BREAKING: Lev Parnas to maddow: “President Trump knew exactly what was going on. He was aware of all my movements. I wouldn't do anything without the consent of Rudy Giuliani, or the president.'
Watch “The Rachel Maddow Show” at 9 p.m. ET / 8 p.m. CT to see her full interview with Parnas
"I mean they have no reason to speak to me. Why would President Zelenskiy’s inner circle, or Minister Avakov, or all these people, or President Poroshenko meet with me? Who am I? They were told to meet with me. And that's the secret that they're trying to keep. I was on the ground doing their work,” Parnas said.charged with making $325,000 in illegal straw donations
to a Trump super PAC, as well as giving $15,000 to a second committee among a flurry of political donations intended to help them advance the interests of a Ukrainian government official and a Russian national seeking to break into the cannabis industry.as part of the evidence turned over to the House impeachment investigators by lawyers for Parnas that show Giuliani requested a private meeting with Zelenskiy, then the president-elect of Ukraine, with Trump's"knowledge and consent.
The evidence turned over appears to bolsters Democrats' argument that Giuliani was doing Trump's bidding by trying to dig up dirt on political rival Joe Biden and the Democratic National Committee. An alleged campaign by Trump to pressure the Ukrainian president to announce investigations into Biden and his son, Hunter, who was appointed to the board of Ukrainian energy company Burisma in 2014 until he left last year, is at the center of impeachment articles approved by the House against Trump.
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