not, let's see whether the president is in a tizzy or not when he delivers here review on the ridiculist. >> as a student of cooperology, it's hard to know when you're in a tizzy and when you are not. >> i've pushed my emotions right down inside. >> i have no emotions. >> i long to be you. >> i am chris cuomo. welcome to "prime time." new depths of the efforts of this president to go after the bidens. a cnn exclusive and key players making the case and trying to defend on the show tonight. where do you stand? let's get after it. all right. so here is the latest. the president's personal lawyer pushed the state department and the white house to get a visa for the ousted ukrainian prosecutor who promised dirt on

the bidens. this comes in an cnn exclusive from four sources citing the testimony of depp testify assistant secretary of state george kent this week to congress. they tell us that in january 2019 rudy giuliani tried to secure a u.s. visa for ukrainian victor shokin. you've heard that name a lot now. he was forced to resign in 2016 with the help of the united states for failing to root out corruption. as if the plot were not already painfully clear, president trump's acting chief of staff admitted to a quid pro quo and then proteus and company had him deny it. so we know what happened. the question is what does it mean, where do things stand? let's ask a possible future juror and top democrat senate judiciary member richard blu blumenthal from connecticut. always good to see you, especially on a friday night. >> thank you. >> so we know what happened.

it is inarguably wrong for a number of reasons. you can argue it is abuse of power. but do you believe you have reached a point with all that you have seen to this point that this is worthy of articles of impeachment and removal? >> it is unquestionably worthy of moving forward with impeachment proceedings as the house is doing. it is unquestionably an abuse of power by the president of the united states, a betrayal of his oath of office. let's remember the commander in chief on that july 25th phone call is pressuring, indeed extorting a foreign leader to interfere in our elections, to try to sway our democratic process and compromise our democra democracy. for the commander in chief to undertake that roll and then to engage his personal lawyer, rudy giuliani, in the shokin efforts, in other efforts abroad, as well as other members of his

administration is absolutely an abuse of power. >> so a reasonable republican is sitting next to you in the senate and they say, senator, i hear you, it was bad, he shouldn't have done it. it's wrong, i don't like they denied it and i don't like a lot of things about it but to nullify an election, the founding fathers wanted this to be such an overwhelming and flagrant wrong that two out of three of us saw it the same way and i don't think it's worth nullifying an election with an election right around the corner. it was bad but ukraine's okay, we didn't compromise their efforts versus russia, in fact we gave them arms we hadn't given them in the last administration and they got the aid and we exposed this for what it is, that's enough for me map what do you say? >> i say it's not nullifies an election, it's removing from power someone who has abused that power and violated the constitution. that's the reason the founders had the impeachment process. they wanted to protect our republic. remember benjamin franklin's

admonition, it's a democracy, republic, if you can keep it. the only way for us to discharge our obligation as senators is to protect our democracy against that kind of abuse of power. again, it's the president's own words, chris, in that july 25th conversation, "do us a favor." he wasn't talking about a quid pro quo to benefit the united states of america, it was to benefit him personally, his political position and what we're seeing more and more of course is that he wants favors from foreign leaders to benefit his personal financial situation. >> so now we're at the end of the week, that's the state of play with the president. with his attorney, what do you think the likelihood is that rudy giuliani gets indicted? >> well, there is mounting evidence. i'm obviously not in the prosecutor line of work, which i was once. i did these kinds of cases, not exactly prosecuting a president's personal lawyer because what we're seeing here is potential conspiracy to solicit and pressure a foreign

leader to provide political campaign help. that's a violation of federal law. lying to the federal government, tax or bank fraud violations. >> are you worried about the money coming in and out from these two who were indicted and the other names that are getting listed? >> exactly right. the associates, they are giuliani associates who have been indicted and charged. certainly could be involved in a conspiracy involving giuliani and others in the trump administration. remember, in watergate nixon was pardoned, but the president's men went to jail. and my guess is that we're going to be seeing cracks in that wall, so far inpenetrable wall. >> what would you do if the president came out tomorrow and said i don't like the way this is going, i pardon rudy giuliani right now for anything that he did in connection to what i did in ukraine, anything to do with turkey, even the bird, even around thanksgiving, you cannot go after rudy giuliani for anything. there's a chance that could

