TAPPER: In our national lead now, President Donald Trump may have known much more about what is going on behind the scenes with WikiLeaks than he told special counsel Robert Mueller. At least that's according to his former deputy campaign chair Rick Gates who took the stand today in the prosecution of Roger Stone. Gates connected a lot of dots -- from Roger Stone to President Trump to then information stolen from the Clinton campaign and the DNC by the Russians that WikiLeaks ended up sharing with the world -- as CNN's Sara Murray reports.</s>SARA MURRAY, CNN POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Today for the first time, then candidate Donald Trump linked in open court to his former confidant and adviser Roger Stone's efforts to get intel from WikiLeaks during the 2016 campaign. Former deputy campaign chair Rick Gates testified he was riding with Trump to New York's La Guardia Airport that summer when Trump took a phone call from Stone where the pair apparently discussed WikiLeaks plans to release Democratic emails which were hacked and stolen by Russians. After Mr. Trump got off the phone with Mr. Stone, what did Mr. Trump say, the prosecutor asked Gates. He indicated more information would be coming, Gates responded today at stone's criminal trial. Gates testified that prior to WikiLeaks first email dump, for months, information had been talked about. After the July release, gates said the campaign was in a state of happiness. Gates' testimony flies in the face of denial from both Stone and Trump that the two ever discussed WikiLeaks. In written responses to Robert Mueller's team, President Trump said, I did not recall any communication between Stone and WikiLeaks. The phone call and Trump's reaction puts in sharper focus how much Trump allegedly knew about how the Russian hack and release of emails could boost his campaign.</s>TRUMP: This just came out. WikiLeaks. I love WikiLeaks.</s>MURRAY: But that revelation was not included in Mueller's public report. It was redacted because Stone's case was ongoing. During the 2016 presidential campaign, Stone bragged about his contact --
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