he is a fascinating, engaging, and sometimes frustrating individual. he was the most dimensional person that i ever worked for, with the single greatest highs of my lifetime, a few lows that disappoint his allies and friends. - to understand rudy, you really understand that at the core, he s an angry man and always was. and anger can be directed in a positive way or a negative way. - rudy always felt like he was going to win. so did i. we knew that rudy had the appropriate skills and experience that he should be elected mayor of the city. - between 1989 when he lost and 1993, he gave himself an education in how to be a candidate and how to be a mayor. - we had a research team make a vulnerability study sort of a road map to defend him.
can stay in power. one. and one of the ways that i prepped for today s hearing is i read the depositions of all of the people who might have been, the piece of the depositions that had been released by the investigation in terms of people related to this story, and mark short who is the bald guy who is mike pence s chief of staff, they showed a few little clips from this deposition today, if you read the selections from the deposition that they released to the public, he includes this argument, he represented the president, he talked about the president as my client, we had to meet with him, he was there on the president s behalf and that was both implicit and explicit, and so we had to take all of these meetings. short made it clear in his deposition, they to take them, and they didn t show it. and the pattern here, we all covered the impeachment is zelenskyy is having to deal with this guy named rudy, and neither the state department or the pentagon. before barr is the a. g., he