rudy giuliani, igor fruman and neve parnas were nabbed as they were trying to leave the country. there is ongoing investigation including looking at rudy giuliani himself which sounds not great for rudye does this go from here? i want to bring in legal experts, people that understand the ins and outs and the dons constitutional underpinning. amy rocha who is herself a attorney for the southern district of new york. and melissa marie, professor at miu school of law. she's also host of the podcast against the supreme court. >>> as someone who worked at the southern district, i was just so fascinated by the timing of all this and what it means. what is your reaction to this big arrest being announced right at this moment and its proximity to rudy giuliani? >> first of all, it sounds like from the reporting that sdny had to take this down. they're investigating people, have alerts that come up when someone is buying a one-way ticket out of town. it sounds like the timing was dictated by that. this is not an indictment they threw together over night. they would have had to goo to a grand jury. if you're arresting someone on the fly, you do it by complaint, not indictment. this has clearly

rudy giuliani? >> rudy giuliani is in a lot of trouble on a lot of different fronts. first, rudyd states to further the interests of ukraine, requirements are that he be registered as a foreign lobbyist, he is not. if he's working for president trump, he's got problems too because we know the charges over the two other individuals, money was pouring in. either way, rudy giuliani's got a legal problem. >> so let's listen to what the president said when he was asked last night if giuliani is still his attorney. >> well, i don't know. i haven't spoken to rudy. i spoke to him yesterday briefly. he's a very good attorney and he has been my attorney, yeah, sure. >> yeah, sure. it didn't seem wholly confident, but it does seem reminiscent of some moments behind us now where the president was really staunchly for somebody, suddenly wasn't, and they were suddenly gone. how shaky is the ground he stands on this morning? >> very shaky. first of all, donald trump should know if rudy giuliani or anybody else is his lawyer. that's up to him. it's up to the individual. yeah, we've seen this dan

it just didn't work out i don't know that he got along with rudy giuliani rudy giuliani who are seeking out corruption and what happens mostly in the 26th election because there was tremendous corruption in the 2016 election i think even you wouldn't that the election was it was disgraceful what happened and what happened to me and what happened to the republicans and that continues with lives palosi and wish if adam schiff got caught making up statements that he said i said that i didn't say which is fraud i mean disputed purely fraudulent so it continues and austrian man has been charged after a family of 6 was found locked away in his remote farmhouse in the netherlands the 58 year old is accused of holding them against their will and harming their health a father and his 5 children aged between $18.25 were found in a secret room after the l.d.s. escaped it's believed they had no contact with the outside world a 9 year. afghans in germany have reached an agreement on arms export wars for their joint military programs but they remain at odds over saudi arabia germany has agreed not to

rudy giuliani. rudy giuliani was seeking out corruption and what happens mostly in the 2016 election because there was tremendous corruption in the 2016 election i think even you would admit that. the election was -- it was disgraceful what happened and what happened to me and what happened to the republicans. and that continues with nancy pelosi and with schiff -- adam schiff got caught making up statements that he said that i said that i didn't say which is fraud. i mean, purely fraudulent. so it continues. so rudy was a great prosecutor. he was the best mayor in the history of city of new york as far as i can see. i think he's acknowledged what he did for crime and for everything else and when he saw what was going on with our election of 2016, the election i won, but the election that was absolutely corrupted by things that took place in government. now we'll see what happens. the ig report is going to come out soon. and we'll see what happens. i think people -- i know nothing about it. in terms of the report. i'm waiting for the report like everybody else, but i predict you will see things that you don't even believe, the level of corruption whether it's comey, whether it's strzok and his lover page. whether it's so many other people. mccabe. whether it's president obama himself, let's see whether or not it's president obama. let's see whether or not they put that in. rudy saw that and rudy giuliani because he was very, very incensed at the horrible things that he saw -- as are many people, o

