the degree that the phone logs make that happen, i think that there is a political sort of broad popular preliminary value in having them out there. and frank, to pick up on garrett s point, if this were any other white house and these four pages are phone logs came out with an indicted individual, lev parnas, with victoria tensing who is under scrutiny for representing a ukranian oligarch under investigation, and with tentacles into this corruption. and then unnamed calls to a white house numb, calls to an omb number which is differentiated on the white house switchboard. any other white house would be in crisis mode trying to explain what rudy giuliani was doing making dozens of dozens of calls deep inside the west wing around the issue of ukraine. well, you d have both sides of the aisle screaming for firings, for termination. screaming for answers.
dangerous with the phone log. about you what i see is a whole lot of lev parnas, rudy giuliani, rudy giuliani, omb number, lev parnas, john solomon, a journalist who spread a lot of the conspiracy theories about marie yovanovitch, what do these call logs say to you? well, phone records are indeed gold to any investigator. and it is no exception in this case especially when you can take the possibility of lev parnas having possible recordings of some of those conversations and overlap them with actual white house phone records. and here is they are stick on many levels, but here is a couple. first, the president s attempts to distance himself from rudy giuliani and programs paint rudy as a rogue a littgent will get more challenging because now we have rudy reaching in to the bobo bows of the white house, he and
had thought previously. and also suggested that the efforts to put the squeeze on ukraine might have even started with the previous president of that country before zelensky even took over. this is all information that they are getting from these phone records. and while it was interesting that he wouldn t say exactly where the phone records came from, there is one little note buried 200 pages in to this report that says lev parnas has started to provide some documents to the committee following the subpoena issued to him on a rolling basis and that could be leading into it. so what you have here is this incredibly detailed annotated summary that is almost like a speaking indictment on the ukraine issue more broadly and then all these tantalizing other possibilities that the committee can investigate even as the judiciary committee takes the baton and moves forward with impeachment based on what we know so far. frank figliuzzi, i m like a tv i ve watched enough crime shows on telev
it is happening preets erepeate lev parnas is caught up in this. hard for trump to say i don t know, you ll have to ask rudy, he wasn t working for me. and then say well, mr. president, it appears that he was because people were answering his phone calls in your white house. and then next, for rudy, it really looks like he is the copo of kind of an organized crime scheme that works its way throughout the white house. and if this were a county corruption investigation in miami or cleveland, we d be sitting down with the u.s. attorney s office right now and we d be saying do we have a rico case here, do we have a situation where rudy giuliani working for the president is running a corrupt enterprise and this time is he running it in the white house? garrett, let me put that back to you. i asked a committee source what the strategy was in putting out these phone logs. was to illuminate the sort of evidence that they weren t able