under cross, really. he said that, well, i think i read it in the new york times about what giuliani that s not compelling. here s the thing. the president s personal lawyer tweeted today that he did all of this on behalf of president trump. the investigation i conducted concerning 2016 ukrainian collusion and corruption was done solely as a defense attorney to defend my client against false charges. back to taylor. he called the quid pro quo crazy, in those texts we got from volker. another name in the mix. further explaining to investigators why he thought that was wrong. he said, if the united states were to ask ukraine to investigate an apparent violation of ukrainian law, that would be improper. wrong, crazy. we re hearing that from a lot of
and also saying no to the lawyers who are friends certainly of the president, that giuliani may have hooked up with him to help the russian. look, i know people at home i m throwing so many names at you but get used to it because this is our new vocabulary. the two fbi big shots will stay with us. let s take a quick break, when we come back, there is more information. the missing link critical to the plot is this guy sondland because he s a trump pal. how did he remember there was a that he s the guy who that there was a quid pro quo? what does that mean what s going on for the president, next. [sneeze and sniffles] are you ok? yah, it s just a cold. it s not just a cold if you have high blood pressure. most cold medicines may raise blood pressure. coricidin hbp is the.
were likely getting that direction from rudy. the problem is, based on his own comments to you and his twitter comments, rudy is saying he did at the behest of the president. acting as the president s personal representative. so i don t see how the democrats will have a hard time attributing rudy s direction, if in fact he gave that direction to them, back to the president. now, you take everybody pointing rudy now becomes more transparent in the transcripts and he keeps saying mr. giuliani he was acting for his client the president. you combine that ag saying no, i m not going to say you did anything wrong on this, and those are big moments in the state of our narrative. andrew, jim, always a plus. thank you very much. thanks, chris.
wall now and give you highlights. the big deal is it that teller corroborates the ideas of a corrupt exchange which democrats argue could be an attempted bribe. the proof? release of military aid to ukraine contingent on a public announcement the country would pursue an investigation against the bidens and hacking of the dnc. that was my clear understanding. security assistance money would not come until the president committed to pursue the investigation. taylor also confirms, it was all about politics. i understood that the reason for investigating burisma was to cast vice president biden in a bad light. cast biden in a bad light. that s the key part. what was the condition to investigate burisma coming from? who was telling him to? what i know is that the direction was coming from giuliani. he said, now, in testimony,
rudy giuliani told lawyers he made 500,000 working with two associates who were arrested last week, and according to a federal indictment had received two $500,000 payments, so a million dollars from unnamed russian businessmen. giuliani says he s working for trump for free. but this opens a lot of questions about who knew? not only that, but who is paying for rudy giuliani to do this thing that is benefiting trump and potentially, you know, someone else or another country? is this opening up the possibility of this is a russian influence campaign? yes. i think that s something that cannot be just pushed aside and ignored. those payments raise questions about, yes, what giuliani s motives are, who he is exactly working for and what the