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we know they're associates of rudy giuliani and we know rudy giuliani has been involved in this effort to vetinvestigate a political opponent of the president. if you're rudyas i look at the facts of this case, i kind of consider these two the paul manaforts of the ukraine scandal. in the russia investigation, paul manafort wasn't directly involved in collusion but he got ensnare in all these other corrupt acts. when the fbi investigates corruption, they do what they call circling the target and you want to know everything about their associates. in investigating these two, if they find rudy giuliani involved, that will impact him a lot. >> obviously there are time considerations if, you know, the white house is going to throw up obstacles to having giuliani actually testify. >> yeah, they need to have him testify. the thing about this is is that, i mean, these two men were doing various things and obviously tried to flee the country. it's very suspicious behavior, you know, from the get-go. but they were also involved in this campaign to get the u.s. ambassador to ukraine fired, right, and the reason for that is because she was pushing back against this i

rudy giuliani and his sort of campaign to get her out, when trump says he heard very bad things, are we to assume he heard that from rudy giuliani? >> yeah, i think that's obvious. he's hearing things from rudy giuliani and rudy giuliani is a conduit for things he's hearing from officials or former officials in ukraine who are not pleased with the ambassador's position trying to fight corruption in that country. trump not only says he heard bad things about her but if you go back to the rough transcript of his call with the leader of ukraine, he tells the president of ukraine that bad things are going to happen to this ambassador. this is just a -- this all fits together. people who are not on board with this effort to get political dirt from ukraine are moved out of the way or are marginalized. >> she appeared today despite the administration trying to tell her not to. she defied the administration and appeared. what do you make of that? >> we may find out later what she is saying in these extraordinary hearing. i think it's still going on nine hours later. the fact of her appearance before the committee is as important as what ever she tells them because she is, as you say, defying the adm

rudy giuliani comes after "the new york times" reporter of federal investigation of the same office that rudy giuliani led in the 1980s, influence on the government. two officials told nbc news that rudy giuliani's conduct is under scrutiny. the public is backing from trump included a backhanded compliment. he's also a great guy and a wonderful lawyer trump tweeted saturday. it follows the president appearing to distance himself from rudy giuliani. >> i have not spoken to him. i spoke to him yesterday. he's a good attorney and he has been my attorney. >> reporter: rudy giuliani under scrutiny after two of his client were arrested on wednesday with one way international tickets, they were charged with campaign finance violations. house speaker pelosi speaks on saturday night in new york. i don't know in he knows right or wrong but i know he's done wrong. >> reporter: reuters reported 800 isis escaped from the detention camp. it is now focused on pushing back on turkish forces. trump said he'll hold turkey responsible and threatened the economic sanctions in any escapes. >> hans nichols at the white house. thank you very much. chuck todd, moderator of "meet the press." you could not hav

rudy giuliani. rudy giuliani was seeking out corruption and what happens mostly in the 2016 election, because there was tremendous corruption in the 2016 election. i think even you would admit that. the election was, it was disgraceful what happened, what happened to me and what happened to the republicans. and that continues with nancy pelosi and with schiff, adam schiff got caught making up statements he said i didn't say. which is fraud. purely fraudulent. so it continues. so rudy was a great prosecutor. he was the best man in the city of new york as far as i can see. i think he has acknowledged what he did was a crime and everything else. when he saw what was going on of our election of 2016, the election i won, the election that was absolutely corrupted by things that took place in government. now we'll see what happens. the i.g. report will come out soon. we'll see what happens. i think people -- i know nothing about it in terms of the report. likewaiting for the report everyone else, but i think you will see things we have not predicted, whether it is comey, whether it is so many other people, mccain, whether it is president obama himself. we will see whether or not -- let's see whether or not. so rudy saw that and i can tell you rudy giuliani because he was very incensed at the horrible things that he saw, as are many other people, many other republicans and the republicans have been treated unfairly by the democrats. paul ryan -- i don't think he would do

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documents before his appearance and also included in that are text messages that he had with rudy giuliani never rudy giuliani of course is the president's own private attorney and you know this as i said the testimony is taking place behind closed doors and while old this was taking place today of course we had some rather extraordinary comments coming from president donald trump. this road to scandal with appears to be multiply nel says that both ukraine and showing should investigate joe biden joe biden's son was listen to what the president said today. they did it best they gave because that is a company that newly formed well these companies if you look good by the way like white guys just started to gauge it. because what happened. is just about what happened with. with your great. he says there what happened to china is as bad as what happened to ukraine was to talk about why china. right well china refers back to a trip by the then vice president joe biden to china in 2013 in which he took along his son hunter and his daughter and now on the trip hunter met with a chinese banker who would later become