happen. >> it would spark an uproar, an outrage. and i believe talking about sitting next to a reasonable republican, that my colleagues on the republican side at some point are going to have to look to history. they will be haunted by this era if they fail to do the right thing and clearly the right thing would be to stop a pardon. president has very broad power but congress has some power to override it and certainly the president has no power to pardon for a state crime, which then there could be a prosecution to do. and finally, i would say that kind of pardon itself might be an impeachable offense. my republican colleagues are going to have to regard this time in history as one that will follow them throughout their lives and through history beyond it. >> one simple problem i haven't heard sussed yet is that mr. giuliani says he represents

the president pro bono. if that's the true and we have no reason to believe that it isn't, i haven't seen any other proof otherwise, is a president or any official allowed to accept that kind of dollar value in pro bono service work from an attorney? i've been looking through the law and guys have all these rules about it having to be for a committee and for a certain amount, unless you accept the argue ma mr. giuliani's legal advice is worth zero, this is hundreds of thousands of things worth of value. shouldn't that have been recorded? >> some might question whether rudy giuliani's legal advice is worth what others might regard, but the point is that those services, if they are a gift or if they are an exchange for something could well be a violation of law. >> you want to add using doral for the g-7 to your emoluments

suit. the president's proxy said he's not going to make any money off it. >> our emoluments office said the government has accepted payments and benefits from foreign governments in violation of the premiere anti-corruption clause in the united states constitution. the reason for that clause, as you know, is that one of the founding fathers greatest fears was in fact that the president or some other member of the executive branch would be beholden, would take favors from a foreign government and here is a classic textbook example of the violation of that emoluments clause, so we are definitely going to add it in our brief to be submitted this coming week, but even if there's no profit, there's clearly a payment or benefit because at that time of year, as you heard earlier during anderson cooper's show,

the doral is going to be probably largely desserted. the profits or financial situation of that hotel have declined sharply as "the washington post" recently reported by 70% and even if there is no payment and there will be payment, there is benefit in terms of the promotion of the property, and that is of inestimatable value. think about the impact of having that brand shown all over the world literally, all over the world and, in effect, an advertisement unpaid for by any trump entity but of tremendous benefit to the trump organization, which this president still owns. he's never divested a single cent of that property. >> some heady efforts to come. always a pleasure to have you on the show. have a good weekend, sir. >> we're not crying there is no quid pro quo. trump defends are makes a couple

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offering dirt on biden. this shadow diplomacy was not wanted in the state department and a quid pro quo for dirt is also wrong, by the way, but most importantly, we can show what we know, a tape, a call, transcript, text and testimony. wasn't just about corruption. it was about the bidens and dnc. it wasn't just one call. rudy giuliani admitted on this show show wanted the biden. he told the the "new york times" he was after dirt on biden. some could say it's improper. not enough are saying it's improper frankly. the president himself said this right to you. >> i would recommend they start an investigation into the bid s bidens. >> it came out of his mouth more

than once. it's the american president who brings up bide wrenn. the text messages show trump's guys, taylor, sondland, volker, they all thought that burisma, where biden was on the board, was as muff in the mix as any 2016 fancy. then there's the congressional testimony where trump's own u.n. ambassador, sondland, his friend, a major donor, says the deliverable mentioned in the text, trump and giuliani were looking for including something they could use against biden. so point one is done. now this idea about it just being about one phone call. the aid money was held up for longer than anybody seems able to explain. months before the call and over a month after, way longer than allowable without going back to congress to explain. so it wasn't just about the call. it was about what happened before and after. a face-to-face potus visit with the ukrainians was dangled for months to get what they wanted.

