>> oh, yeah, yeah. that's very clear. the president made the exact opposite clear. u.s. troops somehow ended up staying at a scottish hotel. somehow vice president mike pence needed to stay at a trump hotel in ireland despite his official business being nearly 200 miles away, but, you know, he had to stay there. and of course there's, you know, fox news by the sea, otherwise known as mar-a-lago, which doubled its initiation fee to $200,000 after mr. trump was elected. regardless about the g7 at cost, the cost is that by the trump organization, the president owns the trump organization, and that doesn't change whether he's in a villa, a gorgeous, gorgeous bungalow on the ridiculist. that's it for us. the news continues. want to hand it over to chris for "cuomo prime time." chris? >> very well done, anderson. thank you. i'm chris cuomo. welcome to "prime time." another crazy day but one of

heavy consequence. the white house fully admits to ukraine quid pro quo, then tries to take it back and blame us for getting it wrong. guess what, it's all on tape. i have it. you listen for yourself. you see who's lying. and, also, which key cabinet figure in this ukraine mess is now resigning. that means he can testify. we have a top impeachment investigator who is listening closely and is here to talk next moves as we break down where impeachment and the prosecution of this president's lawyer stand tonight. what do you say? let's get after it. got to say it, only in the age of trump. the president sent his acting chief of staff to take on the media and he had a simple message. yeah, we held up aid to ukraine, but we did it so they would investigate the dnc in 2016 election interference. so it was a good quid pro quo. listen. >> did he also mention to me in the past that the corruption related to the dnc server? absolutely. no question about that.

but that's it and that's why we held up the money. >> what you just described is a quid pro quo. it is funding will not flow unless the investigation into the democratic server happened as well? >> we do that all the time with foreign policy, and i have news for everybody, get over it. there's going to be political influence in foreign policy. >> no, no, no. it's not about political influence in foreign policy. it's about the political influence used for personal gain in foreign policy. by the way, the dnc server gambit may be a debunked conspiracy theory but it wasn't a bad cover story for the president because it made his action in ukraine about something other than wanting to go after biden. but that gotcha about the quid pro quo obviously got stuck in his head. again, only in the age of trump, mick mulvaney tried to pretend he never said what you just heard him say. quote, once again the media has decided to misconstrue my

comments to advance a biased and political witch hunt against president trump. let me be clear. there was absolutely no quid pro quo between ukrainian military aid and any investigation into the 2016 election. there never was any condition on the flow of the aid related to the matter of the dnc server. that's a lot of words. let's go back to the few that answer the question. >> did he also mention to me in the past the corruption related to the dnc server? absolutely. no question about that. but that's it. that's why we held up the money. >> absolutely, no question about it, and that's why we held up the money. listen, double speak worked well for orwell. it doesn't work in reality this clumsy cover has trump's fingerprints all over it. just lie, deny, then point to the media and cry. but you heard the proof, and today we got more proof of what this president was up to from another diplomat who's loyal to

trump but gave damning testimony about the president's intentions. let's bring in someone who heard from ambassador sondland today, heard exactly what mulvaney said. house oversight committee member jamie raskin. good to have you on the show. >> thank you, chris. >> you and i lost a friend today and america lost a legend. elijah cummings meant a lot of things to a lot of people, and i hope that now his passing is a reminder to people about what passion of purpose is and what brave leadership is. he was gone too soon, no question about it, jamie, but hopefully his legacy will be a lesson to all of us. >> well, thank you for that. i mean, it's hard times and they just got a little bit harder with the loss of our beloved elijah cummings, but he has been a role model to everybody in maryland and everybody on the oversight committee, and, really, everyone in congress who listened to him because he's shown how you fight with every

fiber of your being for democracy and for the constitution without losing your humanity, without losing your decency, and without giving up on anybody. and he really showed us that as extreme and as partisan as the republicans get to keep our hearts and our minds open, that they might be able to find some common ground with us. so it's a very sad day here in maryland, but, you know, in the jewish faith we say that the memory of the righteous is a blessing. every time we remember elijah cummings, which is going to be frequently through every day, it will be a blessing to us and we will hang on very tight to his extraordinary vision and his great example. >> i can here elijah in my head saying, come on, cuomo, don't take up my time with this mulvaney. you know what that is. you know that's bs. you know what they're trying to do. it's a cover story. let me tell you what happened today. he had no tolerance and no patience for things that were obvious and that were distractions of a point. so let's honor his memory.

