Giuliani. Giuliani was pushing for ukraine to look into bidens son, hunter, too, as he said last night in a denial turned admission that was like something out of a few good men. Did you ask the ukraine to investigate joe biden . No. Actually, i didnt. I asked the ukraine to investigate the allegations that there was interference in the election of 2016 by the ukrainians for the benefit of Hillary Clinton for which there there are you never asked anything about hunter biden, you never asked anything about joe biden the only thing i asked about joe biden is to get to the bottom of how it was that the man appointed dismissed the case against so did you ask ukraine to look into joe biden . Of course i did. You just said you didnt. You have to see past the passion and see the purpose. Giuliani came with a plan to provide cover for the president , which we will deconstruct for you tonight in detail. And how do we see the proof of it . Well, just today. The president followed his lead. He did not deny that he, too, personally asked the Foreign Government to probe his political opponent. Listen. It doesnt matter what i discussed but i will say this, somebody ought to look into joe bidens statement because it was disgraceful where he talked about billions of dollars that hes not giving to a certain country unless a certain prosecutor is taken off the case. So somebody ought to look into that. We will show you why what the president discussed does matter and why he discussed it matters even more. And the facts and questions that are driving both concerns we will lay out, especially now that this president has to explain the same action that hes calling out biden for, withholding aid to ukraine. Why did this president release 250 million in ukraine aid only right after congressman schiff asked for information about the whistleblower . As for biden, hes coming out swinging, quote, if these reports are true, then there is truly no bottom to President Trumps willingness to abuse his power and abase our country. Lets start filling in the blanks with two top investigators. We have Preet Bharara and andrew mccabe. Thank you both. Preet, when we are looking at this situation and trying to understand what matters, what pops out to you first . You have, as you discussed in the intro, a repeat situation. You have someone who has taken the country through whatever you think about the results, whatever you think about bob mueller, weve had two years in which theres been an amazing amount of scrutiny and discussion about the sitting president of the United States when he was a candidate and thereafter trying to gain an advantage electorally against an opponent with open arms asking for help from a foreign power at the end of the day there wasnt a crime, at the end of the day the office of Legal Counsel says you cant indict a sitting president , but thats what weve been talking about. Here you have a situation where if the facts are true and theyre unfolding in a rapid rate over the last couple of days and will continue to do so, at bottom you have sitting can president once again acting like a recidivist, seeking assistant from a foreign power to arm a political rival, the person who might be his opponent in the general election next year. Thats crazy given what hes already put the country through. And is it illegal . I knew you were going to ask that and ive been thinking over the last couple of days about how to talk about this and its natural for someone who is a form are prosecutor, my expertise is in proving cases beyond a reasonable doubt and what elements you need to make a crime. I want dont want to create an atmosphere where the only thing that matters is if you commit a crime. As we understand and everyone understands now, you can indict a sitting president. Whether its a crime or not, it doesnt mean a whole hell of a lot. I want to make sure the people understand whether or not for technical reasons for substantive reasons you can make out the element for conspiracy to commit Campaign Finance fraud or extortion or can still be wrong even if it isnt . If it is true hes doing these things, its an abuse of power and congress can act. If this is okay, if the president of the United States can call up foreign leaders and withhold aid or threaten, you know, various sanctions or other things in exchange for having them do something to harm the political opponent, then what can he not do . Do we really want Rudy Giuliani to be flying around the world and figuring out what buttons to push on the part of foreign leaders, whether its in russia or china or japan or anywhere else to figure out a way to harm a political opponent . Thats not what we do in america, whether or not you can make that a criminal case. That takes us to Rudy Giuliani and my suggestion that he came last night with an obvious agenda. It wasnt just distraction, i dont want to talk about the president , i dont want to talk about joe biden, needs you, me and everyone listening to believe that they have a deeply bona fide conviction, deep and bona fide, that biden was corrupt, his son was corrupt and there are legitimate questions of interest to United StatesNational Security because then if the president asked about it, even if he withheld aid because of his concern about it, well, then its not about his personal agenda or just wanting to hurt an opponent. Let me give an example of what happened last night. If the president