Information has been pouring out almost daily. House democrats detailed more. You know, parnas of the 11 egor wing of the crukraine conspirac who trump claims not to know but hes pictured with every member of trump world. He sure gets close to the family for someone trump supposedly doesnt know. First, Rachel Maddows sitdown interview with parnas was the interview of the week. Coming up ill talk with rachel herself about that interview but here is a preview of what he told rachel. He was somehow both employed by and employing Rudy Giuliani who helped carry out the scheme to get the president of ukraine to announce an investigation into joe bidens son. Parnas has been indicted on Campaign Finance violations for allegedly funneling russian money into political campaigns. He turned over documents to the House Committee still investigating donald trump. Those documents will make it a lot harder for Senate Republican to refuse to admit new evidence or call witnesses in the impeachment trial
Proof yet again that this president is lying to you. So, lets get after it. Tricky day for the president s lawyers. They had a short day. The president didnt really want them on on a saturday. Even as they were making their case, new evidence was undercutting arguments that you dont need witnesses. Were going to get to whats going on with lev parnas, someone they havent heard from, the documents he has shown that they havent reviewed, the tape that no one has mentioned. Were going to take you through that and how dangerous it is to ignore it. The Trump Defense team, however, chose brevity over depth. That makes sense. They know their audience. These senators are not only tired, but they are looking for a way out of this situation. And the president certainly understands the media reality. Saturday afternoon, not as many people watching. Lets not waste our ammo. But four basic key points, okay . First up, dangerous to remove a firstterm president this close to an election. Heres a taste
A member of the president s legal team gave a background briefing in which this person asked for a short session tomorrow in the senate trial as they opened up their rebuttal arguments in favor of the president. The bulk of their arguments on monday when many were people will be polluting into the Television Coverage of it. The members of the legal team saying they are planning an effective rebuttal of what the democrats have been saying all week. As the president s legal team prepares to open his rebuttal tomorrow morning, President Trump this morning complaining about the time slot, tweeting, after having been treated unbelievably unfairly in the house and having to endure hour after hour of lies, fraud, and deception by shifty schiff, crying Chuck Schumer and their crew, looks like my lawyers will have to be start saturday which is called death valley in tv. Addressing the annual march for life, first president ever to do so, President Trump today didnt speak directly to impeachment
He must be removed from office. Americans get a fair trial. And so i ask you, i implore you, give america a fair trial. Give america a fair trial. Shes worth it. It remains to be seen if those arguments will resonate with a republicancontrolled senate. In the meantime, trumps legal team is expected to make a very difference case for more on what to expect, we turn to manu raju on capitol hill. Reporter this is going to be a briefly overview of the case. We do only expect three hours of so of opening arguments on that teams side. What jay sekulow said, the president s attorney, its generally going to be an overview of details and then monday and tuesday when the Senate Returns into session, expect a fullfloated offense of the president s action trying to paint everything he did in ukraine in the most favorable way. And expect them to go after joe biden, the former Vice President and the former Vice President s son. And one question is whether or not Pat Cipollone counsel will show his r
Viewers in the United States and around the world. This is a special edition of new day. Saturday, january 25th, here in new york. Breaking overnight, the release of an explosive audiotape that features President Trump speaking to igor fruman and lev parnas at a dinner in 2018. Youll remember these are the two indicted Rudy Giuliani Associates Charged with funneling russian money to President Trumps political pac among others. This is the same lev parnas the president says he does not know. On this tape, mr. Trump does know him and is telling him to get rid of thenu. S. Ambassador to ukraine Marie Yovanovitch. Here it is. Get rid of her. Get her out i dont care. Get her out, okay. Do it. That audio was obtained by abc news. There is paeapparently a lot mo. Parnas lawyer says the full recording is nearly an hour and a half long. We will play more of what has just been released. The tape supports of version of events that parnas has been speaking to and refutes the president s claim that