you were in session today. you got to hear testimony from a friendly of this president. he was at a hotelier, ambassador sondland, he was gifted an ambassadorship. what did he say today that was instructive to you? >> well, of course, we cannot relay the details of his testimony. i know everybody loves a good mystery, chris, but this is hardly an agatha christi novel. we have mulvaney, the white house chief of staff, coming out and admitting to the crime. now, i think he thought that committing another crime was an alibi for this crime, but it's just as an constitutional to shake down a foreign government for political reasons related to the 2016 election as it is relating to the 2020 election. and so the smoking guns are just piling up at this point. it all started with the contemporaneous telephone memorandum they gave us in which

we basically had everything we needed at this point and now we're just getting a surplus of evidence filling in the picture. we know exactly what they were up to. they shook down a foreign government, a vulnerable ally, in order to get political dirt or in order to support a deranged conspiracy theory. none of that is within their constitutional powers and all of it is an assault on the national security and the constitution of the united states. >> the biden part, though, is obviously a more flagrant foul. in mr. sondland's opening statement put out today he seemed to suggest that at the time -- i think he has a problem with this testimony, by the way. that at the time he was getting ready for the phone call and he didn't really know but much later he learned about the interest in mr. biden. those texts mr. volker put out, it seems like mr. sondland knows very well what the deliverable is and the deliverable is about biden and the dnc and giuliani,

they believe, wanted as much in the statement. is that all accurate to you? >> well, again, i don't want to speak to particulars, but let's just say there's two real service professionals who were outraged and appalled by the shadow foreign policy conducting political campaigns and mixing up private agendas with public agendas. and then you've got people on the other side who are either in hiding and trying not to testify or they are rapidly trying to distance themselves from the whole trump/giuliani plot. >> it's true, you had a cabinet member-you had rick perry say today that she's stepping down which obviously now makes him much more available for testimony. we had heard he was going to step down last week. he denied it. today he confirmed it. is that of interest to you? >> well, it gives me the

impression that there are a lot of people who are trying to get off of a rapidly sinking ship, and if this is where we are today where we've had dramatic shifts in public opinion, the majority of americans favor not just an impeachment inquiry but according to fox news impeachment and removal of the president, where will we be in two weeks as the evidence really becomes an air-tight case? meantime, the president continues to act in completely lawless ways. the idea they will host the g7 summit -- >> he says it's the perfect place. mick mulvaney said they looked at different places and states and literally it's like the place was built to host. i can't believe it's never been used before. >> well, the people were posting online about the bed bugs and the flying cockroaches may beg to differ. even if it were the perfect place which, of course it isn't, it would be completely unconstitutional. it's a violation of the domestic emollient clause. squrn

and the foreign emoluments clause. >> he says he'll never benefit. >> he said there would be no profits there which somehow is a distinction they think makes a difference. which it doesn't because the constitution says he cannot accept any payments at all, regardless of whether it's profits or not, and it's not up to him, he's got to come to congress to ask our consent to take money from foreign governments. and by the way, he can't take any money from the taxpayers except for his salary, which he said he's not going to take. that's the only thing he's allowed to take. the secret service and the state department and the defense department and white house writing checks for his hotels and resorts. they've spent 1/3 of their days at trump properties around the world. they're spending federal government money and collecting from foreign governments, and all of it is totally lawless and unconstitutional. one last point i would like to make, chris, because i'm the congressman for maryland where camp david is and mulvaney

engaged in a series of slurs against camp david today where the g7 met back in 2012 when president obama was president. he said people thought that it was terrible and appalling. nobody ever said that before. who is he quoting when he quotes these anonymous people? go to beautiful thurmont, maryland, and you will find the perfect place to bring together democratic nations of the world. and we should be the leaders of the democratic nations rather than fraternizing with every dictator and despot and strongman on earth. that is donald trump's real team. save those people for the dural national resort. when you've got real democracies, bring them up to thurmont, maryland and let them stay at camp david. it's beautiful, rustic and we'll give you a tour of the whole city. >> congressman jamie raskin, thank you very much for your remembrance of elijah cummings, for your perspective on where this is headed. we look forward very much to the case can you put together for the american people. thank you for joining us

tonight. i'm sorry for your loss. >> you bet. >> all right. now, let's get an fbi perspective on what matters investigatively. right, we're also balancing this. impeachment, that's political. what's going on with rudy giuliani, that's legal. so we have to entertain them both. what is learned today from mulvaney, from sondland and what you were just hearing from the congressman? mccabe and baker next. t-mobile's newest signal reaches farther than ever before. with more engineers. more towers. more coverage! it's a network that gives you ♪freedom from big cities, to small towns, we're with you. because life can take you almost anywhere, t-mobile is with you. no signal goes farther

