real attorney general all based on the russia recusal, explain why that's so problematic. >>> we begin tonight with bob mueller's first criminal trial on the russia probe and what may now be today the worst day for paul manafort yet. he does face the potential of a life sentence on those charges. after two weeks of evidence from mueller and 27 witnesses, today was going to be the day that everyone started to hear the other side. when we cover trials, the beginning is usually tougher for the defendant. because prosecutors lay out their evidence, we hear from the star witnesses, all the worst things the prosecutors found, whether it be from surveillance or a home raid or from other people. owl of that piles up. and then today in this trial would be the day the defense steps up and starts poking holes in the case. and today, paul manafort's defense team didn't do that. instead they rested without calling a single witness. not one. and as we've rep

so her knowledge for working for roger. whereas andrew miller was brought back into the fold around the time of the rnc, with roger in cleveland and working for him the months after that are in question >> ben, one thing that is striking is you have mueller having referred some cases. a number of folks that work in d.c. that aren't paul manafort to u.s. attorneys. referred out the michael cohen matter. this has not referred out. >> that is right and the reason for that is pretty clear which is if you look at the gru, the hacking indimctment, the link t roger stone is the collusion stuff. and the heart of the mueller investigation is the question of coordination between the russian interference in the 2016 election and anybody associated with the trump campaign. the person who is most clearly identified with that in the document itself is roger stone. and so i think this is the most public aspect we have other than the trump tower meeting of what is really the heart and soul of the mueller investigation >> and i keep coming

roger can be mad at me. when i say roger is going to get indicted, i don't think this is fair. i don't think roger did anything. if something comes out that i don't know of, then -- >> have you spoken to him? >> i can't and i won't. it wouldn't be good for him and it wouldn't be good for me. i don't want to get accused -- he can get accused of witness tampering. >> you worked for the trump campaign. you worked for trump before that. >> 2011. >> have you signed an nda? >> i was sued for violating my nda. >> have you looked at the nda that "the washington post" has published? >> omarosa's? i looked at the disparagement clause. >> did yours include that? >> yes. >> you were sued because of it? >> that's what they said. we settled. >> your reaction to being offered $15,000 a month to sign an nda by the re-election campaign? >> i think trump, the president and his people around him have learned -- i worked for him for 4 1/2 years. i support this president. i will never say he treated me well. i think that they have learned, we have to keep these people around somehow and keep them i

she's also a friend of roger stone. and behind closed doors testimony resumed in the manafort trial where prosecutors say they are on the verge of say they are on the verge of wrapping up their case. say they are on the verge of wrapping up their case. i'm a small business, but i have... big dreams... and big plans. so how do i make the efforts of 8 employees... feel like 50? how can i share new plans virtually? how can i download an e-file? virtual tours? zip-file? really big files? in seconds, not minutes... just like that. like everything... the answer is simple. i'll do what i've always done... dream more, dream faster, and above all... now, i'll dream gig. now more businesses, in more places, can afford to dream gig. comcast, building america's largest gig-speed network. >>> a woman once known as the manhattan madam was scheduled to testify before a grand jury impaneled by special counsel robert mueller as part of the russia investigation. he's a close friend of roger sto stone. another associate of stone, andrew m

with roger stone since 2014. stone has said previously that andrew miller played a limited role in the 2016 campaign, but stone released a statement today saying that miller had no knowledge of any russian collusion, knew nothing about wikileaks, so roger stone really there saying, you know, why does the special counsel want to talk to this guy, he shouldn't really be of interest to them in this broad russian collusion probe. the key here is that, you know, mueller's team they're keying in on roger stone, his interactions with wikileaks and now they want to talk to everyone in stone's orbit who is in touch with him around that time and really get what they know. andrew miller, he's defying this. we're seeing the manhattan madam in court today. we know another associate of roger stone has now agreed to comply with the subpoena and, brooke, the key to that is in september 7th, that's six days past the september 1st deadline that rudy giuliani had sort of arbitrarily set earlier this week, so we know that the muelle

