runway, mr. giuliani said. what did you get, he said mr. trump asked. more than you can imagine, rudy replied. he is putting his findings into a 20-page report. a lot to talk about. for our leadoff discussion panel on a friday night, jonathan lemire, white house reporter for the associated press. annie karni, white house reporter with the new york times. and jeremy peters, political reporter also with the new york times. good evening and welcome. and jonathan lemire, forgive the apparent cynicism. was this just another week for the white house, or did this feel perhaps different? i think we need to keep this in perspective. this is different. this president now becomes only the third ever to is poised to become only the third ever to be impeached, and it s one of those moments where we all believe we know the outcome, that next week controlled by the democrats will impeach him. we ll move into early next year and the republicans in the
else. and who else is directly in line of that? it has to be rudy, right? so rudy giuliani, who says that he s not heard anything from prosecutors, his lawyers say they have not heard anything, any requests for information from prosecutors. you have to be concerned that what the prosecutors are doing is building a case broadly and certainly homing in on rudy and anyone else who may have been involved in whatever conspiracy that the prosecutors say was at work here. i get what they say or believe they have to see publicly. there was a subpoena delivered delivered to giuliani s consulting firm. wouldn t his lawyers know about it? right. they would know by now. they would know by now from another lawyer if they hadn t seen it personal. he says he s done nothing wrong. that s what he told the wall street journal. all they have to do is ask me. there s an effort to spread as many lies about me as possible so i m not credible when i continue to reveal all the massive evidence and the
n rudy, andy mccarthy, these are real prosecutors. and now they have new evidence.s sean: and the new evidence being what they found in the safe. let s go to the media side of it. jeffrey lord, we have all of this information in 2016, the media doesn t want to touch it. they get one little clue that epstein knew donald trump and they are running with it. but they don t tell the truth, trump was the guy that found out about something and threw him the hell out of mar-a-lago. they kind of missed that big part of the story. this is one more attempt to get the president, that is basically what this is. combined with something else, i think there was a real panic in the democratic establishment. this business of going after alex acosta, i think is designed as a distraction. chuck schumer took thousands of dollars from this guy for his congressional and senate campaigns.do is he being asked to resign? where is the pressure for that? what about the clintons and the clinton foundation, t
that s true. it distracts from the mooueller probe. he s certainly not polished. when you look at him and you hear him, you re influenced more by. his delivery. briefly? briefly. i don t think distracting is your objective. nothing improves your aim like a target. rudy seems to be an army of pompous phrases. the first part about a target. thank you as always.
but jay goldberg and nick, who is critical of donald trump, agree tonight that tomorrow might be the first step to manafort going to jail. the other thing i want to play, you mentioned rudy. take a listen to somewhat lengthy, 50-second exchange on rudy. take a look. i told trump that i didn t think rudy giuliani was a proper lawyer for him. his manner is to draw attention faway from trump. he s come out correctly in deciding not to submit trump to interrogati interrogation. you think giuliani is affected because even if the public performance is sloppy, it s distracting from the actual mueller probe.