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control incurring more damage? andrew mccabe, jim baker join us now. thank you, fellas. jim baker, legal significance of the admission, assuming it stands as fact, that it was about the dnc server, that was the quid pro quo. >> it's further evidence of the president's violation in my opinion of his constitutional responsibilities and he just didn't do what he was supposed to do. he is not living up to his oath of office because he is abusing his constitutional power to try to stay in office. and the evidence that he -- >> i hear that on biden, that's a clear case. but why couldn't they argue on this one? this is why i liked the argument when rudy first made it a few weeks ago. i know andrew doesn't like the argument but i got to make it. which is, corruption is legit. you care about 2016 interference. i know a lot of people think it's a conspiracy theory. i don't. so i want them to look into it because i think they were out to

get me in 2016 and i'm not going to give money to a country that does that kind of corruption. is that a good faith argument against corruption? >> i don't know but i'm not buying that because the president for a long time as has been concerned about his legitimacy, right? the notion that the russians helped him infuriates him, and so what he wants to do is try to cast a doubt about that claim and to go into the 2020 election and say, no, i won 2016 legitimately and nobody should have any doubt that i should be re-elected because my first election was -- was, you know, perfect and great and all the kinds of terms that he uses. so i'm not buying that. i think it is intended to bolster his efforts to win in 2020. >> go ahead, andrew. please. >> chris, let's be clear. there was no conspiracy theory. there was no involvement of ukraine in the meddling of the 2016 election. we know this. every intelligence agency in this country has agreed with

that. the president's own people to include tom bossert, his former national security adviser, has been forcefully, publicly saying that this was a myth they were trying to punch through. the administration's focus is nothing more than an effort to bolster the president's, as jim said, legitimacy, one of his conspiracy theories that he cap take into the 2020 election to make himself a stronger candidate. it is absolutely no different than his attempt to investigate and dredge up dirt on the bidens. it's the same thing. >> what else, andrew, would they need in congress to make a more compelling case here than they have now? they brought in sondland today. another friendly of trump, right? he was a big donor to him. he got gifted the ambassadorship to the eu. they brought him in to help with ukraine. he was aminimum cnimical to the ambassador there. his testimony, the biden thing, yeah, i learned about that, but

much layer. now, i don't know if that's true. here is another layer of somebody's who is in those texts saying, yes, this was about the president and giuliani and i was told i had to work with giuliani. >> well, it hurts the president on a number of levels. it further reinforces this idea that rudy giuliani was the architect of this entire scheme. sondland admits that today allegedly in his testimony. secondly, i would say it's really hard to reconcile what sondland apparently said to the committee today about not knowing about the bidens and not knowing there was a biden connection to burisma when you look at those text messages. you have the acting ambassador of ukraine putting it in his face and sondland twice reacting aggressively saying don't call me, or putting out an auspiciou defense of no quid pro quo. >> rudy says i was just doing it

pro bono. aren't there rules what a public official can accept as pro bono services? even though i just heard a very clever argument. you could assume that rudy giuliani's legal advice is worth zero, but let's say it isn't worth zero and it's worth hundreds of thousands of dollars, that's well above any maximum allowance. how does that figure into it? >> there are a number of statutes that mr. giuliani needs to worry about in terms of whether he violated them. among them is something called the anti-deficiency act, which makes it a crime, it's a federal crime for government employees to accept -- to accept volunteer services from a person. you cannot accept and spend moneys in a way that is inconsistent with what congress has articulated and you can't accept volunteer serves. and the federal employees would be committing a crime and mr. giuliani may have been involved in a conspiracy to violate that statute. i just don't know. he's also got exposure, as we

talked about before with the foreign agents registration act and also the federal election laws. he's got a lot of exposure. i don't know. it's so confusing in trying to figure out exactly what he was doing, who was paying him, who was supporting him, who was his principal giving him direction? was it a foreigner? what it the president? it's all a big mess and must be investigated, i think, by the u.s. attorney's office and also the fbi. this cries out for a deeper criminal investigation. >> all right. we got to jump, fellas. thank you very much. certainly to be continued. appreciate it. all right. we may be getting some new intelligence on the giuliani counterintelligence investigation. remember, you got criminal investigation, counterintelligence. we have someone who was questioned by fbi agents on the case. what does he know? and what did he tell them and what questions does he believe need to be asked? next. (car audio) you have reached your destination. ♪

