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schultz of florida. good to have with us today. good to be with you. he said he didn t direct his attorney rudy giuliani to push ukraine for an investigation. are you concerned the president could be making rudy giuliani the fall guy here? you know, watching rudy giuliani and donald trump contradict themselves, contradict one another with all of the evidence that is very clear that they did coordinate and that the president did direct giuliani is like watching a snake eat itself. i listen to hours upon hours of depositions where we had witnesses tell us that they were aware that there was direction by the president to rudy giuliani engage in pushing the ukrainians to launch investigations in exchange for the release of the foreign aid. it happened with witnesses
biden investigation and ambassador sondland believed and related to me that the president was giving him instruction. sondland has already had to amend his testimony. and no one knows how truthful he s going to be when he testifies. especially given the fact that as alex marquardt reports, president trump has been attacking multiple other witnesses. reporter: this week poised to be the most blockbuster few days so far in the impeachment inquiry after revelations over the weekend place gordon sondland, the ambassador, at the center of the ukraine scandal because of his direct access to president trump. we ll have to wait for sondland s testimony which is direct testimony, not testimony of somebody who said they heard from somebody else that somebody else said something. reporter: sondland is set to testify in an open hearing on wednesday. tim morrison testified that sondland was following the president s orders in demanding ukraine launch investigations
subordinates to make determinations with investigations, to launch investigations and he s not wrong there. but the president let me explain. official council and he tells a close aide to tell the attorney general to reign in an investigation in which she involved, you would say that that democratic president has that power to do so. the way he went about, the way the president went about to do it was not the way to go about doing it. was it illegal and unlawful? attorney general barr says no most legal scholars say no and in fact there was no finding by mueller that there actually was obstruction here. so i think as it relates to all of this, this is much ado about nothing as it relates to the congressional inquiry, which is somewhat of a a characterization of mueller, he left that determination to congress. he did not make the determination. but he didn t say it wasn t. he presented it as evidence. on the issue of the office of the director of national intelligence. as
do you consider it something that could be imminent that might require more forces? i think the threat is imminent. we continue to evaluate our force posture. i think it is something we will watch on a daily basis. reporter: so you heard general mcconsistencckinsey say believes the threat is imminent. thank you. coming up, police departments across the country large and small launch investigations following the release of a bombshell report exposing racist and violent comments from officers on facebook. one of the reporters who broke the story will join me next. you are watching msnbc. you are watching msnbc. don t tell your mother.