you know one of his associates, igor fruman.se two men we know are linked to rudy giuliani and they have an involvement in what was happening in ukraine. but there's another name you may have heard or may not. the name is david correa. who is he? businessman. had nothing to do with giuliani, it was about money they gave to campaign on the western parts of the united states that was going on. they've all played not guilty. coria is facing one count of illegally funneling foreign money into political circles. where did the money come from? what was it supposed to be used for? where else may it have been used? vicky ward is here, exclusive new information about this situation. david correa, why do i care? >> because he's the money guy. and he's also been invisible kind of until now because there was only one count in the indictment against lev parnas and fruman but david correa, according to texts that i have seen, was involved in using the political operation that lev parnas and igor fruman were conducting, the dirt digging in ukr

fruman and mr. parnas. so it's all happening, i mean, the president is, the president's campaign chairman is in prison. the president's deputy campaign chairman is awaiting sentencing. his national security adviser is awaiting sentencing. his personal lawyer is already in prison, another one appears to be under active criminal investigation. the first two congressional endorsements of this president have just recently as of today, pled guilty and will soon be awaiting sentencing themselves. in other words, happy monday. things proceed apace, including some of the key developments in the impeachment proceedings, which are unfolding tonight on capitol hill and tomorrow should be a very big day. congressman adam schiff who has been leading the impeachment investigation joins us live here in just a moment. stay with us. live here in just a moment stay with us every chip will crack. these friends were on a trip when their windshield got chipped. so they scheduled at safelite.com. they didn't have to change their

that might mean additional charges for lev parnas and igor fruman and their two co-defendants. it could mean new charges for new people who have not been charged in this case. we do know that subpoenas have recently by sent out by the southern district of new york to people connected to the main pro-trump super pac and people connected to the president's current personal lawyer, rudy giuliani, who multiple news outlets have reported is under active investigation in connection with the case with fruman and parnas. so it's all happening, i mean, the president is, the president's campaign chairman is in prison. the president's deputy campaign chairman is awaiting sentencing. his national security adviser is awaiting sentencing. his personal lawyer is already in prison. another one appears to be under active criminal investigation. the first two congressional endorsements of this president have just recently as of today, pled guilty and will soon be awaiting sentencing themselves. in other words, happy monday. things proceed apace including some of the key developments in the impea

there aren't that many people between lev parnas and igor fruman.nd there's nobody between them and rudy giuliani. and according to rudy giuliani, there was nobody between rudy giuliani. he was there on behalf of the president. this seems like a very ominous sign for rudy and potentially the president. >> i think so. look, the truth emerges when the people who are trying to get to the truth have leverage. it was i think incredibly impressive how much of this scheme adam schiff was able to uncover given what they had to work with. in two months they were able to break the stonewall, get witnesses, hold public hearings. it really revealed to the american public. they didn't have a lot -- they don't have -- they can't threaten people with federal charges. what the southern district of new york can do is threaten people with charges. rudy giuliani is under investigation. the prosecutor said in court today it's likely there will be superseding indictments. those can be additional charges. it could be charges against rudy himself. and so i think when you

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and, again, this really weird connection between parnas and fruman and giuliani.ne big question is where does the money come from for his exploits in ukraine? and you heard in the previous segment we know that parnas has this weird consulting business. it doesn't seem to have any customers, but it gave giuliani $500,000. parnas is not a rich guy. we learned in his prosecution that he got $1 million from a mysterious russian account. so one question for prosecutors will be, are the russians indirectly funding giuliani's exploits, his possible criminal exploits in ukraine? >> no joy in saying this but in a society where no one reads 600-page reports when they come out from congress, and people have just the next 45 seconds, what do you see as the headlines? >> that the president is a present danger to national security. so, yes, there's abuse of office, the way he bullied ukraine to try to shake down the president for help with his own personal political. he sold out the united states. again, he's obstructed congress, but here's the thing, brian. it's ongoing. it's

