prosecutors in manhattan for potentially breaking lobbying laws in his dealings in ukraine. two people familiar with the inquiry tell the times that prosecutors are looking at his efforts to undermine the former ambassador to ukraine marie yovanovitch. and in a case tied to two of his associates arrested last week and tried to influence u.s. politics with contributions. and giuliani has denied wrongdoing saying there are no grounds to charge him with foreign lobbying disclosure violations because he said he was acting on behalf of president trump, when he was with the ukrainian prosecutors to collect potentially damaging information on ivan vich and other trump targets. speaking to reporters on the south lawn of the white house, president trump would not say whether rudy giuliani was still his attorney but he defended giuliani on twitter on saturday morning, writing this. so now they are after the legendary crime buster and greatest mayor in the history of nyc, rudy giuliani. he may
implication being that this has to do with rudy giuliani and his business dealings in ukraine. look, this really doesn t help the administration s case right now, that nothing was below board, nothing was wrong, with how the trump administration was talking with the ukraine government. jonathan, adding to daniel s comments there, how is the bigger impeachment inquiry, how is this picture, how critical is ivan vich s testimony here? what we re getting here is details around the larger picture the democrats are making that the president abused his policy to pursue a political opponent and involve a foreign government, involve foreign actors in participating in and interfering in the 2020 u.s. election. everything else that comes from that is basically exhibits a through whatever letter house democrats are able to produce in these interviews. we will eventually see some form