peggy: en graves aprietos puede encontrarse robert giuliani. allanaron su apartamento.su telÉfono celular. es foco de una pesquisa por sus negocios en ucrania. >> es la investigaciÓn que pudo haber tenido >> puede ser una influencia indebida. si quiere decir que la fiscalÍa federal de manhattan puede encontrar evidencia. >> les voy a decir a todos los estadounidenses, nuestro departamento de justicia debe ser independiente. su abogado dijo en un comunicado que giuliani se ha comportado de manera Ética. el departamento de justicia bloqueÓ los allanamientos en el pasado durante la administraciÓn de donald trump. fÉlix: las autoridades de la ciudad de nueva york informaron que las consecuencias de la pandemia fueron impresionantes. 44,000,000 de turistas menos. la pandemia puso fin al crecimiento rÉcord turÍstico en la gran manzana. se divulgaron los vÍdeos de las cÁmaras de los policÍas involucrados en la muerte de un joven hispano. galo arellano tienen informaciÓn. galo: una persecuciÓn policial vuelve a causar controversia. >> se refiere a los vÍdeos que captaron los ag

because the attorney for rudy giuliani, robert costello says there is a statement that will be given avid lee miller has said that for now, rudy giuliani is inside his apartment and this process has been carried out today, executed a search warrant, we will learn more as we hear from that attorney, thanks everybody for being here. let's go straight away to "reports." >> thank you, harris, top of a brand-new hour and we are following the breaking development on the search warrant carried out in the manhattan apartment of rudy giuliani, fox news learned federal investigators carried out a warrant >> sandra: are following the breaking developments on the search warrant. fox news had learned that federal investigators did carry out a warrant the home today and seized electronic devices. that is about all we have been told zafar. hello, everyone. i am sandra smith. this is "america reports." >> john: i'm john roberts

giuliani's attorney robert costello has denied that giuliani has done anything wrong.gested that this investigation and the execution of the search warrants was political. he said he twice tried to meet with prosecutors to try to convince them that giuliani's activities were lawful. but he never got that meeting. he's also kind of previewed that we might see a fight here over the electronic devices. in a statement, costello said the electronics taken are also replete with material covered by the attorney/client privilege and other constitutional privileges. so warrant served on mr. giuliani's law office is another disturbing example of complete disregard for the attorney/client privilege protected by the sixth amendment to the constitution. as you may recall, when prosecutors had served that search warrant on michael cohen, that led to a fight over how they would be able to review those materials. this could be something that we see take place here, too. jim, poppy? >> as district attorney years ago, he sought and executed a lot of search warrants himself. remarkable t

giuliani has denied doing anything improper. joining me now is msnbc news correspondent robert allen who was outside giuliani's apartment, nbc news national security and internal correspondent ken delaney and correspondent pete alexander and former federal prosecutor and leading contributor, alex ainsley. ken dilanian, what do we know about this investigation? >> they appear to have seized his electronic devices. as you said, this marks a major escalation in a long-running federal investigation of the former mayor of new york city and president trump's personal lawyer, because it means that the fbi and the justice department convinced a judge that there was probable cause to believe that a crime had been committed and that evidence of that crime could be found at these locations. now, giuliani's lawyer has been saying that this was what he called legal thuggery, because he said his client had offered to talk to the justice department and provide them documents. we have not been able to reach rudy giuliani or his lawyer, robert costello, but the backdrop of this, katy, is a long-run investigation that started from -- if you rememb

giuliani's lawyer, robert costello, tells nbc news, quote, the story is totally false according to mayor giuliani. the event described never happened. the report coming just days after the fbi raided mr. giuliani's apartment and office and seized electronic devices as part of an increasing his ukraine dealings. giuliani spoke out about the investigations last night. >> in the middle of the impeachment defense, they invaded, without telling me, my icloud. they took documents that are privileged and they unilaterally decided what they could read and not read. so the prosecutors, the justice department, spied on me. >> joining me now, nbc news correspondent julia ainsley and robert kurtsman, and also the author of the book, "rudy giuliani: emperor of the city." julia, tell us more about this reporting and what we know about a russian agent that giuliani met with. >> that russian agent's name was andre dearcopf. and they gave giuliani a briefing explaining that dearcopf was actually a russian agent, had very active ties and could be feeding misinformation directly from russia to giuliani wit

we have not confirmed "the washington post" report that we just received a comment from giuliani's attorney robertostello and he denies this. he says in a statement the story is totally false according to giuliani, never received any such briefing. >> let's discuss with carrie -- a former doj official, and a cnn legal and national security analyst. carrie, beginning with giuliani's legal troubles, listen to this from his fox interview last night. >> that warrant is completely illegal. the only way you can get a search warrant is if you can show that there's some evidence that the person is going to destroy the evidence. or is going to -- or is going to run away with the evidence. i've had it for two years and i haven't destroyed it. >> is that how warrants work? >> no, that's just not correct and it's pretty surprising to hear somebody who was a former u.s. attorney misrepresent the law in that way. so in an investigation when the fbi receives a search warrant from the judge the warrant has to demonstrate probable cause. and it has to demonstrate and articulate the crimes that they believe may hav