the reason why this is so galling is first of all, we know that parnas and fruman, giuliani associateswere indicted for basically the same course of conduct, trying to get rid of ambassador yovanovitch and we know this is particularly troublesome for her because she was told by the state department that she had not done anything wrong and, again, if the trump administration was really interested in rooting out corruption in ukraine, they would have given her a raise, not try to fire her because that's her area of expertise. >> however galling, does it violate anything to hear this guy, a former mayor of new york, saying out loud on the record, it's like a scene from "the irishman," yeah, she had to go, it is what it is. does that violate anything? >> yes, it violates federal criminal law which is why giuliani is being investigated by the southern district of new york, the same federal prosecution office that he used to run. so they're probably looking at campaign finance violations, failure to register as a lobbyist, and, again, this really weird connection between parnas and fruman an

she was resisting their efforts, fruman and parnas' efforts, to do deals with the ukrainian national gas company. george soros is an entirely -- where did that come from? >> natasha, you've been following the ukraine story. what's your reaction to the interview in "new york magazine"? >> olivia nuzzi who wrote the article said giuliani called her afterwards and was upset on how he was portrayed. she made the point that he seems to lack any kind of self-awareness. he railed against the southern district of new york and the investigation that they have launched into him and his business ties to ukraine, knowing that anything he says really at this point can be used against him. so it seems like he feels like he is invincible at this moment and that anything he finds related to joe biden or marie yovanovitch could exonerate him or the president. he lives in this alternate reality now and he thinks speaking to the press will be helping him, at least be a pr effort. but at the same time he's under criminal investigation and intelligence investigation. it doesn't make a lot of sense, his s

at least lev parnas and igor fruman.nd they've let in more detail about the pace of the investigation. they've obtained 29 electronic devices from the defendants. most of them being in possession of lev parnas and igor fruman. they have a satellite phone. they are still trying to crack the passwords so they haven't turned over the material to the defense. the defense team said they received about 70,000 documents. something they're saying that this process should move along a lot more quickly. we heard from one of the defense lawyers that prosecutors have given them the search warrant applications, that gives them the sense that the evidence they might have for the case that they've charged so far but he said there were 26 pages redacted. we've been familiar with the redactions through the mueller report from michael cohen and they say there is a chunk of the search warrant affidavit that is now secret and still under seal that goes right to the part of the investigation that this still ongoing, the uncharged conduct as

and giuliani acknowledged that parnas and fruman aassisted in his effort to dig up dirt on the bidenseized thousands of files and data and dozens of cell phones from parnas and fruman and two other giuliani associates charged in the case. a prosecutor told the court monday that parnas has not provided the passwords to his phones, despite numerous requests. and the fbi is using its technology to try and unlock the phones. >>> california congressman duncan hunter is expected to plead guilty today in san diego to misusing campaign funds. it was a criminal case that he once called a witch hunt. in an interview, the republican lawmaker announced he will plead guilty to one count of misusing campaign funds, saying he is responsible for not properly monitoring the money. the prosecutors had charged hunter and his wife, saying they had converted and stole more than a quarter of a million in campaign funds for their own personal use, including trips to hawaii and school tuition for their children. hunter's wife pleaded guilty to conspiring to misusing campaign funs back in june and was expecte

that will bring forward more charges against lev parnas and igor fruman. of rudy giuliani's associates, clients, business partners, if you will. they've been referred to a number of different ways in court, as well as two additional men. prosecutors didn't say whether or not there would be additional defendants. meaning, additional people that would be charged when they file that superseding indictment. that is always a possibility but we didn't get any indication today, ali, whether or not that would be the case. prosecutors and defense attorneys sparred over ongoing discovery issues. already prosecutors said they've turned over nine gigabytes of data to each of the people that have been charge understand this case. and right now, they say that they're having a hard time getting into the iphones and other devices that are encrypted and password protected that therapy abthey were able to take off of lev parnas and igor fruman when they were arrested back in october. so right now, they say the fbi is trying its best to get into those devices so they can tur

