I'm Brian Lerer. This is my daily politics podcast from WNYC Studios. It's Thursday, April 29th.

As you may have heard, FBI agents yesterday executed a search warrant in Rudy Giuliani's Manhattan apartment and office,

seizing cell phones and computers. Giuliani, the former mayor, obviously, as well as lawyer for

Trump and former U.S. attorney, has been the focus of an investigation for the past two years

regarding his activities in Ukraine. Also in question whether he conducted

illegal lobbying for Ukrainian officials while he pushed for an investigation into Joe Biden

when Biden was running for president. Joining me now to break down the latest, including why it's

such a big deal, to search any lawyer in the first place, no less this one,

are Andrea Bernstein, WNYC, senior editor and the author of American oligarchs, the Kushners,

the Trumps, and the Marriage of Money and Power, NILU Merits, WNYC, senior reporter,

and many of you know they were the co-hosts of the WNYC ProPublica podcast,

Trump, Inc. about Trump's business empire.

Hey, Andrea.

Hey, Elia.

Welcome back to the show.

Hey, Brian.

So, Andrea, give people more background on why Giuliani is being investigated by the FBI in the

first place?

Yeah.

So this stems from a series of business relationships that emerged around the time of Trump's

first impeachment.

Trump, while he was going around Ukraine, speaking to corrupt former prosecutors there

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