we're talking about viktor bout.weapons will by used to kill each other and knowing the weapons will never go away. >> he was an accessory to violence on a scale that is beyond comprehension. >> having travelled through many of these countries, whether it was sierra leone seeing people with their hands cut off because they didn't want them to use weapons against them or countries like kenya, everybody has an ak 47. those weapons are still there causing more and more conflict. >> after more than two years of extradition proceedings, a thai court ordered bout straigextrado the united states. >> after the extradition had been approved we flew in to fly him out. >> he was transferred from the prison. there was certainly a big security risk because victory knows an awful lot, so there was that concern that someone would not want him to cooperate and potentially could have him killed. >> the russian government concerned about his intimate knowledge of military and intelligence operations fought for his return to russia. >>

viktor's hands were in a bag.ands, and viktor was very hesitant about taking his hands out of his briefcase. and i really thought at one point that thai officer was going to just light him up. the thai cops were absolutely dialed in on him and his hands. and gave the commands again. >> hands up. hands up. >> and then everyone complied. everybody was put up against the wall and handcuffed, and then the arrests were made. >> after he got arrested, he was brought to the thai police station. we sat down with him and explained to him about who the people that he had been meet with and they're all sources of the dea. and his first response was, i guess you hold all the cards. he knew that he'd been beat. and when the thais arrest somebody, they never just do a very quiet arrest. they put the bad guys in front of tv cameras, and that's exactly what happened the next day. it was on television. there were hundreds of people there. it was a circus atmosphere. he was laid out in front of everyone, in front of all the media.

viktor: yes, certainly for the time being.at least until that fiscal stimulus would be pushing inflation towards their target. what draghi said when he left was this policy is in place until it is time to start hiking interest rates, so at the moment, that looks like 2023 or maybe 2024. stimulus wouldl probably have a pretty good chance of changing that goal post a little bit, and get them thehe target sooner than market is currently anticipating. we the time being, i think have to assume that they will be in the market for quite some time. guy: any opportunities in the u.k.? actually, i think u.k. credit looks surprisingly cheap. we've been dealing with brexit is a risk factor that we've not really known how to quantify, and we've not quite figured out what the actual impact of it would be for more than two or three years now. as a result of that, it is fair to say that global investors are very under ella gail -- are very under allocated towards u.k., and in particular, u.k. corporate bonds. but we've seen over the last coup

. >> if we could get carlos in front of viktor bout, we knew he'd be able to deliver. carlos was the king of sting. >> it's not a game. it's not a movie. it's real life. you can get killed. i am part of the dea, but i am no dea agent. i am the source. >> the history of carlos is that he grew up in central america. he got involved with the military and as what happens in many of these countries is the

ukraine's viktor yanukovych.n the spring of 2016, donald trump called on manafort to be his campaign manager. >> paul manafort has done an amazing job. he's here someplace, where's paul? paul manafort. >> but when the story of the black ledger broke and the large cash payments to manafort were revealed, trump was put on the defensive. >> now manafort has totally denied it, denied it. i think he represented ukraine or people having to do with ukraine or people that -- whoever. but people knew that, everybody knew that. >> soon manafort was forced to resign from the trump campaign. the mueller report would reveal his close die ties and large debts to a russian oligarch, leading to suspicions trump himself may be compromised, allegations the president denies. manafort remained loyal to trump even after he went to prison for bank and tax fraud. even after he won the presidency, donald trump suspected ukraine had tried to sabotage his campaign. how exactly does joe biden fit in? that story next. , we present limu emu

died violently deaths you know protesting the perfectly legal decision by the ukrainian president viktor to 1st form the association agreement with the the fault of the un what happened in ukraine is huge you know so 1st i'm concerned about ukraine now i'm also concerned about the united states because this whole ukrainian affair is now the basis for these so-called impeachment hearings where i hear i'm sorry a lot of inaccurate information a lot of people i get an angry and if trying to support us. i feel deceived they aren't being easy if they feel that you know they voted in 2016 for this man and the view it as their last chance to keep the country that is slipping out of their hands under their control this is not my words you know i read it in there plenty of it's an article by a young bremmer a pretty good article you know about the supporters so which see how 1st ukraine was destabilized the united states was destabilized no the european union is destabilized and they blame it all on trump trump and putin i hear them almost like charlie chaplin saying all the time competent compet

