chuck rosenberg is also still with us. i think what peter does is so important.his is not about small stuff. we spend a lot of time talking about donald trump's stupidity, the way he's debased the office, access hollywood tapes. but other than babies in cages and the slaughter of kurds, i guess there is a pretty long list of life and death consequences but this is certainly among them. >> it is. one of the challenges we have as journalists is trying to explain to readers and the american public the cost of corruption. and i think something that my colleague did pretty well today was kind of really lay that out in stark terms for the american visited. but if you really can tell the story in human terms of what's at sttle bit easier for people to see what the crime is and how our interests would've been harmed but also real human beings who we call our allies. >> you know, john, you and i sort of straddle the lunacy of american politics. you have a foreign policy title in your name here. but i think if you talk to the kinds of people that have been involved in poli

for the with us in new york is jeff rosenberg.hawkish cut look like, and how does jay powell communicate it? >> i don't think he wants to be too hawkish. they're looking for a bounce message -- balance message. they want to get out of this meeting without much volatility either way. they are going to talk about moving to data dependence. they want to get out of the easing cycle because it has been a very divisive subject for the fomc, and clearly as you approach an election year that is heating up, to lasting the fed wants to be is in the center of are they cutting, are they not cutting. they want to get out and move to the sidelines without disrupting financial markets with the scarlet: does the hawkish cut move to a dovish cut if stocks are falling during the news conference? >> it's interesting to him i don't know that the chairman will have the market data to look at. but we know a lot of times in the q&a part of the discussion that the chairman had the ability to sort of amended the policy statement in a way that could send t

leading off our discussion tonight, chuck rosenberger, former senior fbi official, former u.s. attorney and a former counsel to robert mueller at the fbi. he now hosts the msnbc podcast, "the oath." also joining us tonight, joyce vance, former u.s. attorney for the northern district of alabama and an msnbc legal analyst. and evan, former cia operative, former independent presidential candidate. he is the co-founder of standup republic. chuck rosenberg, i want to start with you and i want to start with that moment which would have been ig nosnoreignoreable accounts, anyway, we know is rue ke routine, u.s. attorney turns to the fbi and thanks them for their work that got them this far. in today's atmosphere with president of the united states attacking the fbi relentlessly as he has done, that moment stood out in a way that really it shouldn't have, but for me, it really did stand out. >> i think that's fair, lawrence. you know, joyce and i as former u.s. attorneys have both done that. we've thanked leaders of the fbi and the atf and the dea for cases that they brought, but you'r

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chuck rosenberg, former u.s. attorney and senior official, former fbi, thank you for joining me. >> stephanie is in d.c. where all of this is going down. that point where chuck made is important. because someone is as political appointee does not impeach them. it is important sbut interestin to keep in mind that your political does not make you credible. >> it is important to know how republicans specifically, vice president mike pence is characterizing bill taylor saying this is politically motivated and unelected. yes, he's a career diplomat so to smear this man who's in retirement and in the month of june came out of retirement to take on this role at the request of mike pompeo is extraordina extraordinary -- i will leave you with this question and chuck said it a moment ago, if bill taylor's testimony was made public, it is damming and greatly damaging to the president. this is my question to you, what if all of that information came out and it was not damaging to the president. we can't forget how damaging t

steve rosenberg, bbc news. we will hear more from steve throughout the week.vin ramjaun and this is your monday sport briefing. juventus moved back to the top of serie a — after edging a close match with rivals inter milan. inter, who had won all their matches so far, fell behind inside the first five mins. paulo dybala with the first forjuve. inter equalised thanks to a penalty from lautaro martinez, but gonzalo higuain scored what proved to be the winner for the italian champions. the english premier league champions, manchester city, have lost their second game of the season. pep guardiola's side lost 2—0, at home to wolves. adama traore with both goals for the visitors. city have now dropped five points in their opening four home games of the season — and lie eight points behind leaders liverpool already. we became a little bit nervous. so it was a bad day. so we were not in our best. and teamwork, when you consider the contact is so fast, could have been better. and we tried. in the key moment we have the chance to score. in general, the game was not in t

