also, coup plotter rudy giuliani was on "the masked singer.ore on this -- wait do we want more on this? al lright. we do? all right. for more on this, it's time for "a closer look." ♪ [ cheers and applause >> seth: republican politics these days is often so relentlessly stupid it genuinely feels like we're being punished for something. it's like we got busted watching an episode of "maury" and god said, "okay, you like that how about if everything is an episode of maury from now on [ laughter ] do you like that?" every damn day we have to deal with something insane like stories about congressional orgies or senators writing disney erotica or cable hosts pitching testicle tanning. and it always seems to come from the same cluster of weirdos like ted cruz, tucker carlson, rudy giuliani, donald trump, matt gaetz, madison cawthorn, and marjorie taylor greene their names are all starting to blend together now in one soup of insanity. "did you hear what muckery gaylor cawthump said now?" [ laughter ] did someone flip a switch or something that unlea

they're investigating whether giuliani broke the law when he tried to oust the u.s.u'll remember -- an investigation into joe biden and his son hunter. this is also around the time the trump administration delayed crucial military aid to ukraine. >> and it ended up leading to an impeachment. cnn's kara skinnell joins us now. >> rudy giuliani met with prosecutors in recent weeks and helped them unlock three electronic devices of his and provided pass wwords to others. these are following the raid in his home last april. there were some devices they could get in and some they couldn't, and that's where giuliani assisted. because giuliani is an attorney, they are sifting through any material that contains private information of clients. the prosecutor's office is expected to make a pretty quick decision about whether they're going to bring charges against giuliani for these foreign lobbying efforts or if they close the case without charges. robert costello tells us if you're innocent and you have nothing to hide and you don't want allegations of a criminal investigation

all right, let's move on to a different spek tack letter disaster, rudy giuliani. former aid toe donald trump and lawyer who makes all his clients look innocent in comparison. since his role in the attempt to overthrow the 2020 election giuliani has largely disappeared from public view, like a snail retreating into its shell. but way more disgusts. and if there is one thing america loves it is a big comeback and last night rudy got his. >> a little bit of controversy on the mask singer last night, personal lawyer to former president donald trump and former new york city mayor rudy giuliani popped out of a giant rooster suit while singing a rendition of bad to the bone. ♪ she could tell right away that i was bad to the bone. ♪. >> but as he revealed himself, this is what happened. judge ken jeong stormed off the stage. apparently didn't like it saying i'm done. >> trevor: yeah, rudy giuliani just got voted off the mask singer. which means he is about the spend the next five years claiming that he actually won the masked singer. i guess history was made last night be

now, giuliani's lawyer has been going back and forth with the committee trying to set the terms for giuliani'siani is expected to appear, we'll have to see how much he actually divudivulges. but this expected appearance comes as lots of donald trump's family members have recently come into testify. we know that his daughter and former senior adviser ivanka trump came in earlier this month as well as her husband jared kushner. and we also know that donald trump jr. is even expected to come into the committee in the coming weeks. >> all right. annie, we'll see what he says. i imagine a lot of privilege objections coming ahead. appreciate it. >>> still ahead for you, we'll hear from the global diplomat who just met with vladimir putin. and ron desantis, he wanted to try to stick to disney. why that might be harder than he thought. um, she's eating the rocket. ♪ lunchables! built to be eaten. here's to real flavors... real meals. real good. all of knorr's high quality sta and rice sides are now made with no artificia flavors or preservatives. knorr. taste for good. grlin', chillin', spillin', dill

it is that same office that is investigating giuliani after conducting raids last year to obtain giuliani's records, and electronic devices at his home and office in new york city. cnn is reporting that giuliani recently helped federal investigators unlocked several electronic devices that were seized in the rays a year ago. two other lawyers who worked with donald trump met with the january 6th committee today. pat cipollone and his deputy patrick filament. they met with the committee. they did not testify under oath. and here is the interesting tidbit, the new york times is reporting tonight, trump authorized them to engage with the panel, according to a person familiar with the matter. a person who might be donald trump. one of the people on trial in washington this week for his part in the insurrection at the capitol is asking the jury to find him not guilty because donald trump made him do it. 38-year-old dustin thompson drove with a friend from columbus ohio, took an uber into washington d. c. on the morning of january 6th, and before long he was in the parliamentarians office where h

