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Bottom line of this indictment is that for the first time now were getting some information from the prosecutors in manhattan that ties some of the foreign influence money that these two men are charged with essentially trying to scheme to bring into the u. S. Political system with the efforts that the president of the United States and his personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani which we know in recent days have shown they were involved in an effort to try to remove the u. S. Ambassador in ukraine. Shes...

Democrats or critics but rather a source close to mitch mcconnell. How dark is this storm rolling in after that testimony and as this evidence accrues . Here is a rule of thumb in washington. If you think the news helps you, you lean into it. If you think it hurts but is fundamentally debatable, you debate it. Theyre all politicians, right . But if you find theres no real way to debate it or to rebut it or to spin it out loud, then run. Any reaction to bill taylors testimony yesterday . Do you t...

Thank you again for joining us and our top story is this. Newly released documents give us a clearer view of how President Trumps personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, coordinated his efforts in ukraine through the white house and is coming directly from the u. S. State department. The information results from a freedom of information lawsuit filed by the Advocacy Group american oversight. Emailed exchanges spell out how the white house helped arrange a phone call between giuliani and u. S. Secretary ...

Leader mitch mcconnell. >> were going to vote on that, at the appropriate time, after we listen to the arguments. >> reporter: and would the white house be able to block those witnesses? >> 51 senators will decide who to call. after that, who knows who will employ what kind of legal devices? i have no idea. >> odonnell: and nancy joins us from capitol hill with some news just coming in tonight. and, nancy, i understand the house intelligence committee has just uncovered some new evidence >> repo...

De federal court in manhattan, giulianis close associate, lev parnes, it was revealed he received a $1 million loan from a lawyer associated with a ukraine oligarch. the question is if president trump isnt paying giuliani for his work, who is? the parnes case were watching very closely to see if perhaps giuliani has similar sources of sncome. but he has told me he did not break any laws and he tells me in fact his foreign lobbying work decreased after he started started working with president tr...

>> we may soon see if that calculation is correct. sara murray, cnn, washington. a lawyer representing an indicted associate of giulianis says his client is willing to testify before congress about the alleged role of republican congressman devin nunes in trying to dig up dirt on the bidens. the attorney says his client claims he helped put nunes in touch with this man, victor shoken. cnns vicki ward spoke about it with our chris cuomo. >> so his lawyer says that lev parnes would like to come ...

Cross-examined, im sure. >> laura: conflicting reports any whether john bolton is going to testify on thursday, originally reported he was, behind closed doors, then it was reported its not clear that he is so we dont know but we do have reporting tonight that lev parnes, the ukrainian businessman who had an association with rudy giuliani and all this has quote flipped on the president. whatever that means. the president said he had never met him. didnt know -- or didnt remember him and that off...

Cigars in warsaw. while they are spending so much time together, parnes and fruman are also funneling russian money into campaigns, making illegal campaign contributions and setting up meetings with ukrainian officials and former officials to try to help him get these investigations started. >> the reporting youre doing suggests that giuliani making an out-of-the loop defense might be more difficult? >> it would be difficult. also when you look at the evidence, including phone records and possib...