IMPEACHMENT BUT UNCOVERS WHAT MAY BE ONE OF THE GREATEST COVER
UPS OF OUR TIME.
>> GREATEST COVER UPS OF OUR
TIME.
TIME. WHAT IS THE REAL COVER UP IN THE
UKRAINE SCANDAL?
UKRAINE SCANDAL? THE ANSWER IS ACTUALLY
IMPORTANT.
IMPORTANT. IT COULD IMPACT DONALD TRUMP’S
IMPEACHMENT TRIAL, AND IT’S
WHERE OUR SPECIAL REPORT BEGINS
RIGHT NOW.
RIGHT NOW. WHAT YOU’RE LOOKING AT HERE IS
THE ULTIMATE IN IMPEACHMENT
COUNTER PROGRAMMING FROM THE
CONSERVATIVE OUTLET, "ONE
NOW, OAN PRESIDENT CHARLES HERRING SAYS WHAT THEY DO IS
QUOTE HARD NEWS, FAST PACED, NO
FLUFF, NO OPINION, AND FOR THIS
REPORT TONIGHT, WE REACHED OUT
TO BOTH OAN AND RUDY GIULIANI
FOR COMMENT.
FOR COMMENT. GIULIANI DID NOT PROVIDE PUBLIC
COMMENT BUT OAN HAS TOLD US,
THIS IS IN A NEW STATEMENT THAT
THEY FEATURED A NUMBER OF
GUESTS, INCLUDING GIULIANI AS IS
TYPICAL ON THE UKRAINE TRIP THEY
PAID FOR HIS TRAVEL.
I SHOULD ALSO NOTE THAT THE OAN
NETWORK IS SUING MSNBC OVER A
COMMENT MADE ON OUR AIR ABOUT
THEM.
THEM. NOW, HERRING ALSO HAS TOLD
POLITICO THAT SOME MEDIA OUTLETS
WON’T ACKNOWLEDGE FACTS, WON’T
DO THEIR TIME CONSUMING
INVESTIGATIVE WORK IF THE FACTS
DON’T FIT THEIR NARRATIVE, AND
HE ALSO SAID THEY LEAN TO THE
RIGHT NO DOUBT ABOUT IT.
WHEN THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION
WAS CRACKING DOWN ON FREE SPEECH
BY EXPELLING ATHE WHITE HOUSE WH
GOVERNMENT PROPERTY, CONSIDER
THIS INTERESTING STORY, MEDIA
OUTLETS UNITED IN A JOINT SUIT
IN COURT AGAINST DONALD TRUMP,
AND IT INCLUDED FOX NEWS.
THAT CASE WAS PRETTY
STRAIGHTFORWARD, SO MUCH SO THAT
THE JOURNALIST IN THERE
ESSENTIALLY WON AND WAS RETURNED
ACCESS TO THE WHITE HOUSE, BUT
WHILE MEDIA OUTLETS AND FOX WERE
BASICALLY OVER HERE UNITED IN
SAYING, HEY, THERE ARE SOME
LINES THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION
CAN’T CROSS, OAN SIDED WITH THE
TRUMP EFFORT TO CRACK DOWN ON
REPORTER’S ACCESS, AN UNUSUAL
POSITION FOR A MEDIA OUTLET.
ARGUE SOME SEGMENTS DO GO BEYOND
COVERING CERTAIN POLITICAL
AGENDAS TO LOOKING LIKE THEY MAY
ENDORSE THEM.
ENDORSE THEM. >> ONE AMERICAN NEWS LOOKS AT
THESE ATTACKS, WHAT WE KNOW, AND
WHAT WE DON’T KNOW, IN OUR
SPECIAL REPORT, THE TRAIL AT
BENGHAZI, THE COST OF HILLARY
CLINTON’S DERELICTION.
CLINTON’S DERELICTION. >> AT WAR WITH YOUR GOVERNMENT.
>> THEY’RE BRAINWASHED
COMMUNISTS TRYING TO KILL
PEOPLE.
PEOPLE. >> THE DEMOCRATS HAVE NOTHING TO
RUN ON, SO THEY RESORTED TO
RACIST AND SOOEN.
>> AND QUOTE, RIFE WITH THE
CONSPIRACY THEORIES THAT
CIRCULATED WIDELY IN TRUMP LAND.