of the United States said to the president of any country i have i am not going to give you money because your country is corrupt, you got straighten out these problems sure enough today what did the president say . Doesnt matter what i talked about but somebody should look into biden. That was terrible what he said. Its about the corruption, not about the advantage. Thats right, chris. Theres clearly so much to unpack here, but part of it is a return to the timehonored Rudy Giuliani strategy we saw deployed so effectively of donald trump. The strategy is dont look at this, look up here. Lets not talk about what i did, its about what you did. Again, as you said, mr. Giuliani came on Television Last night and laid out a Conspiracy Theory that if you actually parse through the information that we know about the actions that were taken in ukraine and the previous corrupt prosecutor and the fact that, you know, there is absolutely no evidence to indicate that either biden did anything improper and that the earlier investigation of Hunter Bidens activities with respect to that Energy Company were basically cleared before any of this stuff happened, but put all that aside, mr. Giuliani threw out some very compelling and inflammatory conspiracy theories and those are the things that will capture the attention of mr. Trumps supporters and will carry them through, hopefully, if youre Rudy Giuliani, this period. Rather than suspecting the president of having done some improper, theyve given them an inflammatory and salacious story to point to and say, no, its not about what the president did, its about what the other side did. So this is just what weve been watching and going through for two years. But i should say one thing as well, just to tack on to some of preets comments. The simple fact that we now have quite possibly, were not sure because we dont have all the facts yet, but we may have a president of the United States and his personal emissary exorting or in fact possibly extorting a Foreign Government to commence a criminal investigation of the United States citizen is remarkable. I dont know that i have ever seen or heard any such thing from a president or any other head of agency, you know, in my 21 years in government service. Yes, do u. S. Law enforcement officers and the fbi work with foreign partners . Absolutely. But that is when we have an ongoing, fully authorized criminal entry, we reach out through mutual assistant treaties and ask for information. We dont have the president of the United States get on the phone and put pressure on a foreign country to start essentially persecuting a u. S. Citizen. That is remarkable. There are a couple of boxes i need you guys to stay and check. I need to know the difference between exort and extort. And i want to game out what else we need to know that would matter and why. And, third, unpacking a little bit about the biden considerations we know the ukraine considerations. Rudy also brought up allegations about china. What do we know . What are the open questions . There are facts to report. Lets take a break, well lay out more information and well be back with bharara and mccabe next. Walking a dog can add thousands of steps to your day. Walking this many . 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On august 12, the whistleblower filed their complaint. At the end of august, President Trump effectively put a hold on military aid money. On september 1st, the v. P. Met with the ukrainian leader. Eight days later house committees started investigating. And by september 12th, right after adam schiff started to ask questions about the complainant, the aid was lifted. Thats where we are now. Were back with Preet Bharara and andrew mccabe. My suggestion is if the president believes that there is real corruption, he is clear to ask the ukrainian president about it and arguably clear to say im not giving you money if youre corrupt. You have to look at all the circumstances. We live in an actual world where people apply common sense and there are consequences to what you do and there are motivations, strategic and otherwise, for taking certain actions. There are a lot of countries that have a lot of corruption, and i i dont want to know what donald trump is saying to those leaders of those countries. Whats unique about ukraine is there was a unique benefit to donald trump not to talk generally about corruption but to talk about a specific case, a specific person whose last name happens to be biden, which in the context of a runup to a general election means it would be a favorable thing politically for donald trump. The funny thing about all this stuff is we have all these debates and conversations on television and peoples living rooms and around the water cooler but theres no courtroom, no judge. At the end of the day, whether its a criminal case or not, you had reasonable people to sit and decide what was the motivation of donald trump to make this call and to pressure eight times in the course of one conversation do this thing with respect to hunter biden . Every ordinary rational thinking american would say he did it for one reason, given by how much he cares about corruption in his own cabinet and his own agencies and within his own foundation and his own company that the only reason to do that thing was to get an electoral advantage against a person who credibly could be his opponent. You cant get distracted