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Joining us now here on set is andrew wiseman, the head of the criminal fraud section at the department of justice, he was a leading member, mr. wiseman, its an honor to meet you. thank you for being here. >> honor to meat you. >> i have been sort of watching the impeachment proceedings with one eye on the courts. it seems to me like the indictments and what is reported to be an ongoing criminal investigation of mr. juligiulia alongside them, those appear to be parallel and abutting cases to what...

Met with him and we really dont want to talk about this. it was very, very odd. this is how "the new york times" wrote it up at the time. quote, several weeks ago brien benchkowski, the head of the justice departments criminal division and lawyers from the divisions fraud section met with mr. giuliani to discuss a bribery case in which he and the other attorneys were representing the defendants. that meeting took place before u.s. attorneys in manhattan publicly charged two giuliani associates, ...

Andrew weissmann, former head of the criminal fraud section at the justice department, also leading member of robert muellers team. thank you again. i wanted to ask your take as a prosecutor and with the experience you have, i feel like the evidence that we have collected in the impeachment proceeding and that weve seen evolve in public reporting alongside it, not only all points in the same direction, it all sort of keeps piling up. mr. sandys deposition we just got tonight says not only that p...

Joining us now here on set i am very pleased to say is andrew weissmann. hes the former head of the criminal fraud section at the department of justice. hes also a leading member of special counsel robert muellers team. mr. weissmanns, its really an honor to meet you. thank you for being here. >> honor to meet you. >> i have been sort of watching the impeachment proceedings with one eye on the courts because it seems to me like the frum. and parnas indictments and what is reported to be an ongoi...

Joining us now here on set i am very pleased to say is andrew wiseman, also a leading member of special counsel robert muellers team. mr. weissman, its really an honor to meet you. it seems to me like the fruman and parnas indictments and what is reported to be an ongoing criminal investigation of mr. giuliani alongside them, those appear to be parallel and potentially budding case what we see on capitol hill. do you see it that way as well? >> what you just covered with the peter carr announcem...

Head of the justice departments criminal division and lawyers from the divisions fraud section met with mr. giuliani to discuss the bribe case in which he and other attorneys were representing defendants. that meeting took place before u.s. attorneys in manhattan publicly charged two giuliani associates lev parnas and igor fruman with breaking campaign finance laws and trying to unlawfully influence politicians. here was the statement the doj put out that sunday. quote, when they met with mr. gi...

Of law. this was a demand that president zelensky personally commit on a cable news channel to a political investigation of president trumps political rival. >> some of you on this committee appear to believe that russia did not conduct a campaign against our country and that perhaps somehow, for some reason, ukraine did. this is a fictional narrative that has been perpetrated and propagated by the russia security services themselves. it is beyond dispute, even if some of the underlying details ...

Politics puts us in where facts are trumped by so much else. >> garrett haake, thank you very much. with me now, former u.s. ambassador to russia and analyst michael mcfaul, and andrew weissmann, head of the fraud section of the department of just, now an nbc news legal analyst. gentlemen, andrew, let me start with you. i want to play what appeared to be denny hecks closing argument, and it was taking evidence that he learned, he was basically trying to give the closing argument on this ukraine ...

If people see that i, who have been promoting our policies on anti corruption, if they can undermine me and get me pulled out of ukraine, what does that mean for our policy? >> what were you concerned about? >> shes going to go through some things. it didnt sound good. it sounded like a threat. >> did you feel threatened? >> i did. >> joining us onset now, andrew weissman former senior doj official, former chief of the fraud section in the department of justice, law professor now at nyu. we were...

When assistant attorney general brian benczkowski and fraud section lawyers met with mr. giuliani, they were not aware of any investigation of mr. giulianis associates in the southern district of new york and would not have met with him had they known. donald trump has claimed that he doesnt know the giuliani friends and associates who have been indicted in the investigation by the manhattan u.s. attorney but the lawyer for lev parnas and igor fruman told the house of representatives his clients...