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Division trying to distance himself from it. and i think what it says is there's something that we don't yet know about the department's involvement in the ukraine scandal. it probably has to do with nothe early days when they squashed a full investigation. it was the head of the criminal investigation who's taking the heat for squashing that investigation. there's something i think we don't know that's still to come out and because of that, everyone at the department is running as far and as fast as they can from rudy giuliani and anything touching ukraine. >> and mimi, president saying he do...

Meeting in the first place, rudy is a walking conflict of interest. when he comes in anddepartment, speaking on the behalf of the client he's there ostensibly representing or speaking for his other client, the president of the united states? we saw where he basically took over the state department, rubbing the orub i running the off department, rubbing th the books -- expected to report to rudy giuliani. you have to wonder if you give him an answer that he doesn't like about his client, is he going to go report you to your boss, the president of the united states? it's a very problematic situa...

Say had we known that giuliani's associates were under investigation, we wouldn't have met with giuliani. those two things don't necessarily follow. if associates of mine, and i'm a defense attorney, are under investigation, but i, you know, have nothing to do with that investigation, that doesn't -- there's no reason why i couldn't get a meeting with the department of justice. it's only if that investigation has to do with me. and, remember, the southern district, the department of justice, has never officially confirmed that rudy giuliani is under investigation. so this seems to me like an i...

Now that he is under investigation by the u.s. attorney in manhattan, an investigation that some members f the william barr justice department did not know about when they had a meeting with rudy giuliani recently. it was a kind of routine meeting that defense lawyers have with prosecutors all the time. rudy giuliani was there as a member of the defense team on an unrelated case. now that everyone in the justice department knows that rudy giuliani is under investigation by the u.s. attorney in new york after that story broke publicly, the justice department had to issue a formal statement of r...