. >> giuliani's attorney robert costello says the raid was all about optics, trying to make rudy giuliani you very much for that. now joe biden is weaponizing the irs to advance his war on wealthy americans. president ames to give the agency and $80 billion cash infusion to help audit the rich. officials believe the move will generate an extra $700 billion over the next decade, using the irs to punish people you don't like, why does that sound familiar? joining me now, jason chaffetz, former house oversight committee chairman and a fox news contributor. he chaired the house oversight committee hearing into president obama's abuse of the irs in 2013. jason, and a lot of the news tonight, it sounds like "groundhog day," like the past is coming back in. what is your take on this new focus, but it really is kind of the same old focus, of using a law enforcement agency to go after enemies, or two, i guess, harass people you might not agree with? >> well, generally, we are in favor of enforcement, and i am typically okay with this fear of the problem is last time barack obama and joe biden were

giuliani's lawyer, robert costello, did issue a statement that reads in part, the search warrants involve only one indication of an alleged incident of failure to register as a foreign agent, which giuliani denies. he goes on to say the electronics taken are also replete with material covered by the attorney-client privilege and other constitutional privileges. joining me now is nbc new york chief investigative reporter jonathan dietz, white house reporter sara parker and former senior prosecutor for the mueller investigation, and andrew weissman. everybody, welcome. john, you know the sdni better than anybody. the lawyer's statement right there is talking about how there is attorney-client privileged material on many of those hard drives. what happens now? >> what happens now is expect a period of quiet time as they go through those electronics, a laptop, cell phone, other electronic devices, computers, as they look for evidence. how are they going to do this given the attorney-client privilege questions? they're going to have a clean team, a team that has nothing to do with the investig

. >> giuliani's attorney robert costello says the search warrant was in connection with to giulianiensaine and alleged violation of the foreign agent's registration act. that act makes it a crime to lobby the u.s. on behalf of a foreign government without registering at the justice department. he says giuliani had ample opportunity to get rid of the items that were confiscated but he kept them because he did nothing wrong. in a written statement, he compared giuliani's treatment to that of the president's son hunter biden. he says, in part, quote, you have not seen the home of hunter biden raided by the fbi with search warrants. this behavior of the justice department, enabled by compliant media, running roughshod over the constitutional rights of anybody involved in or legally defending former president donald j. trump is becoming the rule rather than the exception. and as is customary in this type of case, the attorney general, as well as the fbi director were aware of the raid but they did not order it. u.s. officials are not commenting on the ongoing investigation. bret? >> bret: d

giuliani has denied doing anything improper. joining me now is msnbc news correspondent robert allen who was outside giuliani's apartment, nbc newsributor, alex

we saw rudy giuliani do that during not one but two impeachments and during the robert mueller investigation. it is important to remember that giuliani has been presenti or connected to nearly every major controversy around president trump when he was in office, whether he was defending him or connected to the events that the former president was impeached for. i think you had a lot of people around giuliani who -- either former advisers or people who worked in his administration who are very despondent over what they are seeing. they are saying they don't recognize the person that is talking right now and saying the things that he is saying and they are hoping that he gets perhaps sounder legal advice than he's getting right now. >> andrew, the fact that they had enough information to get warrants to be able to do this, what does that tell you? is this some fishing expedition? >> it is definitely not a fishing expedition. i would expect, anderson, that they have a very solid case probably on the fara charge and that was enough to get them the warrant and high level approval to go forward. s

we saw rudy giuliani do that during not one but two impeachments. we saw him do it during the roberter investigation. it is important to remember that giuliani has been present, or somehow connected to, nearly-every major controversy around president trump while he was in office. whether he was defending him. or whether he was connected to the events that were -- the former president was impeached for. i think, you have a lot of people around giuliani who, you know, either former advisers or people who worked in his administration. who are very dispondent over what they are seeing because what they have said to me, privately, is they don't recognize the person who is talking right now, and saying the things that he is saying. and that they are hoping that he gets, perhaps, sounder-legal advice than he is getting right now. >> andrew, the fact that they had enough information to get warrants. to -- to be able to do this. i mean, what does that tell you? you know, is this some fishing expedition? >> it is definitely not a fishing expedition. you know, they -- i would expect, anderson,

