what s the factual predicate of that investigation? when you look at the vice president he verbally said on tape they re going to with hold financial aid to ukraine so long as the investigations of his son s company does not occur that s not what he said. i want to be clear about this. do you know of that prosecutor? that s the prosecutor inside of the ukraine. yeah, do yowl know his name? yeah, the name is escaping me right now, chris. his name is victor shulkin, he was widely viewed by the u.s. and eu as essentially covering up for corruption and failing to investigate never been investigated, chris. never been investigated by any investigator. wait a second news reporters have reached this conclusion. news reporters are not investigators, and i will tell you right here and now you have an obligation as the president of the united states in order to
down to giuliani or parnas or fruman or go the other way around that parnas and fruman are trying to get business deals done and representing themselves, the president s interests, they re whispering in rudy s ear, rudy s whispering in the president s ear? what do we know about who s running whom in this operation? parnas has said he functioned as a kind of intermediary setting up meetings and that s what giuliani said he s functioned as. giuliani has insisted it was his investigation rather than parnas investigation or fruman s investigation. would giuliani be able to come up with these witnesses on his own, victor shulkin or these others or did parnas come up on his own? we really don t know, and that s kind of the questions you kind of want an insider to start answering. there s also the strange case roger stone is on trial
parnas were arrested at the airport. they had one way ticket europe and headed to vienna, to facilitate with victor shulkin and fox news, sean hannity. the interview never happened. fox refused to confirm it was ever scheduled. fruman and parnas pleaded not guilty in court to charges of the indictment. the truth will vindicate him. i look forward to defending myself vigorously in court. fruman and parnas were dropping hundreds of thousands of dollars in foreign donations to republican campaigns. they were dropping something else, too, rudy giuliani. the two men bought their way
obama administration. he claims because of joe biden. and so he was going to bring those allegations to guiliani. guiliani wanted him to come into the u.s. so they could sit down and talk. the state department did not grant that visa, so guiliani took his case to the white house where he s obviously very close to president trump. despite that appeal, though, the state department never granted a visa to mr. shulkin. he did not come to the united states. he couldn t visit the u.s., but tell us about the effort that guiliani made then to actually get the information from shulkin. reporter: sure. they were not without the visa, it wasn t the end story. guiliani got on a skype call with victor shulkin where they talked about joe biden and the investigation into a company that joe biden s son was on the board for. and guiliani took those
giuliani s efforts to try to get a visa for victor shulkin. and giuliani wanted to get shulkin a visa. and they rejected that vereques and giuliani went around the date department to grant him a visa. now the visa was never granted and giuliani carried out secret interviews with skulkin vee virginia skype. and nonetheless, giuliani took those records to the state department. asked the state department to investigate. later those were turned over to the inspector general at the state department who turned it over to capitol hill to further investigate this matter. shulkin has accused marie