steve rosenberg, bbc news, germany. and we will have more from steve tomorrow.bc sports centre. hello, i'm gavin ramjaun, and this is your wednesday sport briefing. in his first tour match since the us open, roger federer eased his way through to the third round at the shanghai masters. the 20—time grand slam champion beat spaniard albert ramos—vinolas in straight sets, 6—2, 7—6. but there's no place in the next round for andy murray. the 3—time champion showed more positive signs on his road to recovery from hip surgery, but was just edged out by italian fabio fognini in a bad—tempered match. a furious murray accused fognini of shouting during a critical point, which led to an ugly confrontation. i've never had in a match — and i have played, i don't know, 800—odd matches on the tour — i've never had that happen. he wanted to engage with me, fabio, like he shouldn't have done, —— i probably shouldn't have done, but i'm not having him talk to me like that on the court. she's the biggest name in gymnastics, and now, simone biles has gone into a league of her own

steve rosenberg, bbc news, moscow.nt trump's personal lawyer, rudy giuliani, have been arrested on suspicion of campaign finance violations. igor fruman and lev parnas, seen here with donald trump last year, are both born in the former soviet union, one in belarus, one in ukraine. and are accused of being part of a scheme to funnel foreign money to us political candidates to buy influence. chris, give us an idea of what is going on here? they were both seen as being very important donors to the republican party. that was by republican leaders and donald trump himself. they were given access to the white house and indeed donald trump's mar—a—lago resort in florida. the big questions about where exactly those contributions came from, and prosecutors have now arrested them and charge them, arguing the money came from foreign sources and that they were essentially laundered through an energy company that the two men sat up energy company that the two men sat up in florida. 0f energy company that the two men sat up in flori

joining me now is chuck rosenberg. a former u.s.orney and senior fbi senior official and daily beast reporter. incredible work. >> thank you. so what i am covering at the daily beast is campaign finance. empoweri empow i am powering on these reports. these contributions kind of jumped off the page from a company called global energy producers. notorious for its secrecy laws and i just set out to figure out who was behind this so that led to mhis employees and now led t mr. rudy giuliani. >> was it obvious they were americans? >> right, he had allies at the time sort of the trump universe were saying no, this is a heavily capitalized company that's conducting business in the u.s. and ukraine. it is going to be this major gas exporter. the indictment that came out yesterday made clear that it was conducting no business. it had no assets to speak of and basically existed to service a shell and cover for personal donation for people involved in a way hid the identity of those making the contribution. >> chuck rosenberg. this is textbook

steve rosenberg, bbc news, moscow.orthern ireland, have all been in action tonight in the euro 2020 qualifiers. jane dougall has been watching the action. the last time northern ireland played the netherlands here in rotterdam, george best was in the side. the travelling fans hoping that might inspire their boys in blue. and in the second half, josh magennis delighted them. magennis scores! sensational! but moments later, the netherlands equalised, then two more goals in added time brought northern ireland back to earth, slipping out of the qualification spots. wales' global star was in their starting line—up but it wasn't gareth bale who scored against slovakia. a first international goal for kieffer moore putting them ahead. but early in the second half, slovakia equalised. qualification for wales now a daunting task. in moscow, as the temperature dropped, so did the tartan army's hopes. this, the second of four goals for russia, confirming scotland will not automatically qualify. an icy stare from the manager, as ge

steve rosenberg, bbc news, riga.last night. they've played festivals all round the world and have had tens of millions of streams online. but it's not been easy getting here. when she was at university, their singer cj got addicted to drugs and alcohol. radio 1 newsbeat reporter will chalk‘s been to meet her. i knew i had a problem when i was in my room alone, just drinking and smoking. and i remember i had a baggie of mdma and i would just crack into it by myself. six years ago, cj gilpin had to drop out of university with addiction problems. now the band she is in, dream state, has had tens of millions of streams online. they are releasing their debut album and cj is in recovery. we went down to one of their rehearsals. back then, when i was in uni, there was a pressure to succeed. i didn't feel at the time like i was. so, for me, like, marijuana especially and wine, would become my kind of way ofjust kind of bearing all my problems and hiding from it. and then codine for a while. the drugs and alcohol became a cru

