rudy giuliani tested positive for the coronavirus.y, reporting extensively on the trump legal team. you have done great reporting, the partner, i guess, the yang to rudy giuliani's ying. now, we have the news that rudy giuliani tested positive for the coronavirus. what do you know if anything at this point? >> it is obvious that way the entire administration treated the seriousness of the virus from the beginning, filtered on down from the top. created an atmosphere inside the whou, around mr. trump, that is just completely contrary to the public health glidance, trump's own medical staff urged us all to take. it is similar to the way that he and his staff act above the law. there is a sense that the way they behave won't have any repercussions. you see that not only with the way that they have dealt with the russian investigation, impeachment. the way they treated this grave public health crisis. i think that stems from a couple of things. number one, if the president's refusal to acknowledge that this is a problem. he thought it wou

we have been pushing for details about rudy giuliani condition whether he's symptomatic . the white house is not commenting on that and the trump campaign have not spoken on that. we are hearing now from andrew giuliani. andrew goes onto say thank you for the concerns of his father. andrew tested positive not long ago, adding to a long and growing list of people around trump's orbit. that list now with rudy giuliani is at 53 including many people who were in regular contact throughout the last many months with rudy giuliani including other folks who were part of the prep team for the debate ahead of the election including chris christie and others and we also know that rudy giuliani in those travels you talked about over the last week or so, the battleground state where the president is contesting his defeat in the election there, rudy giuliani was frequently seen without wearing a mask in close and social quarters with other people he was doing with those hearings around the country. clearly not the kind of hearing we are get fting from the cdc, telling us we got to wear m

touching on the rudy giuliani.e is 76, he is overweight himself, he has had prostate cancer, recovered from prostate cancer, where does that put him in getting a severe form of this virus. >> he probably is in a high risk group. moderate obesity. who knows if he has hypertension, risk factors, cancer survivor. this is someone you want to watch closely. we don't have details about his condition. a decision would have to be made soon, whether or not to give him antibody therapy. we know, to the spike protein, and from regeneron, was giving him plas mafrom an idea, it works only in the early stages. that would be the most important decision to make right now. very much like what was given to the president. >> that is the problem with this health cares s we talked about over and over again. when the president got covid, he got all of the treatments that he needed. somewhere emergency authorized treatments, like the emergency antibody therapy. this is something that rudy giuliani, many americans, 2000 plus, that died as

donald trump's personal lawyer rudy giuliani is in hospital after contracting covid—19. understood to be receiving treatment in the georgetown university medical facility in washington. mr giuliani has tweeted his thanks to well—wishers and saying that he's "getting great care and feeling good. recovering quickly and keeping up with everything." here's our washington correspondent lebo diseko. he's one of donald trump's closest allies. now, rudy giuliani is the latest in the president's inner circle to be diagnosed with the coronavirus. he's been spearheading mr trump's efforts to overturn the results of november's election. this was him on wednesday at an election hearing in michigan, asking a witness to remove her mask. would you be comfortable taking your mask off, so that people could hear you more clearly? but for all the bad news about coronavirus, on sunday, some hope — two vaccines to be reviewed in the next two weeks for emergency use, and they could be given out within days afterwards. what we've said is within 2a hours of fda green—lighting with authorisation,

rudy giuliani is a formidable presence. i first started covering anymore 1982 when he was the mob-busting u.s. attorney here in new york. he cut crime as new york city mayor two terms, changed the culture of this city, divided new york through 9/11, and he has put his heart and soul into everything he does, into his current mission, and-even on with maria bartiromo e this morning despite this diagnosis of coronavirus. what is the right newt the white house? >> reporter: eric, good afternoon. i'm sure the president also sending his egg wishes to rudy giuliani, somebody who is known nationwide as a hero of 9/11 and, of course, most lately as the president's strongest defender when it comes to the election and legal challenges. the president broke the news less than an hour ago on where else but twitter. this is what the president had to saw. quote: rudy giuliani, who has been working tirelessly to expose the most corrupt election in the history of the u.s., has tested positive for the china virus. get better soon, rudy, we wi