>> cindi rogers: yes. we were going to do tiny house, simplify life, and then travel. >> michael rogers: as it worked out, it didn't work out that way. we became parents instead of grandparents. >> whitaker: the kids said, with their mother often sleeping, or out of the house, they could do whatever they wanted. but their grandparents insist on rules. >> ellie kligman: it sucks having rules, and chores. but it has to happen for us to actually grow up and be a responsible adult and take charge of our lives. >> whitaker: michael, you are fighting cancer. >> michael rogers: that's true. i have a terminal cancer. >> whitaker: so has this been especially tough on you? >> michael rogers: yeah. i have good days and bad days. >> cindi rogers: i worry, that i'll miss something in his care, and i have. >> michael rogers: you do wonderful. >> whitaker: they say being parents again has strained his health, their marriage and their bank account. so what has this done to your savings? >> michael rogers: yeah. ( laughs )

so the fact that he is staying focused on roger stone means that he thinks roger stone is the center or part of the center of this russia question. this isn't sort of some unrelated tax charges or, you know, some prostitution or escort charges dating back to the 1990s, totally unrelated. this is something that is central to bob mueller's investigation that roger stone is the key to unlocking. >> okay. i need you guys to stick around. we'll continue on for one more round after this. >>> when we come back, a former trump campaign aide socialized with alleged russian agent maria butna, weeks before the election, inviting her to his birthday party. according to "the washington post." wonder what they talked about. getting more for getting away. traveling lighter. getting settled. rewarded! learn more at theexplorercard.com ♪ ♪ ♪ raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens ♪ ♪ bright copper kettles and warm woolen mittens ♪ ♪ brown paper packages tied up with strings ♪ ♪ these are a few of my favorite things ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ these are a few of my favorite things ♪ tired

i was talking to this document tearian on roger stone. they are all this footage, they were saying the most recent part of the arc of the relationship that was kristin davis and roger stone was the fact that she was his personal assistant, his clerical assistant and that a lot of information would have come through her. that said, bob, the fact is that she went in to talk to the mueller team on wednesday voluntarily. what would that tell you? >> brooke, great to be on with you and joey. always a measure. it tells me that there is disaster, storm clouds looming over mr. stone. look, in addition to what joey had indicated and i agree completely with his analysis, you also have russians that have been indicted, you have this guccifer 2.0 that he is actually roger stone in contact with and as a former prosecutor that puts the case together you don't just interview witnesses that you think may or possibly could have information. that gets done, but to bring her in means there was something they were specifically looking for and the thing that

roger stone ran her campaign for governor when she challenged andrew cuomo. he ran her campaign for new york city comptroller. >> i didn't even realize she had run in those two -- >> yeah. it was a pretty loony race. they are very close friends, and the race for comptroller in 2013 was derailed when kristin davis was brought up on charges for dealing illegally prescription drugs, for which she eventually was convicted. when she came out of prison, roger employed her essentially as his scheduler. >> okay. >> so i presume that the mueller investigation is trying to understand where -- who roger was meeting with, what his dealings with, and kristin would have insight to that. and they are really close friends, and as roger said, he is her son's godfather. >> asha, i mean mueller is reportedly interested in having davis testify before a grand jury as part of the investigation, what does that tell you? it's not just an interview he would like her to testify in front of grand jury? >> right. his wanting to testify -- wanter her to testify suggests that he thinks sh

in this case roger seemed to feel like he a great collection but roger was never really able to successfully get to asaufpg personally himself it seems. it's always through administer meetiaries and at the time he thought he was really cool. one of the people tearing down the system and that's what roger loves and only later did he say i had nothinging to do with it. >> at one point roger stone was pwrab bragging about having contact with him. do you consider him a very loyal person? because when he asked if he would ever testify against trump ever, he said no. >> roger and trump have been married and divorced more times than they could count. but roger is actually in a g general very loyal, even when he and kristen davis bashed each other she was nailed for selling prescription drugs, ruining all of his plans and he was helping her which is why she's testified -- being called to testify right now. but roger has strong loyal streak and if there's one thing he values in the entire world that's loyalty and he was to hang on to the that trump, it's awful. >> thank you for giving thus insight wi

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and there's more trouble for all those in the orbit of roger stone as the mueller investigation gets closer still. plus, drama at the manafort trial and mystery in the courtroom as well, proceedings were delayed for hours and the defense goes to work next week. they're hoping to keep the lid on this weekend in charlottesville on the anniversary of what happened there last year. the president silent on that topic but did take a swing at nfl players. while omarosa takes some big swings at him in her new book. all of it a part of "the 11th hour" on friday night. good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. day 568 of the trump administration. and like opie and anthony and mike and the mad dog before them, the president's lead lawyers jay and rudy co-hosted a radio show today. it was sean hannity's daily radio show. and so their appearance suited everyone involved in this way. hannity was off and needed someone to fill in and it allowed the lawyers to road test some of their theories in their defense of the president of the united states. >> welcome to the "se

