rudy giuliani or theoretically it could include rudy giuliani, what we know what the feds are going to do tonight and in the coming days. they will press these men for any information about any other people, and as you may recall, that s what this very same new york prosecution office did to mr. michael cohen. another reason this matters, well, and i haven t even hit this in much detail yet because this has got a cull couple of pieces. if you stop right here and said that s a lot of different stuff, think about this one fact in this indictments the links to donald trump, not only by giuliani but also by following the money. both these men broke the law with illegal donations to a trump pac and tried to funnel money to a russian national who wanted to get funds to trump. you take this all together right now, what you have is any one of these things quite damning, not only for these individuals who we always mention are presumed innocent legally, but who are
ukrainian government official. do you see it who is that official, what are their interests do you see it as bad news for donald trump and rudy giuliani who have said there s no crimes involved in everything they re doing with ukraine to have these ukrainian american linked officials and businessmen charged today? well, it s bad news that they re charged. it s also bad news for their political agenda, because they want everybody to be talking about biden s corruption. they want everybody to be talking about hunter biden making money in ukraine, and are when you look at this trail and who rudy giuliani was working with, nobody seems to be talking so much about joe biden tonight. julia, having really reported a lot of this stuff including the way that, look, business is done in different ways in different parts of the world and what is considered normal in some places is illegal here in the united states. indeed, there s laws like the foreign corrupt practices act which bas
tentacle. we also had another tentacle off that tentacle today which was revelations that rudy was using the oval office to pressure trump and then secretary of state rex tillerson to get one of his clients a turkish banker who was violating iran sanctions by trading oil for gold instead of money, he was using his connections to trump to try to get this man released from jail actually in new york as well, so i m wondering how long it takes for donald trump to say he doesn t know rudy giuliani. the second tentacle, again, is the russian interference, the fact that, you know, we had been looking for the two years of the mueller investigation for a smoking gun, and now we have yet another one of the many smoking guns now on the rack over the fireplace to mix metaphors, which is russian foreign national one who was funneling hundreds of thousands of dollars to these two soviet immigrants
shelby, you ve been tracing a lot of these stories. i think two things jumped out to me in this indictment, one was the funneling of the russian money, but the other thing was that these two men were working to advance political interests of a ukrainian government official, allegedly. we did a big time line video at the wall street journal this week, and we laid out all of the twists and turns, particularly with respect to rudy giuliani and his role in pushing for these two investigations, the biden investigation, and the 2016 russia investigation. when you look at this time limn and you look at him flying to paris and madrid and meeting with some of the ukrainian officials he met with, he also spoke to the prosecutor, former prosecutor general that vice president biden helped push out. i mean, he s been very involved for a year in trying to bring these investigations and the dirt that he claims to have to the surface. well, now we know more about the two men who were giving him
the ranking democrat and my fear here these are people business associates of him and they were up to incredibly shady things, illegal things, getting money, funneling foreign money. and you pair that with the fact they worked with him and he was out trying to get dirt on a political opponent of the president of the united states. and this leads us right to where the whistleblower is. so under the election laws it is a violation, of course, to take foreign money. but it s also a violation to get something of value from a foreign government which would include digging up dirt. that s why it s important to determine what giuliani s role was. when the whistleblower complaint came over they said it wasn t criminal and they didn t even