Longtime and staunch Donald Trump ally Roger Stone,
under investigation by the US Capitol Police and FBI for
allegedly threatening to assassinate House Democrats.
Take a listen.
It's time to do it.
Straw Waller Natalie has to die before the election.
They need to get the message and just not putting
up with the.
A stone is referring to Democratic Congressman Eric Swalwell and
Congressman Jerry Nadler,
who served as chairman of the House Judiciary Committee during
part of Trump's administration.
Now the website Mediaite first obtained the tape.
CNN has not independently verified its authenticity.
CNN Zach Cohen joins us now.
Zach, What more are we learning about this?
Yeah, Phil, sources are telling me and our colleague Kristen
Wilson that the US Capitol Police and FBI are taking
this seriously.
They are looking into these comments that were allegedly made
by Roger Stone in the weeks leading up to the
2020 election,
but are only surfacing now after Mediate published that audio
recording you just played in.
Look, as you know, USCPFBI take threats against lawmakers incredibly
seriously.
And you know, based on the content of this report
of this recording,
it certainly seems to fit in that bucket.
Now Roger Stone is basically denying that he ever said
this and that in that.
That's him. Even on the audio recording,
he's calling it total nonsense.
He accuses it of being AI manipulation and calls the
whole thing absurd.
But look, this is not the first time that Roger
Stone's comments and his actions related to the election have
gotten have been been under scrutiny.
He obviously was a close ally of former President Donald
Trump.
He was actively involved in various efforts to overturn the
2020 election according to evidence the House January 6th committee
put forward.
And he was at Trump stop the steel rally on
January 6th.
And of course he was also convicted as the result
of Robert Mueller's probe way back when his.
Present sentence was ultimately commuted by Trump before we ever
had to go to jail.
But you know Roger Stone,
a very familiar name popping up in a very familiar
context.