Roger Stone invokes 5th Amendment, declines to testify in front of senators

A lawyer for Roger Stone, one of President Trump's longtime friends and a Republican operative, said in a letter to Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) that he will not provide documents or testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee, invoking the Fifth Amendment.

The panel wanted to interview Stone regarding Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election; he is reportedly also being investigated by Special Counsel Robert Mueller about whether he knew in advance about WikiLeaks releasing hacked Democratic emails.

Stone's attorney, Grant Smith, said in his letter that the documents request was "far too overbroad, far too overreaching, far too wide ranging," and Stone's "invocation of his Fifth Amendment privilege must be understood by all to be the assertion of a Constitutional right by an innocent citizen who denounces secrecy." Feinstein sent her request for testimony and documents in November 2017, CNN reports.

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