today multireports reveal giuliani was paid $500,000 to consult for a ukrainian company cofounded by lev par nas, one of the giuliani associates who was arrested last week. the timing indicates that rudy giuliani earned this money around the same time that he began working closely with lev par nas and another indicted associate, igor trueman to investigate joe biden and his family. joining us now is barbara mcquade, former u.s. attorney for the eastern district of michigan. both are msnbc legal analysts. barrett, as a veteran of the southern district of new york, i want to get your reaction to the irony and the substance of rudy giuliani now apparently being under criminal investigation by the southern district, a u.s. attorneys office he used to run. >> yeah, i mean, it's pretty startling to say the least. i think what you'll see throughout the southern district of new york's investigation is an investigation that will proceed in many ways very differently than the congressional investigation. first, just because somebody doesn't want to comply with the subpoena, they can't just voluntarily

president donald trump lawyer rudy giuliani have been arrested ukrainian border lev parness and bella rouge and igor freeman are charged with funneling foreign money to u.s. political candidates the $2.00 helped introduce giuliani to ukrainian officials and have been called as witnesses in the impeachment inquiry against donald trump. this is d w news for more head to our website w dot com and you can follow us on twitter at w news you're watching t w news live from berlin i'll be back at the top of the hour with more world news followed by the day i was even. on a. double talk show. a clear position was for international perspective turkey's president richard time to come on has launched an offensive against kurdish forces in northern syria so why now and what's the goal and will it further destabilize the region climb down to the point the children. cost d.w. . after the fall of the berlin wall nov 9th on d.w. . to itself. with its own gravitational pull. the finest musical compositions. with some mysteries terrific. don't tell me that he was into them don't tell me that he never wr

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at the time very few people knew who lev par fl parnas was. caption does say our celebratory dinner, indicating that lev parnas is there having dinner but we don't see him in any of the photos. it's unclear what his involvement was. did he have a seat at the table? there's an open plate. it's not clear that he's sitting down eating with them, however, if he did take the picture it shows he had tremendous access to this legal team. that raises a lot of questions because yes, as you pointed out, dowd had said that furman and giuliani represented trump. parnas said the same exact thing. >> one thing i learned from your reporting here is giuliani, people can have associates, who they work with. they are spending a lot of time with rudy giuliani in a personal and professional capacity. i think it's fair to say based on what you found, right? >> yeah. if you look at our video that sort of lays out from the beginning of his instagram feed to the end, you see a lot of rudy giuliani come in there. one thing that's notable is that on november 3rd ahead o

extraindicted to that court, this prosecutors previously came across the two men, lev parnas and igor true m trueman. parworking as an trespasser for the lawyers as of late july. there might be a broader relationship among firtash, parnas, and truman. chicago prosecutors reached out to their counterparts to offer their assistance. so the criminal case against firtash, those prosecutors are now working with the criminal case against giuliani's guys. i mean, this is lev and igor, the guys trying to dig up dirt for giuliani in this scheme for which the president is now being kbreec impeached, they are turning up in that gigantic bribery case. prosecutors in chicago offering to help the prosecutors in new york. yeah. the most important stuff always comes from following the flow of money in these things, always. it's the most surprising stuff and the most important stuff. toward that end, i will tell you, tomorrow is going to be one of the biggest days we have had in the entire trump presidency when it comes to following the money. that story is flying under the radar right now because of all of this impeachm

partially at the behest of giuliani lev parnas and igor from men are charged with conspiracy false statements and funneling foreign money into us elections. >>parness and men were arrested around 06:00pm last night at those airport as they were about to board an international flight with one-way tickets. >>the 2 men along with 2 others also indicted allegedly gave hundreds of thousands of dollars to a trump aligned super pac. the indictment laying out that the contributions were made to advance their personal financial interests and the political interest of at least one ukrainian government official with whom they were working. the man also allegedly made contributions to state candidates in nevada to further recreational marijuana business venture that never happened that foreign money coming in part from an unnamed russian citizen, whose involvement, they hid because of his russian roots and current political paranoia about it. >>this investigation is about corrupt behavior. deliberate lawbreaking. >>according to prosecutors the men pushed the former us congressman who sources say is texas republican pete sessions to help get former us ambassado

that giuliani's pals, igor fruman and lev parnas hid the source of hundreds of thousands of foreign dollars donated to super packs in u.s. political campaigns. par nas and fruman are the key links in ukraine and a source of unproven accusations against the b biden family. did you get all that. now it's time for our panel to explain it. from the legal perspective, how much legal jeopardy is rudy giuliani in based on what you have seen in the past 24 hours. >> it depends on what these two guys have to say about him. on the indictment itself, giuliani is not mentioned and there's no even implication of his criminal liability in it. if, however, hypothetically, giuliani was part of a conspiracy to defraud the federal election commission, these guys acts were countenanced by giuliani, this was all part of a financial scheme that would bring money to a congressman to remove this ambassador, to clear the way for them to do business, and for yovonavitch to do the biden dirt in exchange for it, then there is a possibility of criminal liability for giuliani, and further evidence of an abuse of power by the president. two threads, they run parallel at the