his co-defendant and this includes hard drives, laptops and cell phones and in the case of fruman theytained a satellite phone from his residence so this is part of the discovery process and a defense lawyer said they received 70,000 documents before the thanksgiving holiday from prosecutors but one of the attorneys said within the material it includes the search warrant affidavit, that kind of gives you a sense of the case and in that there were 26 pages redacted. so that is all related to uncharged conduct as part of the investigation that prosecutors are still undertaking and also today we learned that prosecutors are expecting to file additional charges against some of the men in the case but the details on that were not -- were not very many details about what they might entail. >> i assume we'll learn more about the associates in the coming days and weeks. kara scannell, thank you for that update. stay with us. we're keeping a close eye up on capitol hill where members of the house intelligence committee will be looking over their report in the trump impeachment probe. there is n

so, joyce, this is igor fruman. what do you think this is all about? >> right. so this is a joint defense agreement. we've seen this before. there was actually some reporting. ironically it was rudy giuliani that let it slip, that during the mueller investigation the president was involved in a joint defense agreement that let them talk with other potential subjects or targets of the investigation. and that's what a joint defense agreement is for. it's for people who believe that they're about to be indicted, probably in a conspiracy together, and it lets them share information without taking that information outside of the attorney-client privilege. the information is still protected. while they're sharing it, they can coordinate on a defense strategy. they can learn what people are telling prosecutors. this is what you do when you think that you're going to be indicted, and this is what rudy giuliani, the president's lawyer, is doing. >> joyce, you have said that delay is the democrats' best friend. on the subject of impeachment it does indeed, in addition to

over a quarter of high school students now had used e-cigarettes in 2019, many have used the popular fruman ornamental flavors. despite those trends the most recent policy now seems doomed to the same fate as the 2015 policy. now that the current flavor guidance has left, the president has taken at least one meeting on the topic. >> we have any way of knowing if the president or the white house are meeting with industry lobbyists? >> that's a question i need to ask the white house. >> so you don't know. >> i don't know. of course the administration that is the least transparent in my memory as eliminated the white house visitor logs so there is no way of knowing who showed up there and lobbying the president in these meetings. even if that was public that's not really the main problem. the problem and i think when people are fed up with across the country is their government, this government won't tackle important issues without getting permission from special interests. i think that is what's playing out here and speak very candid with, you i'm not gonna ask you to comment on it and we are

parnas and fruman were charged with trying to funnel foreign money into u.s.g to remove the former ambassador to ukraine marie yovanovitch. yovanovitch testified last month as many of us remember as part of the impeachment inquiry into the president withholding of u.s. military aid to ukraine. back in october, parnas and fruman were arrested at the airport, one way tickets, out of the country. and president trump's former lawyer, michael cohen, asking for a reduction in his three-year prison sentence, according to cnbc cohen's attorneys have filed a court motion seeking to reduce his sentence to one year or release him to home confinement and community service. they cite cohen's cooperation with investigators about the president in a plea to the federal judge and cohen's lawyers also claimed that the justice department led by attorney general barr did not act in quote good faith and had previously interfered in the decision not to credit cohen's cooperation in his sentencing last year. much more still ahead, everybody. joe biden addressing claims that he discu

but also potentially other international clients of rudy giuliani, whether it's lev parnas or igor fruman or he has an associate who's been indicted in my hometown of chicago. so this is the type of problem that you see when our foreign policy gets colko commandeered other purposes and that's why this whole series of incidents and wrongdoing is so serious. >> testimony from marie yovanovitch, from bill taylor, from fiona hill and others who would know because they worked in that world of foreign policy testified that rudy giuliani had undo influence. they talked about what happened with gordan sondland. they talked about john bolton, saying that rudy giuliani is cooking up something. it's clear that the people who would think that there's somebody in their space who's exercising influence over the president and foreign policy, to them it represented a shadow foreign policy mechanism or structure. the republican response that you and i talked about briefly that came out last night finds that that didn't exist and that there was, again, no wrongdoing by anybody but that such a thing didn't