lying of the preemptive pardon which rudy giuliani denied doing that. there is only a handful of that in u.s. history. you talk about president ford pardoning richard nixon which was controversial. this is a whole other level from that. >> yes, we got a sample today of his pardon style, filing by general flynn. it is so loose and not specific to open us up to challenge questions. as far as rudy, they'll try to give a blanket sort of immunity against all kinds of activities. that has been done in the past. in our common law, you have to have some specificity in what you are doing and you can't use these blanket efforts to immunize people. it could get challenge in court if he gets too goosey. >> john, you have to be specific. i am here by pardon rudy giuliani or any activities of 2016 or 2020. >> no. >> or ukraine or where ever he's been traveling to. >> you have to have some specificity as to what the offenses are. he did it with flynn. anything coming out of the grand jury investigated by the special council in the district of columbia or the eastern d

what has motivated rudy giuliani in that? onald trump came calling in 2016 with very few other candidates were ringing the phone for giuliani. donald trump needed giuliani and giuliani needed trump. in classic giuliani form, he does nothing halfway stop he has been as bombastic as advocate trump has ever had. and he has gotten trump into trouble. it was giuliani who arguably lead trump down the ukraine path and got trump impeached but there isa got trump impeached but there is a loyalty there. trump and giuliani survive when many other aides of trump have not. the mayers of new york city are very often well known throughout that city and outside of the united states but perhaps none more so than giuliani, who was the maker of new york city during the 9/11 attacks. they called him america's mayor. i wonder how much the perception has changed over the years as he has come closer to president trump? he has done a tremendous amount of damage to his own reputation in service of trump. his attacks on trump's adverse aries and his pe

we got this news this afternoon on rudy giuliani. the president tweeting that he has tested positive for covid. what more can you tell us? >> let's start off with what we do know, alicia. he has tested positive with both that tweet from president trump and jenna ellis, who has the second person leading the president's legal team, along with rudy giuliani. jenna ellis tweeting just a few minutes ago that the legal team will continue our important work to fight for election integrity, saying we have a great team along with a local council. jenna ellis going on to say, our work won't with affected and we prez on. now, we don't know exactly when rudy giuliani contracted coronavirus. we also don't know who he might have contracted it from or whether he's symptomatic at this point in time. rudy giuliani's twitter account has been re-tweeting some things in the last few hours, since this news broke, but none of it related to a covid-19 diagnosis. but it's not, perhaps, a huge surprise that rudy giuliani, at some point, would have contracted

talking about the preemptive pardon, which rudy giuliani denied doing that.re is only a handful of that in u.s. history. you talk about president ford pardoning richard nixon which was controversial. this is a whole other level from that. he's helping him launch a fraudulent assault of election integrity. >> yes, we got a sample today of his pardon style in the filing by general flynn. in the actual language, it's so loose and unspecific, to really open itself up to challenge. as far as rudy, they'll try to give a blanket sort of immunity against all kinds of activities. and that has been done in the past. but it raises questions. it's been before the supreme court, but it's never been litigated. in our common law, you have to have some specificity in what you are doing and you can't use these blanket efforts to immunize people. it could get challenged in court if he gets too loosey-goosey in protecting everybody. >> john, you have to be specific. you can't just say on twitter, i hereby pardon rudy giuliani for any activities between 2016 and 2020? >> no. >>

have expressed interest in and the possibility of taking the extraordinary step of obtaining rudy giuliani's electronic communications for an ongoing and perhaps accelerating federal criminal investigation of mr. giuliani. now, whether prosecutors would take that step of accessing his electronic communications by way of asking a court for a search warrant or by asking a grand jury to subpoena the records, we don't know. either of those are potential avenues for federal prosecutors seeking access to these kinds of materials. now, we've been reporting this story with our colleagues at nbc news. they have just posted their story about this matter online at nbcnews.com. but one of our sources tonight tells us that this case at sdny involving mr. giuliani is, quote, very active. neither sdny nor main justice would comment for this story. but it's important to note as a matter of context that the federal prosecutors in sdny, federal prosecutors in new york can't move forward. they can't ask a judge for a search warrant in a case like this without at least some level of approval from higher ups at

