Trump to the senate. Its a Huge Development of course and a little while ill talk to a key House Democrat about what happened in the caucus today and what we can expect tomorrow. But first the turmoil in the democratic race as an unexpected battle between senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren over gender threatens the dynamic of the race two weeks before the Iowa Caucuses. It escalated yesterday after reports surfaced that warren alleged sanders told her during a december 2018 meeting a woman could not win the presidency. Sanders denies the charge saying that it was ludicrous. His Campaign Manager later told nbc i believe strongly what we are talking about here is a lie. He also called it a smear. Warren countered confirming the conversation saying i thought a woman could win. He disagreed. Moments ago, Campaign Senior adviser told my colleague chuck todd it came from, i dont know if you can believe this one, different recollections of the conversation. Here goes weaver. Senator
Report on President Trumps personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani. The New York Times reports giuliani is said to be under investigation for his work in ukraine. Giuliani tells nbc news hes not aware of any probe and says he has not been interviewed by the fbi, but two people familiar with the case telling the New York Times that manhattan federal prosecutor think that giuliani may have broken lobbying laws while undermining a former u. S. Ambassador to ukraine. Today the president seemed to support giuliani again. At least on twitter, claiming theres a deep state witchhunt thats now after giuliani. Nbc News National political reporter Josh Letterman is live in washington, d. C. Following this. Josh what more are we learning about the new details . Reporter were learning that federal prosecutors according to the New York Times are interested in whether Rudy Giuliani and these it two associates of his, lev parnas and igor fruman were working to try to undermine ambassador yovanovitch and get her
Charged with an Illegal Campaign finance in which they are said to have funneled hundreds of thousands of dollars at least some of which was from a secret russian source that the indictment doesnt spell out. Those donations were directed to the main superpac supporting President Trumps Reelection Campaign and lots and lots of republican politicians and campaign groups. As spelled out in the indictment of lev and igor, one of the things they leveraged with those Illegal Campaign donations was an effort by texas republican congressman Pete Sessions to pile on americas ambassador in ukraine, to get Marie Yovanovitch fire from her ambassadorship and brought back to the United States. Congressman Pete Sessions, according to the indictment, basically took those donations that turned out to be illegal donations. He then took the meeting with the guys who had funneled him those illegal donation, and then thereafter he wrote the letter they wanted, demanding the resignation of americas ambassad
Tickets out of the country. Two sovietborn men arrested just before boarding a plane to europe were indicted on charges of illegally funneling money into donations to republican campaigns. Those two are central figures also in Rudy Giulianis efforts to dig up dirt on President Trumps political rival joe biden. Their tickets to europe were oneway tickets. Now Congress Wants to talk to them. The president denies knowing them, despite pictures with him and his son that say otherwise. So much to get to. Lets begin with cnns lauren fox on capitol hill. Lauren, so were down to the wire here now. If she is not blocked, shed be the second official interviewed as part of the impeachment inquiry and a central witness to this investigation. Thats right. And ill tell you that right now aides and members are operating under the assumption that she will show up. I just saw adam schiff the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee just a few minutes ago. He didnt answer my questions about whether
Lawn, and he wouldnt say yes. Is Rudy Giuliani still your personal attorney . Well, i dont know. I havent spoken to rudy. I spoke to him yesterday briefly. Hes a very good attorney, and he has been my attorney. The president saying i dont know, and everybody scratching their heads. So is Rudy Giuliani still his lawyer or not . Tonight a source is telling cnn that, yes, giuliani is still President Trumps lawyer but wont be handling matters involving ukraine. And its not hard to see why. Giuliani getting too hot to touch with the arrest and indictments this week of his two associates who were helping him try to dig up dirt on joe biden in ukraine. But now they are charged with violating Campaign Finance laws, accused of funneling foreign money into u. S. Elections. And to make matters worse for giuliani, the two men were arrested while trying to board a flight to europe with oneway tickets. And giuliani himself is a subject of that federal investigation. Just moments ago, the New York Ti