actually admitting that he lied. he is just no longer contesting he lied in this specific court case so that can move forward. in other words, giuliani didn t want to have to prove he wasn t lying in court, i wonder why, so he s just going to stop contesting the facts. and the facts are giuliani lied about ruby freeman and shea moss. but don t get the man wrong. don t misquote him. three years later he s apparently somehow still sticking to the lies he told about these election officials despite the profound damage these lies have done. there s nowhere i feel safe, nowhere. do you know how it feels to have the president of the united states to target you? i gained about 60 pounds. i just don t do nothing anymore. i don t want to go anywhere.
all right, live look at atlanta this morning. welcome back to morning joe. 28 past the hour. at least one prominent associate of former president donald trump s 2020 campaign is telling republican lawmakers to give up their investigations into president biden and his family. lev parnas, the ukrainian businessman who worked with rudy giuliani to try to pressure ukraine into investigating biden in 2020 is calling the probe a, quote, wild goose chase. parnas warns that the investigation, quote, has been proven false many times over by a wide array of respected sources. in the house oversight committee james comer slammed the media and the left saying they were ignoring, quote, independent facts about the bidens. a spokesperson for giuliani
in our law and justice lead, you know those examples of election fraud promoted by rudy giuliani and others in trump s orbit? new court documents show that giuliani didn t even bother to vet the claims that they were touting. this is the same rudy giuliani who also apparently did not find it necessary to vet the venue in 2020. instead of ending up at the four seasons in center city, philadelphia, they ended up at four seasons total landscaping right next to the porn shop across from the crematorium. evan perez joins us now. two georgia election workers brought this defamation lawsuit against mr. giuliani. what exactly did these court documents reveal? reporter: jake, not surprisingly, there was very little proof to these claims that there was vote fraud in georgia, and it seems giuliani
when it comes to trump? i don t know that it s enough, but you have to remember it s pretty significant. he is basically asking for one more note than he needs to win the election. he is not asking for an actual count. he is just basically asking somebody to fix the results. and but, you know, when you but you have to view that in the context of all of the evidence that we ve seen so far that came out, especially during the january 6th committee hearings in the house. and how basically everybody told him everybody who any sense, lawyers lawyers in the government, lawyers outside the government, his own attorney general, his own staff and everybody was telling him you lost, buddy. you lost. and so that s the context. he was pushing all of of this anyway. so, george, also today, i mean, if there weren t enough legal dealings having to do with former president trump, he is countersuing there is only going to be
well as cnn senior political analyst gloria borger. so paula, let s start with you. brad raffensperger coming in to the interview today by the special counsel, seems pretty significant. especially coming after we found out that really giuliani was also questioned. what does that what does that tell us tonight about the state of the investigation? those two interviews, along with the rest of our reporting certainly suggest that they could be nearing a charging decision. we have seen an uptick in activity in recent weeks. with giuliani we don t know specifically what he was asked about, but we do know that he was subpoenaed for information about payments and money he received around the time that he was filing all those legal challenges against the 2020 election. but abby, that subpoena, that was sent over six months ago. and then jack smith goes over the investigation, giuliani didn t hear a word until recent weeks.