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you can add republican john kasich to the list of those calling for president trump's impeachment. now, impeachment, removal, i still do not see that as an easy call, but condemning what the president did here should be obvious at this point. look at all of stuff the whistle-blower said that has been confirmed. i show you this because they say the whistle-blower's all hearsay. it's just not true. trump pressured ukraine.

we get that from trump's public comments and the white house transcript of the call. trumps asking about the bidens. we get it from public comments, that call, from rudy giuliani on the show talking to the new york city. volker, sondland giving advice to ukrainians on how to navigate trump's demands. volker admitted that in his text. locking down records of the call. the white house acknowledged it. omb, orders to freeze u.s. aid. mulvaney says we do that all the time. trump said it was about corruption. and then spending. there's a whole list of them. why do i bring this up? whether or not to impeach, that is an open question. it's a tough argument. but that this was wrong, i don't see it the same way. let's see how congressman randy weber of texas sees it. welcome to the show.

it's good to have you on "prime time." >> thank you, chris. >> congressman, i know you don't like the process and i'm happy to talk to you about what you think is at play. in terms of what we know about the situation at this point, can you really say that this president did nothing wrong in his dealings with ukraine? >> chris, have you read the transcript? >> yes. >> you recognize that in that transcript that president zelensky says to president trump he did a great job of draining the swam map over here, he coul use president trump's help, he could learn from the president. did you read that? >> yup. >> here is the president of ukraine who has said to our great president, look, you've done a great job of draining your swamp, we've got corruption over here, i could use some help and i could learn from you. the president says there are a couple of examples, uses the crowd strike, through the russian collusion -- >> i know the conspiracy theory. >> so crowd strike, a wealthy

ukrainian owned that is right of that company, they got to look at the dnc's server as you mentioned earlier. they never would have let the fbi look at it by the way. >> >> that's not how it happened. they were brought in as a third-party analyst. the fbi accept thed that has th have in other cases and they said the conspiracy theory about crowd strike is nonsense. >> it was never gotten to the bottom of so the president is saying to president zelensky of ukraine, you want me to clean up your corruption, let me give you a couple of examples. one, get to the bottom of that instance. here's two, you are got a company that was by all outward appearances had joe biden's son, hunter biden, a pay-for-play job, if you want to call it that. it's not the president's fault that joe biden's son was there. it's not the president's fault that it was a ukrainian involved -- >> no, but it's the president's

choice, congressman, to pick out two things that would benefit him politically in the next election and ask ukraine to look at them in an exchange of help. >> chris, he's talking about the -- the president of ukraine is talking about cleaning up corruption in his country. our great president who has been draining the swamp over here is telling that president, you want to start with corruption in your country, we know of at least a couple. it's unfortunate that hunter biden was caught up in that, unfortunate it was part of the -- >> you're making it sound like this is a coincidence. he picked what would help him politically. we both know this president doesn't know anything about about what burisma is except what rudy giuliani told hill. they targeted things that he thought would help him politically and that's okay but you can't leverage foreign aid. >> chris -- >> yes, sir. >> presidents deal with other countries all the time as mick

mulvaney said -- i've talked to him about the missiles that went into syria. he makes calculated decisions. >> give me another example of a president asking a country to do something to help them in an election in exchange for aid. >> well, i'll tell you this, chris, this president has been doing exactly what he told america he would do and that's what they elected him to do. he is very thoughtful and the democrats hate him because of that. >> i don't know who hates him and i don't even like the word, congressman, i don't believe in hate as a concept. there's no -- >> you hate to hear that word, do you? i got it. >> i don't like to hear it because i think it shouldn't be part of our politics, that kind of animus. >> this is all i'm saying. i get that you don't like the process, i get you don't think it worthy of impeachment or removal, i get it. but the idea that you don't think it was wrong for a president to talk to the head of

another country and ask for dirt on two political opponent target and that's -- >> that's not what he did, chris. >> how else do you explain it? >> he made a suggestion to the president of ukraine who has asked him help -- >> so you talk to him about ukraine corruption but you only talk about americans? and then volker, taylor, sondland all tell stories about believing it was an inappropriate ask to have ukraine help in an american election. so they all got it wrong? >> chris, that was not about the election. that was about helping the ukrainians. it's not the president's fault that the bidens are democrats. >> i'm not playing it on the president. i'm blaming what he did on the president. >> hunter biden what most people think was a pay to play. >> most people think. it was looked at by ukraine and here in the united states. you guys were in power at this time and investigating all kinds of nonsense and you didn't look at this. but now it's a no-brainer.

