support that this could also damage president trump in the 2020 election campaign or trump's personal lawyer rudy giuliani is now being subpoenaed and trump is lashing out how much pressure do you think the president is feeling right now well these are under a lot of pressure and 1st and foremost rudy giuliani is president trump's private lawyer who travel to madrid to meet ukrainian officials and press essentially press the ukraine to initiate investigations against joe biden and his son hunter biden the front runner of the democratic party and therefore a likely potential political rival of president trump so that's very problematic in and off itself and 3 the committees are now believing the president trump and rudy giuliani could have been jeopardizing the national security with their behavior by pressing the ukraine to interfere in national election and that is obviously for the president very dangerous as the rudy giuliani was acting on his behalf. and on another front all of the new york times reported today that trump has been in touch with the astray the in prime minister scott morrison asking fo

rudy giuliani. the "post" reports that democrats are already examining whether trump and rudy giuliani sought to manipulateainian government into helping trump's re-election campaign. giuliani just told chris that he did ask ukraine to investigate joe biden after first denying that. what's your reaction? >> my reaction is, what is rudy's role? he says he does something and then tells the president. as an attorney for ten years i absolutely never did that. is he acting in his official capacity or unofficial capacity? obviously he isn't in any official position where he had to be approved by the senate. what acts are he carrying out? how much of it is for his personal gain? how much of it is to broke the president of the united states? carry out methods that can only be described as byzantine and bizarre. >> congressman, the acting dni, joseph mcguire, will appear before your committee next week. how do you get him to change his mind and release this complaint to you? >> i don't know that we will. i think we can educate and inform the american public that the law is being violated, pointing out that the stat

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to at least have something to do with the mayhem and chaos that rudy giuliani brings to all presidential conduct, vis-a-vis donald trump and foreign policy. >> you know, rudy giuliani would have been my first choice for a witness to subpoena right now, too. the reason for that is there's a compelling timeline of conduct involving giuliani and ukraine. i think when it's all put on sort of one level timeline by the intelligence, by the oversight committee staffer for giuliani's testimony, we'll all by surprised by how much of that conduct has been happening in plain sight, and how it all adding up to paint a really compelling picture of this president's culpability for the conduct in ukraine. what we have focused on so far is the whistle-blower complaint, really there's been a lengthy history of giuliani needing -- of prosecutors being encouraged to take up pointless investigations into the bidens, which is nothing more than political smear. also because giuliani seemed to have an inability to stick to a consistent story over time, having him being questioned and cross-examined by skillful prosecutors, skill of committee

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here we have someone tied to doeold trump, rudy giuliani, his ukpaid lawyer, essentially being open to help froine to damage the leading candidate that could be running against donald trump in 2020. even morserious would be the allegations that donald trump himselwas conditioning the u.s. aid, u.s. policy, on a foreign government helping. that goes beyond what the allegations are against giuliani. nada: briefly, president trump has ntathered many versies.ny is this going to damage him politically? anths.y:y: don't think it donald trump could come out tonight and say it would be great if ukraine would reopen an investigation into joe biden. out, but itelp them iseally important for them to fight corruption -- which is what people are alleging he said onhe phone call -- and that would not change the political dynamic the united states. people know about donald trump and they know how he acts. th already.ines are drawn nada: thanks as always. anthony: my pleasure. nada' let'take a quick look at other news. the new england patriots have announced that they have released antonio brown after

in republicans and independents and the subpoena for rudy giuliani, how does this work together and this polling not just looking at how president trump looks at this but how rudy giuliani is. >> and we'll wait and see how it plays out and the top line is the same as other polls. even split, just below 50% support but in light of the polling, what you've seen is what you expect which is democrats picking up the 20% who weren't there yet on impeachment. what makes the cnn poll different is this democrat line is the same and you've picked up republican and independent support. if that is accurate, that is a big deal. but i think we have to see how it settles down as i say over time. rudy, one thing that is interesting as the commissioner -- has been his worst enemy in the media appearance, the final paragraph of the letter telling him he's been subpoenaing for the document cites media appearances and said you called for an investigation of joe biden. which goes to a typical lawyer is very cautious, very careful, doesn't get out there creating new problems for himself or his client. and that is not what rudy is -- >> and that is not the