signed the deal with russia well they should have asked the wrong best laughed ukrainian president viktor yushchenko if the machine could deserve this she was the prime minister and she didn't fulfill your should because directives she didn't talk to the president as their brain is that she went to meet bolton and signed that agreement without having powers to do that so any current issue would be put in jail so what legal don't you remember her nickname exactly gas princess i guess we got about 40 seconds hours go ahead finish up this blog. just quickly it was your schenker who initiated the criminal prosecution of her but this is exactly where the problem is with the united states it's bush used are not realistic foreign policy is in use it illegal methods to engineer changes in other countries and what it finds inevitably is that the e-mail eagle methods are now being used in the united states it was only a question of tomorrow before they were imported back and that's what we're seeing playing out now and so tired of hearing american commentators and politicians so completely mis desc

who is viktor shokin? ex-prosecutor fon cynthr ukrain pressure, fired back in 2016. the one who says he has dirt on the bidens and it appears has an ax to grind here because biden was part of that effort. so essentially according to parnas' attorney, after he returned, devin nunes reached out to parnas. said he wanted to coordinate efforts to get dirt with giuliani and parnas' effort to get dirt, and essentially talked to him several times, and even had an aide communicating with parnas on who to reach out to who might have some of this information. so this here is not great for devin nunes and puts him in a complicated situation here given he was one of the leading questioners, also ranking member of the intelligence community. now, two of our colleagues reached out to nunese. he said in response to be perfectly clear i don't acknowledge any questions from you in this lifetime or the next lifetime. so a non-answer there, but no denial. also reached out to viktor shokin but have not heard back yet. >> so during the impeachment hearings -- sorry, victor. go ahead. >>

viktor shokin is the man who has claimed to have dirt on joe and hunter biden. he has claimed to have evidence that ukraine meddled in our elections. >> reportedly met with rudy giuliani. >> absolutely. >> rudy giuliani wanted to get him a pass to come to the united states and it was denied. >> absolutely correct. >> well, nunes declined cnn's multiple request for comment. next week is the annual holiday of thanksgiving and but many will be burning the midnight oil on capitol hill. that is because they'll be pulling together the report from the impeachment hearings in the next several weeks. the matter then goes to the house judiciary committee which is expected to draft articles of impeachment. a vote by the full house could come by christmas. here's cnn's manu raju with more about it. >> reporter: house democrats are planning to take their impeachment deliberations behind the scenes. and expect those deliberations to be intense and active over the next several of days, including next week. thanksgiving week. a holiday week in the u.s. in which the lawmakers ar

who is viktor shokin? he is a man at the center of all of this. ex-ukrainian prosecutor fired back in 2016 because of western leaders including vice president biden putting pressure on the ukrainian government in order for them to fire him, and now he claims to have dirt on the former vice president and his son hunter. but clearly, you know, there's a little revenge since vice president biden was a part of that effort. so how does parnas get involved in all of this? well, parnas says that nunes reached out to him. that he asked parnas, who has an ongoing effort to get information on the bidens, with giuliani, to merge efforts with him and that an aide for nunes reached out to parnas to try to brainstorm what ukrainian prosecutors might have information on this. so clearly, this is not a good look for devin nunes and, of course, devin nunes is deflecting. met with some of our colleagues saying he's not going to answer any questions. >> yeah. this time or next lifetime, he said. come to you about giuliani and pompeo. what we're learning from these c