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we know giuliani is still expected to testify.ur sources tell us there's no set date for that but if they want to do the hearings in june and wrap up the depositions in may, may comes in a few days. it seems fair to say this could happen at any point in the next few weeks, katy. >> they're releasing an excerpt they did with donald trump in the aftermath of january 6th and kevin mccarthy saying he was going to try to force him to resign, encourage him to resign and donald trump shrugging it off, saying he didn't care and saying it's because mccarthy has an interiority complex with contempt. is mccarthy responding to that? >> perhaps unsurprisingly, there's no reaction yet. yesterday we got inside that house meeting behind closed doors but our sources filled us in on what was going on. the tension in that meeting of not between other republicans and kevin mccarthy. it was between matt gates and congressman steve scalise, the number two house republican here. >> isn't that weird? >> well, it makes a little bit of sense. for mccarthy,

yeah, and it would have called attention to what giuliani was doing in a different way. so it was self-protective, but i was struck in reading your account of that meeting and and in general the ordeals that that followed on from that. you know, you describe yourself as a rule follower it was. it seems to me like, you know that there is a sort of gendered element to this that you really like it took you a while to fight your way back to righteous anger. and if anybody was entitled to righteous anger it was you but that you you know this mix of like have identity wrong. are they going to ruin me? fear fear? and i i think explaining to people a little bit about the the fear that you felt in that moment when powerful people and forces that you don't understand including the president are out to get you. a part that seemed like you and i might understand it in the former soviet union or in russia. but that's been so kind of revelatory to me to understand that that trump used fear to take over the republican party in a large swath of washington. yeah. yeah, well, you know jus

did you know rudy giuliani has established this relationship with the prosecutor who didn't like me, did you know this, did you know that and i go back to washington and say fyi fyi this is what i heard and people would say don't worry because i was in my part of washington. i was calling the state department, official washington. this was all happening around president trump and but not by civil servants, foreign service officers, people like the owner held. >> what he called the deep state. >> exactly. they had a addeeper commission i would say. so they were i think planning how to get dirt basically on joe biden. there was a sense that maybe i would not be helpful in that effort if i saw things that were going wrong. >> you knew about some of these issues. but by the time it becomes publichere in washington and you have sean hannity talking about you . laura ingram, the president's son don junior. that's when i realized there's some crazy thing happening. it's a small community here in washington that pays attention to russia and ukraine. and i like you have no these folks here fo

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you know, rudy giuliani was a key part of that smear campaign against you. what are the consequences of a private citizen influencing the president of the united states and the highest levels of u.s. policy, like the appointment of a u.s. ambassador? >> well, you know, my understanding is that there are a number of cases pending against rudy giuliani, and i hope that justice is done. >> was a new precedent set in that experience? >> well, i think that, you know, in the end, what happened is, there was an accountability of sorts, because it all became public. and i think that there are many reasons why president trump was not re-elected, but i think that a portion of it has to do with rudy giuliani and how he and his advice helped the president not only be, yoknow, impeached once, but, frankly, impeached twice. so, you know, i think there is some justice there. >> as a foreign service officer of 33 years, you write quite a bit about the state department. and in your book, you also write a bit about secretary pompeo, who was the secretary of state at the time

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it was a protest vote. >> cooper: did you vote for rudy giuliani? >> adams: no. ( laughs ) i did not. i have the backs of my police officers. >> cooper: mayor adams was barely three weeks on the job when he spoke at this vigil for two police officers who were fatally shot while responding to a call in harlem in january. >> adams: and i'm saying, don't give up. don't become so frustrated and disenchanted to allow the violent people around us to do what they think they can do. stand with families like these. >> cooper: he's also met with the families of victims of gun violence, like 12-year-old kade lewin, who was shot to death while sitting in a car, eating. adams argues that people who attended black lives matter protests over killings by police should be supportive of his efforts to prevent people like kade lewin from being gunned down by criminals. >> adams: democrats don't like talking about intervention. but we have to lean into the discomfort of the immediate things we must do. because, you can't say black lives matter when a police officer sho

