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Presidents personal lawyer was in touch with the office responsible for freezing that military aid to ukraine. personally on the phone with him, at&t records show at the peak of the pressure against ukraine this past he placed multiple calls to the white house switchboard and situation room. so he was in the loop, so was the president. the phone lines also showed back in april giuliani received several calls from the omb, which controlled military aid to ukraine. and thats when giuliani was lead...

Investigation were doing in some of these phone calls and meetings and so forth. weve never seen rudy giuliani testify on this. never seen mulvaney testify, never seen john bolton testify. they all refused or were not asked. mostly refused. and the house intelligence committee decided not to pursue a lengthy court battle because what they argued weve already got enough evidence. but it does leave a lot of open questions. >> well, lets talk about common sense here because do you think rudy giulia...

Im asking this dead seriously. whats it going to be in the history books for all-time? this is the report thats going to say why trump faced impeachment, right? >> this report will stand the test of time, chris. its just a question will my republican colleagues stand the test of courage. >> let me ask you about this rudy giuliani role, the fact that giuliani was on the phone with the omb, that controls the funds to ukraine, what does that tell you? >> rudy giuliani is trumps lawyer. so we proved...

People as i open the program with in the cold open the connection involving the ranking member -- republican member on the intel committee, devin nunes involved in these conversations with lev parnas, the associate working with rudy giuliani. rudy on the phone with somebody at omb and also at the white house. its like picking up a rock when you were kid and seeing all the bugs underneath it and how all the bugs were interplaying with each other. its all connected it seems. your thoughts. >> yeah...

Not in furtherance of national foreign policy. thats why you saw fiona hill who was running russia and europe policy at the nsc completely left in the dark while john bolton apparently objected to this saying it was all, you know, some sort of a drug deal metaphorically, it was outside of what was supposed be the normal channels. and it wasnt as fiona hill said she learned through testimony a rogue channel, because it actually was responsible directly to the president as she concluded, it was no...

Show it was nunes himself who was secretly communicating with the same people his committee was supposed to be investigating. in other words, he wasnt just defending republicans, he was defending himself. and back with me are betsey woodruff swan who wrote this story and peter rhodes. now we find out he was part of it, he was on the phone with this russian guy character and he was on the phone with him, lev parnas, on the phone with omb and all of them. what do you think about the fact it turns ...

Question. does mick mulvaney, does he still have a phone that would be registered to the omb? i dont know the answer to that question. that would be an interesting question to know about. mick mulvaney was involved as we know from previous testimony in facilitating a lot of this pressure on ukraine. a lot of things wed like to know. doesnt mean we will, doesnt mean the next committee wont try, but one of the things about his report shows there are still these interesting questions wed like to as...

Parts. an omb director telling us to get over it. a partisan congressman moonlighting as a gop operaterative and a columnist pushing conspiracy theories. weve learned all these players were dark alley partners in a common scheme to bewin in 2020. president trump telling ukraine he wanted a favor, rudy giuliani working hand in hand with the omb which controlled the arms aid and giuliani working the phones with the bunch and omb, all working with a french columnist who pushed out their dirty messa...