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Director in charge of the sndy bill sweeney announcing the charges of the two men and among other men that the finance violations, they're not a technicality, not a civil issue, this is corruption, and they take it very seriously. they also noted that two of the men as they said a moment ago, parnas and presufruman were tryo flee the country last night. they were arrested by the fbi at dulles airport in virginia. joining me in virginia is nbc correspondent ken delanian. from capitol hill, geoff bennett, reuters white house correspondent jeff mason and here former u.s. assistant district attorn...

With protesters. those two both need a win. the question is, if we get a deal, what's in it? >> we'll keep an eye up. thanks for watching "velshi & ruhle." i'll see you back here at 3:00 p.m. >> i'll see you back here at 9:00 a.m. eastern. right now, we hand off to katy tur. >> it's 11:00 a.m. out west. 2:00 in washington. as the president claims he's the one fighting corruption in ukraine. two associates of his personal attorney rudy giuliani who were helping him investigate the bidens in that country have now been arrested and accused of corruption themselves. it is day 17 of the impeachme...

Agent of the criminal division and to his left, george kazami, the special agent in charge of corruption at the fbi. now, i'd like to invite to the podium, my very good friend, bill sweeney, for any comments you'd like to make. >> thanks, jeff. last night, at washington dulles international airport the fbi arrested lev parnas and igor fruman on campaign-related charges as they attempted to leave the united states. andre kukushkin was arrested shortly thereafter. david correia the fourth individual charged is not yet in our custody. campaign finance laws exist for a reason. the american people ...

We're concerned base of the integrity of bill barr. a lot of people are wondering if the southern district is still as independent as it used to be. i don't know, but this picture tells me they're still willing and able to do cases that do threaten not just the lawyer, friend, close associate of the president. for jack sekulow to get on and say is this has nothing to do with trump this morning is laughable, yeah, maybe the words in the dieindictment don't, but obviously this is where the roads were leading. this is the first step, this indictment. not the last step. not because they said they'...

Impeachable. i think it is time and beyond time for members of republican party to understand that this president has so reduced the values of american democracy, that they need to step up and reassert the authority of congress to investigate. and reassert the values that under gird the fidelity of our american elections. if we get a returned republican party i'll vote for it gladly because those mire conservative values but trump is no conservety. >> mimi, you worked at the sndy, talk to me what it means to you to see them so forcefully underscore. this is not a technicality. this is not friv...