SO IT’S NOTICEABLE WHEN OAN
BROADCASTS A SPECIAL FEATURING
THE PRESIDENT’S LAWYER GOING
BACK TO UKRAINE.
POLITICO REPORTED ON THIS BIG
GIULIANI SPECIAL NOTING THAT OAN
IS TRYING TO OUT FOX FOX, AND
THAT IT CHALLENGES JOURNALISTIC
ETHICS FOR OAN TO GIVE GIULIANI
A DIRECT ROLE IN PREPARING ITS
UKRAINE REPORT.
UKRAINE REPORT. BUT THIS REALLY MATTERS.
MILLIONS OF VIEWERS IN AMERICA
MAY THINK, WELL, IF IT LOOKS
LIKE NEWS, IF IT ACTS LIKE NEWS,
IT MUST BE SOMEWHAT CREDIBLE
NEWS, AND THIS IS IN A WORLD OF
FAKE ARTICLES ONLINE THAT ARE
DESIGNED TO MAKE YOU THINK
THEY’RE REAL, AND LYING
PRESIDENTIAL TWEETS AND NOW EVEN
THESE DEEP FAKE VIDEOS.
NOW, THERE’S NOTHING UNUSUAL
ABOUT THE PRESIDENT’S LAWYER
GOING OUT TO MAKE HIS CASE.
WE HAVE HAD PRESIDENT TRUMP’S
LAWYER ON THIS VERY SHOW.
THE FACTUAL ISSUE IS HOW IT IS
DONE, WITH GIULIANI AND OAN
PARTICIPATING IN WHAT ARE JOINT
INTERVIEWS AND SOMETHING YOU
DON’T USUALLY SEE IN A LOT OF
THIS COVERAGE.
THIS COVERAGE. WITH ALL OF THIS IN MIND, TAKE A
LOOK AT WHAT THE OAN SPECIAL
COMPRISES.
COMPRISES. >> WE WADED THROUGH A DARK AND
MIRKY, OF DEMOCRATIC COLLUSIONS
AND NE FLAGSTAFFFARIOUS CHARGES
GIULIANI.
GIULIANI. IN THIS NEXT ACT IN THE
DEMOCRATS IMPEACHMENT FAIRY
TAIL, THEY NEEDED A VILLAIN, A
DAMSEL, AND A PRINCE.
MULTIPLE UKRAINIAN SOURCES SAY
YOVANOVITCH’S EMBASSY WAS DUBBED
THE CLINTON CAMPAIGN
HEADQUARTERS.
HEADQUARTERS. >> THIS IS EVIDENCE.
I’M HAPPY I HAVE THIS DOCUMENT.
HOW I COULD EXPLAIN TO AMERICAN
PUBLIC THAT I AM RIGHT.
>> WHO CONTROLS NABU?
>> THE U.S. EMBASSY.
>> THE U.S. EMBASSY CONTROLS
YOUR LAW ENFORCEMENT BUREAU?
>> NOW, AS THIS SPECIAL
CONTINUES, GIULIANI APPEARS IN
DISCUSSIONS THAT COULD LOOK LIKE
INTERVIEWS, AND HE MAKES SOME
CLAIMS THAT HAVE ACTUALLY
ALREADY BEEN CONTRADICTED BY HIS
CLIENT DONALD TRUMP.
GIULIANI SAYS THAT UKRAINE, THE
WHOLE ISSUE THAT THEY WERE
PURSUING BASICALLY FELL IN HIS
LAP AS A MATTER OF PUBLIC
INTEREST.
INTEREST. TRUMP HAS PUBLICLY CONFIRMED HE
ASKED GIULIANI TO WORK ON IT.
>> THE NARRATIVE RIGHT NOW IS
THAT YOU LOOKED INTO UKRAINE
BECAUSE BIDEN WAS RUNNING FOR
PRESIDENT.
PRESIDENT. >> A COMPLETE LIE.
I LOOKED INTO UKRAINE BECAUSE IT
WAS THROWN AT ME, PUT IN MY LAP.
>> OAN SPECIAL ALSO INCLUDES
UKRAINIAN OFFICIALS THAT BACK UP
GIULIANI’S VIEW THAT THE PUSH
FOR SOME OF THOSE
INVESTIGATIONS, WHICH ARE AT THE
HEART OF THE IMPEACHMENT PROBE
WAS A JUST CAUSE.