prosecutors said today they're still contemplating additional passengers not only against lev p parvas and frumanrudy guilliani is there is a long wait before he learns what prosecutors will do about him. he is in their sights and they're looking into his association with these men but still early in this investigation. rudy has to be waiting for some time it appears. >> going through newly released mueller documents just coming out including new information about the firing of then fbi director, james comey? >> that's right. rod rosenstein was one of the people interviewed early in 2017 at the beginning of this investigation. one of the things he talks about learning james comey had been fired essentially by e-mail and not given the courtesy of a phone call from the president or his bosses saying i was angry, horrified, ashamed and embarrassed. in this 302 interview with the fbi we learned rosenstein and jeff sessions actually contemplated getting a new fbi director the beginning of the trump administration and rosenstein reached out to a few candidates but sheffield it once they learned the pre

giuliani has acknowledged that parnas and fruman assisted in his efforts to dig up dirt on the bidensnds of files, data, and dozens of cell phones from parnas and fruman as well as two other giuliani associates charged in the case. a prosecutor told the court monday that parnas has not mode of provide. the pass wards to his phones despite numerous requests and the fbi is using its technology to try to unlock the phones. and what, danny, white be unlocked in all of this with these two characters and rudy giuliani himself? >> the prosecutors and defense attorneys are like wishing it was back in the 1990s before the data era and these tear roo rah bites and gigabytes of information that are contained just in phones or laptop computers. but that's the kind of thing that reveals everything about somebody's life. and so prosecutors in sifting through all of this evidence may be uncovering more information damaging to these defendants. but i have to say, i'm a little surprised because i more expected that there would be a rush to a guilty plea and a cooperation agreement, not more charges. t

. >> rudy and friends lev parnas and igor fruman have will be been indicted for funneling hundreds off dollars into united states elections. what will happen with them? will they plead? will they cooperate? that'll be big trouble for them and others. will they go to trial? what will the southern district do? he's under criminal investigation. it will be remarkable to see the man who once led the southern district indicted. >> yes, the fact he led the division. >> i work there, it's hard to imagine, but it could happen. >> supreme court. this could be a ten-minute segment in and of itself. >> yeah. the big thing to know is roberts is now the swing vote. he's become more unpredictable. hooets been siding with the liberals. the docket we have in 2020 is going to be historic. huge cases about federal discrimination laws. the daca, almost 800,000 dreamers are going to be impacted by this decision. we're going to have the first major second amendment gun rights case. the first major abortion rights case. and the supreme court just recently took on the trump tax returns case. as if this wasn

learning focusing in on this ukraine state-owned natural gas company and parnas and fruman met with onexecutives. they wanted him to -- they wanted to oust the ceo and replace him with someone they thought would be more favorable as they were pushing a business deal doing this again same time they're working with giuliani and prosecutors interviewed the ceo of that company. reached out to and/or have interviewed fourer to people associated with that. really honing in on what was going on in these efforts around this ukrainian oil company, could be about following the money. remains to be seen if giuliani will be charged with anything but we're seeing this investigation grow. >> as the investigation is growing he's over there in ukraine. elie to you what must he be thinking to be going on this mission over this conspiracy theory? >> a question the house intelligence committee, southern district of new york and fbi are all asking themselves as well. i don't know what rudy giuliani thinks the end game is here. come back to the united states with a banker's box full of documents and walk it

