CNN’s Blitzer to Jack Reed: Is Trump’s Tweet Praising Stone for Taking the Fifth ‘Witness Tampering?’

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BLITZER: “On Monday, the President tweeted his praise for Roger Stone, long-time associate, confidante of the President, for not cooperating with Mueller. As you know, yesterday Roger Stone pleaded the fifth. Doesn’t want to cooperrate with the Senate Intelligence Committee, your committee either. Do you view that as witness tampering? The Senate judiciary Committee, I should say.”

REED: “You’re getting into a very sensitive area when you’re encouraging people not to cooperate. Frankly, as a principle, it should be cooperation with legal authorities. We all have constitutional rights to not speak, to invoke the Fifth Amendment. But no one, I think, should be actively telling people not to cooperate with legitimate investigators.”