BALDWIN: Let me just get you caught up on the breaking news we've been following this afternoon in the criminal case against President Trump's long-time confidant Roger Stone. The top prosecutor in this case just quit in the wake of a stunning reversal from Department of Justice. This all started yesterday when these federal prosecutors asked the judge to sentence Stone from 7 to 9 years in prison for obstruction and witness tampering and making false statements to Congress. But here's the thing, when the President got word of this he tweeted out, this was a, quote, unquote, miscarriage of justice and in the wake of that tweet, the DOJ is now backing down from its own sentencing recommendation. CNN crime and justice reporter Shimon Prokupecz is here with us. And so just clarify this for me because the prosecutor isn't just quitting altogether, he's withdrawing from the case?</s>SHIMON PROKUPECZ, CNN CRIME AND JUSTICE REPORTER: He's leaving the case. He's been with this case from the beginning. He was a Mueller prosecutor assigned to the Mueller team. He's been on the Roger Stone investigation, other Mueller investigations. He then moved over to the Washington, D.C., U.S. Attorney's Office to handle the case. Since all this developed, he notified the judge that he was leaving the case. He's done. He wants out of the case. He's technically assigned to the Baltimore, Maryland U.S. Attorney's Office. So, we're told by a spokeswoman there that he's going to go back there. He still has a job there. What happens next, we don't know. But for certain, he's no longer on the case, and that's a very big development in this case.</s>BALDWIN: OK. I'm sure that Jake is going to pick up where you left off, Shimon, thank you very much, and thank you. of course, for being with me. I'm Brooke Baldwin here in New York CNN's special coverage of the New Hampshire Primary starts right now.
Prosecutor Quits Roger Stone Case as DOJ Backtracks on Sentencing.