personal lawyer's clients, claiming he doesn't know two indicted associates of rudy giuliani, igor fruman and lev parnas. >> i don't know those gentlemen. now, it's possible i have a picture with them because i have a picture with everybody. i have a picture with everybody here. but somebody said there may be a picture or something at a fund-raiser or somewhere. but i have pictures with everybody. i have -- i don't know if there's anybody i don't have pictures -- i don't know them. i don't know about them. i don't know what they do. >> interesting that he says there might be a picture because guess what? there is. actually there are quite a few pictures, more than you'd think if you didn't know those gentlemen, gentlemen who have been indicted for campaign finance violations and federal prosecutors in new york say are likely to face additional charges. like i said, it's the president's m.o. remember this. i said this before to you. that indicates he's thinking, he's thinking, i don't know. remember that. >> i don't know prince andrew, but it's -- that's a tough story. it's a very tough st

none more interesting than rudy giuliani's ukrainian buddies, lev parnas and igor fruman-- a.k.a. dee and tweedle "gonna take your thumb." on friday-- on friday? it was just friday. on friday, we learned that parnas has some dirt on ranking member of the house intelligence committee, and man seen here with his only friend, chair, devin nunes. according to his lawyer, parnas is ready to testify to congress that, in late 2018, nunes flew to vienna to meet with disgraced former ukrainian prosecutor, viktor shokin, to get dirt on biden. so, according to parnas, the top republican investigating whether trump tried to get dirt on biden, tried to get dirt on biden. it reminds me of the children's classic "nancy drew and the case of the man murdered by nancy drew." ( cheers and applause ) now-- take the first bite. it'll work. >> jon: caught red-handed! >> stephen: now, "the daily beast" and cnn broke this story. when cnn asked nunes for comment, he said, "to be perfectly clear, i don't acknowledge any questions from you in this lifetime or the next lifetime." wow. ( audience reacts ) wow

lev parnas, igor fruman, perhaps mike pence, mike pompeo knew, everybody knew this efforts to smear theo dig up or generate dirt on joe biden happened, it's not just the phone call. >> that's exactly right. some of the republicans would like to say to the president as well, it's just a phone call, are you really going to impeach the president around a phone call? it is much more. the phone call is one of the dramatic incidents in a months' long scheme by the president to coerce his ally into doing his dirty work to help his reelection. it w began with the firing of te ambassador, it happened long after she was smeared and recalled, it channeled other people, the three amigos, working rudy giuliani to try to get them to make these announcements of these investigations into biden and this bogus conspiracy theory about the 2016 election, and what's significant here stephen is the president didn't even care whether the investigation got done. he just wanted it announced so biden's name would be smeared. that was what he wanted, and he was willing to sacrifice our national security, withhold

parnas, along with list business partner, igor fruman is charged with illegally funneling money to ad other politicians. both men have pleaded not guilty. >>> let's turn to the 2020 presidential race for a moment. democratic presidential candidate mike bloomberg reportedly used prison labor to make phone calls on behalf of his campaign, contracting a call center company that ran two call centers in oklahoma state prisons and in one of the two prisons incarcerated people were contracted to make calls on behalf of the bloomberg campaign. in a response the campaign released a statement, saying in part we only learned about this when a reporter called this but as soon as we discovered which vendor subcontractor had done this, we immediately ended our relationship with the company, and the people who hired them. let's bring in nbc news political reporter, good to have you here on the set. first of all, we were talking about in offset a little bit. this is a bood look for any campaign to have an incident like this, to have something like this, this is particularly bad for michael bloomberg

when you have rudy giuliani, trump's personal lawyer, and lev parnas and igor fruman running around whore accountable to no one but themselves, i would argue i'd rather have the bureaucrats working for us. but these foreign service officers, they work long hours, often in difficult conditions in places like iraq and afghanistan, in places like china and russia where they're closely monitored and surveilled and often harassed. they did it for a lot less money than they would make in the private sector. they do it most of them out of a passion. they really believe in this american project, as corny as it sounds, they believe in advancing america's national security interests and values abroad. a lot of them have told me that in the last three years, you know, when you take the advancement of american values out of it and factor in the personal attacks and the fact that the state department is being basically eviscerated, the equation doesn't make sense anymore. we've seen a massive exodus. we got numbers that nobody had seen before in just the first two years of trump's administration, al

