CNN added another wrinkle in the ongoing debate about whether the network was tipped off that Roger Stone would be arrested by FBI agents in a pre-dawn raid at his Florida last month.
CNN revealed this week that another camera crew set up at a second location where nothing happened.
“On the same day CNN staked out Roger Stone's home, another CNN crew was outside the home of ANOTHER player in the Mueller probe, on the suspicion THAT person could be arrested too. That hunch didn't pan out. Journalism!†CNN's chief media correspondent Brian Stelter tweeted Thursday, sharing a CNN report about the revelation published a day prior.
Something I learned yesterday: On the same day CNN staked out Roger Stone's home, another CNN crew was outside the home of ANOTHER player in the Mueller probe, on the suspicion THAT person could be arrested too. That hunch didn't pan out. Journalism!
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— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) February 14, 2019
Stone continues to raise questions over how CNN was at his Fort Lauderdale home with a camera crew at the exact time of his arrest.
On Thursday, Stone posted an image to his Instagram account that perpetuated a conspiracy theory that CNN was tipped off by someone close to special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation that the FBI was going to arrest and raid his home.
“‘Who tipped off CNN?’", the photo caption reads, quoting President Trump, who latched onto the conspiracy theory last month.
The arrest on Jan. 25 came after a grand jury indicted Stone on seven counts of lying to Congress, witness tampering, and obstructing a congressional inquiry about communications with WikiLeaks stemming from his interview with the House Intelligence Committee in September 2017 as part of its investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election.
CNN was the only media outfit present to witness the raid just after 6:00 a.m. — the network claims the camera crew arrived an hour before the arrest — which raised questions about how the network knew to have a team be there.
The outlet maintains that it was “reporter’s instinct†that led the TV crew to set up outside Stone’s Fort Lauderdale home that morning.
As for the second crew, CNN's report Wednesday explained they were set up outside the home of another player in the Mueller probe on suspicion that they could be arrested that morning. Nothing happened at this other location.
"The whole Russia team thought maybe something was happening," CNN producer David Shortell said shortly after the raid, adding that the team saw “usual grand jury activity†the night before the arrest.
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