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Thank you. well, one of the central figures in the impeachment inquiry has been president trumps personal attorney rudy giuliani. cnns tom foreman looks at the role giuliani has played right from the start. >> reporter: the president of the united states says i didnt. >> truth is a truth? do you realize -- >> this is going to become a bad meme. >> dont do this to me. >> reporter: in the swirling storm of the ukraine scandal, as much or more than the president. >> shut up, moron. >> reporter: r...

Watch the whole thing. what i will say, based on what we know of these various conversations with people theyve brought in from bill taylor to vindman to today, there is a consistency with the exception of gordon sondland, there is a consistency of story, of sequence of events that is consistent with the whistle-blower complaint that if i was the president or one of his allies, would give me some level of pause. is it possible all of these people could have just settled on a made-up story? this ...

Dont support how the president handled that phone call with ukraines president. some say there are more questions to be answered here, like congressman james kilmer of kentucky. >> i would welcome more investigation. i take my role in the oversight committee very seriously. im open to hear what role giuliani played, im open to hear about the other serve esr what information may be in that server. >> its been a pretty dramatic 48 hours. first you get the summary, the memo, on the call with the pr...

Around the white house who wish rudy giuliani would be the one thrown under the bus. is that where this is headed? >> a great question because of course the extent to which rudy giulianis travels and interactions were ukranians were known by president trump is something that we dont know. broadly speaking the president did know and was encouraging. in fact he tried to facilitate it by talking to the president of ukraine as we saw with that rough transcript released this week. but did he know eve...

Picture of how alarmed some who white house officials were with giuliani and were learning just hugh little giuliani seems to care about that. in fact here he is responding to reporting in the new york times that secretary of state mike pompeo himself was angry at the role giuliani was playing with ukraine. >> if it werent to me, nobody would have uncovered and faced massive corruption by the vice president of the united states. in fact im a legitimate whistleblower and his state department, you...

That somebody has to answer. >> and were there conversations between the president and the attorney general about this. he oversees the fbi as well. so all roads lead to him. >> and i think mr. barr knows mr. rudy giulianis cellphone number as well. so that also feels like a next too a bit. >> i think that it is something to probe. i think -- i get the sense that the attorney general is a lot more careful than giuliani. and so i would expect that there may have been conversations,but given what ...

Perspective. hes been promising to do for a while which barack obama never did, so come over to ukraine and figure this out. somebody needs to come over there and actually understand why its important to fund the $140 million, thats the important part. >> carol, youve done a lot of reporting on this. 1 thing i think is interesting is the role giuliani has played and the state department in all of this. theres a little question in my mind and i wonder you can clarify what you know about the role ...

The white house operation. an official telling cnn this will burn out. this person calling giulianis public representation of the president a charade. what do you make of the role giuliani is playing here and whether it is a distraction or presidents voice breaking through? >> i have been fascinated. i think a lot of us have been by the media blitz immediately upon joining the trump legal team. i think it has been an interesting window into the inter workings going on in the white house and the ...