the president tweeting in part, rudy giuliani has tested positive. gert better soon, rudy. we will carry on. cnn has reached out to giuliani for comment. we'll bring that to you when we get it. lease go to jeremy diamond at the white house. jeremy, remind us, when was the last time we saw giuliani out in public? >> reporter: well, meryl giuliani was thursday at the georgia state capitol on wednesday, which was one of the latest hearings mayor giuliani has attended to try to overturn the election and point to voter fraud allegations that have no credibility or basis in reality. you can see on your screen, mayor giuliani was not taking the kind of precautions that millions of americans have come to know as part of their daily lives during this coronavirus pandemic, walking around without a mask. he takes -- he is seen taking bikts folks, shaking hands, hugging. these are all things we know the cdc recommends against. you can see him hugging someone in the georgia state capitol. obviously, anybody can get coronavirus, even those who take precautions can come down with this viru

do we think it's a precursor to trump pardoning rudy giuliani or will that wait million t-- that? hat will wait, because giuliani is actively involved in the president's defense. the questions for how that is done over the next couple of weeks. we don't know what rudy giuliani is under investigation for. some of what he has been doing now has raised legal questions and the president at the point in time that he were to grant a pardon for rudy giuliani if he did that, could pardon any crimes committed up to that point, but as we know, he cannot pardon rudy giuliani for anything he may do in the next few weeks or the future. >> goodness, gracious, thank you, josh letterman, that is the reid the out for tonight, all in with chris hayes starts now. >> tonight on all in, trump offering pardons for 20 people, including four black water guards that killed iraqi civilians and three congressman who were convicted and two people convicted in the mueller inquiry. the latest and then -- >> remember, what you are seeing and reading is not what's happening. >> price of loyalty. donald trump turn

rudy giuliani used to run it.clear -- it's not rudy giuliani versus bill barr. they both have very serious credibility problems. it's rudy giuliani versus the entire justice department, which has been on bill barr's orders, investigating, looking for this. they can't find it. also in doj's corner is the fbi and chris krebs. rudy is on an island by himself at this point. >> you think about all these things -- they're living in la-la land. i think about all the commissions and people he's impanelled and all that that have had to go away because he could find nothing, right? like the voter fraud and all. that but he is revealing -- he's also saying he's appointing john durham as a special counsel to look into the origins of the russian investigation into the 2016 trump campaign, which will likely carry over to the biden administration. i mean, could biden fire durham? what's going on? >> this makes it harder. let me put this in perspective. one thing prosecutors are really good at is when they have a really bad case

this morning rudy giuliani revealing he's getting great care and feeling good while hospitalized with covid. giuliani's been leading the president's legal battles to overturn the election traveling last week to arizona, michigan and georgia where he appeared mostly maskless at legislative meetings. >> you are the final arbiter of who the electors should be and whether the process is fair or not. >> reporter: the trump campaign saying giuliani tested negative before traveling to each state, and he did not experience any symptoms or test positive for covid-19 until more than 48 hours after his return. but arizona's legislature is not taking any chances closing this week after at least 13 lawmakers came in close contact with giuliani. on twitter trump writing, get better soon, rudy, we will carry on. >> we've never lost an election. we're winning this election. >> reporter: over the weekend in georgia trump pushed his baseless election fraud claims while rallying support for two senate republicans fighting to win runoffs next month that will determine which party controls the senate. it

