role michael cohen once filled. he is trump s fixer and his bag man but for free. and that is why giuliani is at the center of this whole thing. he was running point on the trump scheme to extort ukraine and get them to dig up and manufacture dirt on the president s political rival. if there are two themes that constantly come through in every single impeachment investigation transcript that we get it s that number one, there was a sprawling energetic corrupt attempt and two rudy giuliani was running that corrupt extortion attempt. today we got our latest example of that in the release of the deposition transcript of the deputy assistant secretary george kent, and the department of state i read from that, mr. giuliani had been carrying on a campaign for several months full of lies and incorrect information about the u.s. ambassador to ukraine, ambassador yovanovitch. it was clear the former mayor had influence on the president in terms of the way the president thought of ukraine. now,
investigations. answer, quote, the investigations that were being suggested were the ones that rudy giuliani had been tweeting about, meaning biden, burisma, and 2016. that s from the transcript of the testimony from deputy assistant secretary of state george kent. that deposition transcript was released today. george kent will be on the stand at the first public impeachment hearing of the president which will be wednesday of next week. that s all today. a lot going on. we re also going to be talking tonight about the fact that the judge in the ongoing criminal trial of the president s oldest political advisor, today the judge in that case had to tell the jury in that case that they are not allowed to download and watch any of the godfather movies when they go home from jury duty tonight. no watching the godfather, you guys, even though we know it s all relevant to this case.
politically motivated investigations. answer, quote, the investigations that were being suggested were the ones that rudy giuliani had been tweeting about, meaning biden, burisma, and 2016. that s from the transcript of the testimony from deputy assistant secretary of state george kent. that deposition transcript was released today. george kent will be on the stand at the first public impeachment hearing of the president which will be wednesday of next week. that s all today. a lot going on. we re also going to be talking tonight about the fact that the judge in the ongoing criminal trial of the president s oldest political advisor, today the judge in that case had to tell the jury in that case that they are not allowed to download and watch any of the godfather movies when they go home from jury duty tonight. no watching the godfather, you guys, even though we know it s all relevant to this case.
man but for free. and that is why giuliani is at the strf of this whole thing. he was running point on the trump scheme to extort ukraine and get them to dig up and manufacture dirt on the president s political rival. if there are two themes that constantly come through in every single impeachment investigation transcript we get, number one there was a sprawling energetic corrupt attempt and two rudy giuliani was running that corrupt extortion attempt. today we got our latest example of that in the release of the deposition transcript of the deputy assistant secretary george kent, and the department of state i read from that, mr. giuliani had been carrying on a campaign for several months full of lies and incorrect information about the u.s. ambassador to ukraine, ambassador yovanovitch. it was clear the former mayor the loouns on the president in terms of the way the president thought of ukraine. now, rudy giuliani was and is up to his eyeballs in this ukraine scheme. it has since bee
hearings, republicans will not be fighting with ambassador taylor. his deposition transcript shows it s impossible for republicans to try to do that. s but they will need to create a diversion in the hearing room to try to shift the attention from the devastating testimony about what donald trump had rudy giuliani and gordon sondland were doing with ukraine. a so you can expect jim jordan if he s there will be yelling at democrats in that hearing. yelling about the procedures being followed by the ab impeachment inquiry and complaining that they are somehow unfair.in republicans will be yelling, but the republicans will not be an yelling at ambassador william taylor. they will be trying to distract from the power of his testimony as the impeachment process goes live on television for the first time. on wednesday of next week. leading off our discussion tonight democratic congressman