zelinsky then tells trump his assistant has already spoken to rudy giuliani. trump goes onto make another request saying the other thing, there's a lot of talk about biden's son, that biden stopped the prosecution, so if you could look into it, it sounds horrible to me. zelinsky assures trump his next prosecutor general will look into the information. only after receiving that assurance does trump offer zelinsky a personal meeting at the white house. trump repeatedly urged zelinsky

appear in fact our the attorney general, william barr, and the personal attorney of president trump, rudy giuliani it is incredibly fast-moving, this story. we have one i sing what is happening there with regards to mike pompeo, but once we see how quickly this is moving, and this appears to be one of the issues the democrats have been focusing on, that they want this to move quickly, they don't want this to stall, and there is talk as well that we could bc -- we could see these hearings wrapping up in a couple of months. that's what democrats have been saying. brent: the hope is to keep these hearings laser targeted. what is the case democrats are trying to make? pablo: you are right, they want to focus on these ukraine allegations. that is where they are focused. they are focused on the fact that this was an abuse of power and they are looking at exactly what president trump did. they are claiming he was seeking dirt on his political opponent from a foreign leader, of course dirt being on one of the presidential candidates from the democratic party, joe biden, and also the president trump was es

trump. rudy giuliani so it's you know incredibly fast moving this story at the moment of just got kind of one eye on seeing what's happening there with regards to mike pompei oh but of course once we see how quickly this is moving and this is appears to be one of the issues that the democrats have been focusing on that they want this to move quickly they don't want to stall and there's talk as well that you know we could be seeing these hearings they're hoping hopefully wrapping up in the next couple of months that's what the democrats in fact have been saying today the target is to keep this investigation a. few rigs leaves are targeted in a nutshell do what is the case of the democrats are trying to make. they want to focus of course on these ukraine and that's where their focus their focus on the fact that there's an abuse of power and they're also looking at exactly you know what president trump did they're seeking the fact that they're claiming that he was seeking dirt on his political opponent from a foreign leader of course being a presidential democrat present one of the presidential

rudy giuliani doing the media rounds and speaking on behalf of the sitting president, president trump, he's his personal attorney. why are we not hearing from the white house's attorneys. why is rudy giuliani is back in the mix and the pressure is on democrats, the pressure is on the administration to help people understand what happened? the question is is this ground for impeachment? is this ground for more information and the answer to that is universally -- >> yes. >> it is not president trump as individual american. >> not in 2016 when he was a private citizen. >> he's a president. why is rudy giuliani involved? >> despite president trump and rudy giuliani's repeated allegations against the bidens. no evidence of wrong doing tied to his son, hunter biden. ukraine business had been found. it dates back to 2014. president trump had repeatedly suggested without evidence that joe biden used his vp position to pressure ukraine to fire the country's top prosecutor, viktor shokin. he was a former prosecutor in ukraine. he was investigating the owner of burisma. so criticism grew against

. >> john: we will discuss with president trump's personal lawyer rudy giuliani.lus, ask or send a panel how the growing controversy is fueling impeachment talks. all right now on on "fox news sunday" ." ♪ and hello again from fox news in washington, the war of words over the saudi oil attacks, which the united states blames on iran, has turned into action, the pentagon announcing it will send more troops to the region to boost security for allies and president trump approving new sanctions on iran's central bank but the president also signaling he is not inclined to offer an immediate real dorry strike, which the iranian regime has declared would mean all-out war. in a moment we will speak with the top diplomat, mike pompeo, who just returned from saudi arabia and abu dhabi, but first, kevin corke is traveling with the president, who has a rally today in houston with the indian prime minister. kevin, good morning. >> john, good day to be with you. we will have more on that rally coming up in just a few moments, but by any measure, the iranians are suffering great

