interestingly dmitri firtash is the one sort of time with all the business scheming that david correa the plan was paid off to some extent. >> correa's got counsel. what is his response to the idea he was connected more to this political part than before understood? >> his lawyers are not commenting. we've put the no commenting only. tex messages. he obviously pled not guilty along with the others. i think what's super interesting is that he sent a text in october right around the time that the whistle-blower, the reports were all coming out that he was in dubai. he told two sources he was in dubai to close a deal with firtash. in his text messages he says the phone starts to ring and ring, it becomes extremely stressful to him and two days later lev parnas and igor fruman were indicted and he came back to jfk and turned himself in. >> what is the connection to fruman, to parnas, and did any of it go to rudy? that information continues? >> more to come. >> thank you, the best to you and the family. >> merry christmas. >> and thank you for the gift of the reporting. appreciate it. >> a

so david correa, if you like, shows us the hidden agenda. >> who was aware of this and why was it wronghere is a connection between david correia and rudy giuliani. they would have these meetings in the trump hotel in washington in a private room in the blt restaurant there. what one of the texts shows us is that david correia had the inside track on what solomon was going to say. the column was headlined "joe biden's 2020 ukraine nightmare." >> the fact of correia knowing about the effort to get dirt on the bidens, that matters why? >> well, because until now it seems that he was somehow separated from this whole geopolitical -- >> i'm just a businessman, i don't have anything to do with it. >> right. he was the only sort of american-born, university educated -- he was the one who kind of got these -- the meetings. you know, somebody who was in a meeting with firtash, the ukraine oligarch. >> with the connections to putin. >> the connections to putin, who is facing extradition to the united states for bribery charges. his lawyers took a meeting and it gave fruman plausibility because o

david correia set up that rule. he denied wrongdoing and will eventually have his day in court. we'll learn more. >> and with your national security background, correia along with igor froman and ivan parnas and learning correa was trying to monetize this as well according to reporting there. what kind of national security implications does this have when you have people in ukraine doing things like this? >> sure. redefines mixing business with pleasure. the major takeaway from all this is that three actors who really motivated by financial interests were able to have a negative impact on u.s. national security. maria yovanovitch was ousted from her position by men that were trying to make money, and were going to ukraine to try to make business deals while pushing for dirt on hunter biden and soliciting foreign campaign contributions. it's interesting. we don't know if correia is cooperating with law enforcement. interesting part of the reporting, correa was at meetings with rudy giuliani in washington, d.c. whether parnas or correia, he would have valuable information what giuliani was up to. a text message from correa that says it started after the article in "the hill" was published about dirt on hunter