>> listen, this president has been doing what he set out to do. the democrats have been set out to impeach him since day one. they have a r.o.i., return on investment, this meant resist, obstruct -- >> i know there's ugly politics on both sides but you can only deal with the facts in front of you. and the facts in front of you are what he did. you no ewhat know what he did w and if a democrat did it, you'd be all over them. >> that is not the case. al green filed an people resolution before the mueller report was in -- >> so vote against impeachment but why do you have to say this isn't wrong? it impugns your own integrity to ignore something like this when in the past you stood about much less. during benz what bothered you about that situation were issues

that didn't rise to this level, you went after obama for not dealing with subpoenas and congressional process, much less than this president. >> you look at the transcript, you can try to stretch the truth and make you say what you think it ought to say but this president -- we ought to be working on infrastructure for this country, on health care, on trade. why won't they put it on the floor? if you look at nancy pelosi and the house, they ought to be focused on the american people's business and not -- >> we just came out of a congress of the administration where the head of the senate minority said i am here to stop obama as a one-term president and we had a republican majority in the house that did nothing but obstruct, try to kill his health care plan and investigate. and now you're in high dujon when you're actually faced with facts of a president abusing his power. >> did they try to impeach obama? of course we didn't do that.

>> you didn't have any facts like this. if you had him asking a foreign power to help him out with his next opponent in exchange for aid, you would have been all over it. >> chris, you're going to have to wake up to the fact that that's not what he did. he offered to help president zelensky with corruption in his own country. >> and the corruption he wanted to help him with was the dnc and the bidens. that's the big problem of corruption in ukraine. >> chris, it's unfortunate that the bidens got caught in it. >> so you're bothered by the bidens. let me ask you a quick question. are you bothered by ivanka trump working for the american people and negotiating intellectual property with china at the same time she's visiting on a state visit? does that bother you? >> does she get paid? chris, this whole family has sacrificed their fortune, their incomes -- >> they're making money hand over fist. they made like $80 something million last year in office. they got finance deals for their

buildings. they got intellectual property from china while they're working for the government. >> they don't have to stop being in business. he doesn't take a salary. this president -- >> you do have to stop doing your private business when you work for the public sector. you're upset that biden leveraged his dad as a have. >> -- as a v.p. but you're not upset that ivanka leveraged in china. >> this country has put their finances on hold. >> that's why the g-7 is at doral? >> we're watching the whole country -- >> i'd skip that, too, if i were you. the economy can be good and you can act with integrity, too, congressman. that's what i'm saying. it not either/or. it's both. i love a great economy.

i love integrity in office. >> he's got integrity with other countries. >> really? >> that's the reason president zelensky asked him to help clean up that corruption. >> he didn't ask him -- zelensky didn't ask him for anything other than a visit, some javelins and aid. he was not asking him, donald trump, as some kind of corrupt fixer. he's ignored the corruption in his own administration, his own family and his own actions. he won't even show his taxes. the idea that someone is going to seek him out as corruption counsel is a little bit of a stretch. >> democrats have been after him since absolute day one. al green -- >> what does that have to do with the facts at hand, congressman? you can acknowledge that this is wrong but not think it impeachable. >> chris, what it means, you ask me a question, i'm going to answer it. >> please. >> they had an impeachment charge ready and searching and hoping they could hang their hat on something. russian collusion, mueller

investigation didn't get it. now they come out with this transcript and this phone call they're assuming things that aren't there. i've read it. >> it's not about the transcript. it's the transcript, it's the tex, it text, it's the interviews, it's what he said on camera. congressman randy weber, thank you very much for being on the show. you're always welcome. be well. have a good weekend. >> there's some republicans unlike congressman weber who have had enough, like anthony scaramucci. he's still wired into the party, even though he's not wired into trump anymore. what does he know about the state of play in that party and about these men who were arrested as associates of rudy giuliani? we got a picture of scaramucci with these guys. how deep into the party did they get? anthony is here. let's talk to him next.

