After the Prosecutors Office reportedly has mr. Giuliani himself under investigation. A whole bunch of different news outlets have reported that over the past week or so. Well, tonight the wall street journal advances that story considerably. The journal reporting that, yes, federal prosecutors in manhattan are investigating former mayor Rudy Giuliani for his potential role in the conspiracy that prosecutors have chashlgrged agt his clients . His associates . His dining come ppanionscompani. Lev parnas and igor fruman are the two men. In addition to the question of whether or not mayor giuliani was involved in a scheme for which his buddies have just been arrested, according to the wall street journal, prosecutors are also looking at mayor giulianis business dealings in the nation of ukraine, including his finances, his meetings, his work for a city mayor there . This investigation at sdny, it reportedly includes investigators looking at mr. Giulianis bank records. And i imagine mr. Gi
When it served his purposes and deflated his assets to reduce his real estate taxes. Plus disturbing new details on just how many kids were separated at the border. What could explain the shift at the top of the 2020 polls and why the economy isnt as great as trump says it is . Everybodys getting rich. And im working my ass off. When all in starts right now. Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. We continue to learn more and more about Rudy Giulianis entanglements with foreign interests and the corruption that surrounds them. Thanks to weeks of testimony in the house impeachment inquiry we already know giuliani ran a rogue Foreign Policy operation in which the two men attempted to extort the president of ukraine in order to further trumps political interests. Thats not the whole story because what has emerged of late is a fuller portrait of what giulianis Business Model has been in the era of donald trump. Giuliani is ostensibly trumps personal lawyer, but remember even though ru
Show times the circus, former aide to the white house elise jordan. And and jonathan lemire. Ha was that rand paul . I didnt recognize him . You could add him to the others that railed against trump in 15 and 16 and now are rallying for him in 2019. You were there, rand paul walked up to the line of outing the whistleblower, didnt say his name but gave some context and details that we wont give this morning so that people could basically decipher who he is. Thats right. This is the push now we are seeing from the white house and the president s allies, includesing a somewh including an unlikely one in rand paul. The president has focused on the whistleblower believing they are a member of the deep state, ties to the previous administrations, and has been looking to get him. Ignoring the fact that everything the whistleblower highlighted in his initial complaint has been corroborated the there hasnt been anything, to my knowledge, that the whistleblower has alleged that has proven to be
Doesnt know why she was removed as ambassador but it was based on as best as she can tell unfounded and false claims by people with clearly questionable motiv motives. She said i did not know mr. Giulianis motives for attacking me but individuals in the press may well have believed their personal financial ambitions were stymied by our anticorruption policy in ukraine. Those contacts are lev parnas and igor fruman, who were arrested wednesday attempting to leave the country. They have been charged with Campaign Finance violations for illegally funneling money, some of it russians, to republicans and the trump super pac. They were in one case trying to get a member of congress to help oust yovanovitch. The president said he doesnt know these guys in the picture and said you have to, quote, ask rudy who they are. And fiona hill claims giuliani and sondland side stepped white house protocol to advance their own personal agenda. She testifies on sunday. Ambassador sondland will testifies w
Ukraine, the president has privately called bad news, appearing for a transcribed interview city behind closed doors. Democrats say they hope she can shed new light on President Trump and his Team Communications with ukraine. Watch. What you want to hear from her . First of all, why was she ousted well before her time was due . What was the request, i understand, but she insisted mr. Giuliani make any request of the Ukrainian Government to come to the embassy . Not to be a lone ranger, i would like to know what took place not only in that regard but her conversations at the state department. Harris meanwhile, democrats are issuing new subpoenas and their impeachment inquiry, and also reportedly requesting the appearance of diplomat bill taylor, who questioned why ukraine aid was being withheld. President trump is at his first rally since the impeachment inquiry began last night, taking aim at democrats. They know they cant win the 2020 election, so they are pursuing the insane impeachm