GIULIANI ALSO ROLLS OUT A CLAIM
THAT SENATORS MIGHT REALLY WANT
TO LEARN ABOUT AT THIS COMING
TRUMP IMPEACHMENT TRIAL,
GIULIANI SAYING HE WANTED TO
DEFEND TRUMP IN THE MUELLER
PROBE BY PROVING QUOTE SOMEBODY
ELSE COMMITTED THE CRIME.
>> IN UKRAINE, MANY PEOPLE
BELIEVE THAT THE REQUEST FOR THE
INVESTIGATION WAS JUST A REQUEST
FOR JUSTICE.
FOR JUSTICE. >> THAT’S THE INVESTIGATION I
BEGAN IN NOVEMBER OF 2018.
AT THAT TIME, HE WAS IN THE
MIDDLE OF THE MUELLER
INVESTIGATION.
INVESTIGATION. THE PRESIDENT WAS.
>> AND YOU WERE HIS PERSONAL
LAWYER.
LAWYER. >> AND AS HIS DEFENSE ATTORNEY,
THIS IS LIKE GOLD.
ALL OF A SUDDEN, I CAN PROVE
SOMEBODY ELSE COMMITTED THE
CRIME.
CRIME. AND THAT’S WHY I STARTED IT.
AND THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED
STATES, I CAN TELL YOU THIS, IS
ASKING FOR THIS.
>> AMAZING.
>> AMAZING. JUST LET ME JUST SAY EXACTLY WHY
I THINK THAT’S AMAZING.
IN THIS FORMAT THAT GIULIANI MAY
HAVE EXTRA CONTROL OVER, HE
STILL IS MAKING MISATTACKSTAKES
HURT HIS CLIENT TRUMP.
HE JUST REVEALED DIRECTIONS FROM
HIS CLIENT THAT COULD OTHERWISE
BE PROTECTED UNDER ATTORNEY
CLIENT PRIVILEGE.
CLIENT PRIVILEGE. SECOND, HE’S SUGGESTING A CRIME
OCCURRED THAT HE COULD PUT UNDER
SOMEONE ELSE, ANYONE COULD SAY
WHAT CRIME FROM THE MUELLER
PROBE, IS IT CHARGED, AND THIRD,
HE OUTS TRUMP AS ASKING FOR THIS
ON THE PROGRAM.
DONALD TRUMP DENIED ASKING OR
DIRECTING GIULIANI TO DO THIS ON
AN INTERVIEW ON BILL O’REILLY’S
PODCAST.
PODCAST. >> DID YOU DIRECT HIM TO GO TO
UKRAINE AND DO ANYTHING?
>> NO, I DIDN’T DIRECT HIM, BUT
HE’S A WARRIOR, RUDY’S A
WARRIOR.
WARRIOR. >> IF YOU BELIEVE GIULIANI,
TRUMP’S LYING RIGHT THERE.
IF YOU BELIEVE TRUMP, GIULIANI
WAS LYING.
WAS LYING. EITHER WAY, SOMEBODY IS FIBBING
ABOUT ONE OF THE GREATEST
SCANDALS OF THIS ERA, THE CAUSE
OF THE IMPEACHMENT OF THE FIRST
ELECTED FIRST-TERM PRESIDENT IN
AMERICAN HISTORY.
AMERICAN HISTORY. AS THE SENATE PREPARES TO HOLD
TRUMP ON TRIAL FOR ALL OF THIS
AMONG OTHER ISSUES IN UKRAINE,
IT IS KEY TO UNDERSTANDING THE
PRESIDENT EAT POTENTIAL DEFENSE,
AND OAN, VIEWERS ARE QUITE
FAMILIAR WITH THIS 2018 VIDEO
SHOWING JOE BIDEN DETAILING HOW
THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION
PRESSURED UKRAINE TO REMOVE A
PROSECUTOR AS A U.S. PRIORITY.
NOW, GIULIANI VIEWS THIS AS A
QUOTE CONFESSION TO ONE OF THE
THINGS THAT TRUMP HAS STOOD
ACCUSED OF, SEEKING A BRIBE.