. >>> i'll turn to chuck rosenberg, former u.s. attorney and former senior fbi official and kimberly atkins, washington news correspondent for wbur, both msnbc contributors. ms. atkins, what do democrats need to hear from fiona hill today to build their impeachment case? >> fiona hill is not a central part of this -- of this query. but she is somebody who can support some of the claims that democrats are making. essentially that donald trump and rudy giuliani were doing this operation and going around the officials within the white house and the state department to try to set up this sort of shadow diplomacy with ukraine that was built around pressuring them and to investigate corruption, meaning joe biden and his son. she was, as you said, not there at the time of that -- those text messages were exchanged or that phone call with donald trump and the ukrainian president but she was there for the lead-up and she had complained about rudolph giuliani's role during that time, complaints that she took to people like john bolton before

steve rosenberg, bbc news, hungary. the headlines on bbc news...e against kurdish forces in northern syria. there are reports of heavy fighting in the central border region and several civilian deaths. borisjohnson is region and several civilian deaths. boris johnson is meeting region and several civilian deaths. borisjohnson is meeting the irish prime minister today to try to find a solution to the brexit deadlock. president trump says officials will speak to the american women who claim to diplomatic immunity after a crash resulted in the death of teenager harry dunn. today is mental health awareness day — a day which aims to educate, inform and break the stigma surrounding mental health. prince harry, ed sheeran and more have been encouraging people to reach out to those around them in an effort to reach those who might be suffering in silence. sophie corlett from the mental health charity mind told annita mcvey this morning people are better at talking about mental health than ever before, but we still have further to go we've seen a huge chang

joining us now is chuck rosenberg, former u.s.e eastern district of virginia, former senior official at the justice department and the fbi. chuck, great to see you. thanks for your time tonight. >> my pleasure, rachel. >> to a nonlawyer listening today to this argument live, this, to me, sounds like a horror movie. this is the sort of thing nonlawyers would make up as an argument to make a hyperbolic over the top absurd statement. to a lawyer, experienced in federal practice, is this less bad than it seems on the surface? >> it's pretty bad, rachel. i think what happened is mr. trump's lawyer painted himself into a rhetorical corner, right? he wants to argue a president is immune from investigation. you can't even investigate. and so he almost has to say that there is no circumstance, including shooting someone on 5th avenue, under which a president could be prosecuted. if you concede he can be prosecuted, if you concede that he could be charged, you essentially have to concede that he would be -- he could be investigated. and tha

and former senior fbi official chuck rosenberg is at the table.et me start with you, garrett haake. so, that testimony we just showed you, we should explain who he is. that man is the hand-picked nominee to be donald trump's ambassador to russia. his confirmation hearing was public, and he was pressed there by democrats who all seem to be on the same page of getting every sing el trump administration official on the record about whether or not the conduct in question asking for dirt on a domestic political rival is appropriate. he broke with the president and implicitly rebuked the conduct at the center of the impeachment inquiry. was anybody expecting that, garrett? >> i don't think it was actually a huge surprise. i mean, the state department officials, those folks who have been there for long periods of time, this is american policy. this is not democratic policy which he was forced to defend here in this hearing today. this is standard american policy on the issues of russia, on the issues of, you know, domestic control of domestic elections.