spoke to veteran political reporter andrew kirtzman who is currently writing a biography about rudy giulianied the nature of mr giuliani and president trump's relationship. i think that donald trump came calling in 2016 when very few other candidates were ringing the phone for giuliani. donald trump needed giuliani and giuliani needed trump. in classic giuliani form, he does nothing halfway. he has been as bombastic an advocate trump has ever had, and he has gotten trump into trouble. it was giuliani who arguably led trump down the ukraine path and got trump impeached but there is a loyalty there. giuliani survived when many other aides of trump have not. the mayors of new york city are often quite well known outside that city and outside of the united states but perhaps none more so than giuliani, who was the mayor of new york city during the 9/11 attacks. they called him america's mayor. i wonder how much the perception has changed over the years as he has come closer to president trump? he has done a tremendous amount of damage to his own reputation in service of trump. his attacks on tru

that's what rudy giuliani said.ything else that struck you from my conversation with former prosecutor guiliani, alan dershowitz, kick us off. >> there certainly is probable cause for investigating and looking further. guiliani has made very serious accusations. the question is, which institution is designed, constitutionally, to look into it. is it the state legislature? is it the courts? is the clock running in such a way that there won't be time to look into this? i have proposed, for the future at least, the creation of a vote integrity panel, vip, that would consist of former justices, judges, neutral non-partisan, that any complaint about an election either before the election, during the election, or after the election, could go to this group which could then look into it because we know the media doesn't give it a fair shake and we know that everybody else is partisan. the american public wants to know, is guiliani correct or isn't he correct? i don't know whether we'll find that out in time for the meeting

the president tweeting in part, rudy giuliani has tested positive. gert better soon, rudy. to you when we get it. lease go to jeremy diamond at the white house. jeremy, remind us, when was the last time we saw giuliani out in public?

and i think that's where trump is facing real potential lighty as to rudy giuliani, he could certainly be pardoned by donald trump. i mean, the question is what did he what justified the pardon? it is admitting he coal mimmitt some crime. the fact that giuliani is going in and if he's discussing and requesting a pardon from donald trump means he's concerned about something that there's something going on in the southern district of new york that we just don't know about. >> exactly. that's -- >> yeah. >> nick, i want to build on that with you. that's important. not everyone knows about everything. you can come in here and talk about a carburetor and i might know less and learn. if someone is uninformed in a meeting with the president and the pardon somehow comes up, they don't know a lot and say i don't know, is it like, you know, get out of jail free? is this monopoly? fine. rudy dpgiuliani or anyone that' been around lawyers know what it means. so the correct answer is don't need it, don't want to talk about it and we showed his bluster earlier when he was saying he had nothing to fe

we'll have to wait and see with rudy giuliani. >> again, we hope he's doing all right. john, thank you for the update from the white house this morning. >>> a major development overnight in terms of the attorney general, bill barr. normally a big ally of the president. we're learning he may not wait until the end of the president's term before leaving his post. a source close to barr says he's not happy with the president. >> cnn's jessica schneider covering the justice department. jessica, i suppose i'm curious, why now? right? >> yes. >> the president's been very involved in many legal decisions, has applied a lot of public pressure. >> one source i talked with, jim, says that we're just days away from the president's term ending, so why not now? why not look like essentially you're pushing back and you're getting out before the end. so i am hearing that barr is likely to leave the job as ag before january 20th, and one source wondering here, if this maybe was the attorney general sending a message that he will push back, as we saw in that ap interview, and as such, i

let's be clear, it's not rudy giuliani versus bill barr.ave very serious credibility problems. it's rudy giuliani versus the entire justice department which has been on bill barr's orders investigating this, they can't find it. and the fbi, chris wray has said this and doj, chris krebs said the same thing and got fired as a result. rudy is really on an island all by himself at this point zpl it's really -- when you think about all of these things, they're living in la la land. even i think about all of the commissions and people he's impaneled and all of that that have had to go away because he could find nothing, right? like the voter fraud and all of that. i say that because he's appointing john durham as special council which will likely carry over to the biden administration. could biden fire durham? >> one thing prosecutors are good at, when you have a dog, assign it to someone else, let someone else handle it. i had plenty assigned to me. this is the ultimate dump. trump was hoping for a great october surprise. durham by all appearanc

