We're just getting started tonight. One hour's not enough to deal with what we've seen already and what we're going to see this week.

So you're watching White House in Crisis, the impeachment inquiry taking a look at the big picture.

We're going to step back and put the pieces of this giant jigsaw together.

Now, let's step back a little bit further. While this inquiry is about what the president did and why he did it,

how he used tools at his disposal to benefit himself, that's the whole mix.

That may not even be the root of the problem.

There's evidence that the Ukraine plot may have been driven by even larger forces.

Like what?

Money.

Russian interests potentially involving Rudy Giuliani's indicted associates.

For a look, here's Drew Griffin tonight with a new CNN investigation.

You probably don't know Dale Perry, but history may record this energy executive as one of the first who sounded the alarm about what would become President Trump's impeachment inquiry.

In April, Perry's former business partner Andrew Favarov, now a director

at Ukraine's state-owned gas company, Naftagas, says two shady characters had approached him

with a secret plan to take over the management inside Naftagas. Those two shady characters,

Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman, are two low-level

Soviet-born businessmen from South Florida, and they were trying to clear the way for their

own gas business. They basically just flat out said to him, hey, to do the deals we want to do,

we're not able to get through to your CEO,

and we think that the business needs a new CEO. The current one is in our way, and the current

one has the support of the U.S. ambassador, and so this is where the meeting then became very

strange and disturbing, actually, to Andrew.

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