they cannot testify or not provide documents now all of that will become much harder will someone rosenberg is a democratic strategist and former advisor to president bill clinton he joins us live now from washington d.c. sort of thank you for joining us here on al-jazeera let me just ask for your reaction to one of the latest developments we've had in the past hour or so and that's the former national security adviser john bolton has now been asked to testify in the impeachment pro-ball what do you make of that and what do you think might come out of it. well it's not surprising i think that we've heard over the last several weeks a lot of lower level people and now the house is going to start moving up the food chain and i assume that they're also going to call secretary say pompei of vice president pence rudy giuliani himself mick mulvaney the chief of staff in the white house all these people we know were materially involved in this conspiracy to shake down the ukrainian government so i think this is the beginning of this process becoming far more serious and grave and what we've also l

our moscow correspondent steve rosenberg reports. steve: moscow is a city that loses empire.or centuries, russia h had an unswerving belief that it is great, and that great powers must have influeuee. yocan feel that ithe kremlin. look at this. enceays power, omnipotthis says. that's why fora, 1989 was sosius r traumatic. 30 years ago, people power swept away the iron cuain, and with it' moscow's domination of eastern europe, russia's empire. >> today's russia wants to forget about 1989. it was a period of backtracking, surrenr, defeat. >> aoss eastern europe are ghostsf o the fallen empire, shards of a former superpower. soviet army bases lie abandoned. is o is near bern. moscow had 800 military garrisons in east germany alone. when the berlin wall fell, i withdrew its troops. he was t commander in the last russian soldier to leave germany. >> when we left, politicia in the west cried from the rooftops that nato wouldn'take a single step to the east. but today, nato hasn't only reached our borders, it has come right o our fence, to our gate. >> but 30 years on, it is russia

steve rosenberg explores how moscow views the tumultuous events of 1989 and how vladimir putin's russiao regain its influence. it's 30 years since the iron curtain fell. for millions across europe, it meant freedom. for moscow, it meant the end of its empire. today's russia wants to forget about 1989. but three decades on, russia is reasserting itself. there are fears of a new stand—off with the west. the baltic has become one of the front lines of what feels like a new cold war. as russia pushes for greater influence, i ask its leader how he sees his country. i am on a journey that will take me back to 1989 and across europe, to find out what it was like for moscow to lose an empire and whether russia is building a new one. moscow — it is a city that oozes empire. from the skyscrapers ofjoseph stalin, to the residence of the czars. the message is unmistakable — this is a country with ambition. throughout its history, russia has had an unswerving belief in its own greatness. you can feel that inside the kremlin. this is stunning. look at this. this says power, omnipotence. this says emp

joining me now, matthew rosenberg, who first broke the story for "the new york times."ins us live. appreciate that, matthew. you heard the president seize on your report in the press conference today and his accusation about chairman schiff. but that's not what your reporting says, correct? >> not at all. i mean, look, our story was really clear. we wrote this carefully. as you said, whistle-blower goes to his own agency through a colleague. has a colleague go to the top lawyer at his own intelligence agency. raises concerns. but they grow concerned about how that internal investigation there is unfolding. so he goes to somebody he knows on the intelligence committee, a staffer. he gives them a vague version of what this all is. he didn't give them all the details. he doesn't have lawyers at this point as far as we know. this person advises him get yourself a lawyer. go file it through the i.g. do the proper channels. then this person, one of the staffers at the intelligence committee, tells schiff what's gone on here but doesn't tell schiff the identity. we report this

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attorney now an nbc news law enforcement analyst, chuck rosenberg. he was a former aide to robert mueller. there is a lot to cover this morning. fast moving. >> chuck is very sad that he's here. he's going to arrest us for bad television. >> that too. it's sad also what's happening in washington, which we'll get to. a lot of fast moving developments in the push to impeach president trump, but joe mentioned the polls. a neuquen pea yak poll is just the latest to show the majority of americans now support impeachment. 53%. this follows yesterday's "washington post" poll of which found 58% of americans support the house probe, 21 point increase since july. yeesh. that's a big jump, joe. >> yeah, it really is. and you know, willie, we've often we show polls and everybody around the table goes this doesn't really matter, and oh, the election's still a long way off. i will say no polls matter more than these impeachment polls. you actually see members of even the republican senate start to move saying a word here or there when the numbers jump up, and nanc

