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The white house despite those complaints, though, about the process and not being involved as of now we're learning, brooke, the white house is unlikely to actually send a lawyer to participate in those hearings despite the invitation from house democratses. brooke? >> wow. jeremy, thank you, from west palm beach. open up the conversation. jennifer is back with me and michael bach, associate director of office of management and budget in omb 2006-2008 now a law partner at gibbs and dunn specializing in white collar defense and congressional investigation. michael, welcome. let me just say on w...

Dirt-digging effort and allied with president trump. they proposed various other contracts also never executed with other ukrainian government officials. there was a duelling relationship. doing dirt to help the president and the other hand trying to get paid by the ukrainians who are helping them with that. >> got it. michael, thank you very much for breaking this and coming on from the "new york times." >> thank you. >> dig a little deeper in addition to that "new york times" reporting, the "washington post" broke news that rudy giuliani was specifically pursuing a $200,000 contract to repre...

Transcript. it was released for him. he was a career white house budget staffer. sandy said two staffers who left their jobs at omb expressed frustration over this money being withheld. omb denies that. it's my understanding you know mark sandy. michael, can you tell me about him? >> sure. yeah. i mean, mark -- i've worked -- we didn't overlap at omb but he came right over and i've worked with mark. she a dedicated career official. one of the highest level career officials at omb. you have to understand they're 92%, 93% career. look, he was trying to do the right thing. i think there are quest...

Michael, thank you. nice to have you on. jen, thank you very much. jennifer rogers. still ahead, the other wrinkle in the ran r rapidly developing news about rudy giuliani, president trump's around efforts to distance himself from his personal attorney. later, new 2020 polls putting joe biden squarely on top in the 2020 pack. i talk to the author of an opinion piece who says former president barack obama is wrong that being a moderate is not a winning strategy for democrats. you're watching cnn. i'm brooke baldwin. we will be right back. (chime) (shaq) magenta? i hate cartridges! not mag...

Government to conduct an investigation on joe biden and the 2016 presidential election, that giuliani was meantime also seeking hundreds of thousands of dollars in business from ukraine's government officials. so let's go straight to one of the reporters who broke the story. michael roughfield on the investigative team. thank you for jumping on with me. you tell me what you're learning about what giuliani was doing, sounds like without an employment contract? what was in the works for him with mr. lutsenko. >> we reviewed drafts and in fact retainer agreements that mr. giuliani signed with var...