the guy's name is viktor shokin. as you mentioned earlier, he was forced out of his job inspe 201 because the u.s. and other western powers were saying he wasn't doing enough to crack down on corruption. kind of undercuts some of the theories from nunes and his colleagues. cnn has tried aggressively to get a reaction, a comment from congressman nunes. i want to show you what he told our colleagues. he would not react to the story. he said that he will not be commenting in this lifetime or in the next lifetime, that he does not recognize any questions from cnn. so clearly it's a touchy subject for the congressman. as democrats continue moving on in the impeachment inquiry starting to draft a report, you can bet that they will be talking about this in the coming weeks. it could have potentially huge implications. guys? >> marshall, thank you. it's also important to, as i've said throughout this reporting, to consider the source, consider his circumstances, and the timing. why now? if he knew throughout the entire proce

the outlets claim he met with viktor shokin trying to dig up dirt on vice president biden and his sonunter. he plans to sue them in federal court right after thanksgiving. congressman lee zeldin has been part of the leadership and the strongest voice fighting for this president and fighting against this absurd impeachment farce of adam schiff's and nancy pelosi. congressman, great to have you with us. let's start first with the numbers moving in the president's direction. your reaction? >> the american public has been able to get the 97% of the story. adam schiff's cocktail was to cherry pick and outright lie. members of the media gleefully played along with the spin on reality. they weren't able to get the truth. but what happens over the course of the open hearings. even though adam schiff won't bring in all the different republican witnesses who should have been called in. when you hear from people like kurt volker come testify and tim mormorrison come in and testify, and they didn't have to do anything to get the hold on aid lifted. to hear ambassador taylor testify tim morrison t

he took his cat viktor in the cabin with him. than that and they have to go into the hold. it is not clear how he did this, but he managed to use a cat body double at check—in to pose in place of viktor. but he was discovered and his empires have been confiscated as a result. that is it for today's morning briefing. an opposition senator in bolivia, janine—yey anez, has declared herself interim president following the resignation of evo morales. politicians from the former leader's socialist party boycotted the meeting of congress in which she took office. the moment many bolivians have been waiting for. the new leader after evo morales ‘s resignation and promise to bring peace to the country. the news was greeted with huge cheers and congress, but it was hardly a full house. supporters of evo morales refusing to take part in the session. she was sworn in swiftly, no time to lose. translation: it's been 1a years of a regime that has violated constitutional rights and guarantees, a regime that has arrested those for thinking diffe

people are looking to see who is moving the weapons into the war-torn areas and the name viktor boutople in these countries could slaughter one another. >> what didn't bother him is to support good guys or bad guys, and if he had the opportunity to support both sid

djokovic won his singles rubber to take it to the doubles but djokovic and viktor troicki were beateney rublev on a final set tie break. russia will now play canada in the semis. england‘s cricketers are looking to take control against new zealand on the third day of the first test which has just got underway. new zealand began the third day trailling joe root‘s side by 209 runs. they‘ve added six more to that total and with the black caps currently on 150 for 4. and there is full coverage of the second day‘s play between england and new zealand with the test match special team over on 5 live sports extra right now. the draw has revealed that scotland will face israel in their euro 2020 play—off semi—final at hampden park. that will be played on the 26th march. and if steve clarke‘s side win, they will be face either norway or serbia for a place in the finals. scotland have won three of the four times against israel and are 36 places above them in the fifa rankings. northern ireland will host republic of ireland in belfast. that‘s if both sides win their respective semi—finals at bosn

ties for these people, he also is ready to testify that devin nunes had a meeting with a man named viktor shokin, the former prosecutor general of ukraine. the top dog in ukraine for several years until 2016 when he was forced out for not doing enough to crack down on corruption. and because of that, he sort of re-emerged now in this saga, offering dirt and information about the bidens, much of it sketchy, much of it uncorroborated, but it appears that he may have had an audience with devin nunes, the ranking member of the intelligence committee, who as you saw in that clip has been pushing many of these same theories about joe biden and his son. >> and what's also interesting here, marshall, is that this isn't the first time that we've seen nunes play defense for the white house. how is he responding to all of this? >> yeah, you know, from the very start of the trump presidency, devin nunes has an a stalwart ally and defender of the president and has pushed back on so many of these very credible allegations of russian meddling. cnn tried to get a response from him. he was not cooperative