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decide to call roger stone to the stand. they want to get the information, corroborate the information that they may already have, and then eventually get to roger stone and put him on the stand and ask him what he knows and what contacts he really had. >> so they can show that there was some activity that would equate with collusion? >> well, i think they're -- right. i mean that's the purpose of the investigation is to look. it was an intelligence investigation to begin with, a foreign intelligence investigation to begin with, looking at interference with the election. and there was some discussions and public statements made by stone about his relationship with julian assange. >> right. >> and, again, he did say that was puffing. he did walk that back a bit. but the bottom line is, you know, these prosecutors are going to verify that. >> okay. >> they're going to verify that information and then call him in. >> so one more thing on this, laura. go ahead. >> if i can just say, though, if he is a target of the investigation

how does she tie into donald trump other than roger stone? are they looking at anything specifically, any way she could have been involved in a back channel potentially? i know when mueller's investigators and prosecutors are questioning witnesses part of the line of questioning is what role did roger stone play? was he really an advisor or was he -- or was he really not a part of the campaign because he quit very early on or was fired, depending who you talk to, or was he on informal advisor? did he maintain that role in an unofficial capacity after that? >> robert mueller right now is really building his case against roger stone. that's what we're seeing. it's sounding like they might be convening a grand jury looking specifically at him. maybe there are other unrelated charges that they are putting pressure on roger stone for other crimes that he might have committed. we really don't know. but what we do know is that he said publicly that he had reached out to wikileaks, that he was in touch with wikileaks. he is nat named but he is certai

>> ultimately, mueller wants to indict roger. i think this indictment he is going to have a splashy, sexy charge, conspiracy to defraud, something to do with hacking of the emails. my opinion is roger conspired against himself and not with the russians. he is going to put on back load financial issues. when i walked into my voluntary, one of the first questions i got was, how long have you known roger very well? i said since 2010. well, who has roger worked for? he goes, who has he worked for? i said since i have known him? he said, yes. then the fbi agents are jotting down everybody i knew he worked with. there were questions i won't get into in the grand jury talking about some of these issues. they gave him a forensic exam on his financials. >> what do you know about kristin davis? >> he hired her in the past on and off to assist him. i think sometimes when she needed money, he would figure out, you know, things for her to do for him. and we are not talking about complicated, complex issues. she wasn't working on strat skri. i

i also think though that roger stone, frank used an apt phrase tripped into. roger stone has made a long career out of sort of exaggerating this role and his significance in some of these episodes of dark arts and dirty tricks all the way back from watergate where he was the tiniest bit player in the nixon operation but has managed to make a whole career out of this sort of personification of himself as a dirty trickster. i think this ends up being a little bit of careful what you wish for. it's true that he was sort of a bit player by the end on the trump campaign but that he also continued to try to insert himself in ways that were sort of at the margins and that he did interact with an internet persona, this guccifer 2 that now mueller's one of his recent indictments has revealed was in fact operated by russian intelligence. so he sort of by almost by accident became the very sort of character that he portrayed himself as and it may ultimately be his undoing. >> annie i've been reading and following you all day. i feed to you perform a service for the nice

prosecutors making their case against paul manafort and a big development on roger stone. president suddenly silent. plus president trump doubling down on his claim that russian election meddling is a hoax after his intel chiefs say it's real and continuing and a group of wealthy saudis spent five days at a trump hotel in new york spending so much money that revenues went up at the hoe fell for the first time in two years. are you kidding me? let's go out front. >>> we're learning special counsel bob mueller interviewed one who could hold the keys to trump's inner circle, someone who has been close to trump's long time friend and campaign adviser roger stone for decades, she's known as the manhattan madam and tonight four sources tell cnn that kristin davis sat for a voluntary interview with bob mueller's team this week. davis could be crucial, she is a personal and professional relationship with stone, she knows a lot and when it comes to trump, roger stone is tight. >> we talk politics but i won't characterize it because if i do then that indiscretion would mean those co