flonase sensimist. 24 hour non-drowsy allergy relief >>> president trump's personal attorney, rudy giulianimaking a stunning admission right here on cnn last night, just seconds after claiming he did not ask ukraine to investigate trump's political opponent joe biden. he revealed this to chris cuomo. >> you never asked anything about hunter biden, you never asked anything about joe biden to the prosecutor? >> the only thing i asked about joe biden was how it was sanco, who was appointed, dismissed hunter. >> so you did ask something about joe biden? >> of course i did. >> so that seems really, really bad for the president. here he is seemingly admitting that talking about building a trump tower in moscow lasted into the campaign, possibly even after president trump was elected. >> well, it's our understanding that they went on throughout 2016. there wareren't a lot of them, t there were conversations. >> throughout 2016? >> yeah. probably could be up to as far as october, november. >> prior to that interview, president trump's attorney michael cohen admitted that conversations went on earli

rudy giuliani, there is new reporting in the washington post saying he has been involved in terms of trump's interest in ukraine as a potential matter worth investigation. rudy giuliani was on fox news just a few minutes ago. here's some of what he had to say. >> insiders saying you muck this up. your response? >> you know who i did it at the request of? the state department. i never talked to a ukrainian official until the state department called me and asked me to do it. and then i reported every conversation back to them. i'm a pretty good lawyer, just a country lawyer. but it's all here, right here. the first call from the state department. >> why is rudy running the show on that? why isn't it fbi and main justice? >> that's a very good question, because the fbi's performance entire investigation including to this moment is flawed. why am i doing it? can't you figure it out? i'm his defense lawyer. i'm defending him. he's my client. >> peter baker, this is a white house that's not a stranger to controversy. it's not a stranger to breaking sort of crisis style headlines. what's breaking o

reason dot com reports the allegations of against trump appear to be mounting they're saying that rudy giuliani trump's personal lawyer flip flopped on that television and then surely denying but then admitting to urging selenski to carry out the opposition research on biden his family and then just a few days prior to trump's controversial phone call with selenski the president of ukraine acting white house chief of staff mick mulvaney withheld 400000000 in military aid from the ukraine from ukraine at trump's behest from intelligence whistleblowers thwarted to attempting to collude with a foreign power for potential dirt on election opponent to a who's who of the administration's rogues gallery electroboy rudy giuliani and secretary of state might pump ale this impeachment beecher's all all of the bell ways favorite political figures topics and places and has energized the democrats in the mainstream news media you know all of this begs a very important question why did it take a threat to the election chances of joe biden to invigorate democratic party bosses to find the grounds to finally i

remarkable about this scandal is what has just played out in front of our eyes by what president trump and rudy giulianiid. >> yeah. >> including the release of the transcript and you see president trump, you know, pushing the ukrainians to investigate his political rivals and rudy giuliani, especially a week ago with our buddy chris cuomo talking about, of course he did the same. it's all right there in front of the nation to look at. >> yeah. who else there is to talk to, the former ambassador to the ukraine, who was forced out, other people in the state department, i mean, rudy giuliani is running around saying he was doing this all at the behest of the state department. there's a lot of folks there to talk to. that's it for us tonight. jake, thank you very much. >> thank you, anderson. the news continues on cnn. 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 or is more reliable in keeping you connected. ♪ ♪ this simple banana peel represents a b

and dana, one thing that struck me listening to the dialogue he said he would ask rudy giuliani why he's involved, but trump himself on the call told ukraine to get in touchry rudy giuliani his personal lawyer several times over. >> he knows why he's involved. he's involved because rudy giuliani has been aggressively telling the president, telling the press, telling the ukrainians, telling everybody since last summer that he wants to and is actively working to, from his perspective, get to the bottom of corruption that he thinks that joe biden was involved in and not just that. allegations that the democrats were working with the ukrainians to influence the 2016 election, allegations which is we should underscore highlight and emboldble saying there are no basis for that. they are just allegations. so the president knows exactly what's going on. and you have to also remember the timing. that giuliani back in the summer was not just telling the press but trying to go to ukraine and it was the day after the mueller hearing, which at the time was seen as, you know, a noog burth burger for the president. felt h

