john solomon exposed that lie and it looks like the biden people haven't forgotten about it.e fbi's pretext for investigating him is that he violated something that no one in america had even heard of. foreign agents registration act. it has been up for an awful long time. for 50 years, a total of 7 people face criminal charges for violating it. only one was convicted. in fact, the u.s.'s attorney said that you should warn lobbyists who don't comply, not prosecute them. warned them. it is extremely common in washington. they are treated as civil manners. that all changed when donald trump was elected. it became a tool that the doj ruled against republicans. there have been more prosecutions in the past few years then we have seen in the past century. these are process crimes and they have been weaponized against political opponents. particularly of the biden administration. he's got a phd in that subject. you could argue he has never wielded profound political power. but he has been a long time informal advisor of donald trump. in 2019, roger stone was arrested on the grounds

as soon as you do so that is a very heavy a responsibility there terry 2 months ago nato said john solomon burke said no premature were draw does this one draw essentially now mean an admission that i've got a stance problems are just too big to solve. that's not certainly a conclusion i would make but that's been the line all along that they will leave when the time is right the only thing that's changed lately is they they've decided now is the time i was very surprised as someone who's covered this war a long time since its beginning in fact to hear them suddenly drop all the conditions and the taliban has come out and already said that well if if you're not meeting the may 1st deadline that you had with us we're not coming to talks so one of those conditions up until now was that there were robust peace talks with participation by the taliban the fact that that may not even be underway by the time the u.s. pulls out is really surprising for a lot of people who can watch this process and even have some hope for this process i only want to give you the final word i mean if you look ahead

that they are looking for in this warrant concerns communications with a member of the media, john solomon. that also implicates the doj's media policies, which are very protective of media members' communications and things like that. so there's a lot of mine fields for agents to work here. they must have some very good information that they're acting on to get them this far. >> andrew, it's never easy to get a federal search warnrant bt it's harder to get one for an attorney for the former president of the united states. >> that's right. everything they sweep up in these warrants will have to first be reviewed by agents and prosecutors who have nothing to do with this investigation, who are only looking for attorney general/client privilege communications. all of that will be sorted out and kept away from the investigative agents and prosecutors to make sure that there's no taint to the prosecution going forward. >> dave arenberg, give us a little bit of your perspective. you know a lot about all of this, about just how big of a deal this is. it would have required sign-off from the top

by rudy giuliani and notable among the names in the search warrant according to his lawyer is john solomon who's a right wing columnist, opinion writer who was at the center of all this, helping to ferment some of those stories and getting these stories out there including ones that were used to help get rid of maria yanovitch. >> we had learned that some time ago prosecutors in new york asked permission to do this raid back some months ago in the closing months of the trump administration. there was resistance from those people who are in charge of the department at the time, it was so sensitive that he imposed a new rule essentially erect new hurdles for prosecutors to do raids like this back in december. he issued a memo that you had to get permission and input from the departmentuty attorney gene. we know he did not sign off and he opposed the raid back when it was proposed for a number of reasons. he also was concerned of the fact there was the election so we know the approval came under the new administration and that's why you saw the raid happen td ed today. >> thank you, evan and

warrant sought communications between giuliani and other individuals including right wing columnist john solomonmon wrote op-eds for the hill about many of the pro-trump and anti-biden conspiracy theories peddled by giuliani and his ukrainian allies. after a review the hill found flaws in solomon's columns in ukraine, including a failure to provide key discloses. former president trump weighed into the investigation on his long time friend and personal attorney today. >> he just loves this country and they raid his apartment. it's like so unfair and such a double -- it's like a double standard, like i don't think anybody has ever seen before. it's very, very unfair. >> reporter: but this has happened before to his other personal attorney, michael cohen, whose office was raided in 2018 as part of a criminal investigation. cohen eventually spent one year in jail and today he told cnn giuliani knows exactly what to expect. >> he knows exactly what's coming down the road. he knows how to avoid what the ultimate consequences is going to be and i believe that he's going to start -- he's going to start

