Suspect in Acid Attack Now Charged with Hate Crime; Roger Stone Associate Takes Stand about Threats and Vulgar Texts; Pence Aide Said Trump's July 25 Call with Ukrainian President Was Political and Not Normal Diplomatic Call.
BALDWIN: A suspect in a horrific attack captured on surveillance video tossing acid in the face of a man he's arguing with. He has been located, arrested and charged with a felony hate crime. Clifton Blackwell is this man here accused of attacking the victim outside a Mexican restaurant in Milwaukee last Friday. Mahud Villalaz suffered second degree burns on his face. Villalaz is a U.S. citizen who immigrated to this country from Peru. What he told police, Blackwell called him illegal and told him to go back to where he came from. And Mahud is with me from Milwaukee along with his lawyer, Craig Mastantuono. So thank you, gentlemen, for being with me. And Mahud, how are you doing?</s>MAHUD VILLALAZ, HAD ACID THROWN IN HIS FACE (via Skype): I'm doing better. In fact if nothing worse happens to me.</s>BALDWIN: OK. I know it's painful but can you take us back to the moment that -- I mean, this whole thing was over, my understanding, where you parked your car and your attacker was mad that you parked in a bus lane. You moved. He approached you a second time and then what did he say to you?</s>VILLALAZ: He told me, why you came here, invade my country? Go back to your country. And then he got -- argued with him and escalated when I told him to -- everyone has come here from somewhere else. And I tell him, Indian Americans came here first, they be the longest. That's the moment when he throw me the acid. And the pain was so bad. Only think go to the restaurant to wash my face right away because the burn was so painful, very painful.</s>BALDWIN: I can't even begin to imagine. But just as an American citizen, this was over where you were parking your car. What was going through your mind as this was happening?</s>VILLALAZ: At the moment, he keep arguing about that, he told me you got to be 30 feet away. And then argued after that. And then he started telling me that, you don't respect my laws he says. And then when I tell him, hey, what are you talking about, he got a little bag and pulled out a bottle in that moment.</s>BALDWIN: But what are you thinking, sir? What are you thinking when this is happening? You live here lawfully.</s>VILLALAZ: Right. I don't understand the question. What is it?</s>BALDWIN: If he's telling you to go back, home is here.</s>VILLALAZ: Yes. At that moment, Yes, my instincts told me that something is up with this guy. And I was concerned, something, have something else in his bag. And then I ignored him and go back to my truck and move it.</s>BALDWIN: Craig, if I may just ask your attorney a question. So the man now faces this felony hate crime. Can you just tell me exactly what he faces and what justice looks like for Mahud?</s>CRAIG MASTANTUONO, ATTORNEY FOR ACID ATTACK SURVIVOR (via Skype): Sure. The gentleman is charged with first-degree reckless injury, which is a felony. And then there's a hate crime penalty enhancer that says that it alleges that Mr. Blackwell targeted Mahud for his race, color, national origin or ancestry. And if that is proven it would add five-year prison enhancer onto an already 25-year maximum charge. For Mahud moving forward, he has to participate in the criminal justice process, that's what I'm here to assist him with. I work in the criminal justice system and participate potentially in a trial or other court proceedings.</s>BALDWIN: Craig and Mahud, I appreciate you coming on national TV and sharing your story. And I hope justice is served for you. Thank you, gentlemen, very much.</s>VILLALAZ: Thank you.</s>MASTANTUONO: Thank you.</s>BALDWIN: Shifting stories, abusive e-mails and it is only day two of testimony in Roger Stone's federal trial. The political operative and long-time friend of President Trump is accused of lying to Congress, witness tampering and obstructing justice during the Robert Mueller investigation. CNN crime and justice reporter Shimon Prokupecz is just outside of federal court there. And I understand a key witness here has just taken the stand.</s>SHIMON PROKUPECZ, CNN CRIME AND JUSTICE REPORTER: Yes, that's Randy Credico, Brooke, he just took the stand. He is that witness, you talk about witness tampering. This is the guy that the government says Roger Stone tampered with, tried to intimidate him in not cooperating with Congressional investigators. He went before members of Congress and he gave testimony about contacts with Roger Stone, about contacts with WikiLeaks. And Roger Stone tried to prevent him from going forward and cooperating. And so that is why he is taking the stand. There's several extensive text messages of Roger Stone, essentially what the government is arguing, threatening him, cursing at him. Using all sorts of vile language to try and prevent him from testifying. At one point telling Randy Credico, stonewall. Plead the fifth. Hold to the plan. Stick to the plan. And Randy Credico now on the stand. He is a colorful person, as we know. He is a comedian. He also does imitations. So it's certainly going to be a lively end of the day as he is now on the stand under direct examination -- Brooke.</s>BALDWIN: Shimon, thank you for the update. Day two here of testimony. We'll talk again. Just in to us here at CNN, new details about what the Vice President's adviser testified today behind closed doors about that July 25th phone call between President Trump and the Ukrainian President. So Lauren Fox, what do we know?</s>LAUREN FOX, CNN CONGRESSIONAL REPORTER: Well, what we're learning is that Jennifer Williams told lawmakers behind closed doors that she did think that the call on July 25th that she'd listened in on in was more political than diplomatic in nature. However, her concerns about that call she never raised to her superiors and that's a key detail. Basically she was one of the Vice President's two aides who were on that call. And it's a very key detail because it gives Democrats an opportunity to say that she had concerns about what was going on with this funding. Also, she said she did not believe that the Vice President was part of these discussions with the Ukrainians. Obviously, that is a key detail here. Because Democrats going into this wanted to know what the Vice President knew and when. But we're just getting new details, of course, exactly what she said in the room, her testimony spanning several hours this morning. It got out just a few minutes ago -- Brooke.</s>BALDWIN: OK, so, she appeared. Someone who did not, was a former National Security Adviser John Bolton. Why was he not on Capitol Hill today?</s>FOX: Well, he wasn't on Capitol Hill today. He was never subpoenaed which, of course, is very unusual, given what we've seen over the last several weeks with these depositions. But they did not want to subpoena him because they didn't want this tied up in court. When an aide for Adam Schiff said earlier, was they didn't want this getting tied up in a rope-a-dope in court. Of course, they're going to track this up as potentially just another example of obstruction of Congress, when these individuals don't come before Congress for these depositions. Democrats are saying we don't want to get tied up. What we want to do is move forward with our impeachment inquiry. If they don't want to show up, that's on them. They can see that in a potential article of impeachment when they move forward, saying that these individuals and the White House were obstructing Congress -- Brooke.</s>BALDWIN: And what's the timeline here for this impeachment process now?</s>FOX: Well, potentially, this could all be wrapped up in the House of Representatives before Christmas. That of course, is coming as they move into this public phase of the impeachment inquiry. Next week we're going to see three public hearings. That's a very significant addition to what we've been seeing in these closed-door depositions. Of course, we're getting these transcripts more and more of them every single day. So the American people are getting an opportunity to see exactly what's been going on for the last several weeks in what Republicans had argued was a closed-door process. Of course, all that have moving into the public sphere. Once you have these public hearings, that's going to be a very significant change for the American people who are going to be watching --