Dem chairman on Stone arrest: 'What did the President know and when did he know it?'

Source: The Hill



BY MORGAN GSTALTER - 01/25/19 10:29 AM EST

Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) on Friday resurfaced an infamous question from the Watergate probe following news that President Trump’s longtime associate Roger Stone was indicted in special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation.

Nadler, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, shared a list of Trump associates who have been indicted in the probe over Russian interference in the 2016 presidential campaign and potential coordination between the Trump campaign and Moscow.

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The question was one poised in 1973 by former Sen. Howard Baker Jr. (R-Tenn.) in the special Senate committee that investigated the 1972 break-in at the Democratic National Convention headquarters in the Watergate building.

The query has resurfaced multiple times by political pundits and news outlets such as The Washington Post and The New York Times throughout the course of the Mueller investigation.



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