four people were arrested. >>> a major development overnight in the rudy giuliani investigation. sources say his emails are now under scrutiny. it comes as giuliani tries to distance himself from another attorney trying to help president trump overturn the election. attorney general william barr is now throwing cold water on that effort. abc's faith abubey is here with more. good morning, faith. >> reporter: hey, good morning, mona. william barr is now breaking with the president in his final days as attorney general, and it comes as we're learning more details about that federal investigation into trump's personal attorney, rudy giuliani. as president trump and his legal team try to overturn the election, it appears a federal investigation of rudy giuliani remains active. abc news confirming overnight that prosecutors have discussed pursuing giuliani's electronic emails into his business dealings in ukraine. it's unclear what prosecutors in the southern district of new york hope to find in the correspondence. giuliani under federal investigation since last year when his former as

look at the crowd excited to see rudy giuliani.t almost seems like a mini trump rally that we used to see back on the campaign trail. bret, lipsey with the night brings. >> bret: that is exactly right. we will follow mark live in lansing, michigan. we have new information tonight about some of those alleged ballots irregularities in last month's election looking into a lot of them we have since the very beginning. kevin corke looks at some of the claims that on whether they hold up against the facts. >> a barrage of tweets and a cacophony of charges. all stemming from an intense election integrity debate. >> this evidence demands investigation. this evidence demands answers. speak of latest limitations from the conservative leading project of the thomas more society which is provided testimony from whistle-blowers that accused tossing out ballots out of the election. >> hav people have been destroyd ballots. >> one of the other claims being made across the country, many through sworn affidavit. bill barr's yesterday said that the d

now, rudy giuliani is a different matter. what exactly is rudy giuliani asking for? o we know they discussed it. not clear who brought it up. giuliani, we should note, despite ignoring our requests for comment and despite his own advisers not denying it is now denying it on twitter, just to give him his say. but in our reporting in the past week and over times, giuliani has discussed some sort of preemptive pardon with the president. again, we don't know specifically what he is worried about. what he could be worried about is the fact that there has been a southern district of new york investigation into former business associates, lev parnas, igor frumin, of rudy giuliani, and there had been, i believe to be, at least some investigators looking at giuliani in that context. whether there's more, we have no way of knowing that right now. whether there's something that went dormant over the trump years, we have no way of knowing that. but the concern is somewhat similar with giuliani, john, which is that under a biden administration, something will be getting a differen

rudy giuliani's behavior. and i just want to give you your opportunity to describe what you think you're seeing in this judge's memo. >> absolute corruption, lawrence. we see a president who's not interested in justice, he's interested in protecting himself and recognizes first he has to protect others. it's not about justice at all. it's a criminal who's seeking to cover his tracks, and we've seen this with other pardons. it's a bribery presidency, a smash and grab out the door. he was impeached for bribery, and in the final days of his presidency, there's a bribery or pardons investigation taking place. you could have set your clock to this, though, lawrence because the president accuses others of exactly what he is always doing. but legally pardoning himself or pardoning others for future crimes is legally unlawful, practically unenforceable, and morally unconscionable. and so in congress what i think we have to do is become more imaginative about how to protect our democracy from future presidents doing th

overturn the results of the election said today, "i'm still a little concerned about the use of rudy giulianier rudy's disastrous bungling of everything, here's what fox news host sean hannity told his audience about rudy's performance. >> in pennsylvania, rudy giuliani argued the case today. i've heard from more than a few people that he was absolutely brilliant in his arguments today. >> seth: maybe he was saying it the way british people use "brilliant" to mean "funny." did you see mr. bean fall down that escalator into the savory pie display? brilliant, absolutely brilliant. fun fact, the original title of hannity's show was "mr. the man who is very angry at me. we're in the midst of several crises colliding at once the destruction of american democracy, a deadly plague that killed 1,500 americans just yesterday alone. and we're seeing once again the republican party simply does not care about either. it's an authoritarian movement willing to wreck the american system and stand idly by while americans die. even after trump leaves office, what we're seeing now is that trumpism will very mu

