cnn employees resigned after reporting a fake story about a russian investment firm with ties to trump officials also june 2017. cnn again forced to issue a correction because of a fake story about jim comey s russia investigation. december 2017, cnn propagated a story about trump s advisor and the russia and a 2017, fake news cnn publishing a fake story about donald trump jr. and wikileaks that in july 2018, more fake russian news. this time featuring the trump tower meeting. in july of 2019, at least one fake news cnn host was still accusing trump of russia collusion. did they miss that story? fall story, fake news and of course the unethical reporting didn t begin and end with russia. may 2018, they also bashed trump
right-hand man telling stories about trips to europe where he and giuliani held meetings with ukrainian officials. they reportedly urged ukraine s leaders to handle investigations into then-candidate joe biden. investigations that were pushed by the trump white house. and in one of those calls from july of 2019, giuliani can be heard saying this to a ukrainian official. if he could say something like that, on his own in conversation, it would go a long way it would go a long way with the president to solve the problems. lev parnas is facing charges, including campaign finance violations and he is set to go on trial later this year. lev parnas is joining us along with his attorney joseph bondi. thank you gentlemen for being with us. i want to get to this legal case here in a second, but first, mr.
charming, fun afternoon with joe biden. now that you say that, if we have time, let s show that clip. as if you re enjoying it. yes. if you could, we have been enjoying ourselves. the guy to look at is just over there. and as we await the arrival of president biden and first lady jill biden to windsor castle to meet with the queen, kat katty, i want to pull up when the last u.s. president went to windsor castle. that s barack obama meeting the young prince. i m talking about donald trump, when he met with queen elizabeth at windsor castle in july of 2019, if we have time to pull up that video. here we go.
it took place in july of 2019, the same month trump told the ukrainian president i would like you to do us a favor though. what we need from the president is to put an honest prosecutor in charge. he s going to investigate and dig up the evidence that presently exists, and if there s any other evidence about involvement of the 2016 election and then the biden thing has to be run out. i don t know if it s true or not. i mean, i see i see him bragging about it on television. and to me, as a lawyer, to me as a lawyer, it sounds like a bribe. somebody in ukraine has to take that seriously. nbc news has not obtained that audio independently, but it adds a whole new context to i would like you to do us a favor. giuliani makes clear what the favor is, if there was ever a question, which there was not.
attorney general to examine election fraud in new mexico and an array of baseless conspiracy theories that trump had been the actual victor. that included a fantastical theory that people in italy had used military technology in satellites to remotely tamper with voting machines in the united states and switch votes for mr. trump and votes for joe biden. think about that for a second. that s the chief of staff of the united states, right? president talking to these tierney general to investigate ludicrous conspiracy theories to damage trump s opponents. that s nothing new in fact. that s why he was impeached the first time, remember that? for trying to extort leaders to open a fragile investigation to joe biden. now cnn has obtained a phone call between trump s lawyer and senior adviser to the ukrainian president. it took place in july of 2019, the same month when trump told the ukrainian president i would like you to do us a favor.