following a new york times report that giuliani is being investigated by federal prosecutors in manhattan for potentially breaking lobbying laws in his dealings in ukraine. two people familiar with the inquiry tell the times prosecutors are examining giuliani s efforts to undermine former u.n. ambassador to ukraine mar u giuliani has ded wrongdoing saying there are no grounds to charge him with foreign lobbying disclosure violations because he said he was acting on behalf of trump when he worked with ukrainian prosecutors to collect potentially damaging information on owe know vich. president trump would not say whether rouudy giuliani was still his attorney but he defend defended giuliani on twitter, saying now they are after the legendary crime buster and gr t greatest mayor of history.
demonstrated by this report. that report shows they are mirroring and echoing the trump continuing campaign against the special counsel. i thought there was a lot fascinating about what rouudy giuliani said yesterday but suggesting that collusion is not a crime, that even if the president did hear from roger stone about wikileaks, that was not a crime, acknowledging that maybe the president did lie but he wasn t under oath. all of those admissions, moving the goal post so far, not to mention the fact he allowed for the possibility the president was negotiating on trump tower moscow all the way up until the election. do you think there s a strategy behind rudy giuliani coming out with these admissions now? i hope that rudy giuliani has his malpractice insurance paid up because i don t see a strategy. i see simply damaging admissions on behalf of his client. and moving the goal post, as you just put it, john, is exactly the right way to term it, because what they re doing is trying t