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NOW. >>> IF YOU HAVE A LAWYER,
PARTICULARLY ONE THAT IS
REPRESENTING YOU ON A MATTER
THAT IS TURNING OUT TO BE A
LITTLE DICEY, MAYBE A LITTLE
DANGEROUS FOR YOU, MAYBE A
LITTLE SKETCHY, I MEAN IN THEORY
IN THAT CIRCUMSTANCE IT’S A GOOD
THING THAT YOU HAVE A LAWYER,
THAT YOU HAVE REPRESENTATION,
THAT YOU ARE NOT FACING THIS
THING ALONE.
THING ALONE. HOWEVER, IF IN THE MIDST OF THAT
ONGOING, SKETCHY/DANGEROUS
ONGOING, SKETCHY/DANGEROUS SITUATION YOU WAKE UP TO THE
NEWS ONE MORNING THAT YOUR
LAWYER’S OTHER CLIENTS, THE
OTHER PEOPLE YOUR LAWYER IS
REPRESENTING IN THIS SAME SAGA,
IF YOU WAKE UP TO THE NEWS THIS
MORNING THAT THEY HAVE JUST BEEN
ARRESTED AND PUT IN JAIL, THAT
IS NOT A GOOD SIGN ABOUT EITHER
YOUR SITUATION OR YOUR LAWYER.
BUT THAT IS THE SITUATION THAT
THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED
STATES WOKE UP TO THIS MORNING.
THE PERSONAL LAWYER OF THE
PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES,
NOT THAT ONE, THE FIRST ONE,
HE’S ALREADY IN PRISON.
THAT’S MICHAEL COHEN.
THE SECOND ONE IS RUDY GIULIANI.
AND THESE TWO GENTLEMEN WHO WERE
ARRESTED LAST NIGHT, THEY ARE,
LIKE THE PRESIDENT, CLIENTS OF
MR. GIULIANI.
MR. GIULIANI. THEY HAVE BEEN ARRESTED ON
MULTIPLE FELONY COUNTS FOR
ALLEGEDLY FUNNELING VERY LARGE
AMOUNTS OF ILLEGAL CAMPAIGN
CONTRIBUTIONS TO VARIOUS
REPUBLICAN POLITICIANS AND
POLITICAL ENTITIES USING STRAW
MEN AND A FAKE NATURAL GAS
COMPANY AND A NUMBER OF OTHER
SCHEMES TO CONCEAL THE REAL
ORIGINS OF THESE ILLEGAL
DONATIONS, INCLUDING SOME OF
THESE FUNDS THAT WERE GIVEN TO
THEM FOR THIS PURPOSE BY AN
UNNAMED RUSSIAN DONOR.
AS OF TONIGHT THESE GENTLEMEN
ARE IN CUSTODY IN A FEDERAL JAIL
IN VIRGINIA, ALTHOUGH I BELIEVE
IF THEY POST A MILLION DOLLARS
BAIL EACH SOMETIME TONIGHT, THEY
COULD BE RELEASED WITH
MONITORING DEVICES AND SOME SORT
OF THIRD-PARTY REPRESENTING TO
THE COURT THAT THEY PROMISE NOT
TO FLEE THE COUNTRY.
BUT I MEAN BOTTOM LINE HERE,
WHEN YOUR LAWYER’S OTHER CLIENTS
GET ARRESTED, THAT’S NOT GOOD.
YOU WANT TO KNOW WHAT’S WORSE
THAN THAT, THOUGH?
WHEN CNN SOON THEREAFTER REPORTS
THAT YOUR LAWYER HIMSELF IS ALSO
BEING SCRUTINIZED BY THE SAME
FEDERAL PROSECUTORS WHO JUST
ARRESTED HIS OTHER CLIENTS
TODAY.
TODAY. THAT’S WHAT CNN REPORTED THIS
AFTERNOON.
AFTERNOON. RUDY GIULIANI SAYS THAT HE HAS
NOT BEEN CONTACTED BY FEDERAL
PROSECUTORS IN NEW YORK.