a hearing held today it can slip igor fruman and foreign money to make illegal campaign contributions. president trump and former fbi love your lisa page involved in an escalating war of words. breaking silence after the last couple of years in the headlines. but so far the anti-trump text messages haven't been fully explained. chief congressional mike emanuel has a story. good evening, mike. shannon good evening former fbi lisa page lawyer breaking silence nearly two years after personal tax messages made a very probe filmic public figure. she's defending with peter strzok who she was having an affair at the time telling the daily beast "having an opinion ensuring that public or privately with another person is squarely within the permissible bounds in its and the red. two in august 2016 when she text him trump is not ever going to become president, right? right? peter strzok responds no, no he's not. we postoperative. the text later that month, i want to believe the path you throughout for consideration in nancy's office that there's no way he gets elected but i'm afraid we can't ta

back in october parnas and fruman were arrested at the airport with one-way tickets out of the countryis. natasha. >> yes, and one of the biggest questions surrounding the giuliani-parnas-fruman scheme has been how involved are the russians directly in this. obviously the entire scheme was pushing russian interests, removing the ambassador, framing ukraine for interference in the 2016 election that, of course, russia did. these were all talking points pushed by russia, so payments to fruman and parnas were at the center of the questions about, well, how is russia having a hand in this, how are they influencing this. this $1 million payment raises serious questions about whether the russians were funding this campaign and to what extent they had their tentacles in this entire scheme the whole time that has been ongoing for the last several months. >> the biggest one being that ukraine interfered in the election instead of russia. that's "access hollywood" taka they've been pushing since december 2017. >> a final word, is there a similar movement in britain among certain conservatives? >

jeff mason is a white house reporter for reuters and ellen fruman is a former senate parliamentarian. welcome to you both. jeff, let me start with you. what are the biggest factors that the president will be considering when he's looking for and building his defense team? >> well, a few different things. number one, i think he'll probably want somebody who's either good on tv or certainly good in the senate. he needs people around him who are supporters and people who can press his case. you know, we've seen frustration from president trump for some time now that he hasn't really been able to get out and give his version of events, even though he has that opportunity every time he talks to reporters and could have had some witnesses during the house period as well. there's been a tension in president trump's thinking and amongst the people around him and in republicans generally about whether to have a longer trial or shorter trial. certainly he will want a defense team that can get his case there in the senate and present it to the american people. >> alan, we've seen, of course, the

he's got lev parnas, perhaps fruman but definitely parnas hanging over his head and pursuing the project that appears to have landed in some hot legal water. >> yeah, it's certainly interesting and if anything i think he's escalated it. because this is the first time as "the new york times" is reporting he's in ukraine right now. that's the first time he's been there since i believe before he became the president's lawyer. he of course planned to go there in may to meet with the new ukrainian president but ended up canceling that pitch. if anything he's ramping up his push for investigations, not quieting down. >> doing phenomenal first rate reporting on all of this. thank you so much for making time tonight. >>> still ahead as impeachment rages and christmas approaches, the trump administration announces plans to kick hundreds of thousands of americans off of food stamps. plus imagine getting laughed off an entire continent? that's thing 1, thing 2 starting next. e continent? that's thing 1, thing 2 starting next [sneeze and sniffles] are you ok? yah, it's just a cold. it's not just a c

giuliani has replaced the translation skills of messieurs parnas and fruman with an app he down looted that allows him to read russian documents, as one does, by holding his phone over them. but on his recent trip, he said despite whatever else you can say, i missed them. jonathan, your thoughts on lev and igor and what they mean to rudy. >> i can't wait to watch this documentary. >> it's going to be something. >> it's going to be pretty spectacular. yes, these are his wingmen, and they are currently in some trouble with the law. and there has been rampant speculation that giuliani himself may also soon be. and i think it was noteworthy today, the timing of his visit to the white house. the house judiciary committee, it was at the same moments they were voting to move the articles of impeachment to the full house for the vote next week, which we anticipate will lead to donald trump being the third president impeached. while that was happening, a figure at the center of this entire impeachment storm was there strolling into the white house standing under an umbrella, rudy giuliani. i he