and also what you saw with fee nona hill is she was painting a picture about how rudy giuliani rudy giuliani as you said early on was circumventing the ukrainian ambassador. she got upset by that and fiona hill was upset by that as well. two questions: why did he do it? what was he trying to get? and was he ordered to do so or given permission to do so by somebody? and there aren't too many somebodies between him and the top? >> in the next 24 hours we have the democrati debate, 12 candidates on the stage. will this be brought up? >> it's hard to know. i think there are two things to worry about or watch i should say tomorrow. first of all, the big three. they've each got issues. biden has lost steam. can he get it back? warren, ascending, can she keep it going. and sanders has lost a lot of steam, fallen out really. there's a distance there. the other thing is what about the other nine, the 30 seconds each of them may have or whatever. we have to assume that the only way any one of them is going to come out is if something explosive happens. in other words they come with something nobody ex

it just didn't work out i don't know that he got along with rudy giuliani rudy giuliani who is seeking out corruption and what happens mostly in the 26th election because there was tremendous corruption in the 2016 election now at least one person has been killed in mozambique as police try to disperse a crowd at a voting station after polls closed in tuesday's election ballots are now being counted although activists say there have been several incidents of vote tampering malcolm webb has more from the capital on the puter. the voting materials have been brought from the polling stations to counting centers like this one here are the ballot boxes that voters had placed their ballot papers into and the ballots from each polling station of being counted and put into metal boxes like this there were more stacked up on this side and this counting center there were more than 140 polling stations worth of materials and here the officials are preparing the final reports that not everyone is happy with how the process has gone the center for public integrity is one of several organizations th

rudy giuliani was not playing the role of president trump's personal attorney. they also say he had an unprecedented way in shaping american foreign policy in ukraine. this comes as rudy giuliani and his associates building each day of the case. rudy giuliani stopped appearing on tv and for a week rudy giuliani stopped talking all together. to those watching this slow-moving unraveling of donald trump's presidency like formal federal prosecutor. it was no coincidence. >> you have to look at rudy giuliani as a racketeering enterprising at this point. >> reporter: what's emerging is evidence of u.s. foreign policy operation ran by the president's private attorney and carried out by to american businessmen with shady pasts. parnas was on phone calls with rudy giuliani and members of the ukraine government while top american diplomats in ukraine and those appointed by trump were excluded when u.s. ba ambassador marie yovanovitch got in the way. bill taylor told congress the official foreign policy of the united states was under cut by the irregular efforts led by mr. rudy giuliani. the u.s. ambassador to the european union testified when he and other members of a u.s. delegation including energy secretary rick perry urged president tr

he was defeated in '93 by rudy giuliani. rudy giulianifited from a report on the crown heights riots that condemned the dinkins administration in large part, even though it exonerated a lot of the activists that they claim were there, weren't there. but they were very, in my opinion, very unfair in the report of david dinkins, and they had put on the ballot in staten island that they could vote to secede from the city. that drove up his support. he came in exactly like donald trump came in after the first black president who ran on we must come together, not black or white, red or blue. it's the same thing played local that played later nationally. and giuliani reined in, i do not play to interests, i'm not bowing, i'm going to stand up to these guys, the al sharptons will not run this city. same way donald trump is sitting around tweeting and vetting now. it is the same act, different performers, bigger stage, same results. >> and almost the same number of marriages, i think, as well, too, because there's a whole lot that they have in co

rudy giuliani. rudy giuliani was seeking out corruption and what happens mostly in the 2016 election. with rudy, rudy was seeking out corruption. i think there's nothing wrong with seeking out corruption. >> did rudy register as a foreign lobbyist? >> i don't know what he did. that's up to him. you have to ask rudy those questions. don't ask me. >> wash your hands of anything that could be -- well, he was my lawyer, i knew he was up to stuff but don't really ask me what stuff he was up to. >> if the quote from bolton proves to be true, i think the grenade has blown up. it is not good when you are in the oval office and you are trying to answer for weird, strange, possibly ill heegal ths your personal lawyer has done. those are questions no president wants to answer. it will be interesting to see how republicans in congress, whether they try to shift blame to rudy on all of this and make him the fall guy to keep the president politically out of it as much as possible. >> just on john bolton, the record should reflect that the president was not happy with him at all. they were deeply at odds. he

