if you lose, you can show you battled the big, bad media. joe arpaio lost his defamation lawsuit against news outlets. republican congressman devin nunes is making headlines for filing more and more lawsuits, most recently against cnn for his dealings with giuliani s associates. here s the deal. the attorney said he was willing to tell congress about what he says for nunes s efforts to dig up dirt on biden including and this is the allegation nunes disputes, that the congressmen met with foreigner ukrainian prosecutor, victor shoeken. that would link him to the protrump, anti-biden smear campaign at the center of the impeachment inquiry. nunes denied it. he said he s never met him and now nunes is suing cnn for
yovanovitch that she herself was cut off the loop. and yesterday one of the three people who by passed her added to the punishing. ambassador gordon sondland telling impeachment investigators that the president made jowlny his point man on all this saying he didn t realize until later what he disparating energy secretary rick perry and giuliani were actually working on. cnn obtained exclusive new reporting on what else the president s tv lawyer and ukraine fixture was op up to kiley atwood has the story what have you learned. we learned in his testimony behind closed doors as part of the ukraine impeachment inquiry just this woke a career state department official george kent followed lawmakers that it was rudy giuliani who had pressed the white house and the state department to try and get a visa for victor shoeken, the ousted prosecutor general from ukraine. he was ousted because he did not
problems with joe biden s son and the ukraine. and in another new development, trump s personal lawyer, rudy giuliani, asked the state department and later the white house to issue a visa to the united states for the controversial ukraine prosecutor that as vice president joe bide-helped to remove from office. jewell and his associates interviewed that prosecutor by telephone, and then his successor in new york city at jewell s offices, as a part of their investigation into ukraine. kendis. kelly o donnell. jewell at the center of this investigation. thank you. because we also have new reporting, about jewell as well as the chief of staff. mick mulvaney to tell but. caught up in the house s impeachment inquiry. democrats are building a case for impeachment on jewell. and mick mulvaney is walking on
thin ice after thursday s press conference where he essentially admitted to then, walked back the existence of a quid pro quo. joining me now, msnbc local analyst and sicynthia oxny. i want to start with you cynthia. the new nbc reporting on jewell. who apparently as you heard kelly say attempted to secure a visa from the state department for an ousted prosecutor, victor shoeken. what are we to make of this? well jewell has major legal problems, he has the partisan frick and frack campaign fraud conspiracy that he s being investigated for. he had received money from them. $500,000 through one of their businesses. he s tied up in that investigation. and the new york times has reported an extension of that, is that he s been investigated