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scrutiny over mr. giuliani's activities in ukraine is growing by the day. despite the white house downplaying mr. mulvaney's now clarified quid pro quo remarks, the damage is done. when will it be enough for republicans to start asking their own questions or at least to acknowledge what is obvious? let's bring in anthony scaramucci. anthony, first of all, god bless your faerther. i hope he's doing well. i'm thinking of the whole

family. >> i appreciate that and i appreciate your help. >> of course, of course. that's about us. we talk about all the time what's worthy of impeachment, what's worthy of removal, open questions to me even now. but what he did, you heard that texas congressman, he's welcome on the show, i want him to make the case, i'll treat him with respect but ukraine wanted him because he's done so well with the swam many here? how much of your party will buy moo tha into that? >> i have sympathy, if he comes on your show and says this stuff really doesn't look right, i went to law school, i understand the law, i understand the constitution, he broke and disavowed the constitution, he's going to get slammed by the president and that's going to decrease his ability to get

reelect. i get what's going on. i've been spending time trach traveling in the swing states. this past week i was in michigamichiga michigan, east lansing yesterday and in columbus, ohio today. i met with over a thousand people in those places. i'm meeting with wealthy donors? >> what are they saying? >> the same thing that normal americans are saying outside of the trump bubble, that there's something severely wrong with the president and the president has actually broken the law and now the big question is are we going to allow lawless activity to happen at the presidential level? i know the president's personal, he's big footing the media with doral. that is a distraction, a red herring. we'll spend more time on doral than we will the quid pro quo and all of the illicit activity that's going on. the hunter biden thing is don't

focus on what's going on with me or people around me, focus on hunter biden. so i understand the methodology of what he's doing and i'm puzzled by it because i would have thought by this point we would have broken into people like the texas congressman that you just had on the air -- >> he just said when you get into public service, you're not supposed to put your life on hold. that's absurd. that's exactly what you do with public life. who knows better than you. when you go into public service, you got to stop making money on the outside. >> that's the be a naabnormalcy malignancy of what the president is doing. he could have dropped all this stuff and this would have been a lot better. we're here now. that's the malignancy of what he's doing. so for me, it's turning, okay? and i'm spending time on this and energy. i'm going to announce the pac in the beginning of november, we'll go up on the ads and you'll be

very happy -- not you personally but people who want to see this go down in the right way and fair way in america will be very happy with the team i put together. we have to stop this and help the republican party rebuild and heal itself from this. i understand what happened. i understand the bullying. hey, chris, you've never felt more alive than when the president isle calling you an unstable nut job on twitter. >> i'm with you. when i don't understand is the collective unconscious here, anthony. even fruman and parnas. one was connected to trump's father back in the day but these guys are shady. it just makes me wonder, were there whispers about why is rudy around these guys, why is he using guys like this? these guys of shady. it bad enough they made the

mistake with manafort. was anybody trying to say to him watch out for these guys? >> yes, actually. i didn't know these guys. you ud showed you showed a picture of me -- >> i haven't showed it yet. about. >> i was inside the tomb of abraham. >> okay. >> there were 20 people on the trip with me. governor huckabee was on the trip as well. i obviously didn't control the guest list or anything like that. >> how did they get in? >> well, that's the question. we'd have to ask the guys that organized the trip. you have to understand people very close to rudy. lev was name dropping rudy like a machine gunner. but there were people inside the mayor's circle, not me, because i didn't know these people that told him to knock it off with

these people and i don't know why the mayor decided not to do that. you know i love the mayor, you love the mayor, i pray for the mayor every single day. i want to remember him as the guy that helped save new york and heal new york after 9/11. i don't like what's going on now and i hope he gets out of this okay. but here's the thing, they did infiltrate the republican party and it should also -- you should ask people a question, how much money does it actually take to buy elements of influence if you're an outsider? and the answer is it's not a lot, chris. that should scare everybody. >> it also weird that the money keeps coming -- russia keeps popping up in all these things. giving erdogan this pass. who does he meet with last week? p putin. these guys have all this money throwing fl tloou their accounts in similar amounts as rudy.

trump says i don't know them. one of them used to work with his dad. there are pictures with them. >> there are a lot of investigative facts that the president knows them way more than he says he knows them. and then the president will come up with another idea to big foot the media away from that. maybe he'll announcer in summit at trump tower. but the truth of the matter it is cracking. governor kasich, thank god, speaking out. a republican from texas speaking out. there's a lot of people that are speaking out now and feel the bravery. when i spoke out in august and said this is absolutely crazy and we're in a trump meltdown, i was a lone person and somebody told me this is like a kamikaze raid. but there's a full battalion of of people right now.

