Serving as former president trump s president and persuaded the client then president to do and that s to fire the u. S. Ambassador to ukraine marie yovanovitch. Obviously the assistant u. S. Attorneys hate me and trump which is probably which is probably the whole thing. To believe that i m a russian agent? look at my career. Look at my background and my career. Cnn s alex marquartd has the details. Reporter: the agents swooped in raiding the office and home of rudy giuliani they were reportedly trying to zero in on the role he played of ousting the ambassador yovanovitch. A search warrant stated seeking evidence related to the ouster. Fbi agents seized giuliani s devices to investigate communication he had with ukrainians about the effort. That warrant is completely illegal. Reporter: on fox news he denied he was acting on behalf of ukrainians and blasted the search. There is no justification for a warrant. It is an illegal warrant. One of this in that department of injustice tragedy
the country, including a former president, was the subject of a hearing today in a federal courthouse in washington, d.c. attorneys for donald trump and federal prosecutors argued over trump s claim that the federal election case against him should be dismissed because everything he did in the postelection period was in his official capacity as president. the three-judge panel that is hearing the case appeared spectacle of that claim. the ex-president and jack smith were in the courtroom today. trump has been claiming that president joe biden has been forcing him to appear in court, which is not true, he did have no obligation to appear at today s hearing. trump s attorney argued that allowing the prosecution of donald trump would, quote, open a pandora s box, but the judge has pushed back on that and many of the arguments he was making. trump s lawyer also argued that the president could only be prosecuted if he was impeached and convicted by the senate first, no matter what
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