by generalized nonstatements they make because sometimes we have to apply common sense. It applies equally or greater to the second argument by giuliani about hunter biden in china. The idea that the president or his counsel would feel its outrageous that somebody who is a child of a high Office Holder in the United States would be doing business with china when theyre negotiating with china, well, this president has a daughter who works for him in the white house who went as an emissary of the United States government to china while she was working on the business side with china literally getting trademarks at the same time that she was sitting down with the chinese president. So why does it bother them in one case and not the other . Well, chris, consistency has never been this administrations strong point. I mean, youve pointed it out perfectly. There is absolutely they seem to be throwing out the allegation about some sort of inappropriate relationship between hunter biden and china, although not backing it up with any proof that im aware of. I havent seen a credible allegation of fraud or corruption or anything like that, and then completely ignoring the interactions, the business dealings of the president s own family members. So its not i cant explain it for you. It not rational. Did giuliani give him the cover he needed . Preets right. This isnt going to be a trial, this isnt about felonies. This is something thats added to an impeachment where youre never going to get republicans to go against the president anyway. But the idea of if people believe that this president says you know what, there are real questions about this president , im allowed to ask other president s whether or not theyre cleaning up their house, it doesnt matter if the guy is running against me or not, there isnt enough for legitimate corruption, is that enough . Well see. I think it probably will be enough for mr. Giuliani and President Trump. Their strategy is to just launch the theory into the wild and have it create some sort effective distraction. It has worked for them in the past and no reason to believe it wont work for them in the future. I gross theyre probably concerned about the information from the whistleblower giuliani already setup going after the whistleblower is how they often lie and all that stuff. Preet, last question to you, what do you want to know Going Forward . Theres this legalistic back and forth between the Inspector General of the Intelligence Community and the acting dni person in which theres a debate about whether or not the statute requires that complaint be delivered to the intelligence committees. Its common sense not just what happens in the courtroom, those things overlap. You also have to cut through the legal nonsense a little bit when you talk about stuff like this. So the Inspector General has said that what is in the complaint goes to the very core back and forth. What i do know is the president of the United States and andrew is completely correct, the consistency is not a strong point of this administration. The president said over and over again today and yesterday i think no bad conversation, everything was fine, all swell, but at the same time doesnt want to be trance parent about whats in the complaint. Its a little bit like nothing to see here, but then you cant see it. And the time for trust and the representation made by president and white house. Preet, andrew, thank you very much. Appreciate you both. Have a very good weekend. Ahead, more deconstruction. What the president s lawyer put out into the universe about biden and his son last night. He may have said it in a new way, but its not new information, so lets do this. Whats legit, what are the open questions, what are the facts . Weve laid it all out for you next. 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And we see today that what some mistook for ramblings are now the refrain of the rabid right and the president himself. The problem with this new line of attack is that its not new, and it is largely untrue. But for the sake of clarity, lets focus on the facts and leave the insults and supposition to others. Here is the crux of team trumps argument. You know what the proof is . Joe biden 2018, january in front of the council on Foreign Relations saying the whole thing. He said im going to give you this money if you get rid of this prosecutor . 100 . Exactly watch the tape for yourself. Im leaving in six hours. If the prosecutor is not fired, youre not getting the money. Well, son of a bitch, got fired and they put in place someone who was solid at the time. I guess rudys right. Wrong. Why . Because as the late paul harvey said, the rest of the story is what you need to hear. The facts are in 2014 joe biden was not only the Vice President of the United States, he was also the administrations point person for a Major International crisis. Remember russia had just annexed crimea. News cameras were with biden as he traveled to ukraine. It wasnt some dark conspiracy. He was there to represent the u. S. Government. Around the same time hunter biden, the veeps son, took a position on the board of director for a ukrainian natural gas company. Through our knowledge, he had no experience in that industry or working in that country in that way. The optics were and are bad. Thats not just with the advantage of hindsight. Even at the time it was a story, one that came up at a