whether it's lev parnas, igor fruman and the ukraine stuff. think this year ends in huge uncertainty for rudy giuliani. his legacy has been tarnished. >> who's on naughty mt. rushmore with giuliani? >> let's g o to the next one. hawryl hillary clinton. people will say you always fixate on her. she was the party's nominee three years ago. she was the secretary of state. and she was the first lady. she has a resume unlike anyone else in the party and really in the country. but she's done a couple things that i think don't make sense from a party building perspective or a public figure perspective. one, why did she attack tulsi gabbard and suggest that she was a russian asset? if you're going to say that, that's a pretty big charge. if i say john berman is a russian charge, and i say it's  because he likes the boston celtics. i think you have to be more cognizant of what your impact is. then another thing with hillary clinton, she is talking all about bernie sanders in the 2016 race. and how, well, he didn't get out soon enough. had he gotten ou

there's also lev's alleged partner in crime, igor fruman.h men are charged with funneling money to various campaigns and super pacs. they were near constant companions to the president's personal lawyer, rudy giuliani, who's now reportedly under federal investigation himself for a wide range of political crimes. giuliani is of course trump's current personal lawyer. the last guy to hold that title is serving time in prison in part for arranging hush money payments to two women right before the presidential election. also behind bars the president's campaign manager paul manafort. he's currently serving 7 1/2 years from charges stemming from the mueller investigation. that investigation also reeled in the president's deputy campaign manager rick gates as well as trump ally roger stone, and the president's former national security advisor mike flynn. the last two men roger stone and mike flynn are awaiting sentencing next year. and the president's recent comments are any indication they may be in for some good news. >> roger stone, are you goi

it's because the rudy giuliani associates lev parnas and igor fruman have approached the executive hopingh him. saying maybe we should get rid of the ceo. looking to see what was behind that. these men were trying to get a business deal going. they wanted some change at the company and they were working at the same time with rudy giuliani. so that has raised a lot of questions. what was rudy giuliani's involvement with this, if any, now prosecutors are starting to dig into this and to ask questions. rudy giuliani's lawyer says he has had no financial interest in the company. this gas company they were trying to get going. but it definitely raises questions and in a court hearing on monday, prosecutors said they were likely to bring a superseding indictment, that means additional charges. they said specifically about lev parnas that they are investigating him for other crimes. alisyn as many. >> oh, my gosh. the questions just keep adding up or piling up, i should say. thank you very much. >>> up next, we're going to speak with one of the four expert witnesses who testified at yesterday's

parnas and fruman are -- they're indicted. it is reported that parnas is getting ready to flip and he's got tapes and he's got records. you have to believe he's going to give up giuliani. i bet you, chris, giuliani is over there trying to put his own future criminal defense together. >> thank you. i've got to get back to charlie because i'm an argumentative person. there's no middle roaders anymore. everybody knows it's ibt ukraine. we all know the facts about the central case which i believe pelosi's going to push right through this process. do you think anybody's ready to change their mind? >> maybe not in congress but in the public. and, you know, keep in mind you and i have been following this every single day, but there's an advantage to sometimes slowing it down, letting the facts marinate, letting the public catch up. every day that goes by i think there's a chance you're going to see new revelations about all of this. look, the democrats i think have a stronger hand than they think they do. they're winning in federal c

