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Murray, thanks to both of you. Thanks for watching our msnbc special. Find me on weeknights. Its the beet, 6 00 p. M. Eastern. It started as a 30minute phone call between two president s. It erupted into a fullscale scandal that now threatens to bring down donald trump. Today im announcing the house of representatives is moving forward with an official impeachment inquiry. Our president sacrificed our National Security and our constitution for his personal political benefit. Theyve been trying to impeach me from the day i got elected. And you know what . They failed. Youve seen the headlines. ...

Why is rudy over there now, chris? because they're all corrupt. this whole trump team is corrupt. that's the bottom line. i think rudy giuliani ultimately ends up in jail for fara violations or some other type of violation related to disclosure and receiving foreign money. >> facing such serious legal consequences, you'd think donald trump's personal and tv lawyer, rudy giuliani, would opt to lay low, maybe even hide out at mar-a-lago if he needed a change of scenery. but no. instead, he did what any rational person eraiding national scrutiny would do, he went to europe to continue the preside...

Help giuliani with his conspiracy theories in exchange for, i don't know, some sort of guarantee that he will remain in his office. >> he saw the winds of power shifting, and he decides, i'll cooperate with giuliani, because it will help me, help me keep my job? is that what you're saying? >> this is what i'm saying. >> remember, the u.s. government has tremendous influence in ukraine. letsenko left office in august. could it be that he wants back in? what do you say to your critics who say that you are now trying to gain favor with the trump administration because you want your old job back? ...

And here's where the story gets interesting. ukraine's prosecutor general at the time was named victor shokin. it was his job to oversee the investigation into burisma. >> was he an effective prosecutor? >> totally uneffective. he was appointed with the idea to fight against corruption, to be independent. but he has no credibility and no ability to investigate. he is just crooked. >> shokin quickly earned a reputation for protecting powerful friends, including the exiled president, viktor yanukovych. protesters in kiev demanded that shokin be fired, and they weren't the only ones unhappy with ...

Prosecuting burisma, the gas company, or lots of other corruption issues. and there was a general agreement that it was time to get him out. >> viktor shokin was formally let go with a vote in ukraine's parliament. a new prosecutor general, yuri letsenko, took over the case and moved quickly. burisma was ordered to pay back taxes. hunter biden was found to have broken no laws because the corruption occurred before he joined the board. hunter left the burisma board early this year. >> letsenko as prosecutor general was saying, we solved the issue of burisma, case is closed. >> letsenko was the ...