Were complaining the lack of direct testimony that democrats were bringing, Rudy Giuliani would be the ultimate direct witness. He certainly would. Joy vance, thank you for joining us. The 11th hour with Brian Williams starts now. Tonight the late warning of another Government Employee breaks the silence on the Impeachment Inquiry as we are hours away from a veteran former ambassador who says she felt threatened by her own government while working for the u. S. Overseas. What words were they talking about . Cameras capture the conversation between the president and his Attorney General despite waiting for the helicopter in the backyard. The speaker compares the president to nixon and spells out the crimes she believes hes
guilty of. All of it as The 11th Hour gets underway on a thursday night. Good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. Day 1,029 of the trump administration. A day between this weeks public impeachmentme hearings. The president flew to louis
2018. she testified having powerful adversaries working against her in ukraine, rudy giuliani and igor fruman and parnas. over the course of 2018 and 2019, i became increasingly aware of an effort of rudy giuliani including his associates parnas and fruman to run the campaign to smear ambassador yovanovitch and other officials at the u.s. embassy and kiev. ambassador yovanovitch had been treated poorly. bloomberg news reports that rudy giuliani is now under scrutiny from federal prosecutor in manhattan for finance violation and failure to register as a foreign agent. tomorrow house investigators
says he doesn t know the alleged rudy giuliani associates parnas and furman. much more on that coming up. plus, joe biden takes tots cnn town hall stage in iowa, renews his attack and criticism on elizabeth warren. how is the back and forth between these two candidates playing with voters? we re going to get the view from the ground in iowa. we ll be right back. more from my copd medicine that s why i ve got the power of 1 2 3 medicines with trelegy. the only fda-approved 3-in-1 copd treatment. trelegy. the power of 1-2-3. trelegy 1-2-3 trelegy. with trelegy and the power of 1 2 3, i m breathing better. trelegy works 3 ways to open airways, much more on that coming up. ele a rescue inhaler for sudden breathing problems. trelegy is not for asthma. tell your doctor if you have a heart condition or high blood pressure before taking it.
condition nap phone condition. that phone s going in the river. the hudson. and knew the two associates parnas and fruman, how did these two use their giuliani connection to make money? so giuliani was their trump card, to use a bad pun. yes. they used his name showed endless photographs of themselves with him including on private planes, and they basically promised access to him and to other influential republicans if they could be paid. one particularly, one particular instance desperately needed, parnas needed to desperately pay for his son s circumcision and in exchange a loan for $100,000 promising on the back of that loan access to giuliani and others. the man had to sue to get his money back. wow. and one lawyer you talked to said the two tried to sell access to the trump
that court case is a big deal. federal prosecutors in chicago have been fighting for his extradition for years, and so get this, when lev parnas and igor fruman end up in federal custody nabbed in a d.c. airport on an outbreound flight, we now know the prosecutors were like, wait a second, we know those guys from the ukrainian oligarch russian mob world and now they are working with rudy giuliani, the president s lawyer. what is going on here? joining me now, a reporter who broke the story that giuliani was paid $500,000 by lev parnas company and the story that parnas and fruman both worked for firtash. a lot of complicated names, but start with firtash and the case against him. he was indicted in chicago in talent f 2013 for bribery for access to