white house briefing. Hunter biden and other members of the biden family are obviously private citizens and where they work is not reflected endorsement by the administration or by the Vice President or president. Except it presented an apparent conflict of interest that was a point of scrutiny here and there. That brings us to this guy, victor shokin, a guy with a reputation for turning a blind eye to corruption and the guy biden bragged about bullying about them getting rid of him. An overwhelming number of Ukrainian Parliament voted him out, the imf and the eu were part of the call for his removal. And, yes, there had been an investigation investigation into hunt are bidens company, but even shokin himself said it was over before 2016. And there were no charges filed against hunter biden. If mr. Giuliani or anybody else has proof of pay offs or wrongful conduct by either biden, we welcome it. That goes for giulianis other point as well. Heres that one. These are crimes of major proportions. And because theyre democrats you wont cover it. 1. 5 Million Investment by china in bidens private equity fund. Again, just because you yell, doesnt make it true. Its not new, it was covered and again the facts are not on giulianis side. A president whose family does business in many other countries that matter to the United States and often have a direct role in those dealings should not be something that this president is getting upset about because thats exactly what happens in his own family. However, hunter did fly with his father to china in 2013 reportedly on air force 2 and days later he and a Business Partner had a deal with the bank of china for a new massive investment in their fund. A lawyer for hunter biden told the times he did want have any equity in the fund, but later after his father was out of office, he did get a 10 interest in the entity that oversees the fund. For comparison as i referred to before, remember how ivanka trump landed chinese trademarks the same day she sat for dinner with president xi, and she was working for the government, things may look bad and warrant an investigation and thats fine, but you need proof to make it more than just the angry talk of a zealot. So what about the president . Was he involved in any quid pro quo, and what would it mean if he were . Lets debate it. Cuomos court in session. Next. [ orchestral music playing ] [ tires screech ] mom, youve got to get yourself a new car. The cars fine. [ car horn honks ] i wish i could save faster. Youre making good choices. Youll get there. Got it . Yeah. Thank you. Bye. Were you going to tell me about this . I know i cant afford to go. You cant even afford to get yourself a new car. I still have this car so you can afford to go. [ music resumes ] im so proud of you. Thank you, mom. Principal. We can help you plan for that. Start today at principal. Com. The president has made no secret for his desire of the bidens to be investigated. He urged it again today with a possibility that it was part of a quid pro quo to give himself an upper hand in 2020. Now, that is a different matter. That is the matter that brings us to cuomos court in session. Asha ran gaupa, jimmy schultz, thank you for being here on a friday night. One stipulation before we get it on. This is not about criminal conduct. It is about whether or not what he is doing or has done as president of the United States is right or wrong and why. Thats it. I dont want to hear about what crimes or its not a felony. Its not our culture. It shouldnt be felony or fine. With that asha prosecution, jimmy defense, whats your situation about what is wrong, asha . Whats wrong here is that the framers of our constitution clearly wanted to prevent a situation where the president was using his powers and his authority for selfdealing, to gain something personally. We see this in a number of different parts of the constitution. The emoluments clause, bribery is a grounds of impeachment. They were very worried about this. What we see in this situation is exactly that, is using the cloak and authority of the presidency to pressure a Foreign Government to engage in actions that will provide him with assistance in his personal campaign to be president. What if thats the byproduct, and his main concern, which youll only know by what he tells, you know, i think the guy is corrupt and i think ukraine covered it up and im not going to give them up and im not going to work with a corrupt company and they should look into it. Then his role is to do it in his official capacity. The way that that works in the United States is that, you know, the d. O. J. Would submit a request to the state department, which submits to a request to the legal attache in the u. S. Ukrainian Embassy which works with local law enforcement. Ill just add here typically that wouldnt happen unless theres already an open investigation in the United States where u. S. Authorities are seeking assistance. I have literally never heard of a situation where a u. S. Government is trying to get a foreign country to investigate and prosecute a u. S. Citizen under their laws. I am open to hearing of any precedent on that fair point. Ill make it even more simple. I get you on that one and i read your oped today in the washington post. Very strong. Jimmy, lets make it easier for you on the bounce. Which is can you give me any other example where in president has pointed out corruption in