warned but president trump was warned by his national security advisor, robert o'brien, that information provided by rudy giuliani pertaining to the bidens, pertaining to ukraine could be russian disinformation, part of russia's attempt to shape the 2020 election just as it had in the 2016 election. so these warnings were very clear, not only to rudy giuliani but to various white house officials and to the president. of course, giuliani continued with his outreach to ukranians. he even took that trip to ukraine and has dismissed all of these accusations in the past couple of days. >> joyce, giuliani is calling this a political hit job, but this investigation started back in 2019 under the trump doj. ideally, every doj is independent and separate in terms of investigations from the administration. but what is the response to a statement like that from giuliani? >> giuliani who, as a former u.s. attorney, knows better, seems to conveniently forget that the justice department doesn't just go and raid people's apartments. actually has to get an order from a federal judge not a part of the justice department who revie

giuliani's lawyer released a statement. let's get to cnn reporter, what is his lawyer saying? >> reporter: hey, victor, yeah we received a statement from the attorney robert costello telling bus the washington post story. in story is totally false according to mayor giuliani. he never received any such briefing. what the washington post reports today is that giuliani's office was told by the counterintelligence administration that he was a target of a misinformation and receiving false information about joe biden. cnn has not confirmed the washington post report. but what cnn has reported was gnat white house was warned that russians were feeding misinformation or at least they were -- there were concerns about russian misinformation to giuliani during the presidential election campaign. you know, and after that -- the white house had received that warning giuliani still took a trip to the ukraine where he met with someone who u.s. intelligence had later identified as a russian asset. viktor, alisyn. >> cara, listen, giuliani went on fox last night to defend himself after the federal raid. what did he say there? >> yeah, so he gave in interview to fox, re

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giuliani's new york apartment waking him up at 6:00 a.m. also raiding his office, his cell phone among the devices seized. his lawyer robert costello saying, quote, the electronics taken are covered by the attorney/client privilege and other constitutional privileges. costello dismissing the raid as politically motivated saying, quote, this behavior of the justice department running roughshod over the constitutional rights of anyone involved in or legally defending former president donald j. trump is becoming the rule rather than the exception. giuliani's at the center of a criminal investigation after trying to dig up dirt on former president trump's political rivals. at issue is giuliani's activities in ukraine in 2019 when he was urging ukraine's government to investigate joe biden's son hunter, his business dealings and alleged ties to russia linked associates in the spotlight. giuliani has long defended his actions. >> i started my career and maybe i'll end it rooting out corruption at the highest levels of government. >> reporter: but wednesday's raid is a sign the investigation has taken a serious step forward. >> t

robert s. mueller. that went off in a bunch of different directions, and cohen still remains the only person who got significant jail time in any of this. i think that that is the risk for giuliani is that these probes begin in a certain place, and as he knows better than anybody they can go off in a bunch of different ways. >> i'm thinking now and having a image of four seasons total landscaping in philadelphia right near the tacony-palmyra bridge and one of the main boosters of trump's big lie about the election, the false claim after false claim, bogus testimony around the country, that there was mass voter fraud in the election, take a listen. >> so over the next ten days we get to see the machines that are crooked, the ballots that are fraud length, and if we're wrong we will be made fools of. let's have trial by combat! i'm willing to state -- i'm willing to stake my reputation. the president is willing to stake his reputation on the fact that we're going to find criminality there. >> well, that aged well. we should note that trump did not preemptively pardon giuliani before he left office. do you anticipate that the former president in mar-a-lago will come out and try to

the new administration as john roberts just mentioned, one of the things that is believed to federal authorities are looking at now is to what extent if any mr. giuliani may have violated federal law and lobby on behalf of a foreign government, that being the government of ukraine. we expect to learn more about this in a short time, when there is a statement from mr. giuliani's attorney. at this hour, his own lawyer is confirming that a federal search warrant was executed at his home here on the upper east side of manhattan. back to you, sandra. >> john: hey, david. as you mentioned, they have been looking to execute a search warrant for some time. executing a search warrant against an attorney, whether it is rudy giuliani or whether it is michael collins, it really is a extraordinary event that requires oversight and approval from the department of justice. that approval, as you mentioned, was not forthcoming during the trump administration. changing at the guard with the wind has behind me and at the justice department has change the environment. >> that is very much true. it is my understanding that, in order for this type of work to be executed ag

giuliani and trump. they want more of it and they're going to be rewarding the people who propagate these falsehoods. >> robertno way the establishment republicans, and i think you put mitch mcconnell in that category, can survive if they're choked off of a supply of corporate donations. there's just not enough whack-a-doo money. there is truly not enough dark money to sustain one of the two political parties, and i think that with what betsy has asserted, if that's where all the heat is, josh hawley's raised fist and marjorie taylor greene, they're going to become so noncommercial, they won't be able to raise a cent from any corporation in good standing with sort of a reasonable center. >> well, and i think that's why you've seen these ceos speak out and why, quite frankly, that speaking out has been so powerful and the reaction from people like mitch mcconnell to try to rope those ceos back in has been so quick. there's no doubt the brian kemps of the world see their path to redemption or resurrection, if you will, in a place where they're answering this idea of what donald trump put out there as election in