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joining us to discuss is anna rosenberg. and still with us, our guest host, global macro strategist at rbc capital. anna, great to have you with us. you think all the outcomes actually are looking benign now. >> when you step away from the have reducedl, we the chance of no deal to 20%. we are either going to leave with johnson's deal or there is going to be a second referendum and another brexit delay. 20% is still significant. i don't want to minimize that. we have to look at what are the actual election results. there could be a situation in which johnson needs to enter a coalition or supply agreement with the brexit party and the dup and that could take us closer to a no deal scenario. overall, the scariness is a bit overblown. let us pick up on the nigel farage scenario. that is one of the most underpriced risks. in terms of that and the consequence for negotiation, what would that mean? if he had to do a coalition deal with the dup or nigel farage, what do you think the consequence or the risk would be? a harder fall o

joining us now is chuck rosenberg, who is a former senior official in the justice department and an msnbc contributor. chuck, thank you very much for making time to be with us tonight. i know you jumped up from what you were otherwise doing and rushed to the studio when this broke. thank you. >> i'm glad to do it, rachel. >> you may also know me well enough to know that by the time this story broke, i had a whole other show written, which i have now thrown away and will come back to at some later date. that means i have just been talking off the top of my head for these past 25 minutes absorbing this myself and trying to make sense of it. i, therefore, have to ask you if i have described this in any way or tried to put this in relevant context in a way that strikes you wrong or you think that i might be misfiring here at all. >> no, there's a lot of discord ant notes here. your introduction i think was spot on. we see again and again and again the president and his minions targeting senior law enforcement and intelligence officials. deeply disturbing. on the other hand, rachel, i know --

. >> chuck rosenberg, msnbc contributor. former u.s. attorney. former fbi official and who knows you would be in the middle of either subpoenaing people or not if you were in the middle of it. >> subpoena him. >> the host of the oath podcast where he talks with former public officials about this pivotal moment in american history. all right. i want to start with this issue of kupperman. and this is a classic separation of powers question. you could be arguing the government's side of this or you can argue congress's side of this. what do you think is the white house's strongest argument from preventing? >> first of all, i'm glad you framed it as a separation of powers issue. it's not a republican/democrat thing. it's the legislative and executive branch and the parties could have been flipped and in the exact same position. so i don't blame mr. kupperman or his lawyer for asking the courts to resolve it. i mean, the lawyer has said that kupperman, the deputy national security advisor, is indifferent. whatever the court tells him he must do, he wi

this week our moscow correspondent, steve rosenberg, brings us a special series of reports on how russiance. today steve is in latvia, a country once part of the ussr, now in the eu, where russia still casts a large shadow. what is real and what isn't? in latvia it is not always clear. the country has been targeted by russian disinformation to so doubt, confusion. moscow's objective to discredit european democracy on its border. and here is one example of what appears to be russian disinformation. this website is aimed at ethnic russians across the baltic is part of a news organisation which is bankrolled by the kremlin. what kind of stories does it put out? listen to this, among latvians, says, adolf hitler is more popular than harry potter. so the impression you get when you read this is that in latvia, in an eu country, that's the ideology is thriving. but is it true? i am off to investigate. my first stop is latvia's largest bookseller. how many copies off of mein kampf was sold? none. it is not available. what do you think about this claim that in latvia adolf hitler is more popular

this week our moscow correspondent, steve rosenberg, has been looking at how russia views 1989. steve travelled to hungary to witness russia's attempts to restore influence in eastern europe. a momentous event can change a country. but change never stops. and hungary has been changing since the iron curtain fell. this was border pest 30 years ago. a giant crowd. moving speeches. this activist spoke out against moscow. this changed quite a lot. that activist was victor orban. he criticises eu sanctions now on russia. but why? orban reads russia asa russia. but why? orban reads russia as a model country in terms of if you want to govern for a long time, you want to govern for a long time, you have to reduce the independence of the media, prosecutors office. you have to reduce the independence of opposition parties and so on. there is something else building closer ties between hungary and russia. and that is to do with energy. around two—thirds of all the oil refined here comes from russia. hungary is heavily dependent on russian energy, oil and gas. and although there is talk abo