another country as a concern of his and their dealings Going Forward . I dont think you can look at this in a vacuum. Vacuum . Im saying any other example of him having said that. Final, ill concede that we dont have any Public Information that this happened any other time but let me make my point, chris. You cant look at this in a vacuum that where in this particular instance that this was the only thing going on at that time. A lot of that is going to be classified. Were not going to have the ability to know whats going on and the president is likely put in a box here of how he can defend himself on this because of the classified nature of other things that may have been going on. We have to caution ourselves. Weve seen the petulance and the sky is falling and the breathlessness from adam schiff as it related to russiagate. We saw what came of that. A lot of breathlessness and no substance nobodys been more breathless than rudy was last night. Its not about insulting is one guy louder than the other is not a good way to make an argument. Thats a good point, chris. But in this instance, i think we have a lot of thunder here but not a lot of substance. What would be abuse of power . Excuse me . What would be abuse of power . Well, like i said, we dont know all the facts. What would be abuse of power . Youre speculating as to what could have been abuse of power. I mean the fact the president of the United States is engaging in diplomatic discussions with ukraine and corruption comes up and perhaps the corruption of a former Vice President and his son come up, you know, doesnt necessarily point that theres anything necessarily wrong with that or that its connected to the campaign. Preet acknowledged that himself earlier tonight. Im all for that. I hope they release the complaint because as a point of transparency the president says theres nothing to see here, dont worry about it, but he wont show us proof of the same whether its taxes or hear of the complaint. Asha . Yes. And to jims argument, and i have to say hes an excellent debater and i think he has the harder side of this debate, so, you know, hes doing the best he can, but this is exactly what the whistleblower protection act for the Intelligence Community is designed for, that if there is classified information, there is a mechanism by which it can reach congress if it does potentially concern misconduct. No one is saying this has to be made public or it has to be leaked to the media tomorrow for us to debate or something again. The question is, and this is trump appointee whos determined that even if it involves classified information, it creates an urgent concern that should be reviewed by congress. Thats the whole point here. And so i think that this argument that jim is making is addressed by the statute which the white house is choosing to violate at this moment. So if theres nothing to hide why not show us the complaint . So lets talk about that legal issue that asha raises, and i think she with all due respect i think you have it wrong there, asha. The dni wept nt to the office o Legal Counsel of Justice Department and apparently asked them for Legal Counsel on this. Its not necessarily cut and dry where this report automatically goes to congress where a member of the Intelligence Community is not involved, the president of the United States, okay. You look at that piece of it, lets look at that and then look it at in the context of, okay, you have a legal battle between congress and the executive branch which happens all the time and thats going to get flushed out and i think schiff with threatening to with hold funds from the dni, thats a lever he has, going to court is another level he has. To say this is nonsensical legal mumbo jumbo needs to get flushed out. The office of Legal Counsel also justified torture. If theyre justifying things, it does not mean its actually a legal valid argument. Were speculating here is intelligence activity about privilege, about article 2 getting back to my point were speculating about everything here. Jimmy, you cant have it both ways. Youre using it as a sword and a shield here. If theres nothing there and you know you have a meckmism to have anything that is classified, but even if it were you have a mechanism in place. And if the president says theres nothing there, once again have it go to congress, let them see what the basis was. We know rudy definitely had one thing wrong. He said the ig, had no way, no skill or ability to determine the credibility of anyone who comes forward with a complaint. Thats obviously absurd. The ig made a recommendation of urgency. Why . The dni seems to be trying to do things by the book and doing the right thing and ask the department of justice for an opinion as to whether it goes to congress or not. That will likely get flushed out very quickly. And now the drip, drip and Everything Else happening is going to be the death by a thousand cuts strategy that the democrats have tried to employ in the past. I respect the debate on both sides. I just believe the cleansing light of transparency makes the questions and the cuts go away. Nothing in the taxes, show the taxes. Nothing to worry about in this complaint, show the complaint. Asha, jimmy, thank you for making the case on a friday night especially. Appreciate it. All right, if you were among those surprised when Rudy Giuliani did an about face last night in about 30 seconds on the program, dont be. This is part of a game. Not always well executed, but i handled it like a game because i know it is because ive seen it before and i will deconstruct it for you next. At fidelity, we believe your money should always be working harder. Thats why your cash automatically goes into a Money Market Fund when you open a new account. 