lot of material that came out through the impeachment proceedings about his communications with john solomon and other attorneys as well as ukrainian officials. they worked with parnas, associates of giuliani, who have been indicted on campaign charges. this is a sweeping moment in this investigation where they're able to get their hands on materials that are both in giuliani's office as well as his home right behind me. we're expecting giuliani to address the search warrant that was executed earlier this morning on his radio show shortly. >> that will be interesting. thank you very much. please come back to us as soon as you have any other developments. joining us now, cnn white house correspondent john harwood, gloria borger and elliot williams. thank you very much for being here for this breaking news. elliot, i want to start with you as our law enforcement mind. just when i thought i could erase the names lev parnas and igor furman from my memory bank. can you tell us what rudy giuliani was digging up dirt on donald trump's potential political enemies? >> the foreign agent registration a

especially interested in any communications he had with certain individuals including a columnist named john solomon wrote a lot about ukraine in the weeks and months leading up to the election. but this is a significant turning point in this investigation, looking at whether giuliani was lobbying on behalf of ukrainian officials while representing former president trump and also pushing ukrainian officials to announce some sort of investigation into the bidens. we've also learned, though, he was not the only attorney who once represented former president trump who received a visit from investigators wednesday. we have also learned that victoria toensing, a woman who represented president trump during his time in office for certain controversies, she also got a visit from investigators, they arrived at her home early wednesday, they served a warrant also related to this same new york investigation and we've learned that they actually took her cellphone. this is incredibly unusual to execute warrants like this on lawyers. there are a lot of concerns about potentially obtaining confidential communicat

million in income and 3.2 and assets, where did all the money go that was really good reporting on john solomonmy question waited all the $16 million go. >> that's a good question. the other thing tax pros have said there's no reason for the bidens to use tax shelters like s corporations other than to avoid payroll taxes and evens bidens top aide neera tanden said this is loopholes, bidens earn double what they earned in the prior 19 years combined. where did all the money go, what do you think? >> i have no idea but our tax code is insane it treats different types of income differently which i don't think we should in terms of medicare tax, the payroll tax in general is capped at a b certain level because it's designed in social security is designed to pay for your retirement plan and medicare there is no cap. i've never particular agreed with the aspect of it if you need to raise money forgr the programs let's do it in a simple and rational taxes system we don't have that right now. liz: you and senator grassley did a report and a deep dive into the biden family history they like s corpse and

especially communicates between giuliani and right-wing columnist john solomon. solomon wrote op-eds about the pro trump and andy biden conspiracy theories that were pedalled by giuliani. after review, the hill found flaw ands his columns on ukraine including a failure to provide key disclosures. giuliani denies any wrongdoing and has not yet been charged. his son argue this is was politically motivated. >> this is disgusting. this is absolutely absurd. and it's the continued polarization of the justice department that we have seen. >> reporter: this brings into stark focus giuliani's actions in ukraine that have been under incont intense scrutiny since 2019. he's been under scrutiny whether he lobbied ukrainian officials to open an investigation into then presidential candidate go biden while working as an attorney for former president trump. >> did you ask the ukraine to investigate joe biden? >> no. actually, i didn't. >> you never asked anything about joe bide snen. >> the only thing i asked about joe biden is get to the bottom how it was that the person pint

they were seeking conversations between giuliani and a reporter john solomon. they also obtained a search warrant of another trump lawyer, brief trump lawyer, victoria toensing. she was told she was not a target. federal officials have declined to comment. there's a broad effort to, it appears, at least stemming from this initial probe into giuliani's efforts around looking into negative information around president biden and his son dating back to at least 2019 and likely earlier, to looking at whether he was engaging in unregistered lobbying activity that could influence u.s. policy. that's what we know about the investigation right now. it could go in other directions. as you know, john, these things often start in one place and go in another direction. one person who knows that well is rudy giuliani, who's a former u.s. attorney. >> he's been under investigation for nearly two years now, maggie. >> yep. >> it's almost like, here we go. something came of. this why did this raid happen now? >> it's an excellent question, brianna. as best as we can tell, and,

