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political rivals. viktor shokin. he never got the visa to enter the u.s. joining us to discuss is russ garber, cnn political analyst and cnn political analyst margaret tolev. let s start with you first, mark receipt, regarding the cnn exclusive reporting. how significant is it as we are learning how deeply rudy guilliani, the president s personal lawyer, was involved allegedly in digging up dirt on the democrats. yes, well, good morning. this really has been the overarching story of the week, is rudy guilliani s central involvement in basically every aspect of this channel of investigation. so the idea that this character, mr. shokin, who connects so closely to the joe biden thread here, and the idea with president trump s knowledge that guilliani was conducting these
staff to the white house, was trying to say last week. the concern though, the question is, so what is the president s personal lawyer doing in this process. why is rudy guilliani, who is not a government official, why is rudy guilliani involved in this process? that goes to the why. rudy guilliani is the president s personal lawyer, which suggests that there were some you know, potentially some personal motives going on here. were there political motives? then, you know, with this inquiry was guilliani acting on potentially behalf of his other clients or even foreign government officials? those are the real questions that i think are sort of swirling around right now. you know, mark receipt, the energy department is now saying refusing to comply with a house committee subpoena, but just the last few days we have been hearing from top trump officials, former trump administration officials, really painting a pretty damning