feeling in the world, i cannot stop smiling about it ♪ john: sewer actions between president trump, rudy giuliani of ukraine under dispute after a whistleblower report. potentially influencing the 2020 race. joining me here live in washington to talk more about this is mr. trump's personal attorney, rudy giuliani. welcome back. how are you? thanks for joining us. dial the clock back to thursday, play this exchange between now and chris cuomo on cnn in which you appeared to at first say you didn't ask ukraine to investigate joe biden or his son, and then you seemed to change your mind. >> did you can ask the ukraine to -- >> actually, i did -- >> never asked anything about hunter biden, joe biden -- >> the only thing i asked about joe biden is to get to the bottom of how it was that the prosecutor who was appointed dismissed the case -- >> so you did ask ukraine to look into joe biden. >> of course i did. >> you just said you didn't! john: all right, did you ask ukraine -- >> i responded immediately. he said to me did you ever talk about joe biden, i said, no, then i said i did say -- the no was o

it's been claimed that kurt volker helped mr trump's personal lawyer, rudy giuliani, arrange meetings of state mike pompeo has been ordered by the house of representatives to hand over documents to an impeachment inquiry looking into the donald trump's dealings with the ukraine government. mr pompeo will have a week to comply with the subpoena. nigerian police say they've rescued nearly 500 people from a building in the northern city of kaduna where they were being detained. those held were all men and boys, and said they'd been tortured and sexually abused. and, 22 years on, walking in his mother's footsteps. prince harry has visited a partially—cleared minefield in angola. the duke of sussex described the visit as "quite emotional".

remarkable about this scandal is what has just played out in front of our eyes by what president trump and rudy giuliani yeah. >> including the release of the transcript and you see president trump, you know, pushing the ukrainians to investigate his political rivals and rudy giuliani, especially a week ago with our buddy chris cuomo talking about, of course he did the same. it's all right there in front of the nation to look at. >> yeah. who else there is to talk to, the former ambassador to the ukraine, who was forced out, other people in the state department, i mean, rudy giuliani is running around saying he was doing this all at the behest of the state department. there's a lot of folks there to talk to. that's it for us tonight. jake, thank you very much. >> thank you, anderson. the news continues on cnn. i'm your cat. ever since you brought me home, that day. i've been plotting to destroy you. sizing you up... calculating your every move. you think this is love? this is a billion years of tiger dna just ready to pounce. and if you have the wrong home insurance coverage, you could be coughing up th

>> rudy giuliani's involvement is problematic for donald trump and for rudy giuliani. t of all, donald trump, why is the president's personal lawyer, rudy giuliani, who is not at any of these relevant times any type of government employee, he did not work if say the, he did not work for the white house, why is donald trump's personal lawyer trying to get dirt on joe biden likely political rival for donald trump? it shows that the interest donald trump had in here was not the national interests of the united states, it was donald trump's own personal interests represented by his personal lawyer and donald trump's own political interests. as far as rudy giuliani himself is involved, he has to be very careful here because it is a federal crime to solicit, to try to get from a foreign national anything of value relating to an election. so if you break down, was rudy giuliani soliciting? i would say that he was begging for information from a foreign national. sure, from various ukranian leaders. and then is it a thing of value, is dirt on joe biden a thing of value for a cam

president trump also mentioned his own personal attorney, rudy giuliani, would be in touch. today, less than 24 hours after the impeachment inquiry was launched because of that call, the two presidents side-by-side in new york. president trump and the ukrainian president, who said he felt no pressure from president trump. speaker nancy pelosi saying the transcript and the justice department acting in a rogue fashion confirmed the need tonight for an impeachment inquiry. and this evening, president trump before the cameras just moments ago, angrily denouncing pelosi's move, using familiar words, calling it a hoax and a witch hunt. abc's chief white house correspondent jonathan karl leading us off. >> reporter: president trump and ukrainian president volodoymyr zelensky all smiles today as they met in new york. but tonight, all attention is on their phone call of nine weeks ago. according to the white house summary of the call, president trump directly asked the new ukrainian president to coordinate with attorney general bill barr to investigate his 2020 rival, joe biden. early

