firms and law firms and anything else manafort could cook up, dmitri furtash got back into the gas deal which was better than ever. his company's operating profit for the years 2012 and 2013 added up to nearly $4 billion in pure profit. with that kind of money available for corrupting any actual governance in the interest of the people of ukraine, putin's natural gas monopoly hoveredded over the heads of the ukrainian people like a sword with. putin could tell things were going well when yanukovych reneged on his campaign promise. putin knew that wouldn't, that couldn't ever happen. problem was the ukrainian people liked the idea. even when putin promised $15 billion worth of new aid to ukraine, the will of the ukrainian people was still clear. they wanted to be part of the e.u. no matter what putin was offering. the orange side revolted again. and what started in november, what started on november 21, 2013, as a small demonstration in independent square in kiev grew in just a few days to a 100,000-person protest. the demonstrators took over, and they refused to leave. a violent crackdo

said parnas hid or forgot about a million dollar payment from a lawyer for ukrainian oligarch dmitry furtash that name sounds familiar in addition to being unique, he had ties to former trump campaign chairman paul manafort. we should note lev parnas has pleaded not guilty to campaign finance charges. with us to talk about all of it tonight, maya wiley, former assistant attorney for the southern district of new york, now with the new school in new york. frank figliuzzi, former fbi assistant director for counter intelligence. maya, at a basic level maggie haberman, said rudy giuliani's job is to keep him close. is rudy inadvertently helping the feds and hurting himself continually? >> yeah. it's not -- plus, it's not every day where you see the defense attorney saying to the prosecution, let me hand you something that's going to help you make your case against my client, which is essentially what we heard rudy giuliani do. so he's not -- he's certainly not helping himself, but he really isn't helping donald trump since -- remember that the democrats have said that this begins as, you know, ac