Lev Parnas, an associate of Rudy Giuliani, says he saw President Trump order the US ambassador to Ukraine be ousted. The firing became part of the House impeachment inquiry.
It was one of several instances when Trump attempted to fire then-Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch, Parnas told CNN's Anderson Cooper in the latest installment of a wide-ranging interview that aired Thursday night. Parnas, a Soviet-born businessman, has become a central figure in the campaign to pressure Ukrainian officials to investigate Trump's political rivals.
Parnas said that the first adviser in Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky's orbit that he met with last year was Ivan Bakanov, who is now one of the senior-most intelligence officials in Ukraine. Parnas said the first thing he did after sitting down with Bakanov was take out his phone and call Giuliani."I put him on speakerphone, and Rudy ... told him that I represent the President of the United States, and that everything I say to be taken with that authority," Parnas told CNN.
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