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This story is a fitting end to another wild, even surreal week in Washington. NBC News has reported that Rudy Giuliani, President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer, “butt-dialed” one of the network’s reporters, Rich Schapiro, and inadvertently left a voicemail mentioning Bahrain and a need for money. Giuliani and Shapiro…

Saturday Night Live has posted a digital-only sketch on Giuliani & Associates, the fictional law firm helmed by – wait for it – presidential adviser Rudolph Giuliani and some suspiciously sketchy colleagues. “We may not have passed the bar, but we’ve certainly lowered it,” crows the assemblage, which featured Kate McKi…

UPDATE, 7:10 a.m. PT Saturday: Joe Biden, at another fundraiser on Friday, said that President Donald Trump had “indicted himself,” telling a crowd of about 160 people that Trump “acknowledged that he asked three different countries to dig up ‘dirt’, any information that can get.” Speaking at the hime of media…

Hillary Clinton (and her daughter) are on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert tonight, which is solid timing with all the bombshell reporting today regarding that infamous phone chat involving the presidents of the United States and Ukraine. And a few other folks, apparently. The former Secretary of State discusses the…

Rudy Giuliani was subpoenaed on Monday for a series of documents as House Democrats pursue an impeachment inquiry. In seeking the documents by an October 15 deadline, three Democratic committee chairmen cited comments that Giuliani made in a recent interview with CNN’s Chris Cuomo. “During an interview on CNN, Chris…

Rudy Giuliani appeared on Fox Business Network on Monday, a day after Joe Biden’s presidential campaign sent out a letter to the networks asking them not to book President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer for “pushing out outlandish falsehoods and disinformation.” Giuliani addressed the Biden campaign letter right off…

Joe Biden’s presidential campaign is asking the networks to stop booking Rudy Giuliani, writing that President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer “has made very clear that his only obligation is to protect Donald Trump, and that he will willingly lie to do so.” In a letter to the networks, campaign officials Anita Dunn…

As cable news pundits stewed over a wild day in Washington, one that culminated in House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s announcement that Democrats were launching an impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump, NBC News’ Andrea Mitchell took the stage at the News & Documentary Emmys to receive a lifetime achievement…

Refresh for updates. It didn’t take long for social media to start chiming in about the release of a summary of Robert Mueller’s report. When Attorney General William Barr made the four-page summary public, it was found that “the special counsel's investigation did not find that the Trump campaign or anyone associated…

President Donald Trump’s former fixer Michael Cohen has postponed his testimony before the House Oversight Committee, citing threats from President Donald Trump and lawyer Rudy Giuliani against his family. In what TV news pundits had been eagerly describing as Must See TV, Cohen had volunteered to testify before the…

Presidential lawyer Rudy Giuliani changed Thursday morning news programs’ plans after he appeared on CNN the previous night to, once again, move the collusion goalpost. This time he insisted to Chris Cuomo that he never said there was no collusion between Trump’s campaign and Russia. “I never said there was no…