over the last 24 hours is that a name that's mentioned in one of these subpoenas is reportedly john solomon." that's important in part because one of the things that you can do that is illegal is if a foreign government official pays you not just to lobby u.s. government officials, but also to secretly do public relations on their behalf without disclosing it. if you're secretly working for a foreign government official to try to shape u.s. media initiatives, that can get you in legal trouble with the justice department. so the fact that the doj is looking into potential conversations between giuliani and this former columnist suggests that that could be a piece of the case that they may be building against him. and of course we know doj is getting help. a former ukrainian lawmaker who i was in touch with told me that last summer the fbi reached out to him and he spoke with him about his knowledge of giuliani. he appeared in a documentary with giuliani so he has knowledge of how interacted with the cannes. >> >> he definitely didn't declare or register as an agent of a foreign government as

saying they were also looking for communications with john solomon, a reporter who had done a lot of the ukraine reporting that helped push the narrative that giuliani was seeking. you know, this is a search warrant that encompasses a lot of thorny issues for the justice department. someone who calls himself a reporter, this is a lawyer in rudy giuliani. >> yeah. >> it's the president's lawyer. these are not easy questions and i could see why you would want, you know, someone like lisa monaco in that position before going forward with it. there are search warrants executed in the country every day. they're not executed at lawyer's offices or their homes and they're not done in regards to communications with reporters. >> two of donald trump's lawyers have been raided by police, both michael cohen and now rudy giuliani. just donald trump, you go through the rap sheet of people who have been a part of the trump team, his former campaign manager steve bannon, michael flynn, his national security advisor george papadopoulos, paul manafort who ran his campaign, rick gates, michael cohen.

foreign lobbying violations, especially communications between giuliani and right wing columnist john solomonsolomon wrote op-eds about many pro-trump and anti-biden conspiracy theories for the hill that were peddled by giuliani. after review, the hill found flaws in solomon's columns on ukraine, including a failure to provide key disclosures. giuliani denies any wrongdoing and has not yet been charged. his son argues this was politically motivated. >> this is disgusting. this is absolutely absurd. and it's the continue d of the justice department that we've seen. >> reporter: this brings into stark focus giuliani's actions in ukraine under intense scrutiny since 2019. giuliani has been under scrutiny regarding whether he lobbied ukrainian officials to open an investigation into then-presidential candidate joe biden while working as an attorney for former president trump. >> did you ask the ukraine to investigate joe biden? >> no, actually, i didn't. >> you never asked anything about joe biden? >> the only thing i asked about joe biden is to get to the bottom of how it was that wothe dismisse

that came from real good reporting on the part of john solomon.y question is, where did all that $16 million go? elizabeth: that's a good question. you know, the other thing too, tax pros said there is no reason for the bidens to use tax shelters like s-corporations other than to avoid payroll taxes. even biden's top aide neera tanden said these are quote loopholes. you're right, when he left office the bidens earned double what they earned the on bind 19 years combined. where did the money go, do you think. >> i have no idea. our tax code is insane. treats different types of income differently which i don't think we should. in terms of medicare tax, the payroll tax in general is capped at a certain level because it is really designed, for example, social security is designed to pay for your retirement plan. medicare there is no cap. so, you know, i have never particularly agreed with that aspect of it. if you need to raise money for these programs, let's do it in a simple rational tax system. we don't have that right now. elizabeth: yeah. but you