BUT IF YOU WATCH CLOSELY THE WAY
THIS UNFOLDED TODAY, WHEN THE
U.S. ATTORNEY IN THE SOUTHERN
DISTRICT OF NEW YORK ANNOUNCED
THE INDICTMENT AGAINST RUDY
GIULIANI’S TWO CLIENTS TODAY,
THESE GUYS WHO HAVE BEEN
DIRECTLY INVOLVED IN THE UKRAINE
SCANDAL FOR WHICH THE PRESIDENT
IS NOW BEING IMPEACHED, THAT
U.S. ATTORNEY, GEOFFREY BERMAN,
DID SAY EXPLICITLY AND WITH A
HEAVY PORTENT THAT THIS
INVESTIGATION IS ONGOING.
MEANING THEY MIGHT NOT EXPECT
THESE TO BE THE ONLY
INDICTMENTS.
INDICTMENTS. AND IF IN FACT THAT CNN
REPORTING IS RIGHT, THAT RUDY
GIULIANI HIMSELF IS NOW UNDER
SCRUTINY BY THE SAME FEDERAL
PROSECUTORS WHO JUST BROUGHT
ABOUT THE ARREST OF HIS CLIENTS
LAST NIGHT, WELL, THAT WOULD BE
A REAL KICK IN THE PANTS, RIGHT,
IN TERMS OF HOW RUDY GIULIANI’S
BIOGRAPHY WILL ULTIMATELY READ
AT THE ENDING OF ALL OF THIS.
I MEAN IF YOU’VE BEEN FOLLOWING
RUDY GIULIANI AT ALL, IT WAS ONE
OF THE GREAT LANDMARK MOMENTS IN
REPUBLICAN POLITICS AND RUDY
GIULIANI’S SORT OF DOWNFALL AS A
NATIONAL -- A PUBLIC FIGURE OF
NATIONAL ESTEEM WHEN HIS
HAND-PICKED POLICE COMMISSIONER,
BERNIE CARRICK, GOT ARRESTED AND
HAD TO GET LOCKED UP AT A
DOWNTOWN JAIL IN NEW YORK THAT
RUDY GIULIANI HAD NAMED FOR
BERNIE CARRICK.
BERNIE CARRICK. I MEAN IT’S NEVER GOOD TO GO TO
JAIL.
JAIL. BUT WHEN YOU HAVE TO GO JAIL TO
THE JAIL THAT’S NAMED AFTER YOU,
THAT’S THE KIND OF THING THAT
PEOPLE REMEMBER.
PEOPLE REMEMBER. WELL, NOW IF THAT BERNIE CARRICK
DINTS
DINTS INCIDENT IS BOOK ENDED BY RUDY
GIULIANI BEING INDICTED BY THE
SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK,
BEING INDICTED BY HIS OWN
SUCCESSOR IN THAT DISTRICT, IF
RUDY GIULIANI GETS CRIMINALLY
CHARGED BY THE U.S. ATTORNEY’S
OFFICE THAT HE HIMSELF USED TO
RUN, WHICH IS APPARENTLY A REAL
PROSPECT HERE, I DON’T -- THAT
WILL BE SOMETHING.
I DON’T EVEN KNOW WHAT TO SAY
ABOUT THAT PROSPECT.
BUT THAT IS A NONZERO
POSSIBILITY AT THIS POINT, AT
LEAST IF THAT CNN REPORTING
BEARS OUT.
BEARS OUT. AND YOU PROBABLY NOTICE THAT THE
NEWS DEVELOPED QUITE FAST TODAY.
I DO FEEL, THOUGH, THAT THIS IS
ONE OF THOSE DAYS WHEN INSTEAD
OF BEING HIT BY LIKE A
THUNDERSTORM OR, YOU KNOW,
BUFFETING WINDS, WE JUST KIND OF
GOT HIT BY A FIRE HOSE TODAY.
