The Election Year . And hawaiis governor says more than 1,000 people are still potentially missing as fema is acknowledging challenges with the Relief Efforts there, well get an update from a top official and a new look at the harrowing scenes on the ground. Im kaitlan collins. This is the source. We begin with exclusive new reporting on the hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal fees that Rudy Giuliani is now staring down and the desperate attempts he has made to get former President Trump to cover them. With his attorney in tow, im told that Rudy Giuliani traveled to maralago in late april on a mission to make a personal appeal to trump to pay his legal bills. By going in person, giuliani and that lawyer, Robert Costello believed they could help explain face to it is if a why trump needled to assist his attorney with those ballooning legal bills. They argued that really, it was in trumps best interests to do so. But apparently, it fell on deaf ears. Trump is notoriously strict abo
trump s tenure in the run up to january 6th, particularly a meeting that occurred on december 18th, 2020, roughly six weeks after election and a few weeks below before january 6th in the oval office between donald trump and his most conspiracy obsessed outside advisers lawyers. it was just one of trump s last-ditch efforts to cling to power and overturn the election. on friday, december 18th, this team of outside advisers paid him a surprise visit in the white house that would quickly become the stuff of legend. the meeting has been called unhinged, not normal, in the craziest meeting of the trump presidency. they brought to the white house a draft executive order that they re prepared for president trump to further his ends, specifically they propose the immediate mask seizure of state election machines by the u.s. military. take a second to think about how that would ve gone over. the immediate massacre of u.s. voting machines by the military. what would that mean? what
interviews about the meeting. some witnesses were asked about the meeting months ago, while several others have faced questions about it more recently, including rudy giuliani. in june, giuliani sat down with investigators over two days and provide testimony under what is called a proffer agreement. that means prosecutors agree not to use anything you say in a criminal proceeding against two as they consider whether to extend immunity in exchange for testimony. but it is news the doj is finally looking into that crazy unhinged meeting over two and a half years after we first learned of it happening. and nearly one year to the day since the jarry six committee held a hearing about it. since then, the committee issued over 800-page report along with over 2000 pages of transcribed depositions. you read them online. i often do. they re fascinating. they held ten televised hearings where they laid out the evidence against donald trump and his drop advisors. they went on to issue or criminal
he said he wouldn t comment specifically but they did say that negotiations between president trump s attorneys there is time to discuss that muell mueller may have for president trump. thank you. giuliani sat down with abc this morning. in that interview he argued that there was nothing illegal about the $130,000 hush money payment to clifford. paying $130,000 is not a crime. the edwards case determines that she was paid 1 million to be a no-show. if there s a personal purpose. think about this. suppose he tried to use campaign funds to try to pay off stormy