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Two of his associates. they note the head of the justice departments criminal division along with lawyers from the divisions fraud section met with giuliani several weeks ago to discuss a prescribe bribery . the meeting took place before the united states attorneys office in manhattan publicly charged the two giuliani associates lev parnas and igor fruman of breaking campaign finance laws. p they were part of the efforts to push ukraine for an inquiry into democrats. officials were not aware of ...

Piece, the central reporting in this piece is that giuliani has continued to represent clients and broker deals and take on consulting contracts, even as he emerges as a central figure in the impeachment inquiry. similar to our "a" block talking about how the impeachment proceedings appear to fit alongside the criminal investigation of these matters, that is working its way through the courts in the southern district of new york. i will just highlight this new detail from "the new york times." q...

Because its friday, naturally, "the new york times" has just broken another late-night story that relates to the presidents personal lawyer, rudy giuliani. the headline, giuliani mixes his business with role as trumps lawyer. a dense new story from "the new york times." central allegation in this piece, the central reporting in this piece is that giuliani has continued to represent clients and broker deals and take on consulting contracts even as he emerges as a central figure in the impeachment...

For the investigation. >> its no secret that president trump has had some targets in the department of justice, you have attorney general jeff sessions, recently the past couple days taking aim at official bruce orr, whose focus is international and russian organized crime. the president threatening to revoke his security clearance because of his ties to the russia investigation. i understand you know him personally. >> i dont know him personally. bruce was one of the people who first interviewe...

Together from those facts in terms of the kind of seriousness of legal jeopardy that he was facing? >> so this particular prosecutor works in the major fraud section in that particular u.s. attorneys office. they usually prosecute cases where the loss involves a million dollars or more. not always, but thats typically their threshold for taking cases. and because federal sentencing is driven by the dollar amount of the loss in this kuip of a case, mr. yohai is looking at a very sichblt sentence....

You have to think about d.o.j. as really the worlds biggest law firm. its not like the los angeles office is separate from d.c. everyone coordinates and combines. if i had information in birmingham on a case that would help out the southern district of new york, then i would share it with them. i think its likely were looking at that here. >> is there anything that we can infer about the seriousness of the legal jeopardy this young man was facing when he made his decision to cooperate from the w...

>> you know, i think it is significant. the justice department, we sometimes laugh and say that were the biggest, you know law firm in the country. we have offices every place. and that really could matter in the mueller investigation, because if you say he was somehow, you know, to disappear up into the ether without warning, there would still be a united states attorneys offices that would have jurisdiction to pursue already indicted cases. he has received signoff for charges brought in the ar...

Intimidating witnesses. making up crimes that do not even exist. and even withholding evidence that would have been exculpatory and help the defense in one case. and weissmann is also directly tied to that corrupt uranium one deal. an obama administrations attempt to hide it from you, the american people. weissmann? guess what? he was in charge of the dojs fraud section during the russian bribery scheme. gregg jarrett pointed out weissmanns signature look there at the bottom of the plea deal at ...

He knew his track record. backck then, weissmann was in charge of the dojs fraud section, during the russian bribery scheme. as gregg jarrett points out, he actually signed the s bottom of the plea agreement from the brush and businessman involved in my case. heres the new, explosive information we have tonight. in an email released after a request by judicial watch, weissmann, the guy i am telling you about, he told the former acting attorney general, sally yates, and obama appointee, he was pr...

Praising a woman, and obama holdover, that, that disobeyed a direct over, from her boss, the president of the united states, donald trump. >> there were other lawyers in the justice department, senior officials in the financial fraud section, that ended up getting fired, and in retrospect, quite rightly by president trump. but weissmann is very serious because he is the number two under mueller and he was praising misconduct by the former acting attorney general, sally yates. she was fired quite...