leshchenko says, no, i was trying to root out corruption in my country.ani says, oh, yeah, then why were you convicted of making it up about manafort? giuliani's making that up. that case went away and you just heard it from the man who is there and you can google it and you'll find the procedural history on the case. and then giuliani says, yeah, but look, biden wanted to get rid of this prosecutor who was coming after his kid. that makes sense to all of us, right? that would make sense. except this guy, they wanted him out, his own party, 298 -- or 89 votes in the parliament to get him out. western democracies wanting had imou him out, the u.n. wanted hem imt because he wouldn't take up cases. no evidence he took up cases against hunter biden. cory booker is breathing fire about impeachment and also simultaneously trying to pump air into his presidential campaign. a very troubling message came out of the campaign. we'll take up the reality for cory booker and the political reality for this country next. morning. what are you doing? isn't it obvious? nah

former diplomat leshchenko says rudy giuliani approached him in may for a meeting.n with his claims. he says the two men spent six hours discussing sa range of issues. >> the dnc was also mentioned and questions of biden. >> you had the sense of this of a priority from mr. rudy giuliani. >> yes. he does not hide it. it was his work and that's what he does to represent the president of the united states and personal interests. >> by trying to further conspiracy theory of the president's political opponent? >> no. >> there is no conspiracy theory. we need to investigate this properly. >> reporter: he disagreed, he was an advisor of president zelensky. >> i knew it for sure because for rudy giuliani it was not only interesting in ukraine to get this information about biden and to use this information in the u.s. >> reporter: did you think he was focused on it for the president or -- >> for sure, not for his private interest. we know who is rudy giuliani, we know he's acting behalf of his client. >> reporter: it was not a secret? >> it was clear. >> reporter: now rudy g

>> leshchenko reopened the case into the hunter biden situation. >> did anything untoward occur as ahat? has any damage been sustained? >> preet, let me bounce it over to you. preet? >> it has never been the standard ever, and i love it when lawyers come on and say this because it's the best argument they can make, and maybe they think they can pull the wool over people's heads. the fact that you try to do something and other good people don't do the bad thing you told them to do doesn't exonerate you from trying to do the bad thing. the mueller report is replete with examples of this. in some ways the president of the united states was saved by the people around him, including corey lewandowski, who was a liar on television. the point is if the president of the united states called up every sitting united states attorney in the country, right, and said -- i never hear neb answer the question when they're supportive of the president. is it an abuse of power or potentially a crime for the sitting president to call up the united states attorney and say, i hear there's a lot of corrupti

>> leshchenko reopened the case into the hunter biden situation. >> did anything untoward occur as ahat? has any damage been sustained? >> preet, let me bounce it over to you. preet? >> it has never been the standard ever, and i love it when lawyers come on and say this because it's the best argument they can make, and maybe they think they can pull the wool over people's heads. the fact that you try to do something and other good people don't do the bad thing you told them to do doesn't exonerate you from trying to do the bad thing. the mueller report is replete with examples of this. in some ways the president of the united states was saved by the people around him, including corey lewandowski, who was a liar on television. the point is if the president of the united states called up every sitting united states attorney in the country, right, and said -- i never hear anybody answer the question when they're supportive of the president. is it an abuse of power or potentially a crime for the sitting president to call up the united states attorney and say, i hear there's a lot of corr