investigations into the bidens. the wall street journal reported when rudy giuliani got back from his latest trip to ukraine, the president called him, what did you get, rudy said the president asked him? more than you could imagine, he replied. he was at the white house on friday and trump acknowledged calling rudy giuliani a very great crime fighter. joining me now, white house reporter rebecca ball house who co-authored the wall street journal piece. we know they are in touch. he comes back. you have him telling you gets a call from the president. away do we know about what the nature of that friday meeting or debrief was? so the white house and giuliani have so far declined to say what was discussed at that meeting, but one thing i would note is that in that call that you mentioned where the president called giuliani the minute he lands back in the u.s. from ukraine and says what did you get, that on that call he asked giuliani to brief the
republicans who are currently serving in congress and were also at the time also suggested that he be or were pushing for him to be removed from that position. and lutsenko, people advocated for him to be removed because he wasn t doing enough to combat crime in ukraine. we should note rudy is claiming, among other things, that he was poisoned and died twice and came back to life twice. one of the many claims he is making in this series that he is doing with this essentially right-wing news outlet with whom he has sort of partnered on this trip. that s right. that is a claim that he is making. i don t think we are able to independently evaluate that claim right now, but that s if he came back to life twice? we haven t run that into the ground yet. not yet. rebecca, thank you very much for your time. thank you. still to come, the supreme court takes up the fight over the president s financial
spending. i want to bring in the wall street journal s reporter rebecca ball house. first of all, tell us what you and your colleagues are leverage. how did this start? this is a criminal investigation? so what we suns that this investigation came out of federal prosecutors in manan s investigation of michael cohen. we understand that in their raid of cohen he s hotel room and office and home earlier this year in april, they seized, among other things, a recording of a conversation that he had with an adviser to the inaugural fund and informer adviser to melania trump earlier this year, and twhe understand questions about how the inaugural committee was spending the unare some of the funds unaccounted for or just not pubically identified? they are not pubically
how is the inaugural committee responding to your report in the wall street journal, and has there been any response from the white house? we understand they have not been asked to turn over records. the head of the committee has not spoken with mueller since last year. he was asked a couple of questions about the inaugural fund. the inaugural fund so far seems unaware of any real investigation into them. as for the white house, they have not responded to our questions about this matter, and it s not clear that they would know about it either. and you correctly point how the in the third paragraph of your article, giving money next change for political favors could run afoul of federal corruption laws, diverting funds from the organization which was registered as a nonprofit could also violate federal law. rebecca, thanks so much for your excellent reporting. we appreciate it very much. thank you.