roger stone. you know, he has a tattoo of richard nixon on his back. it's a huge tattoo on his back. and he's been doing dirty tricks for republican candidates for ages. and he brags about it. he's never been secretive about it. so the fact that he would wind up as a major player in this investigation doesn't surprise me in the least. and the fact that maybe he was used as an intermediary is something they're certainly looking at. now, stone is saying that he got maybe some of his information from this person who's been subpoenaed who was a comedian and radio talk show host. so it's getting more and more interesting with more and more bizarre characters. >> let me play a little bit of, he was on temperature, roger stone, on with anderson earlier this week. here's a clip. >> i have not been. >> i've not been contacted. i made it abundantly clear, there are no circumstances under which i would testify against the president. i would not rule out cooperating if they think i could be helpful in some area. but beyond that, i have not spoken to them. >> so, i

it could where because of her long time ties with roger stone. she and stone have been close friends for a decade. >> kristin davis is a brilliant woman, a friend of mine, someone who has made mistakes and has paid her debt to society. >> reporter: davis once ran a high end prostitution ring. she went to jail surrounding a scandal around -- >> i have redeemed myself and americans believe in second chances. >> reporter: davis has also worked with stone more recently. in late 2016, she helped him with clerical tasks on his website. >> she knows of no russia collusion or any other illegal activity on my part in connection with the presidential election or otherwise. >> reporter: mueller's team has been looking for possible contacts between roger stone and julian assange during the 2016 presidential campaign. all as part of moscow's effort to meddle in the election. assange -- >> i actually have communicated with assange. i believe the next dump will pertain to the clinton foundation, but there's no telling what the october surprise may be. >> report

another roger stone's associate kristen davis did testify today. this was after she voluntarily spoke to investigators last week. randy who has been reported to be the back channel between stone and wikileaks have been subpoenaed to appear before the grand jury on september 7th, randy credico. this investigation will not be over. sam nunberg has already testified and he was on this network today and offered this prediction. >> ultimately mueller wants to indict -- >> let's bring in our lead off panels on a friday night. our encounter intelligence who have worked for robert mueller, ken vogel and white house reporter for politico who has been busy today, annie, for reasons we'll get to. frank, what do you make and more importantly what will robert mueller and his team make of the president's co-counsel on the radio today? >> there is only one conclusion that i am able to draw from this onslaught of the last several days of public appearance of two guys posti guys posing as lawyers and trying to get some air time. why do i say that? this is becoming

the special counsel is interested in roger stone. it's likely that he is setting up a process where he is looking to squeeze roger stone for information. as you got mr. stone to admit, he's the person identified in one of special counsel's indictments and for sure, this special counsel is going to be interested in roger stone's role in the russia probe. s >> your head is nodding. do you adopt the same position? >> absolutely. the question here as mentioned was the nature of his communications with the russian hackers. this indictment against the 12 officers mentioned. this was more about passing statement. there could be more behind it that these russian hackers were in contact with the person reported to be roger stone in terms of soliciting feedback and that roger stone boasted he had contact with wikileaks alleged in this indictment coordinated with the russian hacker. this is a big problem for roger stone if he helped them in any way he could be a part of that. >> one thing i do want to note is these russian hackers went by gucif

that's the roger stone. >> listen to this, jackie. here's roger stone clearly very aware that mueller is talking to people in his immediate circle of family and friends. take a listen. >> i'm also mindful of any prosecutor's ability to squeeze underlings to get them to compose testimony against a bigger fish. i so i've made it clear that there's no circumstances under which to testify against the president. i would not rule out cooperating if they think i can be helpful. >> here's the interesting formulation of that sentence. he didn't say i have nothing to testify against the president about. he said he wouldn't testify against the president. >> right. i mean, as we have seen in the other clips, not that stone chosen the words well leading up to this. and yeah. he seems to be in some legal jeopardy here. all there is to it. >> does he have stuff to talk about president trump? saying he won't testify against president trump. but for instance -- >> not really his choice. if you're a subpoenaed properly obtained, compelled to testify an

if i was paid by roger, i would send an invoice to andrew. he's basically an adoptive son to roger. roger placed him in products. >> he was the cfo or the accountant. >> he's a very young man and he's good at these organized, things like that. >> defying subpoenas. you did at one point -- >> he has separate. >> you did agree to comply. what's your take of this strategy? >> this is a total distinction between what i did. i may have gone the course if i thought about it. he's gone to federal court about whether or not the special counsel office defies the aappointment very quickly. basically robert mueller had all this power, why didn't he face a confirmation? he reports to rosenstein, that's a nonsensical to me. >> meet the press and omarosa, also producing the conversation with general kelly. >> i think general kelly should have handled that termination much better than he did. i think the threat of legal action against her, what could she have done? questioning her integrity on the way out. that goes to if she was going to be dismissed this long time friend and somebody who get the