IT WAS ONE SOLID STREAM OF
INFORMATION COMING AT US TODAY
THAT ALL REALLY HAD TO DO WITH
THE IMPEACHMENT, THAT ALL REALLY
HAD TO DO WITH ONE THING AND IT
ACTUALLY ALL FITS TOGETHER
PRETTY COGENTLY SO LET’S TAKE
THIS PIECE BY PIECE.
THESE TWO MEN ARE BOTH U.S.
CITIZENS.
CITIZENS. ONE IS -- WAS BORN IN BELARUS,
ONE WAS BORN IN UKRAINE.
THAT DOESN’T NECESSARILY MATTER.
THEY ARE U.S. CITIZENS.
THEY HAVE BEEN WORKING WITH RUDY
GIULIANI APPARENTLY FOR MONTHS
ON THIS SCHEME FOR WHICH THE
PRESIDENT IS NOW BEING
IMPEACHED.
IMPEACHED. AND THAT’S NOT A COMPLICATED
SCHEME, RIGHT?
SCHEME, RIGHT? THE PRESIDENT PRESSED THE
GOVERNMENT OF UKRAINE TO PROVIDE
HIM ASSISTANCE IN HIS NEXT
ELECTION AGAINST THE DEMOCRATS
AND SPECIFICALLY AGAINST HIS
POTENTIAL OPPONENT, JOE BIDEN.
THAT IS ILLEGAL.
YOU CAN’T SOLICIT A THING OF
VALUE FOR A U.S. ELECTION FROM A
FOREIGN ENTITY.
FOREIGN ENTITY. IT IS PLAINLY ILLEGAL.
THAT IS THE GROUNDS ON WHICH THE
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES IS
GOING TO IMPEACH PRESIDENT
TRUMP.
TRUMP. AND WHILE THAT CORE CRIMINAL
ACT, THAT CORE IMPEACHABLE
OFFENSE IS SOMETHING THE
PRESIDENT HAS ALREADY CONFESSED
TO AND THE WHITE HOUSE HAS IN
FACT ALREADY PROVIDED EVIDENCE
OF, AS THE HOUSE CONTINUES TO
INVESTIGATE THIS MATTER TO TRY
TO NAIL DOWN THAT ARTICLE OF
IMPEACHMENT, THE DETAILS OF HOW
THE PRESIDENT WAS TRYING TO
CARRY OUT THIS SCHEME HAS BEEN
COMING INTO SHARPER RELIEF.
FOR EXAMPLE, WE HAVE LEARNED
FROM THE PRESIDENT’S RECENTLY
RESIGNED ENVOY TO UKRAINE THAT
THIS EFFORT BY PRESIDENT TRUMP
TO GET DIRT FROM THAT FOREIGN
COUNTRY TO USE AGAINST HIS
BOOENGT
BOOENGT OPPONENT WASN’T A WHIM OR A WISH
OR A JOKE.
IT WAS ACTUALLY A SCHEME, IT WAS
A PLAN.
A PLAN. HE GAVE ORDERS WITHIN THE
FEDERAL GOVERNMENT FOR THIS
SCHEME TO BE CARRIED OUT.
IN ORDER TO DO THAT, HE NEEDED
MULTIPLE OFFICIALS TO TAKE PART
IN IT.
IN IT. BY FOLLOWING THAT PATH A LITTLE
BIT, WE HAVE VERY QUICKLY
LEARNED THAT ONE OF THE ELEMENTS
OF THIS PLAN IS THAT THE
PRESIDENT AND OTHER MEMBERS OF
THE ADMINISTRATION WHO WERE IN
ON THIS SCHEME, THEY PRETTY
QUICKLY REALIZED THAT THERE WERE
GOING TO BE SOME PEOPLE IN THEIR
WAY.
WAY. AND SO THEY HAD TO GET THOSE
PEOPLE OUT OF THEIR WAY.
PART OF WHAT WE ARE NOW SEEING
HAPPENED ON MULTIPLE LEVELS.
IT’S THAT THE PRESIDENT AND THE
OTHER PEOPLE WHO TOOK PART IN
THIS SCHEME TOOK STEPS TO REMOVE
PEOPLE IN THE U.S. GOVERNMENT
WHO THEY SAW AS STANDING IN THE
WAY OF ENACTING THIS SCHEME TO
BENEFIT THE PRESIDENT IN THE
NEXT ELECTION.
