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Laura Coates Live

Interview with Rep Gregory Meeks

Laura Coates Live

CNN

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3.92.5K Ratings

🗓️ 5 November 2019

⏱️ 40 minutes

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0:00.0

Everybody, I am Chris Cuomo. Welcome to Prime Time. Turns out, President Trump has a couple of guys on the inside.

0:07.0

We have no information. Some big Republican names could be in big trouble.

0:12.0

We got a senior impeachment investigator here and brand new reporting on a suspicious Ukrainian money trail.

0:18.0

Could it lead back to Rudy Giuliani? A wild week, but you have to see it for what matters.

0:24.0

So let's get after it.

0:31.0

The way I see it, there are three big headlines. First, all roads to ruin, run through Rudy Giuliani.

0:37.0

And tonight, there's a new superhighway of suspicion. According to sources, indicted Giuliani associate Lev Parnas was being bankrolled by a wanted Ukrainian oligarch with ties to Russia.

0:52.0

His name is Dmitry Fertash and he was bankrolling private jets, limos, bodyguards and lots and lots of cash right around the time that Parnas was giving half a million dollars to Giuliani.

1:07.0

Why? We don't know the connection, but this is not good. Any way you look at it.

1:12.0

And is this why the feds are examining Mr. Giuliani's financial records? Second, the height of hypocrisy.

1:19.0

The NN has learned, as I said at the top of the show, some of the loudest members of the impeachment resistance, Jim Jordan, the ranking member of the oversight committee, and fellow oversight committee member Mark Meadows, they've been sitting in on all these closed door depositions.

1:32.0

Now we find out then they're going to talk to the White House. That's right. They're accused essentially of pulling anunis as in Devon, the former head of the Intel committee who had to recuse himself for running to Trump with committee material.

1:46.0

Now to be fair, Jordan tells CNN he's never divulged information to the White House that should not be divulged. Meadows says Jim Jordan and I have tried to abide by the rules as much as we possibly can.

2:00.0

I invite both on the show on a regular basis. The White House has not responded to a request for comment.

2:07.0

But look, lawmakers involved in helping craft the president's defense strategy is not good. What could they tell him that is not in public circulation? That would be okay.

2:22.0

Third, a CNN source confirms Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vindman said he raised concerns about that July 25th call to NSC lawyer John Eisenberg, okay? Part of the White House staff.

2:35.0

Guess what he was told in response? Stay quiet. Say nothing. Politico, which first reported the part of the story, says a few days after Eisenberg told Vindman allegedly, his team moved the transcript of the call to the highly classified server.

2:54.0

And then again, he told Vindman, don't tell anyone about the call. Eisenberg was subpoenaed tonight. He scheduled to testify Monday, simple question. Why tell Vindman, and then move the transcript into a secret server if the call was so perfect?

3:14.0

So what does this all mean in terms of the scope of how the Democrats see impeachment? All right. So we got a great guest for that tonight.

3:23.0

We're going to talk to one of the senior members of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Congressman Gregory Meeks of New York. Great to have you here. Thanks for waiting for me. Right at the desk. I hope I didn't bore you. How could you be bored by this?

3:36.0

So let's start with the last. Vindman says, I went to the White House and see lawyer Eisenberg. I said, I got problems with this. And he says, say nothing. If true relevance.

3:49.0

Very relevant because then you're looking at a cover up that goes straight to the heart of the matter. And I'm not going to, you know, I've sat in on part of that testimony. So I'm not going to talk about that.

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