President trumps personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani on the scheme in ukraine for which President Trump has now been impeached. The scheme to pressure ukraine into announcing investigations of Vice President joe biden and the concurrent use of u. S. Military aid and visits with u. S. Government officials and other things that the Ukrainian Government desperately wanted. Basically as cudgels to try to force them into announcing those investigations about biden. Well, now tonight as the articles of impeachment have been walked over to the senate by the impeachment managers, actually basically right as that was happening, the impeachment committees in the house simultaneously to this moment released some additional phone records from mr. Parnas which have revealed yet further information about who was involved in this scheme and how it worked. Well, today in new york city i met with lev parnas and with his lawyer joseph bondy. And so tonight we are going to present this exclusive interview. Mr.
Look at this email. Officially ordering the money to be frozen. It was sent just 91 minutes after trump hung up with zelensky. Fact and contest. Trumps own people sent signals at the same time that they were doing this that the situation was dicey. How do we know . His political appointee mike duffy wrote, quote, i appreciate your keeping that information closely held. Why . Why be so quiet about withholding aid to ukraine . Fact, just days after Congress Found out about the whistleblower, the white house was informed about the whistleblower. Remember the timeline. Even before congress came asking, they knew theres reporting that even the president was aware of the whistleblower. When do they do . When congress comes, they abruptly make the decision to release the money. Why such a quick turn around . Folks at the dod were asking what happened . We dont know what mr. Duffys answer was. But we know he was, quote, glad to have this behind us why would you be glad to have something behind
Long before the Trump Administration came into office. Today, we think without warning, he told a bunch of key committees in both the house and the senate that he needs to come see them immediately, tomorrow, because he needs to show them some documents that they need to see. Multiple congressional sources telling nbc news that the Inspector General reached out to congress with what the committees describe as a, quote, urgent request to brief the committees about documents related to the state department and ukraine. Now, there are of course impeachment proceedings under way against the president right now having to do with his own involvement with ukraine. Toward that inquiry, the state department has been subpoenaed. State Department Officials have been summoned to testify in those proceedings. But the Inspector General from that department coming forward on his own to say, uh, ive got something you should see here, urgently, thats new and absolutely unexpected. The ig is expected to
Hes been there for several years, long before the Trump Administration came into office. Hes been a long time in that job. And today, we think without warning, he told a bunch of key committees in both the house and the senate that he needs to come see them immediately, tomorrow, because he needs to show them some documents that they need to see. Multiple congressional sources telling nbc news that the Inspector General reached out to congress with what the committees describe as a, quote, urgent request to brief the committees about documents related to the state department and ukraine. Now, there are of course impeachment proceedings under way against the president right now having to do with his own involvement with ukraine. Toward that inquiry, the state department has been subpoenaed. State Department Officials have been summoned to testify in those proceedings. But the Inspector General from that department coming forward on his own to say, uh, ive got something you should see he
Donald trumps presidency is to govern by lie and so he lied today when explaining why he surrendered to the resistance once again. This weekend donald trump surrendered to the resistance that rose up after he announced his illegal and unconstitutional plan to bring the next g7 meeting to a trump hotel so that the American Government and foreign governments would be paying donald trump directly at the same time. Well get to that later in this hour. Trump lies and stupidity go hand in hand. Donald trump depends on a sort of collective stupidity for people to believe his lies and sunday morning, he issued a deeply disturbing tweet about the situation in syria and the kurds and in the tweet he lied about bringing our soldiers home. He also got the secretary of defenses name wrong. And thats what makes it a classic trump president ial tweet. The combination of deceit and stupidity with carelessness. Calling defense secretary Mark Esper Mark esperanto got trump a lot of ridicule on twitter y