NEXT ELECTION. ONE OF THE PEOPLE THEY TOOK OUT
OF THE PICTURE, THEY REMOVED
FROM HER POST WAS THE THEN U.S.
AMBASSADOR TO UKRAINE.
HER NAME IS MARIE YOVANOVITCH.
SHE IS DUE TO GIVE A DEPOSITION
TO THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
IN THE IMPEACHMENT INQUIRY
TOMORROW.
TOMORROW. AMBASSADOR YOVANOVITCH WAS
REMOVED FROM HER POST IN THE
SPRING OF THIS YEAR AFTER A
CAMPAIGN IN THE CONSERVATIVE
MEDIA SPEARHELDED BY RUDY
GIULIANI DENOUNCED HER AS SOME
KIND OF BAD GUY THAT HAD TO BE
TAKEN OUT OF THAT EMBASSY AND
REPLACED.
REPLACED. WHAT WE LEARNED FROM TODAY’S
INDICTMENT, THAT THESE HANDSOME
MEN WHO WERE ARRESTED LAST NIGHT
WERE ALLEGEDLY A KEY PART OF
THAT PLAN, AS WAS THIS
GENTLEMAN, FORMER REPUBLICAN
CONGRESSMAN PETE SESSIONS OF
TEXAS.
TEXAS. ACCORDING TO TODAY’S INDICTMENT,
THE GUYS WHO GOT ARRESTED LAST
NIGHT, GIULIANI’S CLIENTS, THEY
ILLEGALLY FUNNELED MORE THAN
$300,000 INTO A PRO TRUMP SUPER
PAC THAT AMONG OTHER THINGS WAS
SUPPORTING THE RE-ELECTION
CAMPAIGN OF CONGRESSMAN PETE
SESSIONS IN TEXAS.
THEY ALSO COMMITTED TO RAISE
$20,000 FOR CONGRESSMAN SESSIONS
DIRECTLY.
DIRECTLY. AND THEN THEY MET WITH HIM TO
MAKE THEIR BIG ASK.
QUOTE, AT AROUND THE SAME TIME
THAT PARNAS AND FRUMAN COMMITTED
TO RAISING THOSE FUNDS FOR
CONGRESSMAN 1, WHO WE BELIEVE TO
BE CONGRESSMAN PETE SESSIONS,
PARNAS MET WITH SESSIONS IN
PERSON AND SOUGHT THE
CONGRESSMAN’S ASSISTANCE IN
CAUSING THE U.S. GOVERNMENT TO
REMOVE OR RECALL THE THEN U.S.
AMBASSADOR TO UKRAINE, MARIE
YOVANOVITCH.
YOVANOVITCH. SO THEY GIVE TONS OF MONEY TO
THIS PAC THAT’S SUPPORTING
SESSIONS’ RE-ELECTION AND PLEDGE
TO RAISE TENS OF THOUSANDS OF
DOLLARS FOR HIS RE-ELECTION.
THEY GET A MEETING WITH SESSIONS
AND SAY YOU’VE GOT TO HELP US
GET THIS AMBASSADOR OUT OF
THERE.
THERE. AND IN FACT REPUBLICAN
CONGRESSMAN PETE SESSIONS MAKES
GOOD ON HIS END OF THE BARGAIN.
NBC NEWS HAS OBTAINED THE LETTER
THAT CONGRESSMAN SESSIONS SENT
TO SECRETARY OF STATE MIKE
POMPEO SHORTLY AFTER THAT
MEETING WITH THESE GUYS WHO HAVE
NOW BEEN ARRESTED.
IN THAT LETTER CONGRESSMAN
SESSIONS IN FACT TELLS THE
SECRETARY OF STATE THAT HE
SHOULD, QUOTE, CONSIDER
TERMINATING HER AMBASSADORSHIP
AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.
