this is the second time just this week we had reporting of rudy giuliani doing that. allegedly going to billionaires who are facing serious scrutiny in the united states and offering those billionaires he can help out in terms of their justice department worries. there s this guy with the spanish castle we learned about today, and according to some bombshell reporting there d also furtash, a ukrainian oligarch who s an upper echelon associate of organized crime according to the justice department. rudy giuliani reportedly offered mr. firtash a little help with his problems with doj if he will give giuliani a little help in ukraine. well, lev and igor are going to be back in court on monday in new york. we may learn more then about the trajectory of this case against them. meanwhile a whole bunch of people have just reportedly been
investigating somebody where the story is clear this is what they did, what we re seeing is each of these pieces is confirming a really obvious story. and so far there is no counter narrative. i mean there is no one who has actually testified oh, don t worry, there s no linkage, don t worry this didn t happen. you have people not willing to come in and testify who are saying that. but everybody s who s actually come in and, you know, walked with their feet and sat down and taken an oath and sworn to tell the truth has come in, and every piece fits. and when every piece fits, there s one reason for that. one last question for you on this. if as you mentioned if justice department policy precludes the indictment of a president, but there are other people involved in this and it was criminal behavior, bribery or other serious violations, do you have faith sitting here today that the justice department, this justice department under william
easily set, track and control your goals right from the chase mobile® app. chase. make more of what s yours®. we got this weird statement from the justice department last month. came in on a weekend. it was about a meeting tat the justice department had had with rudy giuliani. and that weekend the justice department put out a statement that basically said, yes, we met with him but we had no idea what rudy was involved with, when we met with him and we don t want to talk about this. it was very, very odd. this is how the new york times wrote it up at the time. quote, several weeks ago the
head of the justice department s criminal division and lawyers from the division s fraud section met with mr. giuliani to discuss the bribe case in which he and other attorneys were representing defendants. that meeting took place before u.s. attorneys in manhattan publicly charged two giuliani associates lev parnas and igor fruman with breaking campaign finance laws and trying to unlawfully influence politicians. here was the statement the doj put out that sunday. quote, when they met with mr. giuliani they were not aware of any investigation of mr. giuliani s associates in the southern district of new york. they would not have met with him had they known. at the time nobody exactly knew what that meeting was or who this was facing bribery charges, who giuliani got into the justice department. nobody knew what that meeting was about, who that meeting was about. now we know. now we know. turns out according to the washington post tonight rudy giuliani was at the justice
second circuit on appeal the following week and have a decision. they re very used to proceeding quickly. to the extent these criminal proceedings are parallel and related, those will move faster. our guest is andrew weissman, former top official at the justice department. stay with us. top official at te justice department stay with us packed with b vitamins, electrolytes, antioxidants, plus more vitamin c than 10 oranges. why not feel this good every day? emerge and see.