contradicts what his client, the president had been saying. legal scholar laurence tribe tweeted, quote, this is nothing less than a confession that president trump was shaking down ukraine president zelensky not for the nation's benefit, but for the political benefit of donald j. trump as rudy's private client. we'll talk with professor tribe about that when he joins me a bit later on. back to george kent, he is going to answer questions again in the first day of public testimony next week. here to discuss, cnn senior political reporter nia-malika henderson, carl bernstein, plus chief cnn legal analyst and author jeffrey toobin. once again, jeff, rudy giuliani at the center of this, and in one tweet, essentially exposes his client. >> and the question has always been what was he doing and who was he doing it for? now his view is in the tweet that well, it was all just work as a defense attorney. so if that's the case, why is he