and said this is what is happening because everybody had a little piece of it and of course, rudy giuliani wasn't sharing with me what he was doing. so, it was very, almost kafkaesque. >> people told me hey, did you know that rudy giuliani has a relationship with a corrupt prosecutor who didn't like me, did you know that? i'd go back to washington and say, hey, fyi, this is what i heard today and people would say, don't worry. because of course, i as calling my part of washington, i was calling the state department, official washington, and this was all happening, you know, around president trump and, but not by, you know, civil servants, foreign service officers, people like fiona hill. >> he called the-- >> they had a deeper condition. and i think the planning how to get dirt, basically on joe biden and i think that there was a sense that maybe i would not be helpful in that effort if i saw things that were going wrong. >> but you didn't-- you knew about some of these issues, but by the time it becomes public here in washington and you have sean hannity talking about you, laura ingraham,

giuliani to come in for some time. we have a lot of questions for him.vidence relative to his conduct that we would like to discuss with him. so, i hope that we can soon have that opportunity. >> i want to just ask you one last question about what you will deem a success. public hearings are now, we have a start date, we know when they'll start. they'll start june 8th. it's clear that the investigation is this churning, massive undertaking, so the timetable makes perfect sense when you get these little glimpses, as i said, a filing here or a revelation there, but i wonder what, in your view, will be deemed a successful phase of public hearings. >> well, i guess i'll leave that up to the public to some extent, but for me, it's to tell the complete story about what happened in a way that's accessible to americans. i mean, we have to go to where people are, not expect them to check out a thousand-page report. we need to explain this in ways that are truthful, that are credible, understandable, and a result where all of us recommitted to our free democracy,

. >> let me ask you about rudy giuliani.s week with giuliani, who was a central figure in this push to over turn the election results is going to appear next month before the house select committee on january 6. do you expect them to get anything out of this appearance? i mean, is this going to be -- i don't recall, i don't remember, attorney/client privilege, i mean, they seem to have a menu of ways not to respond to these very important questions. >> count me deeply skeptical of the committee getting anything of use from rudy giuliani. most fundamentally, the things that you need from a real coope cooperating witness are truthfulness and acceptance ever responsibility. i'm not willing to bet on rudy giuliani exhibiting either of those things given his conduct over the last several years sox what they'll see is a mish-mash of perhaps fifth amendment and claims of attorney/client privilege or lies and because he's rudy he'll blurt it out and maybe you could get some nug of truth out of that. but i wouldn't hold my breath wai

rudy giuliani expected to appear before the house committee next month.rved as president trump's personal lawyer. the panel alleges giuliani actively worked to overturn the 2020 election. >>> and new york democrats must now recreate the state's new congressional court. after there were boundaries that constitute unlawful gerrymandering. it will likely push back the planned primaries from january 28th th until august. >>> stanley tucci is back. brand new episodes, new food and new episodes. "searching for italy" sunday night at 9:00 p.m. eastern on cnn. don't forget, you can also listen to our podcast. download "inside politics" wherever you get your podcast. appreciate your time. we'll see you back here tomorrow. ana cabrera picks up our coverage right now. >>> hello. thank you for joining us. i'm ana cabrera in new york. it was nine weeks ago cede that russia launched an unprovoked war on ukraine and the kremlin is escalating the attacks and threats. vladimir putin vowing to retaliate against any country that tries to interfere. many analysts believe it'

now we spoke with deputy city manager mario giuliani. overnight. >> clear. we still don't know what started the fire. that investigation will i continue once this incident is concluded, we've made great progress for the night. thanks to southern marin. fire 2 were on fire in san francisco fire boats it was jobs dousing the dockside to reduce that fire. they're now remains about 3 small pockets that continue to burn on the docks. the challenge for firefighter crews is removing the asphalt material on top of the dock. to reach the timber so that we douse those flames and put it out and we anticipate the fire to continue to burn throughout the day. well, the damages is certainly concerning. this is a report of any show that. >> facilitate operations for imports and the benicia valero refinery. and so both of those will be impacted to the extent remains to be seen. staff has already both those organizations and we're prepared to meet league basis to working operation will need to moving forward as a release, a public health and safety. there

last night on the fox network, rudy giuliani was the masked singer. two of the hosts were so upset they walked off of the stage in protest. that a shame. turns out the man has a beautiful singing voice. >> i want to be yours pretty baby. yours and yours alone. i am hear to tell you baby. that i am bad to the bone. bad to the bone. bad, bad, bad. oh, yeah, bad. >> he was bad. it was very, very bad. they finally get a republican to wear a mask and that is how it goes. then the judges or whatever they are, they didn't know who it was. part of the game is the singer talks to the host, nick cannon while they try to figure out who it is. >> do they know each other? >> no. i am glad to meet you. i have been in that box forever. do you think it is fun to be in that box? >> no. he literally sounds like my father. >> i get put in the box a lot. >> it is the clue. he gets put in the box a lot. >> no he doesn't. oh, because he is a vampire, right. that is is the coffin that he sleeps in. that is a box. they put him in the box of a parking lot in the dildo store.