viktor shokin is the man who claimed to have dirt on hunter and joe biden.e has claimed to have evidence that ukraine meddled in our election. ♪ >> plus new documents released last night by court order reveal the white house helped set up a phone call between giuliani, president trump's personal attorney rudy giuliani, and secretary of state mike pompeo. >> we'll get to that in a moment. but let's start with the alleged meeting between congressman nunes and the ex-ukrainian prosecutor. we have kristin holmes at the white house this morning with more. i mean when you put the reporting of this alleged meeting in the context of all of the american people watched for the last two weeks it is a stunning development. >> oh, victor, absolutely. nunes was the one going after all of these witnesses, really grilling them, at points mocking them, mocking the process and repeatedly calling the democrats inquiry a conspiracy theory. listen to how he defined this process. >> how do you respond to ambassador sondland's evidence today that you directed him to coordinate ukr

if he wants to talk to viktor shulkin, he can talk to viktor shulkin. he's a member of congress.ake do that. it's crazy that stuff happens and he doesn't say a thing about it while he's sitting in the impeachment hearing. >> unbelievable. >> while they're testifying about all of this stuff. there's all this information, where it's coming from and here's this guy and that guy and this. and he's just sitting up there being like oh, yeah, i met with all those people. >> and he actually enters into the congressional record one of john heilemann's articles. it's a remarkable thing. and just another piece of it is that he's not -- like you said, he could do this potentially out in the open, but apparently, according to lev parnas, he takes the trip in december of 2018 because then he wouldn't have to report the details of it if it were after the new congress were in power because then his chairperson would be adam schiff. and there is in fact in the congressional records nunes and his team with derek harvey going to vienna late november to december 3rd, 2018. but they don't say -- sorr

the passenger knew viktor the cat would be too heavy for the cabin, so swapped in a smaller cat duringfoiled after he posted about it on facebook. but look at him, isn't he gorgeous? this particularly appeals to our director michel, who has six cats. in one of them is apparently rather large. it happens. that's it from worklife today. so many of your comments have come in on retail. the body is rethinking what the high street will look like in the future. sorry if we haven't read out your thoughts about whether you prefer to shop bricks and mortar 01’ you prefer to shop bricks and mortar or debit on your phone on the train 01’ or debit on your phone on the train or the bus. but i was in a shop recently with one of my daughters and it was so nice just to go around and it was so nice just to go around and look at things when we had time, but time is such an important factor. and it depends on the edge of your children. thank you so much, have a lovely day. we will see you this time tomorrow. thanks for watching. staying fairly cool over the next few days, with temperatures below where we

viktor shokin. the vice president wanted fired. we're not going to get to the answer to many of these questions because the witnesses that need to come in and clarify exactly what the democrats were doing in 2016. you're not we're not going to build a visit with those witnesses. it's an inconvenient truth of the democrats don't want to. dirty up the trump campaign using ukrainian sources in 2016. and they do not want us to get to the bottom of it. they don't want eu ambassadors get to the bottom of it they don't want the president's personal attorney ernie. even though he's under a special counsel investigation. they fed into the fbi. that we've dealt with for over 3 years. mister nunez the morning ambassador are you good morning. mister castor. all day on the 17th late into the night. thank you for your cooperation with the investigation. the president ever tell you personally about any preconditions for anything. ok so the president never told you about any preconditions for the aid to be released. >>on the president never told y