rudy giuliani. rudy giuliani who by the way does not work for the u.s. government. he does not draw a government salary. he has no official role in american foreign policy. he answers to one person, that is donald trump. he is michael cohen 2.0. before he had rudy giuliani trump and michael cohen and michael cohen was the president's fixer and bag man and took care of hush money payments and real estate deals and took care of keeping things out of the newspaper and now, well, michael cohen is in prison. he's not like writing briefs going before a court. the president has new lawyers to do that. the lawyers take care of that. rudy giuliani is just a fixer with a law degree, and he has apparently been tasked with a pretty clear mission by the president which is to manufacture dirt on my political enemies so that i can get re-elected. instead of running a foreign policy for the people of the country that represents our collective interests, donald trump and rudy giuliani are running and have been running a shadow foreign policy that has nothing to do with the interests of the united states. i mean, that is basically what donald trump told the president of ukraine right there clear as day in the white house call notes they wrote. after he said i wo

rudy giuliani and the concern that was raised was there was a counterintelligence concern with regard to rudy giuliani. so what we've learned is that essentially this investigation -- this part of the investigation is looking at whether or not giulianis with either wittingly or unwittingly part of a foreign influence operation targeting the white house. targeting the president because obviously rudy giuliani is very close, the personal lawyer of the president of the united states. so the question is, how much of this does rudy giuliani know about, is it just these business interests that he has, was he aware of what this was -- what was happening behind the scenes or was he just being used by these people in ukraine and beyond. we don't know. >> and amidst all of this, yet another giuliani associate was arrested today. >> right. and so this is one of the four people who were indicted as part of the case that we first emerged last week. his name is david correia and he was out of the country and turned into the fbi when he landed today at jfk. he and another one of the four are due in court tomorrow. the other two are expected to be in court next week. and, look, what this tells us is that there are many more parts of the investigation including the former congressman pete sessions who has received a subpoena from this investigation and it is clear that this is -- again we were to

rudy giuliani not necessarily for the benefit of america, but for the benefit of the president. >> right. and remember, rudy giuliani is a private citizen. he is the president's outside lawyer. he is not a government official. and he's certainly not part of the u.s. foreign policy apparatus of the government. i think you've hit the nail on the head. some were up to speed on everything going on and some were not. it seems rudyines connect back to them in erm thes of what was known and when it was known. in terms, you know, of the big picture here, i don't think we've seen anything like this since the days of iran contra during the reagan administration when you saw a shadow of foreign policy operation being conducted by the administration. i think there are parallels between this moment and that one. and i think that is why when you listen to some of the sources that we're talking to up on capitol hill, i talked to one earlier this week who was very familiar with what was going on inside this room when fiona hill was talking to lawmakers. this individual said that this is a pivotal -- quote, pivotal week in their inquiry, in their investigation. when you talk to people looking into all this, they feel as though they are amassing information and evidence. presumably to bring articles of impeachment against the president. and i think gordon sondland is a key part of this today. >> yes. he definitely has answe

rudy giuliani, who is he? you'd have to ask rudy giuliani. i barely knew rudyntext. >> also reminiscent of the michael cohen thing. i don't know. you'll have to ask michael. >> it's just a matter of time before he says who's rudy giuliani? i don't know rudy giuliani. i've never met rudy giuliani. i've never been photographed with him. why would i have any connection to him whatsoever? you know, it's -- the speed with which the president seems willing to throw people under the bus as this all started a few weeks ago is you should talk to mike pence and talk to the vice president about some of the conversations he's had here. and so i think there are photographs of him and his son and rudy giuliani together if not separately with these individuals. the president cannot credibly say that he has no connection to the individuals at all. again, i'll echo what i said earlier. that doesn't mean the president is getting charged with a crime or impeached, but he can't distance himself fully from these individuals because the evidence is there. it's on its face. >> bianna

