Rudy G.................a constant at New York Yankee games.............who won the World Series.........right before 9/11/2001............the 2000 World Series........by beating another NYC team.........the Mets..........

Rudy G..........was mayor of NYC.........................at the time of the 9/11/2001..........terrorist attacks.......

He's been urged along by his private attorney, Rudy Giuliani, who told CNN on Thursday evening that he'd pressed Ukrainian officials to investigate Biden and his son. Giuliani has maintained that he has been acting on his own and not at the direction of the President as he meets with Ukrainian officials. But Giuliani is aware that the issue has gotten Trump's attention, according to the people familiar with the situation. And Trump has raised it multiple times, in person and on the phone.

A source close to the White House who is familiar with Trump's comments said the President has been seething for months about Ukraine and Biden. The source described Trump as "angry" about what he sees as a liability for the former vice president. The source also said Giuliani has been "egging him on."

Trump told reporters on Friday that "somebody ought to look into" the Biden matter, and said that "it doesn't matter what I discussed" during a July phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. CNN reported on Friday that in that call, Trump pressed Zelensky to investigate Biden's son. Trump is due to meet next Wednesday with Zelensky in New York.

Trump was not initially interested in meeting with Zelensky or engaging with him, viewing him as an extension of the country's previous leader, President Petro Poroshenko. Trump believed Ukraine was a corrupt country that wasn't committed to reform, according to people familiar with his thinking at the time.