it comes during the call between president trump and zelensky. rudy giuliani'se comes up repeatedly, as trump asking for foreign help investigating joe biden. rudy knows what's going on. if you can speak to him, that would be great. that would raise acquisitions that giuliani was acting as an improper agent of the state department. giuliani says no way he was helping investigate corruption. and he has a paper trail that proves it. including a text message of a state department personnel making a meeting. the state department says, mr. giuliani is a private citizen and acts in a personal capacity as a lawyer for president trump. he does not speak on behalf of the u.s. fwovgovernment. but he has spoken for trump in times. >> he didn't obstruct. >> reporter: the president calls him a loyal ally. >> reporter: his critics call him something else. >> he is the henchman. >> reporter: he is looking at a new title, fall guy. he is going to vigorously defendant himself as he did president trump. will the president stand by him if the going gets tough? tom foreman, cnn, wa

whistle-blower mentioned both rudy giuliani and attorney general william barr in the complaint as individuals who would help this pursuit of a prosecution or investigation of trump's political rivals, the bidens. is the pred going to be willing to defend giuliani and barr with the same verve as he defends himself? >> reporter: that's the question going forward and interesting to watch. especially rudy giuliani on the nerves of a lot of people inside the west wing and don't think he's doing the best to serve the president, actually think he's getting the president in turmoil, essentially impeached by operating in this ways and speaking to the ukrainian officials. something to watch. and others who work inside the administration, bill barr, says the president brought a lot of people into this. not only bill barr, he did fish times during that phone call also talked about the vice president's conversations to the ukrainians, secretary pompeo and wilbur ross. bringing a lot of people into the situation with him. whether or not he sticks biden or let's someone take the blame will be interesting to watch and what we talked about, another thing trying to point out, did t

and now three house committees are investigating whether or not president trump and his personal lawyer, rudy giulianipressured the ukrainian government to insist in trump's re-election through profession of dirt. i'm joined by rick tyler, glen kirschner. former federal prosecutor. you know, the politico guy like i've been. what is wrong? there's no sense about regs, this president keeps punching into cotton. there's nobody stopping him. >> we don't have a coequal branch of government in congress. look at the -- nadler's committee. >> the judiciary. >> the judiciary committee. he sends ut subpoenas, calls witnesses three months late, calls out subpoenas, nobody shows up. he gets a low-level fired political hack to show up, and he mocks them. and people are supposed to take that seriously? he's so screwed up the accountability problem with congress, they don't know how to react. congress has a coequal duty, it's in the constitution. read the constitution. use your constitutional powers. they have the power of the purse, the budget. they could screw up this executive branch so seriously, so quickly if t

saturday night live" returning for its 45th season, wasting no time spoofing trump's impeachment inquiry and, of course, rudy giulianie-night laughs. >> i'm mr. trump. what's new? >> what do you mean, what's new, rudy? i'm being impeached. it's the greatest presidential harassment of all-time. i would know. i'm like the president of harassment. >> you got to relax, mr. trump. we got nothing to worry about. nobody is going to find out about our illegal side dealings with the ukraine. >> good. >> or how we tried to cover up those side dealings. >> great. >> or how we plan to cover up the cover-up. >> rudy, where are you right now? >> i'm on cnn right now. let me put you on speaker. >> rudy, get out of there. and whatever you do, stay off the phone. >> i got another call. >> all right. >> okay. who is this? >> it's attorney general barr. >> bill, i'm really starting to worry. >> well, stay calm, mr. president. i know things look bad right now. but i got our top guy on this. >> good. let's get him on the phone, too. >> hello? >> damn it, rudy. >> hey, mr. president. >> rudy, you're not on cnn still, are you? >> of course

