that pains him more than mad dog mattis or rex tillerson, reince priebus, or any of the fired members of the trump administration. good afternoon, i m jeff burr h burrman. today we unsealed a indictment charging lev parnas, igor fruman and two co-defendants for all e alleged participation in schemes to violate the federal campaign finance laws by repeatedly using straw donors and foreign money. pa parnas and fruman were arrested around 6:00 p.m. last night at dulles airport as they were about to board an international flight with one-way tickets. the movie writes itself. they re ready to leave washington from dulles airport with one-way first-class planer
and they lost. and last night at dulles airport, they lost big-time. this afternoon, donald trump denied knowing lev parnas and igor fruman but propublica reported this afternoon lev parnas posted photographs of their dinner at the white house with donald trump. on facebook. it s all there. leading off our discussion tonight, chuck rosenberger, former senior fbi official, former u.s. attorney and a former counsel to robert mueller at the fbi. he now hosts the msnbc podcast, the oath. also joining us tonight, joyce vance, former u.s. attorney for the northern district of alabama and an msnbc legal analyst. and evan, former cia operative, former independent presidential candidate. he is the co-founder of standup republic. chuck rosenberg, i want to start with you and i want to start with that moment which would have been ig nosnoreignoreable
states to win the presidential election. the special agony of this for donald trump and rudy giuliani is that it turns out the prosecuor who has done the most damage in trump world was appointed by donald trump to be the u.s. attorney for the southern district of new york. which was rudy giuliani s old job. that s the job that brought rudy giuliani to fame in new york city. that s the job rudy giuliani used as his platform to run for mayor of new york city. there is no appointment that donald trump regrets more tonight than making jeffrey burman the u.s. attorney for the southern district of new york. that pains him more than mad dog mattis or rex tillerson, reince priebus, or any of the fired members of the trump administration. good afternoon, i m jeff burr burrman. today we unsealed a indictment charging lev parnas, igor fruman and two co-defendants for alleged participation in schemes to violate the federal campaign
and there is some really good news revealed in the indictment of rudy giuliani s associates. in the specific candidate elections that they criminally tried to influence with their illegal contributions, their republican candidates lost. republican congressman pete sessions lost his re-election campaign in 2018. even though he took the illegal money. in nevada they tried to win the governorship for adam laxalt and republican adam laxalt lost. they tried to win the nevada attorney general s race for republican wesley carl. wesley carl duncan. and they lost. and last night at dulles airport, they lost big-time. this afternoon, donald trump denied knowing lev parnas and igor fruman but propublica reported this afternoon lev parnas posted photographs of their dinner at the white house with donald trump.