giuliani. the fact the president was telling everyone you need to talk to rudy giuliani what to do about ukraine. he talks about how he spoke to rudy giulianiiani and this was a way to ease a path and rudy ghoul johnny says there is three things the president is upset with ukraine over. the 2016 election, the ukraine that they have clinton server, he brought up paul manafort and they cooked up evidence regarding corruption involving paul manafort and brought up the dossier is what rick perry says, that's where that originated. so rick perry says i don't know what was true but this is what was said to me. he says rick perry that no demands were ever made, that the bidens never came up. but significant in all of this is again, why is the president going to rick perry and saying talk to rudy giuliani. >> that's -- they are going real conspiracy theory deep state here. the dossier, you know. that's the fbi counter intelligence agents began asking rudy giuliani back in february and march. there is added significance there. what is that? >> so when you open the counter intelligence investigation, you can have what's called a preliminary investiga

rudy giuliani could flip and something could happen next involving rudy. my colleague, evan and shimon are reporting that as part of this investigators scrutinized rudy giulianind politically, this is not a good thing for the president. >> we only know the very, very tip of what's going on. everybody stick around and there's more on the breaking news. an important note, tune in to cnn starting at 7:30 p.m. eastern for a night of back-to-back town halls as the democratic presidential candidate discuss issues facing the lgbtq community. much more on the breaking news right after this. i'm happy to give you the tour, i love doing it. hey jay. jay? he helped me set up my watch lists. karl! he took care of my 401k rollover. wow, you call a lot. yeah, well it's my money we're talking about here. help from a team that will exceed your expectations. ♪ doprevagen is the number oneild mempharmacist-recommendeding? memory support brand. you can find it in the vitamin aisle in stores everywhere. prevagen. healthier brain. better life. fighters appeared to return fire at several turkish border towns were hit with mortar rounds killing five people and injuring 46 others an

rudy giuliani. >> anything rudy giuliani does is on behalf of the president. so rudy is president trump, president trump is rudy. >> reporter: in his 15-page opening statement, taylor said president trump did insist that president zelensky go to a microphone and say he is opening investigations of biden and 2016 election interference. taylor said the u.s. ambassador to the european union told him everything was dependent on such an announcement including security assistance. >> that is a very important statement from a very credible person. >> reporter: white house press secretary stephanie grisham called the impeachment inquiry a coordinated smear campaign from far left lawmakers and radical unelected bureaucrats waging war on the constitution. >> he is receiving zero due process from democrats on the hill. >> reporter: the white house also pushed back against criticism of president trump's tweet earlier in the day calling the impeachment inquiry a lynching. >> far beneath the office of the president of the united states. >> reporter: others pointed out that some dem

rudy giuliani? >> chuck, in this packet of rudy giuliani directly handed to pompeo according to rudy giuliani was allhe investigative work that rudy giuliani did with his narrative that rudy giuliani used to describe the bidens. it included interviews he conducted with two former general prosecutors in ukraine. one was ousted in 2015 and the other was ousted last month. what did the secretary of state do with this package once he received it. rudy giuliani dropped his work but was there an investigation? we don't yet know. who do pompeo give this information to? we don't know that either. there is a lot of questions that have been raised. democrats are extremely interested and senator mendez moments ago called for an inv t investigation into this specifically. i don't understand the inspector general never pursued the origin of this. it is weird of what the inspector generals have don done -- do they sort of sat on this? the minute they turned over, it is like oh yeah, rudy giuliani did that. the inspector general could have found it out, no? >> we don't know what the inspector general thought about

giuliani still represents the president. >> the president continues to speak in a positive way about rudy giuliani. rudy giuliani is out there aggressively defending him, we know the president likes that. but there's no guarantee of future presidential backing, as we know. how many times have we seen people who the president held close and then later on brushed away. today is the one-month mark for the first "washington post" story that talked about the ukraine call. this is moving with the kind of rapidity we never saw with the clinton case, with the nixon case. >> even andrew johnson. although we were not there to see it, i should quickly mention. >> an important point about the timeline, peter. let me go back to you quickly on that point because the president continues to attack the whistle-blower and say, we should know the whistle-blower's identity. >> that's exactly right, the president is trying to broadly make the case here that this is all a part of the deep state argument he's had throughout the course of his time in office. it wasn't just the attacks on the whistle-blower, saying he wants that person'