rudy giuliani is the reasonable one in the room right now. rom the former member of trump's legal team sidney powell who has visited the white house three of the last four days. trump with nothing to lose and no one to stop him is where we start this hour with some of our favorite reporters and friends. msnbc political analysis claire mccaskill is here and elizabeth neumann is here from the department of homeland security and an adviser to defending democracy together. and sam stein is here, politics editor for the daily beast and msnbc contributor. claire, i start with you. i read the reporting and i have no words other than to bring the best of it to this broadcast, to share it and say what the bleep did people think was going to happen when donald trump was enabled by all of these people? >> he has been indulged for so long in his narcissistic fantasy that everyone is in office because he put them there. that no one would hold office if it wasn't for his benevolent nature and bestowing upon them his blessing. and here is the thing that is r

his son-in-law and rudy giuliani, and that's not the only pardon news. cnn's joe johns live at the white house this morning with more. joe, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, erica. with the president continues to rail against the election that he plainly lost, we're not seeing anything new or meaningful in terms of policy or even advancing his legacy. but we are learning a little bit more today about what may be getting done and not getting done in the final days of the trump administration. as president trump's days at the white house grow shorter, some of his associates are reportedly lining up to make appeals, hoping to receive pardons before he leaves the oval office. a source familiar with the matter telling cnn that rudy giuliani is one of the people on the list. a claim the trump attorney denies. a second source also says the president's three oldest children and his son-in-law. >> jared kushner, are seeking preemptive pardons. these requests may be in anticipation of what some trump allies see as hostility from president-elect joe biden's

donald trump says his personal lawyer rudy giuliani has tested positive for coronavirus. we'll bring you the latest live from washington. doses of the pfizer coronavirus vaccine have begun arriving in english hospitals — immunisations are due to begin in less than 48 hours. elections go ahead in venezuela, despite a boycott by the official opposition. and an apology from the family of the author of charlie and the chocolate factory, roald dahl for his anti—semitic views. hello and welcome if you're watching in the uk or around the world — and stay with us for the latest news and analysis from here and across the globe. in less than a months time, the uk's trading relationship with its biggest partner — the eu — will change profoundly. but no—one yet knows exactly what the new rules will be. the choice is between a free—trade deal, which will still mean significant changes from the status quo, or no deal when britain finishes its transitional period on december 31 — which would mean trading on basic world trade organisation terms. if a deal is to be agreed it has to happen

rudy giuliani attended the meeting by phone and spotted at the white house today. is there a drift between rudy giuliani and powell which makes the whole thing freakish. it is a cast of character that dismisses some kind of pathetic clown show. it is scary in an administration that tells us the president is "obsessed" with scenarios for over turning the election. that includes naming sidney powell of some kind of special counsel. again, remember we are talking about the same sidney powell that the president and his legal team wanted nothing to do with a few weeks ago because she was seen as too extreme. now, in the president's eyes she's special councsel material. c cnn's evan perez asked william barr about this today. >> the idea of finding -- >> if i thought special counsel at this stage was the right tool was appropriate, i would name one but i have not and i am not going to. >> the country is safe until a special counsel powell, that's until he leaves office two days from now. as for marshal law, the army chief of staff put out a joint statement, there is no ro

