The high power, high Profile Addition to the president s legal team, Rudy Giuliani. Anyone can become an influencer. Throw him out. Just sort of a mini cult leader in their own right. The corruption in the ukraine. Theres an effort by rudy to get information about evidence that hunter biden was on the take, and that joe biden was getting money from ukraine. He sounded like a mobster. When people say there is no mafia, i mean, i know from my history that there is such a thing, and i know what it does and what it can do. Heshe is a he is a warrior. I saw god out on the block today he was darker than the preachers say with a teardrop tattooed on his face and dirt on his fingers i heard angels when he laughed the way that people do when they have known true pain for his sins i dont know whos to blame what choice was he given . In this world that were livin when i see you i see love i see america when i see you i see love i see america [car honks] ladies and gentlemen, without further ado, let me introduce you to the greatest mayor in the history of the greatest city, and my father, Rudy Giuliani. [cheers and applause] thank you. Well, i am very encouraged by the enthusiasm in this room. You know, i spent my whole life as a prosecutor. I can pick up crime. If you are committing a crime right back there, i could probably figure it out. [laughter] transcripts of closed door testimonies from various state Department Officials put Rudy Giuliani at the center of the Impeachment Inquiry. He is the president s personal lawyer. But now, his own actions in ukraine, ones that are being called shadow Foreign Policy, have put him and his associates under the microscope. The goal of this was to defraud the American Public. There was a reason that the former president was doing this, and the reason was in order to be able to tell the American Public that joe biden and his son were under criminal investigation. Theyre not disclosing that theres nothing to it. This quote, unquote Objective Investigation was bought and paid for. I would think if it was necessary. We can survive without a trip to dc. We can survive without, you know, any, like, energy deals with the us, or pretty much anything, with one huge exception, our Military Assistance, because were a country fighting a war with what used to be a superpower. And we rely on that Military Assistance to survive. When zelensky took office, his top Foreign Policy priority, certainly, was to show his people that he will maintain the relationship with the United States. [speaking russian] so you have to be seen with the american president. You have to pay a visit. You have to do a phone call. You have to go to the oval office and have a meeting. Thats how you demonstrate to your people that you are maintaining the alliances that are most important to ukraine. President trump understood that perfectly well, and he withheld it as political leverage. First, he delays a call with zelensky until zelensky will pressure his prosecutors to start the investigation. When zelensky wont do that, finally trump gets on the phone with him. And hes held up aid to ukraine. [tense music] which is really alarming when russia was on its doorstep. Then trump has the phone call with president zelensky and asks zelensky to open up the investigation, look into joe biden. And in the call, which donald trump forever refers to as the perfect call, he tells him, you know, i need a favor from you, though. I need you to do something for me. Ill read the first sentence, but the whole transcript is its useful to read it all in context. But the first sentence was where the thenpresident says, i would like you to do us a favor though, because our country has been through a lot, and ukraine knows a lot about it. And then he goes on to say, id like you to look into something and open an investigation. Whats stunning about this moment is that the people in the National Security council who have to listen in on this call, many of them, like, cut their eyebrows at each other, Cannot Believe what the president has just said. He has asked a foreign leader to investigate an american citizen or two or three. Its hard to imagine something more despicable. This is an nbc news special report. Heres savannah guthrie. Morning, everybody. Its 10 a. M. On the east coast, 7 a. M. Out west. We have Breaking News this morning. Its tied to the now impeachment investigation into President Trump. A lot of this renewed attention is focused on the president s phone call with the leader of ukraine and whether there was an inappropriate ask during that call. We are now starting to see the actual testimony from the depositions in the Impeachment Inquiry so far, the transcripts, and they are as damning as expected for the president and his allies. Theres no law that says you cant take in information from a foreigner. This was an innocent man who was being framed by a group of scoundrels. Where do we stand with this . And the role of Rudy Giuliani, in particular, the president s personal lawyer . What i did is perfectly lawful, perfectly legal. He had every right to do it as the president of United States. I actually found facts that are true. Its gonna finally all come out, and youre gonna find out that iti imagine, it was the greatest, biggest scandal in the history of this country. Rudy giuliani is a very famous man. You know, he has a long history in this country. Even today, after everything thats happened in his career, the crash and the burn, his words still carry a lot of weight. The bidens repeatedly have him be point man and the family walks out with millions of dollars, and the us gets screwed. Joe biden in a massive bribery scheme. Rudy and when you tell me that, you know, he should testify because hes gonna tell the truth, and he shouldnt worry, well, thats so silly because its somebodys version of the truth, not the truth. He didnt have a conversation trust is truth. I dont need to go, like no, it isnt truth. Truth isnt truth. The president of the United States says, i didnt truth is a truth. Mr. Mayor, do you realize what ii the idea behind this now famous line, truth isnt the truth is that truth is perception. If you can convince people that something is true, if you can make a certain idea part of the consensus belief among society, thats all you need for it to be called the truth. It doesnt have to match observable facts in nature. Truth is whatever people believe it to be. [explosions booming] [distant gunfire] [overlapping chatter] [tense music] this particularly alarming now. Now that weve seen Russian Armored tanks careen toward kyiv and the country of ukraine engaged in a hot war for its very existence. The idea that the an american president was holding up Military Assistance to this democracy that was literally fighting for survival, to serve his own personal political interests in United States. Where is hunter . Oh, hes in a country, i see. His father just left the country. Hes gonna scam them for a couple of bucks. This is an alarming moment in the abuse of power, and abuse of the presidency. To me as a prosecutor, the matter of politics, thats intolerable. If you sell out my country for money, youre a traitor. [applause] its criminal. Its, like, literally, its a hostage situation. 