giuliani and other individuals, including a columnist john solomon who wrote a lot about ukraine in the lead up to the election. now at this point mr. giuliani has not been charged with any wrongdoing, but as you noted it's incredibly unusual to execute a warrant like this on a lawyer, especially a lawyer for a former president, and, again, this is not the only lawyer who received this kind of treatment today where a search warrant was executed, so showing up on the doorsteps of attorneys and seizing electronic devices, incredibly unusual, and these foreign lobbying violations prior to the trump administration were mostly treated as paperwork crimes, so a lot of crimes right now about whether this investigation has expanded beyond just foreign lobbying. >> paula, as we noted, this kind of raid had to have been approved at the highest levels of the justice department. have we heard any comment from the feds about the decision to go through with the search? i can't recall a search of a lawyer's residence/office in such a high-profile way since trump's previous attorney michael cohen. >> e

reporting that's come out over the last 24 hours, is a name mentioned in one of these subpoenas is john solomon who's formerly a columnist. that's important in part because one of the things that you can do that's illegal is if a foreign government official pays you notches to lobby u.s. government officials, but also secretly to public relations on their behalf without exposing it. secretly working for a foreign government official to try to shape u.s. media narratives. that can get you in trouble with the justice department. the fact the doj is looking into a potential conversation between giuliani and his former columnist suggests that could be at a piece of the case they may be building against him. we know doj is -- a former ukrainian law maker who i was in touch with over the last 24 hours who told me last summer, the fbi reattached out to him and they spoke about his knowledge of giuliani. he appeared in one american news documentary giuliani. he has detailed firsthand knowledge as to when the former mayor was interacting with ukrainians. >> we should note giuliani's activities here have

they were interested in communications he had with specific individuals including a man named john solomonhe is a columnist who wrote extensively about ukraine in the months leading up to the election. again, incredibly unusual to serve this kind of warrant on a lawyer, especially one who has represented a former president of the united states. a significant turn in this ongoing investigation looking into whether rudy giuliani was lobbying on behalf of officials in ukraine while also representing president trump and also trying to pressure people in ukraine to dig up dirt or announce an investigation into the bidens. we have actually learned that rudy giuliani was not the only lawyer who received a visit from investigators wednesday. we learned that another lawyer who used to represent the former president trump, victoria toensing, she also got a visit early wednesday from federal investigators, they issued a warrant that we are told is also related to this new york foreign lobbying investigation and they seized her cellphone. now, a spokesman -- a spokesman for ms. toensing said she would

the warrants sought communications between rudy giuliani and individuals including john solomon, who have course is a well-known columnist, who is in communication with rudy giuliani about efforts to push for investigations of joe biden. >> sandra: i can also tell our viewers that we have been told from rudy giuliani's attorney that statement will be coming soon. we are told that he is in that upper west side home here in new york city as all of this plays out. david lee miller has gone there. he is reporting live as head of the his apartment in new york. if you have very latest. the fbi says they have no comments. the southern district of new york has declined to comment. we are now awaiting some official statement from giuliani's lawyer. >> that's right. we have been told that mr. giuliani's attorney is going to make a statement very soon, most likely in printed form, that will be released to the media. i have been told by someone who works in this building that in fact mr. giuliani is believed to be at home since the search warrant was executed. he apparently has not left his apar

administration is more forthcoming the good news we have good investigative journalists like yourself like john solomonrd told us about hard drive hunter biden computer as verifying gave to "new york post" so he hopefully more people come forward, kids financial he think tanglements representing a counterintelligence risk to this country mainstream media looks the or way we are not looking the other way we will rito publiclize it hopefully others like tony bobulinski will come forward so we are not in a trap of extortion counterintelligence issues with this administration. >> yep, and partly, the reason that a mainstream immediate yan blow it off social media was as well censuring president trump media he is bias a going to do everything they can to prop him up very sad very dangerous. >> senator thanks very much senator ron johnson we'll be right back. so jeff, you need all those screens streaming over your xfinity xfi... for your meeting? uhh yes. and your lucky jersey? oh, yeah. lauren, a cooler? it's hot. it's march. and jay, what's with all your screens? just checking in with my team... of colleag

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