rudy giuliani? rudy giuliani said the funnel here was working only on behalf of his client. >> who happens to be the president of the united states. but not for the united states of america. >> that's questions we heard through the tweet. once rudy sets the stage for another day of questions about what exactly his role was in ukraine in this investigation, what the president has asked him to do, and what if in any way this implicates the president. >> and the thing that is so outrageous about that is that, you know, what we've heard from all these witnesses, sondland, sondland and taylor conflict in some ways. but one way they agree is giuliani was the key person in deciding what american policy was. american government policy toward ukraine. based on a guy whose only interest is the criminal defense of the president of the united states, not the taxpayers, not the national interests. i mean, that's an outrageous conflict. and he shouldn't have been doing what he was doing. >> what about admitting it on twitter? >> well, that's -- i don't know if it's better to be honest or not. >> in terms of trouble, do you think he's in more trouble? >> i don't think he's in trouble. i think the president's in trouble. you know, giuliani's ro

rudy giuliani. rudy giuliani, of course, was pursuing a parallel ukraine policy, something to carry out the president's directives and something to push for investigations to help the president politically, including into former vice president joe biden and his son and according to what morrison told house investigators, we are told he said that he was urged by a separate white house official at the time, fiona hill to stay away from rudyliani. he said that he did just that. he also according to a source i spoke with seemed critical of the role that ambassador to the european union gordon sondland played in all this. son land come under crist simple and scrutiny about his role and push along with the president to carry out what the president wanted, which was those investigations. morrison is the second individual these investigators interviewed on that phone call in july between trump and zelensky. and, according to what we're told, it's that morrison testified he did not see anything illegal. "not concerned there was anything illegal on the call"'s he wasn't concerned by trump even asking zelensky for a favor. now, that's different than what alexander vindman, the other white house official who testified this week on the call said earlier this week when he said that he was concerned about a national security concern and even took those concerns to a national security council attorney. while mr. morrison said today he

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rudy giuliani. rudy giuliani doesn't figure heavily in the statement but he's there in the background, pressing. paul: what he lays out is what he says was a kind of two-tier process. >> two channel. paul: two channel. >> the one channel was to help the ukrainians fight off the russians, which included military aid to the ukrainian government whichs was aprobe app prated and set -- you appropriated and set to expire. another channel emerges led by rudy giuliani and george sondland to press president zelensky to investigate the bidens and whether ukraine was involved in the 2016 election. and through that period, a hold gets put on the aid to ukraine and ams bass door taylor i would say makes a pretty strong case that the hold was related to president trump's desire for president zelensky to publicly say he was going to investigate biden and the ukrainian involvement in the 2016 election. paul: this is supposedly the bombshell. >> it's still second and third hand information, i heard it from someone who heard it from someone else. >> it's a little stronger than that. >> it's his interpretation of how he felt. >> he describes talking to national security counsel of icials through this period who -- officials through this period who were relating to him conversations between zelensky and president trump. paul: here's the problem -- >> they will testify next week. >> here's the problem. we don't really know. this was all done behind clo

rudy giuliani to get the ukrainians and his son, hunter. there is a new report tonight about rudy giuliani as well. investigators say examine rudy giuliani's bank records. more on that in a moment. sources say fiona hill also praise yovanovitch. the former ambassador of ukraine who was ousted by rudy giuliani and others. >> i have been in congress for seven years and i can say in all candor that after thousands of hours of hearings, i have never had a witness that came across this subsidy per minutes. there was amazing information provided and i think it will be helpful. >> congress is back from a two-week break. this week lawmakers have testimony fies from a number ofy players. tomorrow the secretary george kent and on wednesday, michael mckinley who resigned last week because of pompeo's lack of support for diplomat caught up in the ukraine scandal. thursday is gordon sondland. he's going to testify on thursday. he failed to show up last week after the white house ordered him not to testify. he's now subpoenaed. >> do you swear to tell the truth. he's going to be under oath. if he lies, there are other people -- >> "the washin

