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jim sciutto, what could i be missing, the day after the whistle-blower report that he s mentioned in, the special envoy to ukraine resigns? he s meant to be america s primary official dealing with ukraine affairs. in fact, we saw from the president s use of his own personal lawyer, rudy giuliani, that from the president s perspective, it appears he was using someone else outside of government. that s a key point. jim baker pick up on that. help us with the legalities. we saw the text from volcker to rudy giuliani. did rudy giuliani have to register as a foreign agent? when is it okay, if ever, for a private citizen to work with the state department this way? what are the legalities involved? well, so it s a bit tricky. let back up. generally speaking under the constitution the president does have authority to select what envoys or emissaries that he wants to engage with or have
with all of her best friends. dr. scholl s. born to move. look, we re all know the basic axiom, if you have nothing to worry about, you are don t hide. so why are we learning about things being hidden? among the many questions being raised tonight as we learn about the white house s efforts to limit access to president trump s calls with a lot of people, not just the ukraine
impeachment inquiry. but, you know, we re doing a methodical process now. i m really glad to see that a number of the committee members are staying behind. they ve been asked to stay behind here in washington to follow through with some of the instead of recess. yeah, instead of recess. because it shows a different process. i think that one of the things that we ve been losing, you know, in the past couple of months on this is we re not bringing the american people along with the story. you know, the drip, drip, drip of information on this thing or that thing, it s all it s important but we got to be able to bring people along so it not a washington insider baseball story. you guys have a challenge because you re telling a new story now. i get that this is new information about ukraine, but for months democrats were saying we already have enough, this is already obstruction and we re fighting with ourselves to figure out what to call it but we already have enough. now you don
prosecutions, but that s where it ends. the why and the how could not be more different. here, biden acted publicly at the direction of the president as part of an international effort to assist ukraine in removing a rogue prosecutor. trump acted in secret without even the backing of congress, in fact, to opposite effect of congress, encouraging ukraine to take action that would help him and hurt a political rival. now, what about hunter biden, biden s son? he was on the board of burisma. are there ethical questions to be asked ? yes. are there standards we could pursue? yes. but when you sit on the board of a ukrainian natural gas company whose owner is under investigation, you ve got to look at the legalities. first ukraine was looking at it before biden was on the board.