SO AGAIN, I MEAN THE SCHEME HERE
FOR WHICH PRESIDENT TRUMP IS
BEING KBEECHLDIMPEACHED IS A SIM
THING.
THING. BUT IN ORDER TO ENACT THIS
SCHEME WHERE HE’S GOING TO GET
HELP FROM UKRAINE AGAINST THE
DEMOCRATS, A LOT OF DIFFERENT
PEOPLE HAD TO PLAY THEIR PART.
THIS IS SOMETHING HE DID ON HIS
OWN.
OWN. HE PUT THE U.S. GOVERNMENT TO
WORK TO ENACT THIS SCHEME.
ONCE HE DID THAT, PEOPLE WHO
WEREN’T GOING TO PLAY THEIR PART
HAD TO BE CLEARED OUT OF THE
WAY.
WAY. PEOPLE WHO MIGHT SQUAWK ABOUT
THIS, PEOPLE WHO MIGHT REALIZE
THIS WAS WRONG, PEOPLE WHO MIGHT
POSE RESISTANCE TO THIS SCHEME,
THEY HAD TO BE OUSTED.
AND IT STARTED TO SEEM VERY
CLEAR TO THEM THAT ONE OF THE
PEOPLE THAT WOULD NEED TO BE
CLEARED OUT OF THE WAY WAS U.S.
AMBASSADOR MARIE YOVANOVITCH.
THOSE GUYS MAKESING ILLEGAL
CAMPAIGN DONATIONS AND MEETING
WITH THAT CONGRESSMAN WERE ALSO
THE GUYS REPORTEDLY ARRANGING
MEETINGS WITH UKRAINIAN
OFFICIALS FOR RUDY GIULIANI,
AGAIN TO TRY TO PUT TOGETHER
THIS SCHEME WHERE THE UKRAINIAN
GOVERNMENT WOULD HELP TRUMP BY
LAUNCHING BASICALLY BOGUS
INVESTIGATIONS INTO DEMOCRATS,
SPECIFICALLY JOE BIDEN.
IMPORTANTLY THEY SPECIFICALLY
SOUGHT FROM UKRAINE A PUBLIC
ANNOUNCEMENT OF THOSE
INVESTIGATIONS INTO JOE BIDEN TO
MAKE SURE THAT THEY COULD CAST
MAXIMUM ASPERSIONS ON BIDEN AND
THE DEMOCRATS AHEAD OF THE 2020
ELECTION.
ELECTION. SO THERE’S A COUPLE PARTS OF THE
STORY THAT I THINK ARE STILL
DEVELOPING TONIGHT THAT I’M
SUPER INTERESTED IN.
ONE IS THIS REPORT FROM REPORTER
ELENA PLOT AT THE ATLANTIC
MAGAZINE.
MAGAZINE. YOU SEE THE TITLE THERE, THE
MYSTERY OF RUDY GIULIANI’S
VIENNA TRIP.
VIENNA TRIP. NOW, YOU MIGHT HAVE SEEN THE
NEWS TODAY ABOUT THESE ARRESTS
THAT WHEN THESE GUYS WHO HAD
BEEN WORKING WITH RUDY GIULIANI
ON THE UKRAINE SCHEME, HIS
SUPPOSED CLIENTS, WHEN THEY WERE
ARRESTED LAST NIGHT, THEY WERE
ACTUALLY ARRESTED AT THE DULLES
AIRPORT IN THE D.C. SUBURBS.
ACCORDING TO THE U.S. ATTORNEY
WHO UNSEALED THEIR INDICTMENT,
THESE GUYS WERE ABOUT TO LEAVE
THE COUNTRY WITH ONE-WAY
TICKETS.
TICKETS. THEY WERE REPORTEDLY GOING TO
TAKE THEM TO FRANKFURT, GERMANY.
WHETHER THEY WERE PLANNING ON
JUST STOPPING IN GERMANY OR
CONTINUING ON FROM A FURTHER
FLIGHT FROM THERE, IT’S NOT
TOTALLY CLEAR.