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falls under the trump now, remember, the fbi which falls under the trump administration-run doj in the form of bill barr, thought enough of the questions and concerns to open two investigations into rudy giuliani that we know about, criminal and counterintelligence. one person we know they've been talking to is kenneth mcallian. he just happens to be the author of a new book. "treason and betrayal: the rise and fall of individual want." counselor, welcome to "prime time." >> thank you. >> in tv they don't like to talk about competition.

i'm not one of them. rachel maddow had an interesting interview with you last night heavily focused on how you know the state of play in ukraine. you are familiar with the tactics and interests of the two men who were indicted as associates of mr. giuliani, parnas and furman, and they were changed and became interested in politics. when and why did you know that? >> well, going back to 2015/2016, as part of an investigation i had of civil racketeering into activities by the trump organization, i looked into and came into information that parnas and fuhrman in the boca raton area had been

steering wealthy russians, unit ukrainians, former soviet union people to the trump organization and a good way to money launder by buying condominiums, holding them a couple years and selling them. we conveyed that information to the fbi at that time and it became part of we believe a money laundering -- really an investigation by the fbi including a money laundering investigation. >> and what was your role? why were you informing on these individuals to the fbi? >> well, starting in 2013 and '14, i represented yuli da temachenko and others when the

bro-russian president was unfairly and improperly made accusations against them and jailed them. in response paul manafort was behind a lot of the activities and started collecting information on money laundering. >> and that's how you got the connection to them. >> exactly. >> now, the avenue of civil rico. i don't want to get too in the weeds for people, but the exposure mr. giuliani has and by extension the president and these two specific interests or going after the dnc. civil rico you believe is still tart of the evasion here. why? >> oh, absolutely. the racketeering statutes are very powerful. and you have to really look at giuliani, parnas, fuhrman and the rest of the three amigos really as a racketeering enterprise at this point who were attempting to really extort from a country that needed our

foreign aid, information and a bogus investigation in return they wanted in writing a promise before the money would be released for military aid. a promise by the ukrainian government that they would conduct this bogus investigation. >> why is that civil rico? >> well, it's certainly extortion. there was money laundering involved. money from suspicious sources to parnas, fuhrman, and, again, there is an investigation of giuliani as well so you have really any corrupt practices which happen over a period of time by an organization, a racketeering group -- >> so rudy says, i don't know anything about what he's talking about. these guys said they could get me information on biden. they knew the players in ukraine. that's the end of my involvement. oh, but they paid you. i had nothing to do with

anything. it had to do with something else. but the amount, $500,000 echoed an amount they had coming into their accounts from suspicious sources. i didn't know anything about the money. >> well, certainly time will tell and there is a serious investigation by the southern district and the fbi into both parnas/fuhrman's finances. >> you think that leads to russia? >> well, there were millions of dollars going through their bank accounts. there were red lights going off in the banks. the banks informed the treasury department of this suspicious activity. so certainly the treasury department and the administration has known about this over the last year or two and did nothing. now that the whistle-blower has come forward the investigation really by the fbi has intensified and the southern district, and it spread to an examination of mr. giuliani's finances. >> where we are right now. give me one key and that has to

be answered. >> well, the question was who is behind this? was it dmitry in vienna? were there russian information sources and russian oligarchs who were financing this? all of a sudden there were millions of dollars flowing into parnas/fuhrman's accounts. mr. giuliani had literally millions coming into his account and his firm's account. supposedly for work in ukraine, but where did this money come from? what were the sources. that is really -- the follow the money investigation is what i believe the southern district and the fbi is looking at this point. >> mr. mcallian, please, may i enlist your efforts to epihelping us understand this as we learn information as it fits into the legal framework that is necessary for investigators? >> well, absolutely. and i appreciate the opportunity. >> thank you very much. >> thank you very much.

>> to be continued. all right. so tonight the president is hailing turkey -- i know this is another aspect of this situation. he's saying, yay, i got a cease-fire. turkey says it's not a cease-fire at all, what's going on in syria. is the president just doing what he does best, which is ignore reality in the interest of himself? by declaring victory. what is actually happening in syria? what needs to happen in syria? one of his chief defenders takes on the case next. good to see you. ♪

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mick mulvaney now wants you to believe that the congressionally approved aid for ukraine was only withheld to dig into a debunked conspiracy theory, but, actually, he doesn't want you to believe that because he took it back because he happened to have let it fall under the understanding of a quid pro quo, but he did say it and we played it for you. the bigger problem is the text messages and the testimony and trump's own words add another layer. which is that biden was a give, a deliverable, something they wanted. rick santorum knows a thing or two about trying to remove a president. rick, it is good to have you back on this show. >> thank you. it's good to be back.