>> anthony scaramucci, thank you for joining me on a friday night. the best to your father and family. >> have a great weekend. >> be well, anthony. >> where are we right now? i have an argument to make to you. i'm looking a the my social media feed -- what do you mean she shouldn't be removed? that's their opinion, it's not a legal process. but what is objective is what we see in front of us that i will argue to you too many republicans are choosing to ignore. so let me lay it out for you, you decide next. pain happens.

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missiles, from the united states for defense purposes. the president, i would like you to do us a favor, though. the favor? dirt on biden and the dnc. that's not cleaning up ukraine corruption. that's taking out an opponent, and it is wrong to ask a foreign power to do that, period. and there is so much corroboration of the wrongdoing. look, they all parrot the same talking points they were given, and they all fall short. volker's text, heard from the white house, assuming president z convinces trump he will investigate, get to the bottom of what happened in 2016. will nail down date for visit to washington. that was the give and the get. or this one, bill taylor. are we now saying that security assistance and white house meeting are conditioned on investigations? gordon sondland, call me. and what about the testimony from the string of diplomats on capitol hill expressing their concerns that giuliani was effectively a shadow secretary of state with shady connections

to shady people? his purpose, the dnc and the bidens. and in case that isn't enough, you have this. >> 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. that's why we held up the money. i have news for everybody. get over it. there's going to be political influence in foreign policy. >> the acting chief of staff walked it back, they say. no, he didn't. be straight. he got told by trump and others to go out, lie, deny, and cry. the media made me do it. in other words, learn from the master. >> and there was never any quid pro quo. there is no pro quo. >> saying it a lot doesn't make it true. he is the master of mendacity. he held up the money over corruption concerns? please. you have never heard this president address corruption by anyone around him, his cabinet,

his campaign manager, other key advisers, his kids, or himself. and it wasn't just one call. this was months of multiple players, diplomats, the v.p., the cabinet secretary, the white house, and his lawyer. the paper in ukraine, the kiev post, says look at this shady thing and all the people who made it happen. and the picture of the u.s. president is right on the cover. come on. when is it going to be enough for republicans to call it out as wrong? i'm not saying that you have to impeach or remove. they sure had the guts to call things flagrant when it was benghazi, and in '98 when they started an investigation into president clinton about real estate transactions, and they ended up with this infamous lie. >> i did not have sexual relations with that woman, ms. lewinsky. >> that was enough. they didn't need a crime. they said it again and again and again. it's about ethics. it's about setting a standard, cleansing the office, and sending a message to future

presidents about what's acceptable. but what it was really about was playing to advantage and, yes, the democrats hated it then. and they're indulging in it now. and the two sides swapped arguments, and it's ugly and obvious. but the democrats have the facts on their side in this one. and that puts the gop in the position of having to pretend that the facts aren't there. with mueller, the bar was, show the collusion. show working with a foreign agent to impact an election. it's so important. i warned then that i didn't see that stuff in the mueller investigation. i told people to manage your expectations or set yourself up for disappointment. but here the requirements are met big-time. collusion all over the place. clear working with a foreign power to impact an election. it's clear, and they know it. but the same mouths that saw things so clearly when attacking the democrats, now they say this. >> we stand behind the president like the american people do and that this investigation, as i just said earlier, is unfair and

partisan, and the american people say it -- >> and mulvaney's comments didn't open up that door to some republican members to be skeptical? >> i don't see it at all. >> he doesn't see it at all because he's like this. that's why he won't come on the show anymore. it's okay to say, i don't think it should be justified as removable, but to say nothing was wrong? no abuse? that makes you as bad as this president and all the patsies that go along with him. you are abusing your power as well. that's my argument. from our president's mouth to your ears, i got a bolo for you. be on the lookout for a massive foreign disinformation campaign, next. the old dogs. the deaf, blind, the different. subaru presents the underdogs. these shelter dogs still love unconditionally. they're just hoping to find their human, who does too. to help, subaru is establishing national make a dog's day

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