Giuliani to manufacture dirt on the president s political opponents and arrested trying to flee the country. Maybe ill ask rudy to say a few words. Tonight what we know about the two men. Is Rudy Giuliani now under investigation . And what did the president know and when did he know it . What conversations have you head with lev parnas and igor fruman . I dont know those gentlemen. You were in pictures with them. And Hillary Clintons Campaign Manager john podesta what he makes the push to impeach trump. And as republicans stews over defecks the new call from conservative lawyers who say a speedy Impeachment Inquiry is necessary. When all in starts right now. Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. The first arrests of the impeachment era happened today and washington, d. C. Airport attempting to leave the country with one way tickets get this only hours after they lunched with their Business Associate and lawyer Rudy Giuliani. Let me take a minute to explain these two suspects who
i understand the gravity where full responsibility lies with garland or weiss is for congress and ultimately the public to decide. when i decided after october 7 to come forward and began researching whistle-blower attorneys, i wanted to abide by the law as i navigated the complex statutes. i carefully followed the whistle-blower process to the letter with the advice of counsel at every step. i am fortunate to be represented by the federal prosecutor for 25 years including five years with the department of justice tax division. also grateful for the nonprofit whistle-blower group whose president was previously nominated by president biden to the protection board and unanimously confirmed by the united states senate. while some have tried to paint me with a partisan brush because they employ some former staffers to g.o.p. their expertise developed working for the
whistle-blowers who claim hunter biden got special treatment? he is not a whistle-blower at all under normal definitions. he is somebody who came forward with what he says was information and somebody who the u.s. has alleged serious crimes against. some of the charges carry up to 20 years in prison. the two individuals from the irs separate. those individuals worked on the hunter biden case. it s not clear they have gone through the formal whistle-blower process. but they have raised concerns about the investigation. they have done so to congress under oath, their word. this is separate when you look at the individuals who have come forward here. tom winter, thank you so very much. happening in iowa, lawmakers are holding a special session in the republican controlled legislature on a bill that would ban most abortions after six weeks, which is before most women know they are pregnant. shaq brewster joins us from des moines. what are the details of the bill?
rather than going through the traditional whistle-blower process which would have led me to the inspector general s office at dhs. and i ll just say that. there s a level of trust there that you understand. the other part of it is i ve got to tell you, being a trump admin person, most of the administration communicated on encrypted signal apps. a lot of the time these messages were likely disappearing. i mean, i don t know. it s a little bit suspect. you can either turn in your government phone. was there an encrypted app? was it on the personal phone. in any way, it seems the messages are gone either way. phil mudd, you worked in deposit, cia, fbi. these are agencies charged with fighting cyber crime. also for the secret service arguably the most stressful day for the service since the reagan assassination. there was a genuine threat to the president, to the capitol.
promise and was it going to be close to what u.s. national security interests were? and then the chain of events that happens afterwards was also striking to me. and there is no whistleblower process in the white house. there s nothing to be done. they go to the lawyer for the nse, the national security council. who is that individual and what does he do with it? so the lawyer for the national security council is someone named john isenberg, he s been there since the beginning of the administration and he is a veteran attorney but there is no equivalent of an inspector general at the white house. there is some confusion among people where are we supposed to go with this, and i think that s partly what accounts for some of these people turping outside the walls of the white house and turning to this cia officer who then collects all this material for a whistleblower complaint.