TOTALLY CLEAR. BUT FOR HIS PART, MR. GIULIANI
SAYS THAT VIENNA IS WHERE HIS
CLIENTS WERE GOING WHEN THEY
WERE ARRESTED BY THE FBI LAST
NIGHT.
NIGHT. THEY MIGHT HAVE HAD INITIAL
TICKETS TO FRANKFURT BUT THEIR
ULTIMATE DESTINATION WAS VEEIENN
AUSTRIA.
AUSTRIA. HE ALSO TOLD ELAINA PLOTT THAT
HE TOO WAS ON HIS WAY TO VIENNA,
OS
OS AUSTRIA.
AUSTRIA. THIS WAS DRAWN UP YESTERDAY AUND
SEALED THIS MORNING SO WE COULD
ALL SEE IT.
THERE IS SOME REPORTING TODAY
THAT SUGGESTS THAT THE TIMING OF
THE GRAND JURY INDICTMENT, THE
TIMING OF THE ARREST WAS DRIVEN
BY THE FACT THAT THESE GUYS WERE
GOING TO THE AIRPORT TO THE
INTERNATIONAL TERMINAL AND
PLANNING TO LEAVE ON A FOREIGN
TRIP FOR WHICH NOBODY KNEW IF
THEY WOULD EVER RETURN.
I MEAN THAT’S INTERESTING IN ITS
OWN RIGHT JUST IN TERMS OF LIKE
THE COPS AND ROBBERS OF THIS.
JUST IN TERMS OF THE WAY THE
WHEELS OF JUSTICE TURN.
WE’VE BEEN WORKING ON THIS,
BETTER GETTING THE INDICTMENT
DONE, BETTER GET THE ARRESTS
DONE TONIGHT BEFORE THEY GET ON
THOSE PLANES, RIGHT?
I THINK THAT DETAIL MAY ALSO GO
SOME DISTANCE TOWARD DISPELLING
ANY CONSPIRACY THEORIZING ABOUT
WHY THEY HAPPENED RIGHT NOW AND
NOT ANY OTHER DAY.
IT LOOKS LIKE WHY THEY HAPPENED
RIGHT NOW IS BECAUSE THESE GUYS
WERE ABOUT TO LEAVE THE COUNTRY.
BUT IF AS RUDY GIULIANI TELLS
"THE ATLANTIC" MAGAZINE THESE
GUYS WERE GOING TO VIENNA, IF
THAT’S WHERE THEY WERE LEAVING
THE COUNTRY TO GO.
IF RUDY GIULIANI HIMSELF WAS ON
HIS WAY TO VIENNA, WHY VIENNA?
WELL, I DON’T KNOW.
BUT VIENNA HAS SURFACED ONE
OTHER TIME IN THIS SCHEME FOR
WHICH THE PRESIDENT IS BEING
IMPEACHED.
IMPEACHED. DO YOU REMEMBER THIS?
A COUPLE OF WEEKENDS AGO AFTER
THE IMPEACHMENT PROCEEDINGS
AGAINST PRESIDENT TRUMP WERE
ANNOUNCED, RUDY GIULIANI WENT ON
NETWORK TELEVISION AND STARTED
WAVING AROUND THIS DAMNING
DOCUMENT, WHICH HE SAID WAS LIKE
THE POT OF GOLD AT THE END OF
THE RAINBOW AND HE WAS THE
HAPPIEST LEPRECHAUN EVER.
THIS WAS THE MUCH HERALDED DIRT
AGAINST JOE BIDEN THAT THIS
WHOLE SCHEME HAD BEEN DESIGNED
TO ELICIT FROM THE GOVERNMENT OF
UKRAINE.
UKRAINE. HE WAS LIKE THIS IS IT, I GOT
IT.
IT. WHAT THAT DOCUMENT WAS THAT RUDY
GIULIANI WAS WAVING AROUND ON TV
WAS A SWORN STATEMENT FROM A
FORMER UKRAINIAN OFFICIAL, WHO
HAD SORT OF LEFT OFFICE IN A
CLOUD OF ETHICS ALLEGATIONS.