donald trump says his personal lawyer rudy giuliani has tested positive for coronavirus.s batches of the vaccine arrive in hospitals in england, one official calls it the beginning of the end for the pandemic. and the family of children's author roald dahl apologise for anti—semitic remarks he made during his lifetime. hello and welcome to the programme. talks to attempt to secure a trade deal between the uk and the european union have concluded for the night. they will resume again on monday with the head of the uk team, lord frost, insisting they were "working very hard" to reach an accord, although ireland's prime minister said things were on a knife edge. both sides are making different claims on signs of progress overfishing rights. two other main issues — competition rules and how a deal would be enforced — remain unresolved. our political correspondent chris mason reports. back in brussels, the uk's chief negotiator, lord frost, arriving for what's described on the british side as the last roll of the dice in trade talks with the eu. we've been working very hard to

we have tapes on rudy giuliani.s a tape where they are talking about how the nfl can run the government better than this current administration. and what's shocking about all of these tapes, and we are going to start releasing the raw, that's the full raw tape of each phone call starting tomorrow december 4th all the way up until christmas. again like an advent calendar, two tapes a day each day. what you see is total submission by suppose a journalists, the vice president, to what zuker's will is. he just says we are not going to cover this. this guy is an idiot. don't cover the hunter-biden story. do what i say. total submission whe. that's not what you are seeing here. you are seeing how the media actually works. >> sean: thanks for sharing. if you want to look at the raw footage, we will have more tapes as they become available in the days to come. you can expose and do news. we don't like them. they don't like us and we don't like them. more "hannity" right after this. ♪ >> sean: ivanka trump spent five hours d

from sources in the administration. >> reporter: wolf, three hours ago the president tweeted that rudy giuliani had indeed tested positive for the coronavirus and now a person familiar with the matter tells me giuliani was admitted to the hospital today here in washington, d.c., at georgetown university hospital. that obviously suggests mayor giuliani's condition is fairly serious to require him to be admitted to the hospital. we do not have further details on his condition as of yet. obviously a something development. mayor giuliani is 76 years old. that puts him in a higher risk category, we know that he is fond of his cigars, which certainly can't help in fighting an infectious disease that can attack the lungs. obviously this comes after weeks of mayor giuliani disregarding public health guidelines, the basic public health guidelines, millions of americans have learned to live with every day including wearing a mask, social distancing. none of those are things you can see giuliani is doing in this video from atlanta where mayor giuliani was in the georgia state capitol on thursday during a

the eastern district in new york and brooklyn and rudy giuliani were supposed to share this case but rudy went to washington and he said, "i'm the guy who's really equipped to do this. i should be put in charge." his mentor in washington, the attorney general, made it happen. rudy's agenda was rudy and what was driving him was what rudy was doing and his relentless climb. rudy didn't care whose toes he's stepping on, he wanted to be at the top and he wanted fame. he would stop at nothing to get what he wanted. the stage was set for an epic new york show down. having eliminated his competition, the young prosecutor prepared to take on the mob. he knew that the headlines would be sensational. and that if he succeeded... he wouldn't have to share them with anyone. our essential mist transforms fragrance infused [newsreader] it took four years and 300 with natural essential oils to create a mist. to invite the scents, comfort and warmth of the season into your home. it's air care, redefined. connect to nature this holiday season. i see you found the snacks. mmm, delicious! i need this rec

for rudy giuliani may reportedly be in that works. from "the times," quote, rudy giuliani, president trump's lawyer who has led the most extensive efforts to damage his client's political rivals and undermine the election results, discussed with the president as recently as last week the possibility of receiving a preemptive pardon before mr. trump leaves office. that's according to two people told of the discussion. the power to pardon is known to be one of donald trump's favorites and his top cheerleader in the right wing media last night seemed to be softening the ground for both pardons as trump prepares to leave office. sean hannity suggesting that trump pardon himself and his entire family. the last gasps of the president's assault on democracy and the rule of law just 50 days before he's set to leave office is where we start today with some of our favorite reporters and friends. mike schmidt, washington correspondent for "the new york times" with the by line on that "times" piece. he is with us. also joining us, frank figliuzzi