>> what do you think happened today? do you think mick said this, he went back to the white house, the president went crazy and said i don't care what you do, just deny it, get out of it? >> yeah, look, in defense of mick, i think he was using, again, and i'm trying to view this in the best light for him. >> yeah. >> he was talking about corruption and the need for -- for ukraine to clean it up, and i think he gave as an example the, you know, the suspicion that ukraine was involved. you know, with the 2016 election and -- and biden. and so i don't think he was saying it was a -- i think he was using it as these are the kinds of corruption things that we were concerned about, but, again, he was unwise to bring it up. i think he should have just left it at we were concerned about corruption and we're not going to give -- as he said, we're not going to give money to an organization, to a country that's, you know, going to pay off people instead of doing things legitimately with it. he used a very poor example and

i think he had to backtrack on the example. >> all right. i take your argument just for the audience. let's just play you this little piece again, just so you can understand -- not you, rick, the context of what he said for the audience. >> that he also mentioned to me in the past that the corruption that related to the dnc server? absolutely. no question about that. but that's it and that's why we held up the money. >> all right. look, it was clear enough that the president wanted him to change it. the bigger problem for them, though, rick. i really don't think it's a question. we've had this conversations before. we should continue it now. there is no question that this president and rudy giuliani, maybe rudy giuliani even more than the president, wanted ukraine to commit to look into the dnc but just as importantly to look into burisma, which is the company where joe biden's son was on the board, and he wanted that levered against the aid. i don't think that we dispute that as a matter of fact and intention now. it keeps getting echoed by people who worked around the

president who are loyal to the president. we had the third one say it today. the only question is whether or not it's enough to impeach. have you reached that part of the analysis yet? >> yeah, no, i looked at it. i looked at the transcript, which is sort of the basis for all of this, and the way i read the transcript is, you know, we asked for a favor and the favor was to look into the -- the 2016 dnc hack. >> and biden. >> well, okay. again, i've been on conversations where you have interpresenters, which there clearly was here. i mean, and you have him making a statement where he asks for a favor. you wait for the interpreter to interpret. the president of ukraine responds -- >> trump's speaking english, as best as he understands it. >> el, but the understanding is that, you know, the president of ukraine brought up giuliani. the president didn't bring up giuliani. the president of ukraine brought of giuliani, and, of course, you know -- >> we now know why zelenskiy

brought it up, according to v vulker and other people who are loyal to the president. >> bad judgement. i don't think it's an impeachable offense. i think it was poor judgement for the president to even comment on it in this type of conversation, but i think it's pretty clear -- at least it's clear to me that that's not the favor he was asking for. he was simply commenting, which he shouldn't have, about something that the president of ukraine brought up. >> then why did all the people we've heard from so far surrounding the conversation and the followthrough think it was exactly about that? >> well, i think that giuliani's presence and his role there is something obviously he's being investigated by, as you mentioned earlier, by the attorney general. and there is -- there is some concern there about, you know, him as a private citizen and what he's doing. but, again, if you're looking at what would be, quote, an impeachable offense if you want to go that far, the idea that we were holding up aid in exchange

for biden or he was asking for a political favor, i just think is a -- to me is a bridge too far. and just a bad judgement call. >> well, he was asking for information. which you've admitted in the past you're not supposed to do from a foreign government. it looks like he was doing at least that, if not more. i want to ask you something else. the cease-fire in syria is not really a cease-fire. it's 120 hours for them to get out or the killing is going toe resume. the president takes it as a victory. i think that's silly but let's push past that. he has to undo his decision, rick. something else has to happen here otherwise we know what happens in four days and 14 hours. >> yeah, look, i've said on this program many, many times that i agree with the president 90% of the time. i agree with him on all of his economic policy, the border, what he's done in iran. i just think he has really stepped in it with respect to this. this was -- this was a poor decision. it's having really i think startling, even startling to him