now to another big story dominating the day's news: president trump's personal lawyer, rudy giuliani, hand over all documents relating to his work for mr trump in ukraine to three committees investigating the president. it is the latest move in the us presidential impeachment inquiry accusing mr trump of using his position to solicit interference from a foreign country in the next us election. mr trump has suggested that one of the senior democrats investigating could be arrested for treason. i made a call. the call was perfect. when the whistleblower reported it, he made it sound terrible. and then you had adam schiff, who even worse, made up my words, which i think is just horrible. i've never even seen like that. i asked our north america correspondent peter bowes first about mr trump's personal lawyer. yes, he has given several television interviews, especially this past weekend, and the committee chairman focused on what he said, that he has acknowledged that he went to ukraine, he has spoken to ukrainian officials, to try to get an investigation into joe biden, officials, to try

here is the key thing, paul manafort, president trump, rudy giuliani. what do we know about their interest in ukraine? >> here is what's interesting about ukraine, and i am not a foreign policy expert but i've learned a lot. essentially what we have is a proxy war fought on the global stage. ukraine has sought to join nato and the western alliance for some time now, and vladimir putin sees that as a threat and does not want them to do so, does not want them admitted to the western alliance. essentially the united states has an interest in strengthening western alliances to make the world safe for democracies like hours. it's in our interest to have a strong ukraine which is key to understanding why these allegations against the president are extremely serious because the idea that we would withhold aid to ukraine is really dangerous. that's actually against our national interest. it's also in the interest of vladimir putin. and i think that is the context that sometimes we miss from these conversations. you crane has been in a kind of low-key war now fo

rudy giuliani was the president's personal attorney in that case. so, again, you can ask rudy what he was doing. i know that what president trump talked about was continuing to find out what happened with russian interference in the 2016 election because he has been standing up to rsia and there's a strong record, by the way, of how president trump has stood up to russia when barack obama wouldn't and joe biden was vice president and they wouldn't stand up to russia. >> do you think it was appropriate for the president to ask a foreign leader for help investigating his chief political rival for 2020? >> again, go look at what he talked about in that conversation. he was talking about the 2016 interference that happened in our election. look, there have been media reports for years, joe biden himself bragged long before he was a candidate for president that he went there to ukraine and held the billion dollars back. you know, i'm leaving in six hours unless they fire the prosecutor. my goodness, chuck, a lot of people have been asking that to be investigated for years. >> congressman, you know the truth behind that. why are you

zelensky says one of his assistants has already been in touch with trump's personal attorney, rudy giuliani. president trump then has a second request and it's about joe biden. "there's a lot of talk about biden's son," he says, "that biden stopped the prosecution and a lot of people want to find out about that, would be great." he tells the ukrainian president, "i will tell rudy and attorney general barr to call." joe biden's son, hunter, was paid tens of thousands of dollars a month serving on the world of a ukrainian company while his father was vice president, but there's been no evidence of any wrongdoing. at the time of the phone call, president trump was holding back nearly $400 million in foreign aid for ukraine. today, with the two presidents sitting side-by-side, the ukrainian leader insisted he never felt pressured. >> i think, and you read it that nobody pushed me. yes. >> in other words, no pressure. >> reporter: as for joe biden, today he responded, saying, quote, "the house must do its job and hold donald trump to account for his abuse of power." and with the house now launch

trump's lawyer, rudy giuliani.aula reid looks at how america's mayor has become the president's fixer. >> reporter: the whistleblower singles out rudy giuliani as a central figure in the scandal. awe president's personal lawyer is mentioned 30 times in the complaint, which cites meetings ad had with at least seven ukrainian officials. in early august, just eight days after president trump's call with his ukrainian counter-part, giuliani flew to madrid to meet with one of the ukrainian leader's advisers. according to the complaint they toscussed cases the two leaders usd raised. seuliani has admitted pressuring ukraine to open an investigation into former vice president joe biden and his son hunter. >> so you did ask ukraine to look into joe biden. >> of course, i did! >> reporter: the whistleblower alleges, starting in mid-may, u.s. officials were deeply concerned by giuliani's circumvention of national security decision making and efforts to relay messages between the white house and ukraine. president trump defen

