The more we continue to learn from the Ukraine scandal, the more Rudy Giuliani and Devin Nunes continue to pop up.

That was the new revelation from the 300-page impeachment-inquiry report that Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee released on Tuesday.

The report contains call records — as early as from April — with Giuliani speaking with the White House’s Office of Management and Budget, and with Nunes, the ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee, speaking with Giuliani, plus recently indicted Lev Parnas.

“It’s unclear what legitimate purpose the president’s personal lawyer would have to speak at length with the White House Office of Management and Budget. But the revelation is likely to fuel arguments from House Democrats that Giuliani was intimately involved in a scheme to use U.S. taxpayer dollars as leverage to advance Trump’s personal political interests,” NBC’s Josh Lederman writes.

As for Nunes, he didn’t deny he spoke with Parnas. “It’s possible,” Nunes told Fox News’ Sean Hannity when asked if he talked with him. “But I haven’t gone through all of my phone records. I really don’t recall that name. I remember that name now, because he’s been indicted.”

Hmmmmm.

More than anything else, the phone records seem to undercut the GOP’s argument that President Trump and his administration were sincerely concerned about corruption in Ukraine.

If so, why was Giuliani — the president’s personal lawyer — speaking with folks at OMB?

Impeachment inquiry update: Today’s history lesson

Beginning at 10:00 am ET today, the House Judiciary Committee will hold its first impeachment-inquiry hearing – with four constitutional scholars discussing how the nation’s Founding Fathers viewed impeachment and impeachable offenses, per NBC’s Alex Moe.

NBC’s Geoff Bennett notes that three of the scholars are Democratic witnesses: Harvard’s Noah Feldman, Stanford’s Pamela Karlan, and the University of North Carolina’s Michael Gerhardt.

And one is a Republican witness: George Washington University’s Jonathan Turley. Read more

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