0 soaking the priorities of viewers, and then that s the mindset of primetime it really ignores the real issues and basically provides red meat to viewers. that s an interesting term. soaking the priors. and thank you for joining us today. my pleasure. that is all in on this good evening. chris, good evening to you. have a great night. thank you. and thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. we had an entirely different show planned for tonight but a big news story just broke in the new york times. the former fbi director james comey and his former deputy, andrew mccabe, both of whom president trump saw as enemies, well both of them faced rare supposedly random but highly intensive irs audits. you may remember back when the then fbi director james comey oversaw the early stages of the fbi s investigation into ties between the trump campaign and russia, in the summer of 2016. with questions swirling about those ties as trump took office, comey dropped a public bombshel
giuliani testify today before the 16 committee. nbc news confirms the giuliani testify virtually for approximately ten hours. his appearance followed months of back and forth negotiation with the committee. the former mayor was heavily involved in several efforts by the trump campaign to overturn the results of the 2020 election. there was an and effort that included overseeing the fake electors plot in seven states. as well as attempts to cease seize voting machines. as to why giuliani testified, when many other trump s inner circle have not, we do not know. but we should note, giuliani is currently under federal investigation for potentially breaking foreign lobbying lies when he orchestrated and tried to dig up dirt of joe biden ahead the 2020 election. we will be right back. we will be right back. me? i kind of don t like it.
what the judge was basically telling durham s prosecutors is, you know, look, this is the michael sussmann false statements trial. you are not turning it into the hillary clinton trial. and, yet, it seems like that s exactly what the defense did today. if you start to pull a thread out of the sweater, that sweater is going to come apart ultimately. this is the thread that is pulling at the entire clinton campaign. bret: and matthew, this is how cnn writes it again, this is cnn writing it hillary clinton personally approved plan to share trump-russia allegation with the press in 2016. campaign manager says the trial has shed light on the dark arrests of political opposition research and how campaigns dig up dirt and plant stories in the press. implications? it s a reminder at the moment during the watergate hearings when nixon aid alexander butterfield revealed the existence of the taping system it shocked the world. here robby mook is saying hillary clinton gave the order. she or
and can get a little convoluted. on your screen is michael sussman and james baker. michael sussman is the former campaign attorney who durham says went to his friend, the former fbi general counsel. he claims that he brought him information that he knew was suspect with a kremlin connected bank. the information did not pan out. he says when he went to baker he failed to disclose that he was working on behalf of the clinton campaign in the following day. he released a text message where he said he wanted to be a part of this. he insists that he will be vindicated and they take issue that he wants to bring up, as we talked about it before, a paid endeavor to dig up dirt that proves untrue about donald trump. he said this trial is not about it but a single statement made in a single meeting that took
to kiev, trying to dig up dirt on joe biden and hunter biden. and mike pompeo trying to do the work of diplomacy. the president s lawyer, the secretary of state. who are the ukrainians supposed to listen to. who are they supposed to believe speaks to the president. if we don t know, they don t know. if we had to guess, the reason pompeo was going, to reaffirm the core of the u.s./ukraine relationship. it s a grip and grin. it s going to get up there with the president of ukraine, they re going to smile for the cameras. say something like everybody is going well, thanks for all the aid, everybody is hunk-dory. the president s defense to claim that everything is fine, there s nothing to see here. basically, that confuses the situation even more. until the president of the united states decides who is his envoy to the ukraine? is it rudy giuliani or mike