2016 election and to investigate the biden family. in exchange for security assistance from the u.s. to ukraine. what evidence did he provide to back up the testimony? amounts of text messages. and different e-mails and exchanges that he had with other state department officials and again we ll hear from the officials going forward. we have the best evidence yet that there was an ongoing scheme. the whistleblower described. to quote unquote play ball and have the ukrainians play ball with the president s request to investigate the bidens and exonerate russia. let s talk about this. cnn is reporting that voker told giuliani not to trust the ukrainians giving him dirt on the bidens. they were corrupt themselves. did he testify to that? i can say this, rudy giuliani had all the evidence in the world to not believe any of the
giuliani said it did go far enough. he said it needed to mention biden and the energy company he was part of. the back and forth and piecing together the conversations. shows how much importance was put on these demands that were clear. clearly expressed in many texts. the text messages are just in. reading through them in realtime here. so, thank you so much. i appreciate it. thanks. joining me now. congressman swalwell. who sits on the intelligence committee. i appreciate your time. it s been a long day. nine hours of testimony. what did you learn? good evening. we learned that there s been an ongoing shadow shake down. by rudy giuliani. at the direction of trump. to have the ukrainians investigate and exonerate the russians for the role in the
information. good evening to you. the text messages, there s one advising the ukrainian president on the morning of the july 25, 2019 ahead of a call between the presidents. certainly this is the significant moment. the document released from the house intelligence committee late this evening. more than 25 pages of documents. text messages back and forth. and first and foremost, this came from the testimony that his deposition he gave over nine hours today behind closed doors up here on capitol hill, being the president s former special envoy to the ukraine. and one thing i want to highlight before we get to that, going through the texts and again the team is still going through them, really under scores how much the president s personal lawyer rudy giuliani here was really immeshed in u.s., ukrainian policy. the fact the text show giuliani