he is invincible at this moment and that anything he finds related to joe biden or marie yovanovitch could exonerate him or the president. he lives in this alternate reality now and he thinks speaking to the press will be helping him, at least be a pr effort. but at the same time he s under criminal investigation and intelligence investigation. it doesn t make a lot of sense, his strategy right now. his ties to these two ukrainian-born associates will potentially come back to bite him because one of them, lev parnas, is eager to cooperate with congress and with investigators as part of the criminal inquiry. so he has a lot of documents, text messages, video recordings, tape recordings that he is eager to share with investigators because he s not happy with how the president has distanced himself from lev parnas and distanced himself from anything having to do with ukraine.
testified he didn t get his visa because he was himself involved in known corrupt activities. not because he was coming to the u.s. to uncover. let me ask you quickly with the time we have left about rudy giuliani mental state. new york magazine also just profiled rudy and where, quote, former ambassador yovanovitch is controlled by george soros. he put all four ambassadors there, and he is employing the fbi agents. so i go back to my initial point. rudy giuliani starting to sound a little crazy? and i m not trying to joke about it. but are people around the president and others concerned when he makes these types of assertions on the record that a private american citizen controls the fbi and also
he wants to be dictated by the facts. i would hope that we would have 100 members of the united states senate that would be dictated by the facts because if they are, what they see is an overwhelming body of evidence. it s the reason why my republican colleagues in the house didn t even argue the facts. they didn t even attempt to present a defense. instead they went on these wild conspiracy theories and just threw around words like hoax or comparing it somehow to the proceeding that pontius pilot undertook years ago. they couldn t dispute what ambassador yovanovitch said, what colonel vin man said. the facts of this case are overwhelming. let us see what facts end up getting presented in the senate trial. first and foremost, when it will begin. congressman, thank you for coming in. okay. all right. thank you. happy holidays. thank you. you, too. coming up for us, on the ground in iowa. can a breakout debate moment move the needle with voters there right now?
attorney for the president, why did you need her out of the way? i forced her out because she s corrupt. howard: so was rudy giuliani confirming he forced her out? doesn t this show at least on this one point that the media were right? first off, i just want to say that that language in that news report is exactly what you hear in a lot of news reports, it s usually not done in favor of a republican. but as for what he s saying, i feel like he said stuff like this before. it definitely matches some of the testimony that we heard about his opposition to this ambassador. but really it just gets back to the main issue, does the president have the right to handle foreign policy, to have people in positions as he wants them or not. some people seem to think that the bureaucracy should be in charge of foreign policy, and that is not constitutional, and that s what this whole debate is about. howard: but, jessica, giuliani s detractors say this was a smear campaign, there s no evidence th
concer concerns. we ll begin today with the latest on the impeachment inquiry. here is what s happening now. the office of management and budget advised the pentagon to holdup aid to ukraine on the same day president trump asked ukrainian president zelensky to do us a favor, investigate the 2016 elections and former vice president joe biden and his son hunter. rudy giuliani is promoting baseless conspiracy theories, debunked storied otherwise known as lies about joe biden. and ambassador yovanovitch committing perjury. mitch mcconnell says he hopes nancy pelosi will send impeachment articles to the senate asap, he does not appear to be particular to hold an