consequences. i think that's one of the reasons that he's tried to put the genie back in the bottle here. and, listen, we can talk substance and how dangerous it is to walk away from one of our closest allies and to -- and to allow turkey to do what they've been doing -- >> and russia to do what they're doing. they're literally living in our basements. >> and assad. multiple levels of this is bad. i want to talk about something that maybe hasn't been talked about. this is really bad for the president come november of 2020. and i have been hearing from so many republicans who love donald trump who are telling me for the first time they're taking a step back and they're actually thinking about whether they're going to vote for this man. i've heard this from people i'm stunned to hear it from because this was i just think reckless. this was -- this was not something that we expected from a president who i think at this point has been on the edge on foreign policy. he's done edgy things. but he's done -- he's done it to try to disrupt things, to try to -- to try to move north korea or

iran or others, and i think it was appropriate. i mean, because we were stuck in -- >> i know but this is different. here's the troubling question. >> i think it's going to affect him with his base. and when you have someone who relies on his base, you can't shake it up and he's doing that. >> i hear it. the big question is, why did he do it when he did it right after talking to erdogan? that is a call we need to know about. rick santorum, thank you very much for making the case. always appreciate it. >> thank you. all right. now, you heard me talking earlier with jamie raskin, congressman from maryland, big loss today. one of the most influential voices in our political culture. and a lot for our republic as a whole. you need to understand who elijah cummings was and i can show you through what i watched him do in person. next. panera's new warm grain bowls are full of good. full of flavor. color. full of... woo! full of good. so you can be too. try our new warm grain bowls today.

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it was a riot. he got people to come around him with a bullhorn, telling them, come to me. we're going to pursue their actions. he led them in a prayer that captured his sense of commitment to the people and place. the struggle was really but so was the hope of getting to a better place. >> we asked you to bless our city. a city we love. a city that has given us so much. >> that one young man was like, you need to hear me. some people turnaway, always grandstanding. you didn't. >> no. >> you stayed locked in with that man. >> i wanted them better. simple as that.

>> he was the real deal. he was organic. represent your community. never forget how you were able to rise. that's the kind of leader he was. the son of sharecroppers, a guy that was stoned as a kid for trying to get in a pool. >> when he first called me, back in 2007, he would say elijah, i want you to run your campaign in maryland. when he was able to witness the first african-american president. >> when he first called me back in 2007, he said, elijah, you want you to run my campaign in maryland. i said, campaign for what? he said, for president. i said, president of what? >> that was an easy laugh for him, but it wasn't his signature look. that was that droopy face of

resolve. that was elijah cummings. all business. up for the good fight. especially in the age of trump. >> i don't know what, how we get this through, we're talking about the president of the united states of america. going around saying these kind of things. that's ridiculous. chris, i will go to my grave protecting this democracy. >> and he did. god love him. elijah did. even when he was struggling, his health was fragile for a long time. he'd get on the phone, he'd warn me to see the bigger picture. he was one of the first to tell me, listen, you got all these crimes coming out of your mouth and all these different theories going on around you, this president is going to be held to account for abuse of office. he was right. he reminded us that we must live every day with a profound sense of purpose. >> when we're dancing with the angels, the question will be asked, in 2019, what did we do to make sure we kept our democracy intact? >> makes you wonder if he knew

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bolo time, be on the lookout. mick mulvaney's, yeah, we did it, we held the money until they'd investigate the dnc. that wasn't his only moment of strong and wrong today. he also told us that the 2020 g7 summit of world leaders has been awarded to president trump's doral golf resort in miami. he said it's the perfect place. as perfect as that ukraine call.

the fact that the summit will draw hundreds of diplomats and personnel to its grounds amid reports of its nose-diving profits is raising plenty of conflict of interest questions. this, of course, should come as no surprise, considering there's already several emoluments lawsuits against this president. so, be on the lookout for more brazen acts by this president to skirt ethical norms. like in turkey, where trump tower's istanbul, as he says it, stands and recent u.s. policy moves have enabled turkey to run over allies in syria. but you don't have to take my word for it, trump raised the conflict issue, himself. >> well, i also have -- i have a little conflict of interest because i have a major, major building in istanbul, and it's a tremendously successful job. it's called trump towers. two towers.

instead of one. not the usual one. it's two. and i've gotten to know turkey very well. >> told you he says it that way. the question is, just how well does he know turkey? so be on the lookout for answers. thank you for watching. "cnn tonight" with d. lemon starts right now. >> you said that mulvaney was strong and wrong in the press -- i think he was strong and right. then he had to come back and eat some crow. >> that's the wrong part. >> that's the wrong part right there. so, maybe you got me, maybe you meant wrong on the back end because he definitely said it. you played the sound -- >> oh, he said it. >> oh, he said it. where's my research here? the sound bite, he says no question about it. >> yeah, no question about it. >> no question about it. then the repor