Voicing doubts about giulianis now. New information. Ability to defend himself in the we dont know the extent to which what were seeing is on impeachment inquiry. And now there are new issues the one hand the president seeking to use his leverage as around another lawyer hired as commanderinchief to withhold impeachment counsel into and fire and ash. Assistance from the ukrainian a wind whipped wildfire is government for his political burning out of control in los benefit, whether that is what angeles forcing 100,000 people to flee. This is about or also about and tonight the flames are spreading it increasingly appears it is and red flag warnings have been about financial gain for giuliani and his associates and extended. Im wolf blitzer and youre in the situation room. Some potentially Illegal Campaign contributions. So this is getting thicker by the minute. The former u. S. Ambassador to ukraine Marie Yovanovitch testified today behind closed doors but they released her reporter thi
Look, it happened just this weekend. Its been so long. Just this evening we got firsthand testimony showing President Trump knew about the push for investigations and was monitoring the Pressure Campaign on ukraine. How do we know . A state Department Aide who says he and two others, okay, thats called corroboration, that they heard President Trump on a call with ambassador sondland the day after the july 25th call between the two president s. I then heard President Trump ask so hes going to do the investigation . Ambassador sondland implied that hes gonna do it, adding that president zelensky will do anything you ask him to. After the call ended, david holmes, asked is it true the president doesnt give a [ bleep ] about ukraine . Ambassador sondland agreed that the president did not, saying the president only cared about big stuff. What was big stuff . Good question. Sondland replies by big stuff he means what benefits, the president , like the biden investigation that mr. Giuliani wa
Going on inside, thats a pool camera so you had a quick look inside the hearing room. Theyre going to clear it, a security sweep in the next hour or so. We should expect to get inside the hearing room within about an hour. We are three hours away from yovanovitchs testimony. I spoke to a friend of hers this morning who said this really is round three for her. Round one buzz twas he bullying campaign in ukraine, round two was from President Trump, and today she expects attacks from republicans. Targeted in the july 25th phone call with the ukrainian leader where according to the rough transcript, mr. Trump called her bad news and despite having fired her months earlier, cautioned shes going to go through some things. What we have going on here is a potential confluence of both the political selfinterest of the president , getting her out of the way so he could do his deed in ukraine. Reporter yovanovitch said she was warned to watch my back because of Rudy Giuliani and his associates. O
Theres nothing wrong with georgetown. Its a fine place. Right . Its a wonderful place. But its the only choice at the end of a distinguished career, after all that. Its not the end of a hallmark movie. Its the end of a really bad Reality Tv Show brought to you by someone who knows a lot about that. Why did you you previously testified that you sought advice from ambassador sondland at this time about what to do. Is that correct . I did. And why did you reach out to the ambassador . Because this was clearly so political and was not going to be you know, the state department was not in a position, shall we say, to manage the issue. It didnt appear to me. And so i asked ambassador sondland, who said that he, you know, he was a political appointee. Said he was close to the president , and so he had just been in ukraine for a ship visit with some of his eu colleagues from brussels and so i reached out to him for advice. When this was no longer a ukraine kind of, an interview with mr. Yut si
And his son, hunter biden. Arrested last night in suburban washington at Dulles International airport, a newly unsealed federal indictment alleges the men violated Campaign Finance law by engaging in a scheme to conceal the source or exceed the limit on political attributions. This indictment out of the Southern District of new york further alleges that a number of congress got substantial can pain contributions and push for the investor to ukraine. They want assistance in helping remove or recall the then u. S. Ambassador to ukraine. Lev parnas efforts were conducted at least in part at the request of at one or more Ukrainian Government officials. Jovanovich was pulled out of schedule and those described as critics of someone blocking to the eyes. Separately, giuliani told us this morning that lev parnas and igor fruman Health Connect him with the form ukrainian prosecutor, victor show ken he matters because he was just getting the firm, the company were hunter biden set on the board