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giuliani have said that they did. yeah. including the release of the transcript and you see president trump, you know, pushing the ukrainians to investigate his political rivals and rudy giuliani, especially a week ago with our buddy chris cuomo talking about, of course he did the same. it s all right there in front of the nation to look at. yeah. who else there is to talk to, the former ambassador to the ukraine, who was forced out, other people in the state department, i mean, rudy giuliani is running around saying he was doing this all at the behest of the state department. there s a lot of folks there to talk to. that s it for us tonight. jake, thank you very much. thank you, anderson. the news continues on cnn. more towers. more coverage! it s a network that gives you freedom from big cities, to small towns, we re with you. because life can take you almost anywhere, t-mobile is with you. no signal goes farther
the letter starts off with the words urgent concern setting the tone for the whistle-blower s detailed nine-page complaint. in the next paragraph, quote, i have received information from multiple u.s. government officials. here the whistle-blower is admitting to not witnessing much of the behavior in question. the accusation from the unnamed officials comes next. the president of the united states is using the power of his office to solicit interference from a foreign country in the 2020 election. the whistle-blower goes on to say this includes among other things pressuring a foreign country to investigate one of the president s main domestic political rivals. the complaint says rudy giuliani and attorney general william barr appear to be involved, as well. the white house transcript of a july phone call between president trump and ukraine s president shows trump asking to look into joe biden and his son and mentioned both giuliani and barr multiple times. the complaint was filed on
you might have a situation in which white house counsel was aware of this complaint and aware of concerns and was also involved with giving directions to members of the directorate of intelligence to really do something quite irregular with respect to transferring the transcript on to the code word system. at the same time, joke, i am very surprised to hear from the department of justice that attorney general barr did hear about the contents of this call until reportedly weeks after it happened. the department of justice issued that as a statement a few days ago. that would be another gross irregularity. attorney general barr was mentioned by name on the call with the president and he is saying that he did not have any knowledge of the fact that he was named in the call despite the fact he was named by the president of the united states and somehow other officials at the state department went to do follow-up work with the ukrainens and contacted rudy giuliani but did not contact the de
embedded deeply in this controversy, not just as the president s personal attorney but as the man who has met with ukrainian officials to among other things push for them to focus on the bidens. here is randi kaye with the story. in that july 25th phone call, president trump offering up his personal lawyer rudy giuliani as his personal envoy to the ukrainian president now to the complaint which says trump mentioned giuliani multiple times. giuliani told cnn he has quote no knowledge of any of that crap. and true to form, giuliani has gone on a twitter attack calling the whistleblower s information questionable and targeting democrats and the media, too. meanwhile, according to the