John Heilemann: You happen to have a mutual friend? Roger Stone: Well, we just happen to have a mutual friend, who. John Heilemann: You, Roger Stone, have said, I believe on multiple occasions, publicly that you have a back channel to Assange, correct? Now, Roger Stone is a critical character in this whole affair. It’s just a total deflection, this whole thing with Russia.
In the middle of the Democratic convention, Trump held a press conference an unusual move during the opposing party’s convention and in the press conference Donald Trump tried to focus attention on the emails released from WikiLeaks, shift blame away from Russia, and to encourage the Russians to do more. Russia, if you’re listening, I hope you’re able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing. Each week, we will examine the colorful characters and dirty deals that populate the story of how Russia helped the son of a shady real estate mogul became President of the United States.Įarly on Tuesday morning, October 11, 2016, WikiLeaks released its third batch of emails stolen by the Russians from Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta.
The Asset tells the full story of Trump and Russia. With the help of experts like journalist Franklin Foer and Clinton campaign press secretary Brian Fallon, host Max Bergmann, the director of the Moscow Project, an initiative of the Center for American Progress Action Fund, breaks down what we know about the possible answers to these questions-and what we don’t. Why did Paul Manafort share confidential polling data with a suspected Russian agent? Why was a server for the Trump Organization communicating with a server for a Kremlin-linked Russian bank? What did Russia do with the data it stole from the Democratic National Committee that didn’t wind up on WikiLeaks? Where does Cambridge Analytica, the shady data-digital firm the Trump campaign hired, fit in? This week on The Asset, we sift through the evidence pointing toward a conspiracy and explore some of the questions the Mueller report didn’t answer. Not that there was no evidence of a conspiracy, just not enough to prove it in court. But as much as it told us, the Mueller report said it found “insufficient evidence” to establish that there was a conspiracy between the Trump campaign and the Russian government. Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report on Russian interference in the 2016 election is the most damning document ever published about a sitting president.