that's roger stone. doesn't mean mueller did anything wrong yet. his attorney want to escalate this legal fight on purpose to get a wider hearing on the probe's legitimacy. >> that is a fair game strategy. we'll be watching if it gets to the course. meanwhile another associate of roger stone testified in the same grand jury. she was involved in a scandal that took down a new york governor. >> davis provided escorts to celebs to high-powered patriots the most infamous disgraced former new york governor elliott spitzer client number nine, who signed off after spending thousands a night on davis' girls. >> we don't know what mueller wants to learn from davis but appears people around roger stone are going around the grand jury box. in the paul manafort trial the judge stopped the trial for hours without explanation, that's unusual and warning jurors to keep an open mind and not to discuss this case while it's open with anyone. joined now by reporter who is all over this story and former federal prosecutor. anna, let's start with what we know and don't

>> it's all about roger stone. they're a colorful could be, aren't they? they're zeroing in on stone and she's one of many people they want to talk to, the others haven't been madams. miller is to stone as gates was to manafort. he's the right hand man. he offered the constitutional argument, which was a loser saying mueller has no ability to did anything. the same thing manafort tried. he lost. he's going to have some real information to provide. the main thing it shows is that the sights are really locked in on stone, which should come as know surprise because this recent indictment of the gru folks in russia actually didn't name him because of doj policy but identified him in paragraph 44 as someone who had consorted with him. so mueller is obviously trying to stitch up russia and the u.s. looking very hard at stone. >> and whether or not stone was a potential back channel. julia, i know from reporting i did with carol lee and others here that the witnesses that robert mueller so far has spoken to they have been asked by mueller's team pretty pointed qu

team seem to be circling around roger stone. sarah murray, cnn, washington. >> this is certainly a tawdry development as a part of this investigation. joining me to discuss, a former director at the nixon presidential library and michael moore, former u.s. attorney for the middle district of georgia. thank you both for joining us this morning. tim, let me start with you. so interviewing a former new york madam, what's going on here? where is that leading us? >> i'm not sure where it's leading us. but i suspect that this has to do, as mr. stone has said, himself, this has to do with the special prosecutor's interests in the relationship if any between mr. stone an wikileaks and gucifer 2.0 a going indictment described as actually an alias for russian military intelligence. it's perfectly logical what you want to do is figure out from the associates of the people that are of interest whether or not these improprietys occurred. i would point out mr. stone in his statement to cnn did say that collusion with russia and collaboration

investigators interested in her ties to roger stone. she and stone have been close friends for a decade. investigators also expressed interest in having davis testify before a a grand jury. the late indication prosecutors are aiming to build a case against stone. davis lawyer declined to comment. in a a statement, stone tells cnn kristen davis is a long time friend and associate of mine. i am a god father to her 2-year-old son. she knows nothing about russian collusion, wikileaks collaboration or any other impropriety relateded to the 2016 election which i thought was the subject of this probe. i understand she appeared voluntarily. i am highly confident she will testify truthfully if called upon to do so. davis once ran a high-end prostitution ring and went to jail as part of the scandal surrounding that democratic new york governor, el wot yot spitzer. >> the remorse i feel will always be with me. >> in late 2016, she joined his payroll to help him with clerical tasks. mueller's team has been looking into possible contact between ston

roger stone. and since credico had access both to assange and to roger stone, that's an obvious line of questioning, i think. he wants to see what he has and i think that he probably will get something, because the arrogance of these participants is amazing. what they say to each other that inculpates them and what one did with the other. it also suggests that roger stone is perhaps in the batter's box with maybe trump junior and several other people. >> you're using a fancy word as you often do, inculpates for makes them look really suspicious and guilty. glenn, let me play for you the way mr. credico tried to limit his exposure to other people that could figure in as subjects or targets. this was on the subject of mr. roger stone. take a look. >> and you're in there as an associate, i'm not implying anything negative about you, but as a known associate of roger stone and julian assange. >> don't say associating of stone. i know stone. >> what word would you use? >> someone that has worked with s

