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
He said President Trump knew what he and giuliani was up to. Parnas is on federal indictment for Campaign Finance violations. This included pages of text exchanges with giuliani and others. More documents may be released any time soon. I spoke to lev parnas earlier this week. He was accompanied by his attorney joseph bandi. The person you were two years ago, are you the same person you were two years ago . No. No. Im not the same person i was two years ago. Two years ago i fell into im not a political guy, never was in politics. I was a businessman trying to get by. Had my ups and downs and some way somehow now sitting back and looking at it and evaluating thaefrg had happened, i think there was a reason for it. I think i was recruited. I think at some point because of two worlds collided as me and igor were trying to build a business. Igor fruman. Igor fruman. Entering the trump orbit, its not the usual orbit that i have known being around and it is not typical in the other administra
Breaking news. Welcome to the lead, im jake tapper. We start with breaking news in our political lead, shocking news that the office of the u. S. Attorney for the Southern District of new york is investigating Rudy Giuliani who himself used to be the u. S. Attorney for the Southern District of new york. The probe deals with not only potential corruption, but also includes a counterintelligence investigation about whether giuliani helped wealthy foreign figures attempt to influence the white house. Joining me is cnns evan perez and sara murray who broke this story and former federal prosecutor kim whaley whose knew book how to read the constitution and why is out now. The fact there is a counterintelligence component, how stig is that. It is a big deal. Because this means that this goes beyond just runofthemill financial crimes, possible corruption. It means that there is a National Security component that there is that National Security threat component to the investigation and that is
Fascinating stuff. Spoken to rudy, spoke to him coming up, donald trump and be fully informed. We showed how much the Rudy Giuliani, falling out of love. D trp umand Rudy Giuliani, falling out of love the good news . Our protection lasts all day. Yesterday briefly. He is a very good attorney, he president emphasizes fox as a that pushed the envelope. Direct part of his political a has been my attorney, yeah, i came up after grand master sure. And then surprise news that flash and nefarious and people today. Broke on fox news in the last take a look. Few hours, one of the few voices like that. They were older people in ingth to Fact Check Trump saying this out of nowhere. No, i dont know, is he this is my last newscast leaving . Oh, thats a shame. Genre. Here. The kids can have fun with it, thank you for watching today and is he leaving because of bad over the decades. But i think we need to balance ratings . If hes leaving, i assume he is shep smith, departure after it so we can keep e
Witness testifying before house investigators on capitol hill. Career diplomat george kent is behind closed doors. Hes Deputy Assistant secretary of state. Before that he was chief of mission at the u. S. Embassy in ukraine. His appearance follows what can be described as nothing short of explosive testimony yesterday. Fiona hill laying out to lawmakers in whats described in near perfect recall a scene of what she described of wrong doing on the part of American Foreign policy. But another way, its almost sounding like a broad conspiracy to use American Foreign policy to benefit the president s personal demands. We are going to get to that in a moment. I do want to get back over to ft. Worth, texas. That press conference is beginning right now. Should not have been taken from ms. Jefferson. This incident has eroded the trust we have built with our community, and we must work harder to ensure that trust is restored. Concerning the status of the criminal investigation, at approximately 6