our moscow correspondent steve rosenberg explains why russia has so much to gain from turkey's offensives is a major win for russia on many fronts. it is a considerable success for president assad for moving his troops into the north—east of the country, helping him to achieve what he is determined to achieve, to reclaim every inch of syrian territory. and who is president assad ‘s biggest backer? russia. but russia wins in another way as well. they come out of this well because america comes out of this looking bad. in abandoning the kurds, america ‘s reputation as a trustworthy and reliable partner has been severely damaged, if not torn to shreds. and that allows russia to come in and say not only to the kurds but to all the major players in the middle east region, look, there is only one key powerbroker around, russia. deal with there is only one key powerbroker around, russia. dealwith us. so the reputational damage to america is of benefit to russia as well. they win in another way as well. in recent yea rs, in another way as well. in recent years, moscow has been keen to drive a we

to go into the house and they found 3100 works of art a lot of different artist in those by the rosenbergy and then and another by max lieberman. they did not disclose them to the international community which is what they had signed on to do with the washington principals they kept them secret and they did so until that november when i wrote my first story then purely a tax investigation had nothing to do with art history and that's how it came to the public. >> if you don't pay your taxes quick. >> that's generally it so in the collection the one on the right it is a fun piece of work it is a big no-no for hitler a black person in a white person interacting like normal humans. . . . . any moth. this is a portrait after her son died and it shows two women having sex. we will get to that in a minute. yes, there were a lot of degenerate works and claimed in many of the private letters that he had kept them to protect them but then the question is why would he not work to get them back after. >> it's fascinating you said we want to destroy all this hard sell it to people outside of germany

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anna rosenberg is head of europe and u.k. for siegemund global advisors and joins us now from london. great to have you with us. maria was telling us that parliamentary math may be looking challenging for prime minister johnson. what happened? could this pass if, for example, you pushed -- put some conditions attached to the deal? >> it does not look very good for him right now. he could get 316 votes, and that is still short, so i think it will be most likely that he will lose the vote narrowly on saturday. shery: that means most likely it is not an early election. what is next? are we going to see that referendum that has been pushed by labor? will beink there another push for a second referendum. probably not on saturday anymore but more than originally planned. now the calculation is to wait until the deal has been defeated to get more support for a second referendum, so we expect the opposition is going to table an amendment for a second referendum early next week, and if the deal has been defeated, it has a better chanc

kicking off this conversation with me is chuck rosenberg. also the host of the podcast of "the oath." and the executive director of the snuts ff ainstitute for adv. charles can you think of why they would pull the plug on the last minute? >> a couple reasons. i can imagine they made a calculated decision better to obstruct the proceedings and procollude him from testifying than to let him tell the story. however some of that story is already told not just by the whistle-blower, but by other people who were party to the conversation. please don't think there is no evidence of what happens. >> they may not want sondland to tell his story, but what if volker testified last week. >> i don't think there is lots of grounds. i'm honored to be part of the team that is representing the house flrd a -- from a lawsuit. that is not the way it is supposed to work. want course should reject that as well. >> sondland could have been the one person to help trump tell his side of the story. this is a million dollar trump donor, a hotel magnet that representi

. >> chuck rosenberg. thank you. be sure to check out chuck's broadcast "the oath." listen for free where ever you get your broadcast. that does it for this edition of "andrea mitchell reports." follow us online and twitter. here is yasmin from "velshi & ruhle." >> hello everybody, coming up on "velshi & ruhle." former ambassador to ukraine risking her job to testify before the impeachment inquiry. we got late breaking details on that. plus, the humanitarian situation at the syria border is getting worse as turkey asusault is goig into its third days. tens of thousands of people are fleeing the region as the number of deaths arise. we are live there. wildfires in california prompting thousands of evacuatio evacuations and relenting winds. a key player of the inquiry. mary ma mary yovanovitch. sondland was supposed to appear this week but blocked for doing so by the trump administration. sondland was subpoenaed as al result. first, i want to focus on ambassador yoyanovitch. she was removed back in may months before her schedule. yovanovitch's tenure was cut short. yov