a joint press conference with viktor orban. on february 2nd of 2017.ted states. the ukrainian government adopted a unilateral position in favor of one candidate. certainly with the approval of the political leadership, funded this candidate or female candidat to be more precise. how would this theory of ukraine interference in the 2016 election. >>i mean president it must have been aware there are concerns in the us russian meddling in the 2016 elections and what the potential was for russian meddling in the future. an intelligence officer to try to throw off the scent and you create an alternative narrative that maybe might get picked up and get some credence and alternative what narrative that would be solved. >>when he talks about an oligarch. there's also a reference in the july 25th call to a wealthy ukrainian. is it your understanding that what vladimir putin is saying here in this press statement in february 2017 is similar to what. president trump says on the july 25th call related to the 2016 election. now let me show you another exhibit. rela

he'd won his singles rubber to take it to the doubles, but djokovic and viktor troicki were beaten by that scotland will face israel in their euro 2020 play—off semifinal at hampden park. that will be played on march 26. and if steve clarke's side win, they will be face either norway or serbia for a place in the finals. scotland have won three of the four times against israel and are 36 places above them in the fifa rankings. northern ireland will host the republic of ireland in belfast. that's if both sides win their respective semifinals at bosnia and slovakia. fulham came back from a goal down against qpr to move them up into fourth in the championship table. qpr opened the scoring to stun the hosts. but then, fulham's stand—in striker, abu bakar kamara, scored twice with this winner, securing the victory at craven cottage. kamara was brought in to replace the suspended top goal scorer aleksandar mitrovic. england's tommy fleetwood and jon rahm are three strokes off the leader mike lorenzo—vera at the world tour championship in dubai. tommy fleetwood shot a second—round 68, includi

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in february mass protests forced viktor yanukovych into ex-siel.h later russia sent special operations troops to crimea. today they're still fighting to regain its lost land. >> to really maintain that independence is really completely conditioned on the ongoing assistance from the united states. so it gives the united states and the president in this instance tremendous leverage. >> this is a country that's effectively a buffer state, isn't it? >> yes. at the moment what we have is the need to preserve what has become a buffer state, but also not to deny the people in ukraine who would like to see more integration with the west, certainly economically and possibly politically. >> reporter: ukraine may be thousands of miles from the united states, but it means that whatever happens in kiev has become key on capitol hill. nina dos santos, cnn, london. >>> well, president trump ignored the advice from his pentagon officials and pardoned two servicemembers friday. the president also restored the rank of a third member. all three faced allegations of w

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>> i'm hoping we could get viktor shokin.the ukrainian prosecutor general that biden had fired just as we were looking at the corrupt relationship between biden's son and burisma. that it be a very interesting conversation to have. obviously the so-called whistle-blower who concealed his relationship with adam schiff would be very interesting to hear from. i think that he has ties to the whole cabal that dreamed of this russia collusion hoax to begin with. that would be a very interesting conversation. the fact is so far the democrats have -- we've only been able to hear from their handpicked preventive witnesses and even so, the audiences leaving them and the real jury, the american people are turning against them when they can call defense witnesses, that will spell disaster for the democrats. >> jason: jenna, you're part of the trump campaign, i understand that. when you look at this indication of what's going on here, jerry nadler back well before this even came up, he was preaching and saying that there was going to be i

most of twern world wanted the ukrainian general prosecutor viktor shokin removed because they felt heate corruption, the european allies wanted him out. christine lagarde of the imf was so disappointed with the work he did, that she was going to hold back billions of dollars. so you're trying to change a shift what actually was happening in 2016, that what -- >> if that's -- >> tara, go ahead. >> biden's company was not -- >> hold on, hold on. >> let me answer it. >> andre, hold on. >> you put out these false conspiracy theories. let me answer it. bind's company was not under investigation at the time. joe biden went there as a messenger on official business for the united states government as victor said and most of the western world including the ukrainian parliament who overwhelmingly agreed to fire this prosecutor because he was not investigating corruption. stop with this already. this is conspiracy theory nonsense. >> there's no conspiracy. >> yes, it is. it's conspiracy theory. >> it's verbatim. he said i'm withholding the money if you don't do this. >> that has nothing to do w

