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Rudy Giuliani is facing possible expulsion from the New York State Bar Association over incendiary remarks he made to President Donald Trump’s supporters last week before they violently stormed the U.S. Capitol.
The organization said Monday that it has opened an inquiry into whether Giuliani should remain a member. Its bylaws state that “no person who advocates the overthrow of the government of the United States” shall remain a member.
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i think the biggest take away is we can put the witnesses into a couple of different categories. some of the witnesses are complying with subpoenas. they re marching into the depositions and they re testifying for hours and hours presumably they re being fully forthcoming. the fiona hill, the ambassadors, yovanovitch, george kents. whether sondland was forthcoming is anybody s guest. let s look at the rudy guiliani s of the world saying i m not producing documents, i m not complying with subpoenas, i m not testifying. you know that tells us something, when i encounter that as a 30-year prosecutor, that screamed consciousness of guilt. that s what rudy guiliani is contending with. his associates, perhaps co-conspirators, the from youmans on the parnas of the world are already locked up.
if you do, perhaps we will give you the aid that congress has allocated to help you combat russian aggression. rebecca was talking about guiliani earlier, even all that we are learning, do you think we will be seeing more or less of guiliani going forward? he s been fairly quiet on twitter over the last three days? yeah, i think he s become central. it s hard for him to ignore the fact that he has become central to this investigation. the critical question is, why was he even involved in the ukraine to start with? i mean, central, his central role as president trump s personal attorney. so he s ethically obligated to pursue trump s personal interest. that means wherever the united states interests diverge with that of president trump guiliani is going to be looking out for president trump. that itself is damming. even if none of these other facts pan out, why was his personal attorney who has obligations to him involved in an area in which the united
you have to believe rudy is looking over his shoulder to see if somebody might be coming for him. you heard all the testimony that took place this week. which one do you think had the greatest impact? you think altogether there are basically two narratives developing. the first one is that the career officials were being pushed out of the way in favor of individuals like guiliani who are taking over and conducting a kind of shadow foreign policy the second question, which i think there is less testimony on is a quid pro quo. that was sondland s testimony about the exchange of the meeting in washington, it was very valuable for president zelensky and his willingness to conduct this investigation into the bidens. so i m looking at those two narratives that are developing and looking forward to see how either or both of them develop next week. glen, i was talking with a congressman just yesterday from new york. he was saying he listened to sondland s testimony and thought he lied th