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War veteran and cnn contributor with a passion on the subject will join me this hour. welcome to "the lead." i'm jake tapper. we begin with the breaking news. two of rudy giuliani's so-called expert witnesses to find alleged corruption by trump's opponents were arrested today by the u.s. department of justice for, quote, corrupt behavior. led barnas. said his ukrainian operation is to help his client, the president. they were arrested at dulles airport last night holding one-way tickets out of the country, according to two u.s. officials, prompting prosecutors to today unseal this indictment...

>> it's such an open and shut case in my mind. it's astonishing that there is something that could condemn this behavior. republicans are afraid of donald trump and they're afraid of the trump supporters. i don't find that to be a super compelling argument when you're looking at -- obviously, corrupt behavior, right? it's just absolutely corrupt. there's no question, there's no way to shade it in a way where it's not corrupt. it certainly rises to the level of impeachment and yet i think you're not going to see -- there's been a lot of talk about will republicans turn against trump. and, you k...

You served as a trump adviser who has since opposed the president after the mueller report. are you hearing anything behind the scenes, and if so, what are you hearing? >> well, the friends i have over at treasury department, the financial regulators, white house all tell me the same thing about him they've said from the beginning, they see his flaws. they're not blind. they're hoping to do good policy. we haven't talked about this most recent scandal, but what i get from them is either, you know, i kind of secretly agree with you or at least i admire what you're doing and understand it. the o...

Unlawful, unconstitutional, corrupt behavior. and if republicans, and here's the big difference between watergate and what we're seeing now. if republicans are willing to go along with this, it is going to change our history. because republicans became the heroes in watergate who finally said, we cannot tolerate a corrupt president who undermines our electoral system and this is far worse than just undermining the electoral system given the rhetoric and what we've seen of the president's unraveling in the last week or two. >> doug what do you think about that in terms of how much republicans o...