congress that, in late 2018, nunes flew to vienna to meet with disgraced former ukrainian prosecutor, viktorn, to get dirt on biden. so, according to parnas, the top republican investigating whether trump tried to get dirt on biden, tried to get dirt on biden. it reminds me of the children's classic "nancy drew and the case of the man murdered by nancy drew." ( cheers and applause ) now, "the daily beast" and cnn broke this story. when cnn asked nunes for comment he said, "to be perfectly clear, i don't acknowledge any questions from you in this lifetime or the next lifetime." wow. ( audience reacts ) did you hear that, cnn? in his next lifetime. you will not be getting any answers from nunes' now or when he is reincarnated. ( laughter ) ( cheers and applause ) ( piano riff ) i want to point out that these are just allegations. we don't know whether nunes actually went to vienna-- is what i've been told to say by cbs' lawyers. ( laughter ) because when nunes finally did comment, he threatened to sue the journalists involved, lying "these demonstrably false and scandalous stories published by

testify that republican congressman devin nunes of california met with ukraine's former top prosecutor viktorn late last year about investigating the activities of former vice president joe biden and his son hunter related to the ukrainian national gas company burisma. if the allegation is true, it means that nunes, the ranking member of the house intelligence committee was himself involved in the very plot that the panel is investigating in the impeachment inquiry. nunes yesterday declined to answer whether that meeting took place. >> bottom line, were you in vienna with shokin? >> yeah, so look, maria, i really want to answer all of these questions, and i promise you i absolutely will come back on the show and answer these questions, but because there is criminal activity here we're working with the appropriate law enforcement agencies. we're going to file all this. everyone's going to know the truth. everybody's going to know all the facts, but i think you can understand that i can't compete by trying to -- trying to debate this out with the public media when 90% of the media are totally c

he wants to testify that devin nunes met with viktor shokin. >> it is a big deal, it will matter for devin nunes. i think you're right to caution this is difficult to know she trying to leverage a deal, but if she suggesting that he has tapes and other evidence, this could blow things open for nunes, it could welcome significant, but the house has as jeff points out what they need on the president and they're moving forward without regard to whether or not this information comes to fruition. >> a judge will rule today whether or not a house can compel don mcgann to testify. >> i think it could paef the way for john bolton and others to have the choice or be subpoenaed. and i think congressman schiff has a high class problem, as it unfolds she getting more evidence, more people that are potentially witnesses in this, but he has to make a determination when which he stop building a case and when he has to start making it and this report is the first effort of that and the first question that i think in addition to the senate, or the public more broadly. >> do you think republicans or t

, lev parnas, said his client can testify that nunes met with a former ukrainian prosecutor named viktorhokin to try to get something on biden which is pretty much what the president was trying to do. this must be a touchy subject because yesterday devin nunes wouldn't even answer questions about it on fox news. >> were you in vienna with shokin? >> yeah, so look, maria, i really want to answer all of these questions. and i promise you i absolutely will come back on the show and answer these questions. i can't compete by trying to -- trying to debate this out with the public media when 90% of the media are totally corrupt. >> jimmy: so the answer, in other words, is yes, he did. yeah. [ laughter ] nunes is now threatening to sue cnn and the daily beast for reporting on this. what a snowflake. what an oily little snowflake he is. and just to put a cherry on top, you know the big conspiracy theory nunes is pushing that the democrats used a company called crowdstrike to hide a server with hillary's e-mails? guess who the republican congressional campaign committee currently employs to handl

fiona hill and i talk about the approach toward ukraine acres meeting with viktor orban as well as president putin in early may. follow-up question. what was the change following those two conversations with with orban and putin? here is what george kent said and likely will say tomorrow. fiona assessed those conversations of being similar in approach, said ukraine was corrupt, zelensky was in the thrall of oligarcs, negatively shaping a picture of ukraine and even president zelensky personally. i mean, this screams for go get the putin/trump transcript bus house democrats aren't going to go down that road i don't think. >> no. you've seen individual democrats, obviously, led by speaker pelosi make the broad charge. >> sure. >> that this -- as she said all roads lead to russia. this is all very complicated and a whole bunch of people said a bunch of things at different times. it's hard to keep the players straight and the calendar straight but one thing endures, which is russia wanted to disablized the new ukrainian government and over a period of time when other parts of the u.s. government