the second was in regard to igor fruman to a company csc holdings, the third related to mr. sondland, off to verizon. . the fourth was back to at&t. seeking information on a certain number. the fifth was back to at&t and the sixth was seeking subscriber information which impacted the veteran journalist john solomon and also involved with these are some of the attorneys. >> mr. castor you've been an investigator of the hillve and this is crazy, i've never seen anything like this, you haven't either, would it be interesting towo note because mr. goldman chooses not to answer because he don't want to incriminate himself or the chairman or somebody else, would it be interesting to e,find, as you he dealt with committee staff, somebody to just have an epiphany or were they under direction by somebody to do that. >> it's obvious they were trying tos figure something out. >> wait.ur i have one thingme for mr. goldman, mr. goldman, we're used to committeeol and people and witnesses taking gratuitous shots at people they don't like. earlier today in your testimony, you made a comment

she also asked him about his relationship with lev parnas and igor fruman. >> they look like miami people. i know a lot of miami people that look like that and are perfectly legitimate and act like them. neither one of them has ever been convicted of a crime. neither one. and generally that's my cut-off point. if you do it based on allegations and claims, well, you're not going to work with anybody he said laughing, particularly in business. well, dana, no, they've actually been charged with crimes. they've been charged with trying to -- with successfully illegally funneling money to u.s. elections. >> of course. he's trying to explain why he got involved with them in the first place and just used the giuliani google translate which john avlon can as well. i know a lot of guys like that who are players who you can see on the scene wanting to get into the mix. but it doesn't make them criminals. but you're, obviously, right. it's completely different when they have been indicted for crimes. >> and reminder of where the name fraud garuaranty came from. it's because parnas was indicted and d

this is criminal case in the southern district of new york that involves igor fruman and lev parnas.ident trump will be impeached, working with rudy giuliani. they are charged in the southern district of new york now with multiple felonies. and according to "the new york times," this lobbying firm that pam bondy worked at until like five minutes ago, ballard partners, they've been subpoenaed in that case in part because they paid thousands of dollars to lev parnas for some sort of business deal that appears to have coincided with the impeachment scheme. of all the firms she could have worked for, that's the one? the firm she has to leave in order to work on trump's impeachment defense just got subpoenaed for information about a time in which she had been working there in a criminal case related to the impeachment scandal? i mean, that's very awkward for her to be involved in the president's defense given that. not nearly as awkward, though, as this picture of lev parnas with pam bondy with their arms around each other. he of course is one of the defendants in that criminal case relat

request for documents from igor fruman, ignored. request for documents from the white house, ignored. request for documents from rudy giuliani, the president's lawyer, ignored. request for documents from john bolton, ignored. request for testimony from white house chief mick mulvaney, ignored. the red marks are basically that demonstrate noncompliance, that they were ignored. i think this is what you would call obstruction, plain and simple. in fact, the only people that have complied with our request have been patriotic servants, many of them denying orders that they don't comply. what presumptions should we make when the president prevents witnesses from complying with congressional subpoenas? >> let's use our common sense. people who have exculpatory evidence, which is a fancy way of saying evidence that shows their innocence, want the court to see the evidence. people who have evidence that demonstrates their innocence would bring that to congress. people who have evidence which they think may be inculpatory, people who have evi

as we know from some of the court feelings with igor fruman and lev parnas, they were on the take.y were being bankrolled by a ukrainian oligarch who wanted the prosecutors who were trying to crack down on corruption out of the way, including marie yovanovitch, the ambassador, because they needed to do whatever money laundering and investing in u.s. political races that they wanted. and rudy giuliani was going to be paid $500,000 by lev parnas. maybe he was paid that, but that was the deal. and so here's what giuliani says about his business interests in ukraine. while attempting to argue that despite what has been written, quote, i have no business interests in ukraine. he told me about his business interests in ukraine, quote, i've done two business deals in ukraine. i've sought four or five others he said. isn't this the heart of the matter? he wanted to make -- rudy giuliani kept going to ukraine because the president -- >> i see john wincing already. >> i think because president trump wanted him to look for. >> the dirt. >> to dig up durt dirt, and he was making a lot of money