>> JANUARY 2018 CONFESSION OF
JOE BIDEN IN WHICH JOE BIDEN
LAID OUT IN ABOUT 2 1/2 MINUTES,
A TOTAL DEFINITION, AND A TOTAL
CONFESSION TO THE CRIME OF
BRIBERY.
BRIBERY. I DON’T THINK I HAVE SEEN AS
TIGHT, AND CONCISE AND CLEAR A
CONFESSION, WORSE THAN THAT, I
SAW A CONFESSION WITH PROOF OF
GUILTY KNOWLEDGE.
GUILTY KNOWLEDGE. >> PROOF.
>> PROOF. WELL, GIULIANI SAW A CONFESSION
OF BIDEN SEEKING A PERSONAL
BENEFIT, BLOOMBERG JOURNALISTS
REPORTED ACTUALLY, THE REQUEST
WAS A BROADER OBAMA
ADMINISTRATION POLICY EMANATING
FROM U.S. DIPLOMATS, NOT HATCHED
BY BIDEN, WHILE OTHER REPORTS
FACT CHECKED THE CLAIM THAT THE
COMPANY LINKED TO HUNTER BIDEN
WAS UNDER INVESTIGATION AT THE
TIME WHICH GIVES CONTEXT TO
BIDEN’S STORY.
BIDEN’S STORY. >> I SAID I’M TELLING YOU,
YOU’RE NOT GETTING A BILLION
DOLLARS.
DOLLARS. I SAID YOU’RE NOT GET A BILLION.
I’M GOING TO BE LEAVING HERE,
AND IT WAS WHAT, SIX HOURS, I’M
LEAVING IN SIX HOURS, IF THE
PROSECUTOR IS NOT FIRED, YOU’RE
NOT GETTING THE MONEY.
WELL, SON OF A
[ BLEEP ]
[ BLEEP ] GOT FIRED AND PUT IN PLACE
SOMEONE WHO WAS SOLID AT THE
TIME.
TIME. >> NOW, DEPENDING ON WHAT YOU
KNOW AND WHAT YOU BRING TO THIS
AND HOW IT’S PRESENTED, PEOPLE
MIGHT SEE SOMETHING DIFFERENT
WHEN THAT BIDEN TAPE PLAYS,
PREPARE TO SEE THAT TAPE A LOT
MORE, BY THE WAY.
IT IS WORTH NOTING THAT OTHER
PARTS OF GIULIANI’S UKRAINE TRIP
DON’T SEEM TO AMOUNT TO MUCH.
AT ONE POINT, TALKS UP THE IDEA
AND GIULIANI IS ENDING THE
UKRAINIAN ABSENCE TO MEET IN
PERSON, WITH ANOTHER UKRAINIAN
CAUGHT UP ON THE TRIP, AND IT’S
NOT CLEAR WHAT EVERYONE IS
SUPPOSED TO GLEAN FROM THE
ADVERTISED REUNION.
ADVERTISED REUNION. >> NOW, THE PROSPECT OF MEETING
SHOKIN, AND WITNESSES
FACE-TO-FACE, WE LANDED IN KIEV
AND AMERICA’S MAYOR STEPPED FOOT
IN UKRAINE FOR THE FIRST TIME IN
TWO YEARS.
TWO YEARS. >> WE KNOW FROM THIS PHOTO, THE
ANCHOR POSTED ONLINE, THIS
SEEMED TO GO DOWN IN UKRAINE ON
DECEMBER 5th, WHICH AMAZINGLY IS
THE VERY DAY DONALD TRUMP’S
UKRAINE PLOT FORMALLY BOOM RANG
ON HIM, WITH EVERYTHING GIULIANI
WAS DOING, TURNING INTO A FORMAL
MARCH TOWARDS IMPEACHMENT.
>> THE FACTS OF THE UKRAINE
SITUATION JUST CHANGED
EVERYTHING.
EVERYTHING. UKRAINE WAS THE VEHICLE OF THE
PRESIDENT’S ACTION.
PRESIDENT’S ACTION. SADLY, BUT WITH CONFIDENCE AND
HUMILITY, WITH ALLEGIANCE TO OUR
FOUNDERS, AND A HEART FULL OF
LOVE FOR AMERICA, TODAY I AM
ASKING OUR CHAIRMAN TO PROCEED
WITH ARTICLES OF IMPEACHMENT.
