Just nine days unless he gets the money to continue. Much more on that coming up. Were going to start this hour with explosive new details on this whistleblower story involving the president and ukraine. The wall street journal reports late yesterday that President Trump, quote, repeatedly pressured the president of ukraine to investigate democratic president ial candidate joe bidens son urging Volodymyr Zelenskiy about eight times to work with Rudy Giuliani, trumps personal lawyer. Rudy giuliani reportedly has been pushing for ukraines government to investigate the Vice President and his family. A story that has prompted a fresh standoff between congress and the white house and threatens the president with a slew of legal issues that started wednesday. The Washington Post first reported an official within the u. S. Intelligence Community Filed a formal whistleblower complaint involving the president over a phone call the president made to a foreign leader who has since been identified
I cantwhat . Ve it. Were told mr. Trump is now that our new house is haunted by casper the friendly ghost . Expressing concerns about hey jill hey kurt giuliani after two of giulianis movies . Ill get snacks no, i cant believe how easy it was to save hundreds of dollars associates linked to the ukraine scandal were dieted. On our Car Insurance with geico. This as the former ambassador to i got snacks ohhh, i got popcorn, ukraine has been testifying i got caramel corn, i got kettle corn. Before impeachment investigators all day in defiance of the Trump Administration. The New York Times reports that Marie Yovanovitch told am i chewing too loud . Lawmakers she was forced out by believe it geico could save you fifteen percent mr. Trump and giuliani based on or more on Car Insurance. What she describes as unfounded and false claims. Also breaking, the House Intelligence Committee chairman says the impeachment investigation is moving with new urgency and zeroing in on the ukraine scandal wi
What do you say . Lets get after it. We got to look at it as a trifecta of troubles for the president and certainly his lawyer. Among tehem heres a quote. Giuliani was in talks to be paid by ukraines top prosecutor as they together sought damaging information on democrats. We need to look deeper. What actually happened . What was discussed in what were the boundaries at play legally, ethically, factually . Remember this in context, over and over mr. Giuliani has denied hes ever had any financial motives in the ukraine game. I have no financial interest in the ukraine. Im not going to financially profit from anything that i know of in the ukraine. Let me make clear real quick i have no business interest in the ukraine. Look, he was very clear about that. But now the New York Times broke this story that does cast doubt on that idea, reporting that mr. Giuliani privately sought hundreds of thousands in business from ukrainian officials while trying to wage a Public Campaign for dirt on th
Report on President Trumps personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani. The New York Times reports giuliani is said to be under investigation for his work in ukraine. Giuliani tells nbc news hes not aware of any probe and says he has not been interviewed by the fbi, but two people familiar with the case telling the New York Times that manhattan federal prosecutor think that giuliani may have broken lobbying laws while undermining a former u. S. Ambassador to ukraine. Today the president seemed to support giuliani again. At least on twitter, claiming theres a deep state witchhunt thats now after giuliani. Nbc News National political reporter Josh Letterman is live in washington, d. C. Following this. Josh what more are we learning about the new details . Reporter were learning that federal prosecutors according to the New York Times are interested in whether Rudy Giuliani and these it two associates of his, lev parnas and igor fruman were working to try to undermine ambassador yovanovitch and get her
Charged with an Illegal Campaign finance in which they are said to have funneled hundreds of thousands of dollars at least some of which was from a secret russian source that the indictment doesnt spell out. Those donations were directed to the main superpac supporting President Trumps Reelection Campaign and lots and lots of republican politicians and campaign groups. As spelled out in the indictment of lev and igor, one of the things they leveraged with those Illegal Campaign donations was an effort by texas republican congressman Pete Sessions to pile on americas ambassador in ukraine, to get Marie Yovanovitch fire from her ambassadorship and brought back to the United States. Congressman Pete Sessions, according to the indictment, basically took those donations that turned out to be illegal donations. He then took the meeting with the guys who had funneled him those illegal donation, and then thereafter he wrote the letter they wanted, demanding the resignation of americas ambassad