Schiff: Stone, Corsi Reports 'What Collusion Looks Like'

Reports that Roger Stone and Jerome Corsi communicated through email about a WikiLeaks release point to evidence of collusion with Russia, Rep. Adam Schiff claimed Wednesday.

"When you look at that constellation of facts and all the links between these different characters, it's either an extraordinary, extraordinary coincidence, or it’s what collusion looks like," the California Democrat, the incoming chair of the House Intelligence Committee next year, told CNN's "New Day."

"This may be why the president does so adamantly try to deny collusion, because these facts are pretty damning."

Corsi in emails sent to Stone in August 2016 anticipated that WikiLeaks was going to release damaging material about then-Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton's campaign. He told Fox News' Tucker Carlson Tuesday night he had initially forgotten about the emails, but then remembered them and told investigators with Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian activities in the 2016 campaign.

Schiff also noted reports that former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort had met with WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, calling the news a "whole other order of magnitude of severity and of course it brings this right to the president’s doorstep."

Manafort and Assange denied the reports. 

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