President Donald Trump's lawyer claimed to have met a top Ukrainian official at the request of the State Department.
about President Donald Trump's conduct towards Ukraine. In a call with Ukraine's President Zelensky, Trump urged him to investigate former vice president Joe Biden, a leading candidate for the Democratic nomination in 2020.
"Volker and Sondland congratulated me for what I was doing," Giuliani said."[Volker] should step forward and explain what he did. The whistleblower falsely alleges that I was operating on my own. Well, I wasn't operating on my own. "Four, five conversations later I met with him, that was in Madrid, I reported back to them a rather lengthy conversation. I spoke to Ambassador Sondland four times, I spoke to Volker eight times. They basically knew everything I was doing."Giuliani said his discussions with Ukrainian officials were conducted with the authorization and at the request of the State Department.
The former New York City mayor added:"They're all over me, you know, asking me to do it. I was happy to do it. I helped my country get this relationship in good shape."
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