developments just coming in in the last 90 minutes or so, including the huge shake-up involving trump s defense team. about 90 minutes ago we learned two of his attorneys resigned. they were part of the team that met with jack smith on monday and trusty has been defending the former president on tv nearly every day since, including this morning. he will be represented by todd blanche. we learned trump is not the only one being charged. he has learned that his former valet is facing charges. he was a military valet in the white house. appearing to confirm a report in the wall street journal and remembered that he had come under scrutiny under shifting accounts of whether or not he had moved boxes of documents at the former president s urging. in the last hour, nbc news has confirmed that judge aileen cannon will be overseeing the case. it caused months of delay for prosecutors after the mar-a-lago search. decisions that were ultimately overturned in a scathing ruling by
than trump himself. ask giuliani who is not fit to practice law right now because of the consequences, and perhaps ask mr. corcoran or these newly departed lawyers, whether the facts show that trump, the now federal defendant, is responsible or other people is separate from when whether he has at times, i m sure you can weigh in on this, gotten out of trouble by blaming other people. michael cohen didn t benefit from arranging those payments. but for years he was the one who went to prison form. so does he blame corcoran? what do you think? i wanted to take it back to your question about mark meadows. your question about what could be a possible defense. mark meadows is a tricky witness. and the reason i say that. unless mark meadows is going to say i, mark meadows, did something wrong, i knew that i was trying to overthrow the government. i knew there were classified
witnesses, you re going to vote to shut this down after the president lied to you about mr. giuliani s role, about mr. cipollone s role? i m not saying it s true, but it s alleged by john bolton. that s the case schiff is going to make. we expected the decision from lisa murkowski an hour ago. we haven t gotten that. is she rethinking or still just hasn t released a statement? i see no evidence this is going to go another direction, but you ll see the democrats with time left to use it to say, team trump is lying to you in your house, and you re going to let him off. and what philbin said yesterday was rudy giuliani s inquiries were in connection with the 2016 election coming from ukraine. what did biden have to do with the investigation? it came in a report that rudy
i wouldn t call it making it up but he s acting like a re real scumbag saying i rejected it once. that is from a phone interview that giuliani had with ken vol g volger. i m not really sure what to make of that statement because he s saying he was making it up, then he said he wasn t making tup. besides that, there was mick mulvaney and pat cipollone. you have two people you could ask about the meeting. there is a very basic question, which is, did the president ask giuliani, ask bolton to set up a meeting for the president of ukraine for rudy giuliani here s chief justice john roberts. let s listen in as he gavels perhaps this last day of the impeachment trial. the chapel wilain will lead
of the things that has really frustrated democrats, and privately some republicans, that if bolton does want to say something, he probably can at this point even as the white house is protesting some of the information in his manuscript is classified. indeed, he could call in just the way you did. great reporting, maggie. i m just trying to show how easy it is. maggie, thank you for doing excellent reporting. the second paragraph in your article, maggie, says the president gave the instruction to bolton, according to bolton s manuscript, in an oval office meeting in early may that included this is interesting who was in that meeting according to bolton. mick mulvaney, the president s personal lawyer rudy giuliani, and the white house lawyer pat cipollone. mulvaney said whenever giuliani was there, he would walk away because he didn t want to get involved in attorney/client privilege. he s leading the legal defense