CNN's John Berman on Friday broke down the explosive new indictment of longtime Trump ally Roger Stone, who was charged with one count of obstruction of justice, five counts of false statements, and one count of witness tampering.
In particular, Berman zeroed in on revelations that he said show "new connections outlined between the Trump campaign and WikiLeaks."
In particular, Berman directed viewers to the bottom of the indictments third page, which alleges that "By in or around June and July 2016, Stone informed senior Trump Campaign officials that he had information indicating [WikiLeaks] had documents whose release would be damaging to the Clinton Campaign."
He then cited another paragraph that stated, "after the July 22, 2016 release of stolen DNC emails by [WikiLeaks], a senior Trump
Campaign official was directed to contact Stone about any additional releases and what other damaging information [WikiLeaks] had regarding the Clinton Campaign."
"The words 'Trump campaign' and 'WikiLeaks' [are] all over those two paragraphs," Berman said. "The Trump campaign was aware of... and directing at a certain level, coordination with WikiLeaks."
CNN's David Gregory then pulled back to look at the bigger picture: Namely, he said, that "the Trump campaign was open for business for any oppo research, whether it was from the Russians or anybody else."
Watch the video below.