THAT SWORN STATEMENT IS
BASICALLY ALL THE ACCUSATIONS
THAT GIULIANI AND TRUMP HAVE
BEEN WANTING TO MAKE ABOUT JOE
BIDEN.
BIDEN. IT’S THE WHOLE POINT OF WHY THEY
ENACTED THIS SCHEME.
THIS IS THE THING THEY CAN SMEAR
JOE BIDEN TO HELP TRUMP GET
RE-ELECTED IN 2020.
HERE’S ALL THE TERRIBLE THINGS
WE WANT YOU TO BELIEVE JOE BIDEN
DID THAT UKRAINE OUGHT TO BE
INVESTIGATING.
INVESTIGATING. WELL, THAT SWORN STATEMENT WHICH
IS ALL OF THIS MADE UP STUFF
ABOUT JOE BIDEN, THAT WAS
OBTAINED BY RUDY GIULIANI FROM A
MAN NAMED DIMITRI FURTASH.
IT SAYS THAT IT WAS OBTAINED
FROM DIMITRI FURTASH.
HE LIVES IN VIENNA, AUSTRIA, AND
HE NEVER GETS TO LEAVE.
HE ALWAYS HAS TO STAY IN VIENNA,
AUSTRIA.
AUSTRIA. WHY IS THAT?
THAT’S WHERE HE IS UNDER HOUSE
ARREST.
ARREST. HE IS A UKRAINE AN BILLIONAIRE,
A FAVORITE OF THE KREMLIN WHO IS
A BILLIONAIRE BECAUSE OF THE
KREMLIN.
KREMLIN. HE IS DESCRIBED AS AN UPPER
ECHELON ASSOCIATING OF RUSSIAN
ORGANIZED CRIME.
ORGANIZED CRIME. HE WAS ARRESTED SEVERAL YEARS
AGO AFTER THE U.S. GOVERNMENT
REQUESTED HIS ARREST BECAUSE
THEY WANTED HIM EXTRADITED TO
THIS COUNTRY TO FACE TRIAL ON A
MULTI BILLION DOLLAR BRIBERY
SCAM.
SCAM. HE HAS BEEN FIGHTING THAT
EXTRADITION, TRYING TO AVOID
GETTING SENT BACK TO THE U.S. TO
GO TO TRIAL ON THOSE CHARGES.
WITHIN THE LAST FEW MONTHS,
DIMITRI FURTASH ADDED TO HIS
LEGAL REPRESENTATION TEAM A
COUPLE OF LESS KNOWN U.S.
LAWYERS.
LAWYERS. PEOPLE WHO ARE LESS KNOWN AS
LAWYERS AND MORE KNOWN AS PEOPLE
WHO GO ON FOX NEWS AND SCREAM
ABOUT THE WITCH HUNT.
HE HAS ADDED THESE PRO-TRUMP
LAWYERS TO HIS TEAM.
AS HE IS FIGHTING THIS EFFORT TO
HAVE HIMSELF -- FIGHTING THIS
EFFORT TO HAVE HIM EXTRADITED TO
THE U.S. TO FACE TRIAL, MR.
FIRTASH HAS STARTED THESE
ANTI-BIDEN DOCUMENTS AND THEY
HAVE BEEN PROVIDED TO RUDY
GIULIANI AND COMPANY TO USE AS
PR AMMUNITION AGAINST BIDEN.
THE PROBLEM WITH GETTING THIS
STUFF FROM DMITRY FIRTASH IS
THAT HE IS UNDER HOUSE ARREST.
HE CAN’T DELIVER, YOU HAVE TO GO
TO HIM TO PICK THIS STUFF UP.
MAYBE THERE ARE LOTS OF OTHER
PEOPLE INVOLVED IN THIS SCHEME
WHO HAPPEN TO BE IN VIENNA,
AUSTRIA, WHO NEED IN-PERSON
VISITS FROM RUDY GIULIANI AND
HIS TWEEDLE DUM AND TWEEDLE DEE
AS THEY TRY TO EFFECTUATE THIS
SCHEME.