giuliani says that despite all those black smoke, there were no health concerns. >> he says bay area quality management district and solano county public health were on scene to make sure of nothing registered on their devices. >> so the public can be rest assured that we did not have, you know, toxic plume going into populated areas. the deputy city manager tells me he doesn't have an exact timetable for just how long the investigation and evaluation may take. but he says it will likely be days in benicia amanda hari kron. 4 news >> san jose firefighters continue their investigation into the massive home depot. fire that erupted in flames all happening saturday evening. four's taylor is actually spoke to firefighters on the latest updates for us. >> firefighters continue to hose down what's left of this home depot store. they say that the fire was first reported in the lumber section of the store despite how quickly it spread. firefighters say that there were no injuries to any fire crews, customers or any other workers. some of the walls still standing at the san jose home depot st

we're joined right now with the benicia deputy city manager mario giuliani.nk you so much for joining us here during kron. 4 news at 6 o'clock tonight. >> i justine, thank you for having me. and really just kind of happened, the report that amanda just, what's burning right now is creosote timber. and so you can imagine old timber that forms of doc and its so people oil and that's to prevent of roshan because it's on the water. so that is what is burning right now. so when you see that smoke, it's important. public understand this is not petroleum. coke no it is just old timber that forms the dock. the challenge for firefighters is that doc is overlaid with concrete. and so we have a coordinated effort with our public works department that is chipping away with a to remove that concrete to allow the san francisco fire boat to douse that dock with water. and that's what's happening as we speak. do we have any idea how this fire started? not yet justine. it's too early to tell how this is started obviously an investigation will once this is done. i will have re

what is it that the committee hopes to learn from rudy giuliani? do you expect that he will come testify? >> well, we're not commenting on witnesses that might come before the committee, so i don't want to speak about this in terms of him particularly or his testimony. but look, i can say say that any of the players who were involve in the bogus litigation, involve ed in discussions at the white house whether voting machines ought to be seized or what the authority was or the declaration or martial law, you know, we want to bring them all in, and obviously i think mr. giuliani is a person who will have a great deal of relevant information, but i can't confirm or deny whether he's -- >> spoken like an investigator, but our job to ask the questions. speaking about something that is in the public view, i'm just curious, congressman, what you think people should take from the exchanges between people like, for example, mike lee and meadows. let's put aside the more difficult questions of when members might cross into criminal territory. there's a wider

rudy giuliani tried to overthrow our government.ed from subway and the zika virus next? [ laughter ] mike lindell, the mypillow man, is this close to releasing all the evidence that proves the election was fixed. he's been this close for more than a year now. [ laughter ] earlier this week, he promised something big something that was going to "shock the country" was coming our way today. it didn't come today. and he also, for some reason, wants to get me involved in this. >> hope jimmy kimmel's watching right now. on our one-year anniversary. a year ago jimmy watched 17 or 19 hours of our show, he absolutely loved it. he was one of our biggest fans. >> jimmy: no, not was, is. [ laughter ] g but go on. >> i will pay for it, jimmy kimble. go get yourself an independent cyber expert and you go click on that little dominion exposed. it's what's inside the machines. and you have your guy check that out, and jimmy, i will pay for your cyber guy, i will come back on your show. i will come back on your show and you can sit there and you ca

your former boss, rudy giuliani, in the spotlight again. my goodness! former associate attorney general, former mayor of new york city -- rudy giuliani! >> no way! >> the breadth and different types of shock from the audience, from the judges and even here i guess from rudy giuliani. ex-attorney for former president trump told host nick cannon that he came on the show to show his granddaughter that she should try everything, even things that are completely unlike -- well, he just said it himself. your reaction now to this reveal. >> oh, god. look, complete mortification. i think for somebody that loves opera can sing so badly. granted he tried to sing "bad to the bone" and i wouldn't wish that on my worst enemy. but this is another milestone in the attention-seeking rudy which seems miles away from the mayor that led us through 9/11. >> why would he agree to that song? why would you pick "bad to the bone"? >> i think if he tried opera, it would have been even worse. >> ken jong walked off the stage after that reveal. "the lead with jakake t

