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The House Judiciary Committee heard evidence presented by Democratic and Republican lawyers today

in advance of presenting its articles of impeachment.

A lot of the evidence has to do with the president's personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani.

The president might be the reluctant star of this impeachment shit show,

but none of this would have been possible where not for Rudy Giuliani whispering Ukraine

conspiracies in the president's ear.

We've talked plenty about the actions Rudy took to bring President Trump to the

bring of impeachment, but today we're going to explain how exactly Rudy ended up in this mess to begin with.

And we asked Andrew Kertzmann to help.

I'm a veteran political reporter.

I wrote a book called Rudy Giuliani Emperor of the City and Simon and Schuster just

assigned me to write a second book about Giuliani.

I wonder why?

Why would they want a second book about Rudy Giuliani right now?

Well, I wrote the first book 19 years ago and his story has become, if anything, more epic.

If epic is not the first word that comes to mind when you think of Rudolph, the former mayor,

here's just a slice of what's on his plate right now.

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