>> AND THAT’S WHERE THIS STORY
GETS MUCH BROADER THAT WHICH
PARTICULAR MEDIA OUTLET RUDY
GIULIANI IS TALKING TO AND
WHETHER HE’S IN UKRAINE TO MAKE
TV SPECIALS OR MAKE MONEY OR
MAKE, I DON’T KNOW, STRATEGIC
CONTRIBUTIONS TO DONALD TRUMP’S
REELECTION.
REELECTION. BECAUSE ONE THING THAT PEOPLE
WHO SUPPORT AND OPPOSE
IMPEACHMENT CAN ALL SEE IS RUDY
GIULIANI’S PLOT TO HURT BIDEN
BACKFIRED AND HURT TRUMP.
HIS CLIENT.
HIS CLIENT. AND THIS IS REALLY AN ANCIENT
STORY LINE, A SEEMINGLY
INTRICATE PLOT BACKFIRES ON ITS
OWN MASTER MIND.
SO ANCIENT, IT’S A VERSE IN
PROVERBS, AND YOU MIGHT ALSO
REMEMBER IT FROM BOB MARLEY’S
VERSION, WHOSOEVER DIG A PIT
SHALL FALL IN IT.
AND MAYBE THAT’S WHY EVEN SOME
OF TRUMP’S MOST HARD CORE
DEFENDERS HAVE BECOME WORRIED
GIULIANI COULD FALL IN HIS OWN
PIT.
PIT. >> I THINK IT’S A LITTLE WEIRD
THAT RUDY GIULIANI IS OVER IN
THE UKRAINE RIGHT NOW, AND I’M
NOT HERE TO DEFEND RUDY
GIULIANI.
GIULIANI. YOU KNOW, THERE’S APPARENTLY AN
INVESTIGATION GOING ON.
>> IF YOU’RE GOING TO GO ON
NATIONAL TELEVISION AND TELL THE
COUNTRY THAT YOU FOUND EVIDENCE
OF A COVER UP, THEN I HOPE YOU
KNOW WHAT YOU’RE TALKING ABOUT.
IT’S JUST NOT GOOD FOR THE
COUNTRY TO MAKE THESE
ACCUSATIONS ON CABLE TELEVISION
WITHOUT THEM BEING TESTED.
>> SO IF LINDSEY GRAHAM, A WELL
KNOWN TRUMP DEFENDER, WHO IS ONE
OF THE SENATORS THAT WILL
DETERMINE THE PRESIDENT’S FATE
IN THIS IMPEACHMENT TRIAL IS
DOUBTING GIULIANI’S APPROACH OF
ACCUSATIONS ON TV WITHOUT
TESTING THEM AS HE PUT IT, THEN
EVEN LOOKING PAST THE SENATE
TRIAL, SENATOR GRAHAM CHAIRS A
POWERFUL COMMITTEE, HE HAS
SUBPOENA POWER, HE HAS PUT SOME
HEAT ON GIULIANI BY SUGGESTING
HE’S INVITED TO PUT UP OR GO
AWAY.
AWAY. >> I’M GOING TO HAVE AN OPEN
INVITATION TO RUDY GIULIANI TO
COME TO THE SENATE JUDICIARY
COMMITTEE AND TELL US WHAT YOU
FOUND, AND IF HE COMES, YOU GOT
TO BE WILLING TO ASK QUESTIONS
ABOUT YOUR CONDUCT.
>> HIS CONDUCT.
QUESTIONS WOULD SURELY BE ASKED
IN THAT FORM, AND HOW WILL THEY
BE ANSWERED?
BE ANSWERED? WELL, SOMETIMES WHOSOEVER DIG A
PIT KEEPS ON DIGGING.
>> I WOULD TESTIFY.
I WOULD DO DEMONSTRATIONS.
I’D GIVE LECTURES, I’D GIVE
SUMMATIONS.
SUMMATIONS. >> HEY, JERKS, IT MEANS THE SAME
THING.
THING. >> WE HAVE THE TRANSCRIPT OF THE
CALL.
CALL. >> THESE ARE THE ELEMENTS OF THE
CRIME OF BRIBERY.
>> WHY AM I DOING IT, LAURA,
CAN’T YOU FIGURE IT OUT, I’M HIS
DEFENSE LAWYER.
DEFENSE LAWYER. >> UKRAINIAN COLLUSION.