two things out of that. number one, you get his view that he says it doesn t matter. a lot of people disagree with that including federal law. you get a second thing out of that which is the obvious lack of any denial. there is a lot we don t know about this whistleblower complaint. we have been emphasizing that throughout the week. we don t have it in our newsroom, congress doesn t have it. one way to clear up would be to follow the law and give congress the required information about the whistleblower information. they won t which is itself a tell. you have rudy giuliani reemerging and all you can say when you run out of words is well it was classic rudy. did you ask the ukraine to investigate joe biden? no. i didn t. i asked the ukraine to investigate the allegation there was interference in the election of 2016 by the ukrainians for the benefit of hillary clinton for which there rr is you never asked anything
his criminal defense lawyer, rudy giuliani. that s the president demanding a foreign leader help him with his re-election. that s textbook collusion. the new reporting provides new context to a donald trump admission that now may look a little different. it may have been advanced damage control because this all happened within weeks of trump declaring he would take foreign dirt in 2020. i think you might want to listen. there s nothing wrong with listening. if somebody called from a country, norway, we have information on your opponent. oh, i think i d want to hear it. you d want that kind of interference in our election? it s not interference. the administration has gone to great lengths to hide a still basically mysterious whistleblower complaint. they have blown through the deadlines in federal law and another out justice of the peace let has
the way that the russia probe unfolded. why tee things up for a potential ukraine probe? i think they will do whatever it takes to win. just looking at what is at stake here. we talked about the president s potential legal jeopardy as it relates to the southern district of new york and potential charges that come if he levers office. he has to win. if he loses his freedom might be on the line. i think what we re doing to see you re saying he has the mind set of a criminal trying to avoid the next cop. i m not saying he s a criminal. i m saying if he thinks there s charging to come and he can run out the clock beyond the statute of limitations that sowunds like a criminal. i m not saying that. you re saying his mind set is i have to do this so i don t end up in jail? potentially or have to go through that with fighting these cha charges. he said in the oval office he would accept information from a
he s done. the structural problems, they re the structural features in our government means the fact a majority of the country wants him gone isn t enough to get rid of him and not enough to ensure he s not re-elected. that said, i think there s a combination of secretiveness and they refuse to release all kinds of information and part of that might be fear but part of that is imperiousness. they don t think they should have to release any sort of information. you see this combination of you see the secretiveness but there s a part that s all out in the open. it s not been a secret that rudy giuliani has been in the ukraine urging this investigation into what are completely bogus and debunk charges. i think that needs to be emphasized about joe biden s son or the investigation of joe biden s son. they kind of flouted and they do it in the open as if to say it can t be that wrong if we re doing it in the open. it can t be that wrong if i shot someone on fifth avenue. one of the things
legal term of art, conspiracy. donald trump s own appointed inspector general calls this an urgent concern and differs with the intel chief who has been with holding it from congress. a decision he came to as this unfolded with guidance from bill barr s justice department. there s a letter to the intel committee that says there s a respectful disagreement because the matter deals with dni s significant and important responsibilities and the acting intelligence chief has to with hold information and that may be about a gap in the law. some legal experts say that the person in charge of the intel agency is actually breaking the law by withholie inwithholding information. we turn to all things legal on this story, john flannery. good to have you on tonight. it s good to be here. there s a chapter unto itself