. >> committee members say former trump lawyer rudy giuliani himself and donald trump jr. are on the short list for interviews, but they will not say when that will happen. they will say that republican house members who refuse the committees first invitation to appear, are soon going to get a second invite as soon as tomorrow. there also could be new interview request for some republicans in the senate, and that investigation moves forward, there are more alarming signs that trump's big lie that the election was stolen, which it wasn't, is now firing up the republican party in the 2022 primaries. reuters reporting that trump allies released at least five different states, are now under investigation for trying to access voting systems to look for evidence of voter fraud in the 2020 election. and that report says that in some cases, voting systems have been compromised by those breaches. in the state of pennsylvania, one trump backer, who is relentless in pushing the big lie, where he was running for governor. he was actually at the capitol on january 6th, and he now faces

elected me of joe to rudy giuliani again. we don't get to speak with him long. we need to lay out the best case for each state. each state there is presumably taylor greene, who has been in office for two weeks, implored meadows, who was naive in an office yet, implored medals to help with the coup attempt. she said, quote, we would like to organize for the sixth. elected me of joe to rudy giuliani again. we don't get to speak with him long. we need to lay out the best case for each state. each state there is presumably in referring to the states trump lost. the driving force mind the attempted coup. on january 5th, the day before them selection, publicans are growing grossman jim jordan forwarded medals of previously reported text outlining that same strategy. how to seal the election. a bunch of people in trump's orbit are converging on this. we know metals responds, who are, i've pushed for the, not sure was going to happen. i've pushed for this, that is, i've pushed for the coup. i've pushed for the illegal overturning of american democracy done solomon by f

giuliani's dripping hair dye, producing the biggest headlines, senator lee texted meadows, i'm worriedtential defamation liability for the significant president is significant here. unless powell can backup everything she said, which i kind of doubt she can. meadows responds, quote, i agree. very concerned. so, there is mark meadows saying that he is very concerned about the crazy trump lawyers on tv. congressman roy texted meadows after that press conference, saying, we need substance for people who are -- people are going to break. three days later, congressman roy texted meadows again. if we don't get logic and reason in this before november 30th, the gop conference will bolt, all accept the most hard-core trump guys. with no evidence of voting irregularities area anywhere in the country, on december 31st, congressman roy texted matthews, the president should call everyone off. it's the only path. if we substitute the will of states through electors with a vote by congress every four years, we have a destroy the electoral college. on january 3rd, senator lee texted meadows, i know o

rudy giuliani got me fired up. yeah. they were firing people up. trump's lawyers following the ideas laid out by don junior on november 5th, incited him to go to the capitol on january 6th where he broke into the building and infamously chased officer eugene goodman up the stairs in this now infamous footage from that day. johnson is now trying to suppress that interview that he voluntarily gave the fbi, perhaps regretting that he opened his mouth. the way that i have come to see it is that there were basically three buckets. three categories of people involved in that insurrection. they are all part of one story. there is of course the ex president, his inner circle of enablers, then there is the mob who answered the calls to action, and then there is this middle category that sort of knits the two together. that is the key one in some ways. they are the foot soldiers. the far-right dress up militias. this includes the oath keepers, a group of whom you see here maneuvering up the capitol steps and an organized formation, as well as the proud boys,

. >>> rudy giuliani unmasked. on the masked singer last night. it prompted one of the judges to walk off stage. that show was taped back in february. at that time, giuliani big in promoting election conspiracies. giuliani says his new granddaughter motivated him to do the show. >>> the unbelievable true story of the man who took on vladimir putin and lived to expose the truth. the sundance award-winning cnn film "navalny" airs sunday night here on cnn. thanks for your time today. hope to see you back here tomorrow. ana cabrera picks up our coverage right now. >>> hello, and thank you for being with us. i'm ana cabrera. we begin with a shocking development out of ukraine. officials say these are new satellite images showing evidence of mass graves outside the besieged city of mariupol. the discovery announced just hours after russian president vladimir putin declared this city liberated. meanwhile, at the steel factory that has become the last stand of resistance in mariupol,