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Now, he bunkled that part because he didnt like being tested but in fact he wanted you to know and he said many times that he went to ukraine about biden because it is very important that you believe mr. Giuliani and much more importantly this president deeply believe that biden and his son were and are corrupt. Why . Youll see in a second. But just to prove the first point of his intentions that this is what he does, remember this on the Stormy Daniels payments . Sorry, im giving you a fact now that you dont know, its not campaign money. No Campaign Finance violation. So they funneled it through a law firm . Funneled it through a law firm and the president repaid it. Just laid it out there. But once again trying to take the sting out of the news that trump knew, trump paid. Its almost as if hes saying its all out in the open so it k couldnt possibly be wrong. Logically, it doesnt make sense but you can catch people on this and hope they fall for the idea if theres no secret, if hes which there and here is what hes doing. The actions, however, were arguably not okay and he likely knew it. It takes the tactic to move the goalposts. I never said there was no collusion between the campaign or between people in the campaign. Yes, you have. I have not. I said the president of the United States. You hear that . Thats the sound of everyone on the Campaign Getting thrown on the bus. Hes saying the only person he can vouch for is potus. No one around him. Why . Because hes giving cover to one person. Thats his job. It seems wild and outrageous. Delivered with bombast but intentional. Tactic number three. Argue the alternative. Even if the president did do ichb ce insert questionable act. He had every right to do it as the president of the United States. Heard after the Mueller Report. Theres nothing wrong with taking information from russians. Arguing that something is not prosecutable against a sitting president is very different than saying that these behaviors are not an abuse of power or are not wrong. Abuse of power is an impeachable offense. Maybe not a crime but felony or fine is not our standard of conduct, but mr. Giuliani is hoping youll stay in the legal context. He purposefully conflates the two in order to confuse and excuse. Now that you get that while giuliani may not always be on his game, the game is always afoot. The reason he needed to go hard and heavy last night that both he and this president really believe, really believe that biden is corrupt and, remember, thats why he gets hot. Thats why he insists we wont cover it because hes trying to convey to you how deeply convicted he is about this. If you believe that, then you will believe that the president had a legit purpose in pressuring ukraine to investigate biden, that it wasnt about political advantage and selfinterest. So even holding back money from ukraine if they dont investigate biden is okay. Because why would you give money to a country that wont root out corruption . Once again, proof of the contrivance is in the copy. Just 13 hours after giuliani was on the show saying all of that about biden, the president himself said this. It doesnt matter what i discussed, but i will say this, somebody ought to look into joe bidens statement because it was disgraceful. Statement being biden held back money to get rid of a prosecutor. Now here are the ironies. First of all, the idea that this president now cares about corruption. Have you ever heard about corruption in his own government and hes only defended people accused of corruption. More so, theyre upset at biden for doing exactly what this president is it accused of and they reject bidens defense which is that he was acting in National Security even though its the same defense giuliani laid out. George orwell could not have created this based often what works for the person saying it. Now while i argue that giulianis play is obvious, that does not make it ineffective. He got a ton of attention with his outbursts but his biden bombs went out, too. While he was tested here and was exposed for being tricky with the truth, many outlets are just repeating his side. Helps his cause and helps the president to play to defend against the reported efforts to have the ukraine attack his purported opponent. When we learn more about the whistleblower complaint you will see that soon enough. So you hear about the Climate Crisis strike today . I hope you did. When people come together, when they think and act globally, it can be big. Look at this, young afghan women on the streets of kabul fighting for all of us. Be on the lookout for whos not stepping out, bolo tmobiles newest signal reaches farther than ever before. With more engineers. More towers. 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The things that came out of the Mueller Report and the things that concern ukraine because that is important to our democracy. Sure. Look what happened in puerto rico. Look what happened in puerto rico. So i think the sad thing is that i think people have are theyre becoming i