you think about the same things like rudy giuliani.remember giuliani also has a connection to current actual investigations in the fdny with lev parnas and the like about different allegations with ukraine. you have things on the legal horizon for him and could have a direct relationship to the president wanting to pardon. the children of donald trump as well of course as a part in the trump organization the new york state and of course fdny potentially has investigations that could have tentacles that reach as far as there. it's not total guesswork in saying i'm going to pardon you just because you respirate. i don't think this president is going to have a smooth sailing experience following his administration because even if he could extend his pardon power willy-nilly at his leisure that only relates to the federal crimes and we already know that the state prosecutors have been champing at the bit to investigate him, tax returns issues and anything else that may occur. so he is not going to be able to evade state-level prosecutions

he said, rudy giuliani had tested positive for coronavirus. he wished him well. giuliani for his part, 78 years old, checked into georgetown university hospital right here in northwest washington, d.c. he tweeted out that he's getting great care and he's doing good. giuliani has been traveling around the country, peddling the president's voting fraud fantasies and claims that he won the election. giuliani most recently was in arizona on monday. on wednesday, he was in michigan. most recently, i should say, he was in atlanta. and he was seen not wearing a mask, not social distancing. of course, giuliani is 78 years old. the campaign for their part says that giuliani did test negative before each of those trips. meanwhile, there is some other news relating to the president's inner circle. cnn has been told that attorney general bill barr is not happy with the president and is thinking about leaving the administration before the inauguration of joe biden. apparently, he says, he is not someone who takes bullying kindly, turns the other cheek. this was first reported

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this time the former new york city mayor, and the president's personal attorney rudy giuliani testing positive for the virus. the president announced the news in a tweet on sunday. now, he didn't provide many details about giuliani's condition, but a source familiar with the matter told me a few hours after the president's tweet that mayor giuliani was indeed admitted to the hospital r , admitted to georgetown university hospital here in washington, d.c., a sign that clearly his condition was serious enough to at least warrant hospitalization. giuliani of course is 76 years old and in that higher risk category. over the past week, what we have seen in giuliani is him engaging in the kind of behavior that you certainly shouldn't engage in during this coronavirus pandemic especially when you're in the higher risk category. giuliani was crisscrossing the country, visiting key states in an attempt to overturn the results of the election. on thursday, he was in atlanta, georgia, at the capital, shaking hands, hugging people, taking pictures with folks in close quarters. all of this not wea

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abc's rachel scott has more. >> reporter: we are learning the president's personal lawyer rudy giulianiity medical center here in washington, d.c. after testing positive for covid-19. giuliani is 76 years old. he is considered high risk and he does have a history of health complications including a battle with prostate cancer. he did a television interview earlier, but in recent weeks he has been crisscrossing the country leading the president's fight to overturn the results of the 2020 election. last seen there in georgia inside the state's capitol without a face mask. in fact, almost every single time we have seen giuliani in recent weeks he has not been wearing a face mask. he is just the latest in the president's inner circle to have tested positive for the virus. >> rachel, thank you. >> with coronavirus cases climbing across the country, the cdc issued a blunt message. it reads in part, quote, just wear the mask in all caps, followed by basic suggestions for staying safe. that tweet came as more than 101,000 people in the u.s. are hospitalized with the virus and at least 282,000 p

people are asking why is the president pardoning his family members and rudy giuliani when they have not charged with any crimes? there is a precedent for this. it has happened before in the case of richard nixon. not to say it's not corrupt or not unethical but with the source i spoke with about said this has happened before and may happen again. >> he has a wide range of possibilities when it comes to pardoning individuals and do something no one else has done pardon himself before leaving office and not now hoe that would play out. if he was pardon his family or inner circle or himself, would that be an administration of serious wrongdoing? >> it would be. most times people understand that in order to get a pardon or to grant a pardon this has to be some level of guilt whether it's admission or otherwise. president in this matter would say my children and my son-in-law and myself are guilty of committing crimes and we are going to pardon those crimes. this is not something people should take lightly. again, when you look at this meese and the large puzzle that is donald trump, i d