CNN reporter Rebecca Berg-Buck was shocked by one of President Donald Trump's recent tweets.
Friend and ally Roger Stone proclaimed he was using his Fifth Amendment rights not to incriminate himself by handing documents to the special committee investigating the Russia scandal. Stone said Monday that he would never testify in special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation because he's a "rogue and out of control prosecutor."
"Nice to know that some people still have guts," Trump said.
"It's very embarrassing, all of this, the way he goes after the special counsel. But also the way he defends Roger Stone. And now all of a sudden, Roger Stone is pleading the Fifth," said CNN host Wolf Blitzer.
"That tweet could be from an episode of 'The Sopranos,'" Berg-Buck said. "And instead from the president of the United States, encouraging his associates to lie or obstruct in this investigation. It's really unseemly for the president to be tweeting something like that. But you could see why he would want Roger Stone to remain loyal, to try to obstruct."
She went on to call Stone "an architect of President Trump's political career." Indeed, Stone "knows so much about the inner workings of the Trump political organization, the Trump Organization."
The special counsel is working to uncover if Stone was the link between Wikileaks and the Russian hackers and the Trump campaign.
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