rudy giuliani. and he also talked about john bolton as well saying i got along with john bolton and said that rudy giulianias seeking out corruption in ukraine. and then he did this thing that he's done before where he starts to talk about the server and where's the server and america wants to see the server. is he still talking about the debunked idea that there is some server that was being managed by some guy in ukraine and the company crowdstrike, is that what he's still talking about? >> yeah, it's all a special kind of lunacy because he tries to revive his old screeds. and he's just trying to distract the people away from what is going on this week. it's really important what's going on this week because what. and it's really important what's going on this week. there hasn't necessarily been a break in the dam but there's been a pretty significant breach. information is now flowing through, courtesy of career public servants. ambassador yovanovitch, fiona hill, george kent. and i can tell you, as a 30-year public servant myself, if somebody like a giuliani, not as u.s. attorney but as private citizen

rudy giuliani. rudy giuliani was everywhere and without portfolio pushing an agenda he made clear here and elsewhere. i want the dnc, i want the bidens, i'm working for the president and, by the way, i'm also working with these other guys who are under indictment for moving russian money into elections. we haven't even found out about that part of the story yet. but rudy was all over this and with malignant cause and everybody knew it. you don't need the whistle-blower. you do need vindman and volker and taylor and even sondland, okay, because none has ever named a corruption case in ukraine other than what this president saw as politically beneficial. so the idea of just rooting out corruption is hollow. the varieitally important white house meeting and congressional funding were withheld explicitly to get a statement this president could use to go after his opponents. every person whose testimony that we have seen, spoke of the value of those two things to the ukrainians. a point president zelensky himself made clear. and with good reason. of course it mattered to them. that's why it was used at leverage. something the white house chief of staff openly admitted. >> absolutely. no question about that. but that's it. that's why we held up the money. we do that all the time with foreign policy. >> and then he at the direction of people in this white ho

rudy giuliani, rudy giuliani probably ought to think about all the other people the president has said he stands behind. including the kurds today, and actually that is quite often in our history been the prelude to dumping him. there is a problem. i think giuliani is a liability both substantively and for the all be optics reasons that guy talked about and now he himself is under criminal investigation. kind of awkward to have your personal attorney in that position, but let's not forget these two guys go back a long way. if donald trump can be said to have a close best friend, it might be read giuliani. going all the way back to new york, and so rudy, maybe too much to be cut loose just like that, so i would be surprised if in the very short term, before it absolutely becomes necessary, the president has to cut him loose, but definitely a lot of people want him to. >> chris: let me turn to another part of the developments this week, the president is pushing the argument about executive powers, as far it seems as any president ever has in the various court cases he says he has immunity from investigation, immunity from prosecution while these president and now this week he announced a complete halt to any cooperation with congress and his lawyer, the white house counsel, said this is unconstitutional and it's simply an attempt to overturn an election. do you think -- on the one hand if you say i don't have to cooperate with the court's and i don't have to cooperate with congress, do you think you can make that stick? >> i think some of the argument laid out in that document by the attorney -- >> chris: the white house counsel. >> h

rudy giuliani. rudy giuliani has a client that erdogan is really interested in who is a turkish gold trader in turkey. never mind ukraine. i mean, the irony that rudyes these two phone calls in some way. >> i spent a lot of this week trying to understand giuliani's clients. it's really hard to get your head around. i mean, i really struggled. but at the root of it is this problem. you can't have the president's lawyer out there doing business with foreign countries. there's just a reason why you don't mix those two things together. >> we have to pass a law to prevent this in the future, right? >> if the president needed investigators, he's in charge of the checkative branch. he has an fbi, a cia. why did he need rudy giuliani to do it? >> it's called corruption. >> that question is probably going to be at the heart of the impeachment inquiry. i'm going to pause it there. when we come back, the growing support for an impeachment inquiry. who is for it? who is not quite ready? that's next. performance comes in lots of flavors. there's the amped-up, over-tuned, feeding-frenzy-of sheet-metal-kind. and then there's performance that just leaves you feeli