day in a row with all the major averages eraising their gains as economic slowdown persists david rosenberg, chief economist. very good afternoon to you both. david, you must be a little embarrassed. you were so bull esh fish for s. talk us through, david, the amount of data we've seen this week and whether you need to see it confirmed now by services and jobs on friday to really confirm the bearish outlook you've had for so long. >> the problem is that by the time you wait for the confirmation as an investor, your head has been sliced off. for all the talk about what a low share of the manufacturing of the economy, it reminds me of all the pundits coming on your show 12 years ago, telling you what a low share house something. talking about the powerful effects of housing and now manufacturing has on the overall economy. so, it starts with a producing sector, then with a lag, it hits the service-producing sector the reason services are so slow to move down, social services and education health care are not cyclical what moves first when heading into a recession is the economic sensitive sec

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. >> thank you, miss rosenberg, commissioner swig. there was no doubt that the kitchen was finished beyond the scope of issued permits. this would be legally active space under the permits that were active at the time and completed. so it is -- was the clear understanding of this contractor and owner that he was sticking his neck out in a way that he might be cutoff. but the economies of scale when you're doing a large about renovation like that, in tenants and trying to keep costs to as low as possibnarro so you can keep rents as low as possible, it made sense that he purchased those cabinets and put them in. it was a justifiable risk at the time. it's a cost that he's willing to assume to remove them. if this kitchen has to be removed, this scare will be altered -- this stair will be altered, and people will still be living there, but it won't be part of a dwelling unit, and it won't be part of a dwelling unit that people won't use very much. where you have an option to give it to their tenant and son who really will make good use o

so let's discuss now with matthew rosenberg and also harry litman. gents, good evening to you.'s what we call butt dialing, right? so, harry -- >> it's a legal term. >> let's talk about this. we're calling it an accidental phone call, but everyone in real life, we know what they call it when you accidentally call someone. did you butt dial me? sorry, whatever. so giuliani made this to an nbc reporter. he left voicemails and i he started talking about the bidens and ukraine with an unidentified person. listen to this. >> they don't want to investigate because he's protected, so we got to force them to do it. and the ukraine, they're investigating limb, and they blocked it twice. so what the president was do -- you can't keep doing this. you have to investigate this. and they say it will affect the 2020 election. >> giuliani also makes more of the political attack that he has made against the bidens. it's kind of -- harry, it's all strange, isn't it? don't you think? >> yeah, it's really strange. i mean it's comic, but it's also grotesque. he's also got this kind of croaking tone

steve rosenberg, bbc news, hungary. fellow wag colleen rooney, wh is married to wayne rooney, said she'd discovered that someone using that account had leaked stories about her to the sun. she revealed her detective work in an explosive tweet that went viral yesterday. rebekah vardy denies the allegation. earlier i spoke to the entertainment journalist caroline frost. it has caught the imagination, i think probably the nation as a whole is just desperate for any story other than political chaos and some of the more serious things we are seeing happening. however, on the surface it looks like a glorious mud fight between two alpha females, the like of which we have not seen since crystal carrington and alexa colby. but there are some more serious things we can talk about. clearly, the advent of the wag is unprecedented. they have taken centre stage in a way that i guess this story has really shown for us for the first time. they are just wives and girlfriends of sports stars and football players, but they do have a curre

for more, i want to bring in "new york times" investigative reporter matthew rosenberg and republicanthis was a bad week for president trump. now he is under the cloud of impeachment. has anything that happened in the past 24 hours from a long list i went through, does that change the calculus for republicans, either voters or members of congress? >> i think it is starting to. we've seen in a lot of polling that the number of republicans willing to support an investigation of impeachment, not necessarily removal from office, but investigation, is starting to creep up. the first poll for a lot of republicans caused questions as to whether or not this is a trend or outlier. we're seeing more polls showing it is beginning of a trend. we'll see how long that continues. should be of real concern to the white house. it shows that a basis smaller than they thought, spells trouble moving into an election more about motivation than persuasion. >> seen time and time again how reliant president trump is on that base, that he wants to cater to. matthew, want to ask you about giuliani's defense ab