perspective, michael isikoff is the co-author of russian roulette, the inside story of putin s war on america and the election of donald trump. elie honig here as well. elie, i want to start with you. we have seen this pattern before. trump won t say if giuliani is still his personal attorney and whether he ll be indicted, but trump had this to say. watch this. are you concerned that rudy giuliani could be indicted in all of this? well, i hope not. again, i don t know how he knows these people. they re his clients. what? they re his clients. okay. well, then they re clients. i mean he s got a lot of clients. so i just don t know. i haven t spoken to rudy about it. now, here s what he said about michael cohen last year. how much michael is somebody mr. president, how much of your legal work was handled by michael cohen? well, as a percentage of my overall legal work, a tiny, tiny little fraction. but michael would represent me and represent me on some things.
coming fast and furious tonight in the impeachment inquiry including a cnn exclusive. news that president trump urged china s president in a june phone call to investigate joe biden and his son. let s bring in now vivian solana, the white house reporter for the wall street journal and also michael isikoff, chief investigative correspondent for yahoo news who s also the author of russian roulette: the inside story of putin s war on america and the election of donald trump. lots to get to. good evening to both of you. appreciate you joining. michael, first cnn s reporting that the president raised biden in his june phone call with xi jinping. is this why he urged china to investigate the bidens today? great reporting but i want to see the transcript. just as we saw this transcript of the phone call with zelensky. you know, to fully evaluate this, you need to see exactly what was said. the president publicly said this today at the white house, that china should investigate. it s har
china s president in a june phone call to investigate joe biden and his son. let s bring in now vivian solana, the white house reporter for the wall street journal and also michael isikoff, chief investigative correspondent for yahoo news who s also the author of russian roulette: the inside story of putin s war on america and the election of donald trump. lots to get to. good evening to both of you. michael, first cnn s reporting that the president raised carbide ebide nen his june phone call with xi jinping. is this why he urged china to investigate the bidens today? great reporting but i want to see the transcript. as the transcript of the phone call with zelensky. to fully evaluate it you need to see exactly what was said. the president publicly said this today at the white house, that china should investigate. it s hard to imagine so do you need to really see a transcript is going to be worse than
russian roulette: the inside story of putin s war on america and the election of donald trump. max boot is here as well. max is the author of the corrosion of conservatism: why i left the right . gentlemen, good to see all of you. thank you so much for joining us. john, i m going to start with you. rudy giuliani has been subpoenaed by congress to produce documents. he says he s giving it appropriate consideration. do you think he s going to comply? how do you expect this to play out? i think he ll follow trump s wishes, and i think they d probably like his telephone for openers, which he won t he ll probably not give that up. but he may give some of the text messages that he s been flashing around on television, and who knows what other documents he has. he seems to not be the kind of attorney who writes lengthy memoranda to his client but rather communicates with him through fox news.
the impeachment investigation after admitting to asking ukraine to help him dig up dirt on trump s political rivals. joining me now is john dean, michael isikoff. michael is the author of russian roulette: the inside story of putin s war on america and the election of donald trump. max boot is here as well. max is the author of the corrosion of conservatism: why i left the right . gentlemen, good to see all of you. thank you so much for joining us. john, i m going to start with you. rudy giuliani has been subpoenaed by congress to produce documents. he says he s giving it appropriate consideration. do you think he s going to comply? how do you expect this to play out? i think he ll follow trump s wishes, and i think they probably like his telephone for openers, which he won t he ll probably not give that up, but he may give some of the text messages that he s been flashing around on television. and who know what s other documents he has. he seems to not be the kind of