SCHEME. MAYBE VIENNA IS FULL OF PEOPLE
HELPING OUT WITH THIS.
BUT IF YOU STEP BACK FROM THIS
JUST A SECOND, RIGHT, TO SEE WHO
HAS BEEN WORKING WITH THE
PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES
ON THIS SCHEME FOR WHICH HE IS
NOW BEING IMPEACHED, I MEAN RUDY
GIULIANI ADMITS THAT HE HAS BEEN
WORKING ON THIS SCHEME WITH
DMITRY FIRTASH, THIS GUY LABELED
AN UPPER ECHELON ASSOCIATING OF
RUSSIAN ORGANIZED CRIME.
GIULIANI ADMITS HE’S BEEN
WORKING WITH HIM AND GETTING HIS
BEST ANTI-BIDEN STUFF FROM HIM.
HE ALSO ADMITS HE’S BEEN WORKING
WITH PAUL MANAFORT, WHO IS A
FEDERAL INMATE.
FEDERAL INMATE. THE PRESIDENT’S CAMPAIGN
CHAIRMAN CURRENTLY SERVING A
SEVEN-PLUS YEAR SENTENCE IN
FEDERAL PRISON ON FRAUD AND
CONSPIRACY CHARGES.
CONSPIRACY CHARGES. WHEN RUDY GIULIANI’S CLIENTS
WERE ARRESTED LAST NIGHT, TURNED
UP FOR THEIR INITIAL COURT
APPEARANCE TODAY IN THE EASTERN
DISTRICT OF VIRGINIA, THEY WERE
REPRESENTED IN COURT TODAY BY
PAUL MANAFORT’S LAWYERS.
I GUESS THEY JUST HAPPENED TO BE
IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD.
AND WE KNOW FROM GIULIANI’S OWN
ACCOUNT OF HOW THIS SCHEME HAS
BEEN RUN THAT THE OTHER PEOPLE
WITH WHOM HE HAS BEEN WORKING
THE MOST CLOSELY ON THIS ISSUE
ARE THESE TWO GUYS WHO ARE NOW
UNDER ARREST AND SITTING IN A
VIRGINIA JAIL.
VIRGINIA JAIL. SO IT’S THE FELON WHO’S IN
PRISON, THE INDICTED GUY WHO’S
FIGHTING EXTRADITION AND THE TWO
GUYS WHO TONIGHT ARE IN FEDERAL
JAIL IN VIRGINIA.
THAT IS WHO RUDY GIULIANI HAS
ASSEMBLED AS HIS DREAM TEAM TO
WORK OUT THIS SCHEME FOR THE
PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES
TO ENLIST A FOREIGN COUNTRY’S
HELP FOR HIS RE-ELECTION BID.
I MEAN YOU COULDN’T ASK FOR A
MORE IMPRESSIVE GROUP OF
CORRUPTION FIGHTERS, RIGHT?
SO THAT IS ONE PART OF THAT THAT
IS STILL DEVELOPING THAT WE ARE
WATCHING TONIGHT.
WATCHING TONIGHT. I JUST CAN’T -- THAT’S YOUR
TEAM?
TEAM? REALLY?
REALLY? CAN YOU ALL SHARE LAWYERS, WOULD
THAT BE CHEAPER?
SORRY.
SORRY. SO THAT’S ONE.
THE OTHER PART OF THIS I’M VERY
INTERESTED IN NOW, WHICH WE NOW
HAVE A MUCH CLEARER VIEW OF IS
THIS DYNAMIC IN WHICH REGULAR
GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS, PEOPLE
JUST DOING THEIR JOB, CAREER
FOLKS, HAD TO BE PUSHED OUT OF
THE WAY SO THIS SCHEME COULD BE
ENACTED.
ENACTED. WE ACTUALLY GOT A BRAND NEW
PIECE OF NEWS ON THAT TODAY,
WHICH WE KNOW FROM "THE WALL
STREET JOURNAL’S" REPORTING HAS
ALREADY BECOME A NEW PART OF THE
IMPEACHMENT INVESTIGATION INTO