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I think americas mayor is the same guy that he was when he took down the mob. What im describing to you is a massive fraud. When he changed new york from the Rotting Apple to the safest city in the world. We cannot allow these crooks, cause thats what they are, to steal an election from the american people. When he was the hero that america needed after our darkest day. This is enough to overturn any election. Its disgraceful what happened. America might not have been ready for that truth, but thats why im so proud that he stood up. I think the truth of what happened in the 2020 election. The 2020 election hoax. Were gonna win this election. Weve actually won it. This election was rigged. Clearly illegal. Clearly voter fraud. Election night at the white house is a slightly tense affair. There are some key swing states that start to come in, and theyre not for trump. Rudy, as soon as he hears the first one, calls out, tell them we won. Just tell them we won. Insist that we won. Thats the strategy. People are kind of quizzical, like, what . Even mark meadows, the president s chief of staff, and most ardent supporters are, like, wait a minute. Rudys insistent. Just go on tv, say we won. And in the middle of the night, donald trump basically follows the Rudy Giuliani playbook by telling all of his followers who stayed up this late, we won. This is a fraud on the American Public. This is an embarrassment to our country. We were getting ready to win this election frankly, we did win this election. Most people go up to a certain point. Rudys the guy who takes five steps further. Not a single republican has been able to look at any one of these mail ballots. They could be from mars as far as were concerned. A lot of people said there might be some problem with the elections. Rudys the one who says, this is fraudulent and we can overturn this, and ive got the legal goods. And he didnt have anything of the sort. I cant give you all these affidavits, because if i do, these people will be harassed. Theyll be threatened. So Rudy Giuliani puts together this sort of bizarre team. We got attacked by china, and they flipped this election. Theres the my pillow guy. President trump is right that there was widespread fraud in this election. Jenna ellis. He could take military capabilities, and he could place them in those states and basically rerun an election. Michael flynn, the disgraced former general, you know, and a group of lawyers who probably couldnt get hired by a cgrade law firm. Theyre technically lawyers, but theyre willing to say, like, any damn thing. Theyre willing to say that the deceased president of venezuela somehow orchestrated a way to steal ballots and fly them to germany . The dominion voting systems, the Smartmatic Technology software, were created in venezuela at the direction of hugo chavez. Its loony, but so is qanon, and people believe that. We let this happen, were gonna become venezuela. At one point, Rudy Giuliani decides they were gonna do a Press Conference at the four seasons, but their operation is so incompetent, they wind up at, like, i think it might be, like, a massage parlor. Yes, the four seasons. But it was, like, the four seasons laundromat. Four seasons total landscaping. They end up at four seasons total landscaping. Apologies to four seasons. You are not a massage parlor. Youre a landscaping company. There are dead people voting. Will smiths father has voted here twice since he died. Just everythings going wrong. I mean, Rudy Giuliani at one point has, like, hair dye running down his face. He looks absurd. But trump responds to that. And trump, frankly, is a practitioner of the same kind of politics. And so they have constructed what is known as the big lie capital b, capital l, and till death do them part. Were headed to a very bad place. All right. The House Oversight committee will come to order. This isthis is a swindle. Its a con job. Its a theft of an election. So they start this whole process of Filing Lawsuit after lawsuit after lawsuit trying to overturn the election. Then a weird thing happens. Donald trump starts losing these cases, even in courtrooms where hed appointed the judges. So he put all these federal judges, Something Like 200 judges, on the federal bench. Hes like, im good. Theyre gonna do what i say because they owe me, i gave them their jobs. Hes still thinking like a mobster. They dont owe him, and they dont support him, and these cases get thrown out one after the other. It gets to, like, 60 something cases, and theyre just losing. It was embarrassing because of how quickly they were dismissed as frivolous and without any merit or facts. In the pennsylvania case, the judge basically said, you have no evidence of fraud. What would i base my decision on . Merry christmas. All [chanting] stop the steal stop the steal whats true to me may not be true to you, even though theres only one fact. I mean, the fact is, donald trump lost the president ial election by 7 million votes. Stop the steal and yet 40 some odd percent of the public, 70 some odd percent of republicans, dont believe thats true. I know the election was stolen. Thats why i am here. This insurrection against donald trump, against they stole the election. How do you communicate with people who, the divide is so large over facts . I dont know how you bridge that gap. And thats a dangerous gap. And Rudy Giuliani is on the nonfactual side of that gap. You know, ive seen him asked repeatedly, well, what is your best evidence that the election was stolen . And he just begins babbling. Its like turning on a computer that goes out of control. And he starts talking about this country and that country and down there and, you havent seen the movie. You havent seen 2000 mules or whatever. And i said, okay, lets say thats the greatest movie in the world. Who as a society do we trust . 60 state and federal judges, including eight federal judges that trump nominated to the bench, or a movie . And he said, the movie. In this postfact world, there are two kinds. There are the people who truly and sincerely believe whatever exciting falsehoods that they believe. And then there are ones who decide to pretend to believe, who are lying. And it was the big lie where he just encouraged the millions of people already believing the