, trump's personal lawyer. rudy giuliani reportedly has been pushing for ukraine's government to investigate the vice president and his family. a story that has prompted a fresh standoff between congress and the white house and threatens the president with a slew of legal issues that started wednesday. "the washington post" first reported an official within the u.s. intelligence community filed a formal whistleblower complaint involving the president over a phone call the president made to a foreign leader who has since been identified and press reports as ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskiy. the president pushed back and attempted to deflect blame on his political opponent. >> it doesn't matter what i discussed, but somebody ought to look into joe biden's statement because it was disgraceful where he talked about billions of dollars he's not giving to a certain country unless a certain prosecutor is taken off the case. somebody ought to look into that. >> today former vice president joe biden responded to the president'

>> rudy giuliani's involvement is problematic for donald trump and i think telling. why was he involved in this? if this is official united states of america business, rudy giuliani is a private civilian. he has no role in this. but if this is something to benefit donald trump personally or politically, then it makes sense that rudy giuliani was involved. why is he involved? that to me really hurts donald trump. >> gloria? >> yeah, look, who is rudy giuliani? he's the president's personal attorney. i remember during the russia investigation giuliani used to give the president's real attorneys heartburn every time he went on television, and now he has sort of insinuated himself probably at the behest of the president to help the president with the 2020 election. russia was about the 2016 election. this is about the next one, and everyone knows that giuliani does the president's bidding and there's a question here about whether this fits a pattern like birtherism, whether you concoct a story, you stir the pot and then you let it stew for the political base which is what

doing something there's a naysaying liberal media following close behind despite president trump and rudy giuliani's repeated allegations against the bidens no evidence of wrongdoing tied to his son hunter biden's ukraine business has actually been found the allegations against him which which have indeed been been proven baseless at least to this point these are proven claims that the president is making about bud right well he's making up to the allegations against the vice president i think that's really important to understand so does biden and his family have a squeaky clean track record let's look at the facts in 2014 biden was in charge of washington's policy stance for ukraine and for some reason his son was put on a ukrainian oil company's board of directors around that same time when a prosecutor launched an inquiry into that weird coincidence biden had this to say and i went over. $1230.00 time to key events and i was supposed to announce that there is another $1000000000.00 loan guarantee and i got a commitment from poroshenko and from yatsenyuk that they would take action against the st

the state department acknowledged that voelker put trump's personal lawyer, rudy giuliani, in touch withn aide to ukraine's president. at least 225 house members now say they support an impeachment inquiry, more than the 218 that speaker pelosi needs to impeach him. it was just last week that we were asking when and if the democrats were going to launch an impeachment inquiry against trump for a series of alleged crimes, including obstruction of justice and self-enrichment and now after a whirlwind week we are finally witnessing the beginning of something 73 year old donald trump has never had to experience, accountability. joining me now to put some perspective on this wild week is historian and msnbc political analyst jon meachum. jon, it's great to have you here, thanks so much for your time. >> thanks. thank you. it's been a quiet week, i hope you can find something to talk about for the broadcast. >> we're going to struggle to fill the time here in this block. can you just from a historical perspective explain if we have ever come anywhere close to a week like this for an american p

the president's advisers cannot answer questions about why president donald trump's attorney, rudy giuliani reached out to ukraine instead of government officials.>> i did it out of request of the state department and have the text messages to prove it and i also have a thank you from them for doing a good job. >> reporter: the subpoena for giuliani and documents related to the case could be coming as soon as today.>>> rewi pose staepartment officials this week former us ambassador to ukraine, testifies on wednesday and former ukraine envoy will testify on thursday.>>> the golden state warriors are settling into the teams brand- new home address in the media, day for the first time today from chase center. we are there right now with the very latest on the duds.>> reporter: the duds will look a little different than they have in recent years pass, no kevin durand no clay thompson until at least the all-star break. the coach summed it up best say the new season is like the new building just all going to be experimented he says. he said it will happen and the team will have to be willing to t