of contention, her alleged role in blocking giuliani's effort to bring ousted ukrainian prosecutor viktor shokin to the u.s., apparently in pursuit of giuliani's political mission for the president. following longstanding protocol, an american consular officer denied him a visa because of his alleged ties to large-scale corruption. now, remember president trump and giuliani, they are now claiming that all they cared about was fighting corruption in ukraine. but the guy they are trying to bring to the u.s. is himself considered corrupt by diplomats who actually know about corruption in ukraine. ambassador yovanovitch picks up the story. quote, and the next thing we knew, mayor giuliani was calling the white house as well as the assistant secretary for consular affairs saying that i was blocking the visa for mr. shokin and that mr. shokin was coming to meet them and provide information about corruption at the embassy, including my corruption. now, keep in mind rudy giuliani is the president's personal attorney at the time. he had no formal role in government, hasn't sworn to serve u.s. nati

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politics years ago, but for more than a decade he had advised a putin ally, then ukrainian president viktor between mr. trump, you and your campaign or putin and his regime? >> no, there are not. that's absurd. >> soon the manafort led campaign made a mystifying change to the republican party platform. >> the deadline for amendments. >> language that had promised weapons for ukraine in its war against russia was blocked. >> reveal that donald trump jr. went into a meeting with a russian lawyer. >> there was another strange russian connection at trump tower, donald trump jr., paul manafort, and jared kushner all attended the mysterious meeting >> amazing hospitality and support. >> reporter: the russian oligarch was behind it offering campaign dirt on hillary clinton. >> information that would incriminate hillary and her dealings with russia and would be very useful to your father. >> reporter: then came wikileaks, once again courtesy of russia. thousands of e-mails stolen from the democrats flooded the air waves. >> it was designed to help donald trump and hurt hillary clinton. >> reporter:

this client was willing to tell congress that nunes met with a former ukrainian prosecutor named viktorlaim that nunes, the top ranking republican on the intel committee pushed back against but only kind of. >> nunes called the allegations bottom line, were you in vienna with smoke jn. >> look, maria, i really want to answer all of these questions, and i promise you i will come back on the show and answer the questions but because there are criminal activity here, we're working with the appropriate law enforcement agency, i can't compete by trying to -- trying to debate this out with the public media. >> right. >> when 90% of the media are totally corrupt. >> nunes later called the allegations demonstratively false but declined to answer whether he was in vienna with shokin. he scrapped the plans when he would need to alert chairman adam schiff about the trip. nunes' office has not responded to request for comment. he tountsed epointed to nbc. joining me jeh johnson and rick stengel, the author of the new book "information wars." welcome, gentlemen. where to begin on devin nunes? this i

. >> now, viktor shokin, what is the possibility of getting to him also?phone number. i've reached out to him, he's not talking either. >> so they know what the allegations are. we're hanging this on parnas's lawyer. theoretically parnas is saying the same thing but you're hearing it from his lawyer. >> he has been subpoenaed. he's under indictment by the southern district so his lawyer would like him to be given essentially immunity to speak freely. >> let's think this through. you've been thinking about this a lot with your team. why would nunes say it is preposterous or whatever word he used, ludicrous, something bad to, to think that the president would want ukraine to look into the bidens when evidently he knew rudy was looking into the bidens and trying to get ukrainians to do it and fruman are american but are ukrainian born. shouldn't he have exposed they went over to meet with shokin? >> what's intriguing is the timing of the trip and his aide, derek harvey, told lev parnas that the timing of it was very deliberate. it was done right after the rep