they all had little piece of it of course rudy giuliani was not sharing with me. so there were these things people were coming to me did you know that he establish this relationship did you know this or that? and never go back and fyi this is what i heard today. don't worry because i was calling my part of washington. but this was all happening around president trump but not byei a civil servant officers people that he called the deep state. but they had a deeper condition and the planning and how to get their time joe biden and there was asserts one —- a sense that maybe i would not be helpful in that effort if i saw things going on. >> but you knew about some of these issues. and if you have sean hannity talking about and the president son, don junior and it is a small community here in washington and these have been here foror many years. but it really did not breakthrough but there are the's parallel universes and washington so that conspiracy theory that doesn't menecessarily breakthrough. but now all of a sudden. >> but that was crazy so i thought my problem

speaking of bowel movements, rudy giuliani is in the news. he's -- [ applause ] still under investigation by the justice department. prosecutors are looking into whether he violated any laws when he flew to ukraine to try to shake down president zelenskyy for dirt on hunter biden. remember that? when trump sent goony giuliani to not-so-subtly threaten to withhold the military assistance? we now know how desperately they needed to come up with damaging information about his opponent's son? the fbi raided rudy's cave. and over the past few weeks, rudy would like us to know that he helped the fbi unlock three of his phones. always a good sign when you have three phones. gave them a list of possible passwords to two other devices. and even let investigators look inside the coffin he sleeps in during daylight. i was thinking about this. what his passwords might be. can you imagine being the face id on rudy's phone -- and having to look at this 48 times a day? another likable fellow. ted cruz has a podcast. i wonde if he does commercials on the pod

giuliani says that despite all those black smoke, there were no health concerns. >> he says bay area quality management district and solano county public health were on scene to make sure of nothing registered on their devices. >> so the public can be rest assured that we did not have your toxic plume going into populated areas. the deputy city manager tells me he doesn't have an exact timetable for just how long the investigation and evaluation may take. but he says it will likely be days in benicia amanda hari kron. 4 news. >> well, san jose firefighters continue their investigation into that massive fire at the home depot off blossom hill road that started on saturday night. we do have this new image now of the damage just into the kron 4 news room. it's giving us a good look from above. we can see that the roof has been totally destroyed. while there's been a lot of damage to this building. so much smoke even still coming out of it now, can't even really tell that used to be a home depot. crews are staying on the scene some 24 hours later, putting out hot spots in monitoring the

>> no, that's not robert duvall. >> rudy giuliani. >> no way!uld try everything, even things that are completely unlike you and unlikely. i couldn't think of anything more unlike me and unlikely than this. >> no, i think you had actually already done all of that. >> i will say he has tried everything. curious, very curious by the decision to select rudy. but the judges were clearly unpleased at giuliani's appearance, prompting them to leave the show early during his second performance. >> another one? ♪ hearts before i met you ♪ >> i'm done ♪ 1,000 more babies before i improve ♪ ♪ i want to be yours, pretty baby ♪ >> i'm just -- >> seriously, willie, this is what reality shows are made of. this is a -- what was that mtv thing where the real world, that would be like having steve bannon show be the real world. have people just leave the house, right? >> it is just not cute. >> it is not. >> there are a lot of people you could get who would be surprising and controversial and have them on the show but there's nothing cute or funny about that. it i

rudy giuliani held up a me home in part of an effort to fight his extradition. biden. >> your name came up in connection with the impeachment of then trump specifically in effort to dig up dirt on hunter biden. did you ever try to do that? >> translator: i never took part in the digging up of information whether it be on trump or biden. the fact that i'm being dragged into this whole situation connected to giuliani, i never met him nor by phone or in person. >> the u.s. says you're a criminal. they alleged you're in organized crime. your homeland has you sanctioned. why is it do you think so many people allege so many bad things about you? >> translator: you know, when you want to know something about a person, you should look at who his enemies are, and then you can judge what this person is worth. >> firtash says he would rather go back to ukraine right now and fight if prosecutors would let him and experience what he calls, the new ukraine. >> translator: we have to say a big thank you to mr. putin, and i believe we should be building him a monument in the ve

giuliani has been subpoenaed early on in the january 6th investigation, and apparently now planning to come in sometime soon, to testify. weso also expect that at least e request will be made for testimony from some republican members of congress. members who may have been involved in the effort to overthrow the government or at least mayov have been important witnesses to that effort. all of the republican members of congress who haveal thus far be asked to testify, thus far they have all made a big show of refusing to do that, refusing to testify voluntarily. the committee has not wanted to issue subpoenas to tryha to for testimony from members ofsu congress. we still don't know how that will resolve but now at least we know the time frame on which these questions will be answered or not. we knowes the time frame on whi these matters will be settled. six weeks. because that's when this whole thing goes public. you can mark your calendar, june 9th. julio cortez is a reporter, excuse me, a photographerer for the associated press, a photojournalist, last year, last summer, mr.ph cortez

