-Rudy Giuliani has emerged as an extraordinary figure,
at this point in the Trump era.
-I'm not spinning a damn thing. -Okay.
-I'm telling ya the truth!
-He's a longtime friend and associate of Donald Trump's.
Both of them were iconic figures in New York City
before either of them went into politics.
-I wanna give a very special thanks to our former mayor
Rudy Giuliani.
-We are currently seeing Rudy Giuliani emerge in a role
unlike any we've seen before in American history.
-Shut up, moron!
Shut up. Shut up.
You don't know what you're talkin' about.
-He is a lawyer, a personal lawyer,
for the president of the United States,
who is volunteering his services to the president
while continuing to be under contract with other clients,
including clients oversees, some of whom are involved
or engaged in the very same political issues that are
now haunting the president in this impeachment drama.
-Rudy is a great crime fighter, corruption fighter,
probably the best in 50 years.
-Rudy Giuliani made a name for himself
prosecuting organized crime,
particularly the Italian mob in New York.
-New York has five organized crime families.
It's had five organized crime families
since the turn of the century.
-He was aggressive. He was a showman.
-Donald Trump noticed this young prosecutor
and the prosecutor knew Donald Trump.
Giuliani seeks to become mayor of New York.
He loses his first bid,
but then, he is ultimately successful
and he develops a good relationship
with one of the leading developers in his city:
Donald Trump.
-Maybe you could show me what you think of this scent.
-They get along.
They both rattle cages.
The style of Rudy Giuliani:
something of a swashbuckling mayor
who was continuing his reputation
for being tough on crime.
He wanted to clean up New York City.
-This just in: You're looking at, obviously,
a very disturbing live shot there.
That is the World Trade Center and we have unconfirmed reports
that a plane has crashed
into one of the towers of the World Trade Center.
-Rudy Giuliani was mayor when New York City is under attack.
The Twin Towers of the World Trade Center come down.
New York is in a state of panic.
The eyes of the world are on New York City.
And one of the reassuring personalities
who emerged from that rubble was Rudy Giuliani.
-The fire is still burning.
But, from it has emerged a stronger spirit,
a more unified country, a more unified city,
and a more unified world.
-Striding the streets of New York,
urging calm, rallying an extraordinary sense
of New York City identity and mobilization
and sense of community,
and Rudy Giuliani became known then as.
-America's Mayor.
He's the mayor of New York City.
Ladies and gentlemen, Rudy Giuliani.
-Rudy Giuliani, after he leaves public life,
was, from the moment out of the gates,
clearly interested in making money.
He's picking up lucrative clients around the globe
and he's pursuing this legal career
and he had an incentive to do so.
Rudy has had expensive divorce cases
and we know that he has told friends and associates,
and his lawyers, that he needs to make money.
-Now, to the race for the White House.
And, after decades of very publicly flirting with the idea,
billionaire Donald Trump says he really is running for president.
-Rudy Giuliani, during the 2016 campaign,
aligns himself again with Donald Trump.
He campaigns with Trump.
-I think what he feels is the establishment is against him
and they're rigging the election against him.
-And, after Donald Trump is successful,
Giuliani let it be known
that he would like to be secretary of State.
He was lookin' for a big job in the administration.
-Is the mayor a candidate for secretary of State,
Mr President-Elect?
-And other things.
-And other things. -And other things.
-There was some concern about Rudy Giuliani
being named secretary of State in the Trump administration,
in part because of the range of foreign clients
he had already attracted from his years in the private sector.
Rudy continues to be active
and continues to pursue his lucrative career,
but he remains in touch with Donald Trump and,
as Donald Trump goes through other legal counselors,
Rudy Giuliani steps into the breach.
And the conclusion of the three of us was that,
if we did not talk to Rudy,
nothing would move forward on Ukraine.
-Giuliani was seen by people in the US State Department,
US Defense Department, and, particularly,
in the National Security Council of the White House,
as someone who was, in effect,
leading what witnesses describe as a rogue
[laughing] foreign policy.
-In the course of that discussion,
said that Rudy Giuliani was a hand grenade
that was going to blow everyone up.
-Witness after witness noticed that Giuliani
was reaching out to foreign officials
and that he employed his own associates to deliver messages,
to travel overseas, to gather information.
That's Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman.
-I can't wait to come back. -See you in Ukraine soon.
-And these two men, who mention Rudy's name all the time
and are seen with him at Trump rallies,
Republican political rallies, football games, public events,
have not only been charged by the US Justice Department.
They are apparently a part of a broader investigation
that the Southern District of New York US Attorney's Office
is continuing an investigation that includes Rudy Giuliani.
-Are you willing to testify against Mr Giuliani?
-We have seen some of the president's
close allies distance themselves from Rudy Giuliani.
On the other hand, the president, maybe the weekend
after the arrest of Lev Parnas and Igor Froman,
invited Giuliani to meet him at one of his golf clubs
and they had lunch together.
The president is not distancing himself,
at least not yet, from Rudy Giuliani.
There has been a history of the president
sometimes distancing himself from people who he was once
close to and once allied to when they get in trouble,
but, where Rudy Giuliani's concerned,
we've not seen that yet.