Rudy Giuliani Says He's Heading to Ukraine: Is It An Attempt to Discredit Former VP Biden?
COOPER: President Trump's television lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, says he'll travel to Ukraine shortly to meet that nation's newly elected president. Now, that's about the only thing that's straightforward in a tangled story of 2020 politics and former Vice President Biden. 360's Randi Kaye now with a strange road map.</s>RUDY GIULIANI, PRESIDENT TRUMP'S ATTORNEY: All I want the Ukrainian government to do is investigate and don't let these people buffalo you.</s>RANDI KAYE, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Rudy Giuliani has questions, and he's hoping to find the answers in Ukraine, drawing yet another foreign nation into a U.S. election. The president's lawyer wants to know whether or not Joe Biden used his political power as vice president to shut down an investigation into a Ukrainian company his son, Hunter Biden, was working with.</s>GIULIANI: It's a big story, it's a dramatic story, and I guarantee you, Joe Biden will not get to election day without this being investigated. It will be a massive scandal.</s>KAYE: Giuliani says he stumbled upon the Biden story while investigating Democrats' alleged efforts to spread misinformation about Trump. He claimed to CNN that in 2016 as part of a broad anti- corruption push by the U.S., then Vice President Biden pressured the Ukrainian government to oust its top prosecutor. He claims that prosecutor was investigating the Ukrainian company called Burisma Holdings, a natural gas company which Biden's son, Hunter, was on the board of. (on camera): After that prosecutor's removal, Ukraine's new prosecutor dismissed the case against the company. There is no evidence that Joe Biden acted improperly. In fact Bloomberg reports the Ukrainian government's case against Burisma, the company, had been dormant since 2014. That would have been two years before Biden pushed to remove the prosecutor. Giuliani told "The New York Times," which first reported this story, he's not meddling in an election, but he's meddling in an investigation, which he said he has the right to do. He claimed there's nothing illegal about it and this isn't foreign policy. Giuliani says he's planning to visit Kiev to dig deeper. His efforts to entangle yet another foreign nation in our elections isn't lost on those in Washington investigating the president.</s>REP. JERROLD NADLER (D-NY): We've come to a very sorry state when it's considered okay for an American politician, never mind an attorney for the president, to go and seek foreign intervention in American politics.</s>KAYE: Giuliani is also calling for the Department of Justice to investigate Biden and says the president agrees. But if the goal in all of this is to damage Biden's campaign, the candidate hardly seems bothered. The Biden campaign referred CNN to a statement it had given to "The New York Times," claiming Biden acted on Ukraine without any regard for how it would or would not impact his son's business interests. Randi Kaye, CNN, New York.</s>COOPER: Well, still ahead, another community grieving after another mass shooting. A brave young man killed, eight others wounded. They aren't the only victims -- their families are friends are now living with a grief that few can imagine. We want to introduce you to a couple coming up who know their pain and now make it their mission to help survivors find the purpose and strength to live what they call their new normal. It's a story you don't want to miss, next.