. >>> cnn has learned rudy giuliani is expected to meet with the house committee investigating the januaryebted sometime next month. giuliani was of course former president trump's attorney and one of the main players in trying to overthrow the 2020 election results spreading false information and conspiracy theories. the mayor of minneapolis says his city has its work cut out following the release of a damning report on policing. a state investigation began after a minneapolis police officer killed george floyd in may 2020 as omar jimenez reports, investigators found a pattern of discrimination against the city's black residents going back for years. >> reporter: a wide-ranging report looking at data going back to 2010. some of what it found, those that were pulled over in minneapolis, were disproportionately people of color and that it happened even more frequently during the daytime when officers were, quote, more likely to see the race of the people in the car. the report also presented data around use of force showing that black people were the subject of it more than white people eve

melissa, who testified that giuliani, that day. take a watch. >> the pole book is completely off. completely off. >> off by 30,000? >> i would say that paul book is off by over 100,000. >> how many registered voters are on there? do you even know the answer to that? >> i'm trying to get to the bottom of this. >> there is zero. >> so, my question, then, is -- >> wait, guess -- what about the turnout rate? 120%? >> we aren't seeing the pull book off by 30,000 votes. >> why did you guys do? take it into something crazy to it? >> of course, there was no fraud. trump lost in michigan, and all the claims you heard there that have been while li debunked. but, to secure that, trump has now endorsed two candidates for office, to run the state elections in 2024. pick for secretary of state, christina karamo, and for attorney general, matt appear no. both of them, big believers, in the big lie. and, all of this comes to ahead, this weekend. on saturday, the republican convention to michigan, the first early test to see how much the big lie is driving the race, will be on display. joining me

but he really soured on powell after that kind of weird press conference that took place with rudy giuliani ten days after calling her a straight shooter, he tecxted this to mark meadows. unless can substantiate today, the president should probably disassociate himself and refute any claims that can't be sub substa substantiated. said this is a bad combination when you consider the damages that could be claimed and indeed proven and deep pockets that are involved. lee expressing reservations, but right up until the end of december, beginning of january, still believe that there was a path to stand in the way of the certification of the election. when trump and his associates didn't go with the plan he had hoped, the state legislators offering up an alternate state of electors, that's when he got out, did not vote to object to the election and warned the path he was heading down could lead to a constitutional crisis. >> in the text there, he's talking about financial damages or damage to the constitution and democracy. >> it's hard to interpret it specifically because we only have these text

during the 2020 presidential campaign, rudy giuliani held up a memo prepared for's austrian attorneysan effort to fight his extradition. the memos from ukraine's former chief prosecutor, talking about hunter biden. your name came up in connection with the impeachment of then president trump, specifically an effort to dig up dirt on hunter biden. did you ever try to do that? >> [interpreter] i never took part in the digging up information on trump or biden. the fact that i'm being dragged into this whole situation connected to giuliani i never met him, not by phone, nor in person. >> mr. firtash, the u.s. says you're a criminal. they allege you are in organized crime, your homeland has you sanctioned. why is it do you think so many people allege so many bad things about you? >> [interpreter] you know when you want to know something about a person you should look at who his enemies are and then you can judge what this person is worth. >> he says he'd rather go back to ukraine right now and fight. if prosecutors would let him. and experience what he calls " the new ukraine ". >> [interpr

two weeks later, powell appeared with rudy giuliani in what would become an infamous press conference baseless claims about the election. >> president trump won by a landslide. we are going to prove it. >> reporter: lee then changed his tune calling powell a liability and turned his focus to touting eastman. he pushed a plan to offer up a set of alternate electors. when that plan fizzled, lee decided he was no longer on board. he texted december 16th to mark meadow, i think we are past the point we can expect anyone will do it without some direction and a strong evidentiary argument. both lee and roy ultimately chose not to join other republicans to vote against certifying the election. >> our job is to open and then count, open, then count. that's it. that's all there is. >> reporter: privately, they were they are more emphatic about what trump's team was on. the president should call everyone off. it's the only path. three days before january 6th, he warned, i know only that this will end badly for the president unless we have the constitution on our side. they did not. but the trum