rudy giuliani. >> reporter: it comes one day after news broke about those two socie associates of rudy giuliani's being arrested on campaign finance charges. and now the president on rudy giuliani, the man who defended him through the last two years, is now coming into question. >> i don't know. i haven't spoken to rudy. >> reporter: tonight president trump won't say if rudy giuliani is still his personal attorney. >> i spoke to him yesterday briefly. he's a veryattorney. >> reporter: the president's refusal to defend his lawyer coming as cnn has learned he's now having doubts about the man who has spent the last two years defending him. >> everything i did was to defend my client. >> reporter: but after two of his associates were arrested on campaign finance charges, there are growing concerns he's a political and potentially legal liability. questions trump himself has raised privately. >> are you concerned that rudy giuliani could be indicted in all of this? >> well, i hope not. again, i don't know how he knows these people. >> they're his clients. >> what? >> they're his clients. >> they're clients. he has a lot of clients. >> reporter: sources say trump has concer

that's something giuliani also has to be aware of and have in the back of his mind. >> john heilemann, there's just so much more similar between rudy giuliani and paul manafort. rudy giuliani michael cohen. rudy giuliani and mike flynn. than there is rudy giuliani and don mcgahn. don mcgahn ultimately cooperated with the mueller probe, when he had to face uncomfortable choices sort of chose the country, tried to walk that line and still work for the president. rudy giuliani seems to make different choices. >> yeah, decidedly and defiantly different choices, and as you said, nicolle, it seems to me that the main -- the main implication of what you're saying, which strikes me as obviously true, is that michael cohen is in jail and paul manafort is in jail and don mcgahn is not in jail, and if you had to ask me which side of the line rudy giuliani's in danger of being, that's another way in which not just his attitude and his temperament but i think that as this thing expands and deepens, simultaneously, i think the questions surrounding rudy giuliani's criminal exposure are going to become central to this investigation and i'm not predicting where that will end. i'm not sayi

rudy giuliani in connection with mr. giuliani's representation of president trump. so the president has a lawyer, his name is rudy giuliani. in rudy giuliani's capacity as the president's lawyer he employs this guy lev parnas as his assistant, as his little helper. which seemed crazy, not least because john dowd, that lawyer wrote his letter addressed to congress in the comic sans typeface which made it seem like it was a joke. but sure enough as mr. parnas got arraigned in new york, a different lawyer of his made the case out loud to a federal judge that lev parnas' case was going to implicate executive privilege concerns because this case does overlap with a legal representation of the president of the united states. because in fact lev parnas is part of the president's legal team. this guy. this guy who is under arrest, the guy with the dead rat in the mail mob stock scheme before all the other stock schemes he was associated with that also got shot down by federal regulators. i mean this thing the president is being impeached for mr. parnas does seem to be a very diligent working, a very central part of that scheme. he was mak

three house chairmen tonight came very close to accusing rudy giuliani of that, and a couple of hours later, rudy giuliani just confessed. rudy giuliani and donald trump are now in a very close contest for the title of most out of control person in trump world. today donald trump attacked the intelligence community whistle-blower and made it clear that donald trump does not care that he is endangering the life of the whistle-blower. bradley moss, a national security lawyer whose law firm is representing the whistle-blower, will join us tonight with reaction to what the president said about the whistle-blower today, and to clarify for us what contact the whistle-blower might have had with the house intelligence committee before the whistle-blower's complaint became public. donald trump said today that he believes that the chairman of the house intelligence committee, adam schiff, wrote the whistle-blower's complaint for him. we'll see what bradley moss has to say about that one. secretary of state mike pompeo began his day early this morning trying to catch up with the truth. he finally admitted publicly, quote, i was on the p

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case of rudy giuliani, rudy giuliani had two associates arrested as they were attempting to leave the country with one-way tickets. now we learn, as natasha mentioned in our last block, that rudy giuliani is himself under criminal investigation. that's not good to have your personal lawyer under criminal investigation. ergo, the president is going to distance himself, even if he is now on twitter defending him a bit. >> yeah. your colleagues, natasha, at politico are reporting that the president's allies have been privately imploring trump to sideline giuliani, even before the arrest of his two associates. is there any indication that trump will heed these calls? >> yeah, we've actually been wondering in the office all week how long it would take for the president to distance himself, because not only is he making trump look even worse as part of this whole impeachment inquiry, but he's also lost the confidence of all of trump's republican allies, main republican allies, and those are the people, obviously, who are also in the president's ear. so, we were really confident that this was going to happen, and it does seem like, as john said, because trump is so concerned with how