in this case, i think they may be thinking it is roger stone. the fact he is talking about, he realizes people can compose or be squeezed would suggest that he is well aware of the situation, that people may be saying things that he considers to put him in legal jeopardy. >> cathy fleming, thank you for comingperspective. >>> we want to talk about the orr legal battle now over in virginia. prosecutors are expected to wrap up their case today against president trump's former campaign chair, paul manafort. big moment. we are staking out the courthouse. who is the government talking to, calling as the final witness, and what is happening today and next week? >> reporter: well, just as i left, they were still getting underway. they hadn't called a witness yet. there was a lot of discussion between the two sides right in front of the bench. we couldn't hear. that seems to possibly be a disagreement or something to figure out logistically today. we do know the government plans to call four witnesses, hallie, and those would be the final witnesses. two

maynard in sydney for us they've roger thanks very much and good. here in germany about six hundred people have been evacuated from their homes as a wildfire blazes very close to the german capital berlin the rapidly spreading fire has taken hold of a large woodland about fifty kilometers southwest of the city now despite that this is a residents of berlin could smell the smoke from the fire this morning the blaze covers an area the size of about four hundred sports feels under the firefighters are combating these flames but the work has been made much harder by munitions from world war two that are out buried in those forests people have said the police rather have said the people though are not in danger. one local politician are going to basco praise the emergency services in the face of many complications here's what he had to say so i have future specs for the firefighters who are out there right now risking their lives we know there's ammunition lying around in the forest residents said there were already some explosions. we'll have more detai

it is roger stone, after all. now, gabe sherman at "vanity fair" is reporting that white house officials are so worried about the latest presidential unraveling, although frankly we've been hearing that for months, that they "talked about inviting rudy giuliani and a group of trump's new york real estate friends including tom barrack, richard lafrak and howard lorber to the white house to stage an intervention last week. the president refused to take the meeting." here with me now someone who worked with donald trump for the better part of two decades. former head of construction at trump tower here in new york. good to see. you. >> nice to see you. >> let's start with allen weisselberg because he's someone i think people didn't have much of a sense of until last week when he was reported to have been granted immunity. how central is he to the organization? >> he probably is more central than i initially thought. when i worked with him he was really the guy that paid the bills, collect the rents and get the invoic

davis lost the governor's race but she maintained her friendship with roger stone. in fact, he is now godfather to her young son and the three actually live platonically in the same new york apartment. stone lives upstairs. davis and her son downstairs. but experts say special counsel mueller is likely much more interested in davis' working relationship with roger stone, specifically her role, if any, during the 2016 campaign. kristin davis says she did not work with roger stone in the run-up to the presidential election. and during an interview with our fox affiliate wnyw davis says during her questioning by the special counsel team she felt bull idea. watch. >> we were saying how intimidating it must have been. was it? >> completely. i mean, you are sitting in a room. there is no defense attorney which is how the grand jury goes with a prosecutor who clearly has a rapport with these jurors and answering leading questions. it was. >> that concerned you? bothered you a little. >> it bothered me. i left there feeling very sick to my stomach. >> roger stone has commen

a aid to roger stone must testify before the grand jury. roger stone who you will recall appears in mueller's indictment of 12 russian intelligence officers. stone is referenced as an unnamed person set up as a front. ston acknowledges he is of interest to mueller. >> are you preparing to be indicted. >> i am prepared should that be the case. it demonstrates again, this was supposed to be about russian collusion and it appears to be an effort to silence or punish the president's supporters and their advocates. washington post reporting the special counsel is offering to limit questions to the president. and submit some questions in writing. a parade of administration heavy hitters today saying russia is still trying to attack u.s. elections. even as key administration officials admit they don't know the relationship between donald trump and vladimir putin. >> you are saying today that the president has directed you to make the issue of russian meddling a priority. how do you explain what you are saying, his advisers and what the president h

>> i've never totally understood roger stone. i don't understand why he was wearing a hat in your interview. i don't understand the books that he writes that are nothing but way-out conspiracy theories. i'm not sure, anderson, how reliable, or important, even, roger is. i think we'll have to wait for manafort's move on that. >> carrie, in terms of the manafort trial today, according to an fbi witness, manafort collected more than $65 million in foreign offshore accounts from 2010 to 2014. the forensic financial evidence certainly doesn't look good for him at this point, i mean, does it? >> no. this case has always been about the documents and the evidence that the investigators collected that demonstrate all the wire transfers, the deposits, the shielding of money, the offshore accounts. the gates testimony was helpful to the government in terms of laying out some of those accounts. but really, the forensic accounting and the testimony of the other accountants and financial professionals was probably significant for the jury. >>