Transcripts For MSNBC The Rachel Maddow Show 20240924

This is how b[intriguing music]er i was a Nursing Student and going to Cal State la, and, you know, hanging out and doing what most 20, 21yearolds do. And i was dragged to this club, and there was Lev Parnas. Gold chain and his cartier glasses and his Christian Audigier goldfoiled hoodie. He said he was in la to produce a movie. The evening went by. We were talking. We were relating. Me and lev are both immigrants from ukraine. Similar background, similar upbringing. The foundation, its still the soviet union. The next day, he shows up in a Stretch Limo in front of my house to pick me up for lunch. Its just a certain way that they produce people out of Russia And Ukraine thats different than anywhere else. He proposed four days later, and we were married within six months. All of our friends and family thought we were completely off our rockers. It was like, nobody matters. Nothing you say can stop us. Like, thats it. Its like beyonce and jayz, bonnie and clyde. Like, lets do this. Were going to conquer the world. I dont think you could have convinced me with anything that this is where we would be in 2024. Lev parnas. Lev parnas. Lev parnas. Lev parnas. Lev parnas. Parnas. The shady and indicted ukrainian Businessman Lev parnas. That he would be involved in one of the biggest scandals. President trump pressured the head of ukraine to pursue an investigation into Joe Biden. My call was perfect. Having to do with our birth country, ukraine, having to deal with President S of ukraine and of the united states. Parnas Is A recently indicted goon who worked with giuliani to help Trump Blackmail Ukraine into investigating Joe Biden. The impeachment of President Donald Trump is here. Lev parnas, he is now talking and he has documents to back up his words. Parnas implicated several top Trump Administration officials including the president himself. Were you relying on Lev Parnas to get rid of your ambassador . No. I mean, who does that . What happened . What happened . Lev happened. Democrats are really scraping the bottom of the barrel if they think that Lev Parnas is their star witness. Lev parnas, he Is A creepy, sleazy, selfserving super snitch. He will do and say anything he can. Think im crazy, but i really thought im going to get the medal of honor. Boy, was i wrong. [laughs] [whimsical music] so i was born in odessa, ukraine, february 6, 1972. My father used to own underground factories. During communism, you werent allowed to have your own business. People that were caught running these types of factories would get the Death Sentence. We emigrate to the united states in 1976 when i was four years old. We had friends and family that were all immigrating to a little Town Right by coney island. It was brighton beach, and we called it little odessa. [upbeat music] it was kind of like one big family. We all came from the same persecution. And we all wanted the same thing, which was the american dream. Certain individuals started leading and taking control of the neighborhood. People like my father that were businessmen in the soviet union, what you now call russian Organized Crime. When my father passed away, and i was 11 years old, i had to get more involved into that world. While other kids were going to school, i was on the streets hustling, and the girl i was dating, her uncle happened to be one of the leaders in that Organized Crime group. And i ended up working for him as a runner collecting money. So now fast forward. [tape whirs] i made some really good money over the next several years in russia. Import, export. I probably had every most powerful russian, ukrainian, exsoviet union businessman, mobster there to do business. At some point, it became too crazy. People were dying left and right and i saw it was my time to exit. One day, i decided to give my Cousin Oleg a call. Come on by, lets grab some sushi. I wanted to impress him. So here oleg is, pulling up in this red ferrari. Gets out in a pinstripe suit, looking like, you know, A Million bucks. And i look at him, i said, who did you kill . He goes, no, its called Wall Street. If anybodys seen the movie the wolf of Wall Street, that didnt do it justice. My first day in the office, i see guys doing lines on the table. You got guys smoking weed in the corner. Its just a bunch of young guys running around with headphones and screaming crazy numbers. That was my initiation into Wall Street. These were largely boiler rooms. They were lowlevel Brokerage Houses, not very well known. And lev was on the hustle. Three of the Brokerage Houses that he worked for had been expelled for violations of fraud. All of a sudden, everybody started getting arrested, and the news started coming up with the mob on Wall Street. My friends were going to prison, and i decided, you know, its time to exit. My Cousin Oleg was opening another office in boca raton, florida, and he was looking for people to work there. Boca raton, florida, here we come. [upbeat music] the palm trees, the oceans, the warm sunny weather it was a paradise. But there was also an opportunity for every fraudster in the world because you had a lot of retirees. I ended up working for the same Mobbedup Penny Stock mobsters doing the same shit we were doing in New York. [laughs] 2008, the great recession hits, and My Life goes upside down. I lose my wife, i lose my cars, i lose my business. I kind of started looking for a new path in life. I got approached by one of my friends that said, would you be willing to open up some Poker Rooms In Beverly Hills . The next thing you know, here i am, running illegal poker games on top of rodeo drive. Our clientele was the whos who. If you ever seen mollys game the movie stars, directors, and Business Titans they were going all in all the time. Thank you, molly. This is for you. Thats it. And that was us. At the same time, i was introduced to this hollywood producer, rudy durand. He discovered brooke shields. He was jack nicholsons good friend. And he had this script that he was dying to do. The main characters were supposed to be jack Nicholson And Mark wahlberg. Now here i am, running at Night Poker games and during the day running around with some of the most powerful people in hollywood, trying to put together a movie called memory of an assassin. I had no idea about the movie business, but i was a salesman. And i ended up going out there and finding investors. Hes always been someone that is doing a lot at the same time. Serial entrepreneur. Yeah. For sure. Serial father, too. [laughs] lev Is A super likable guy. You know what i mean . He makes a joke, and im like, ah. [laughs] oh, lev. Youre so crazy. [laughs] lev is kind of a lovable character. He is charismatic. Hes full of energy, full of piss and vinegar. You cant forget lev. Ive never met anyone that has not recalled meeting lev. While living the life of adam, i met a very special person. Little did i know that this person would end up being the love of My Life. [coughs] excuse me. Im a little bit hoarse. Four days later, i dropped to one knee at 4 oclock in the morning, and i proposed to her with a jar of pickles. And she said yes. I was going to be Wife Number 3, but Baby Mama Number 4. It was like, ok, enough. You have kids. All of the kids are in florida. So for me, it was immediately, i have to move. I became an instant mom. I was a young woman. But then once you have three kids, instantly, you get really old really quickly. The Movie Deal fell apart back then in 2010. It would eventually be made later on without me, with liam neeson, called memory. We all have to die. Thats important. Thats what you do before you go. I got retained December Of 2017 to go after a character named Lev Parnas about a judgment. Tony andre. [laughs] Tony Andre Is A miami lawyer. A great guy. But he was the root of all my problems. He was retained by a gentleman called michael pues. Pues was an investor in the Movie Deal that i was doing with rudy durand. Mr. Pues lent money from the trust that took care of his elderly mother. Seven years later, hes still out his 350 grand, which is now 500,000, if you count postjudgment interest. He was like a real pit bull. Once he got Subpoena Power through the judgment, My Life turned into a living hell. On paper, lev looked like a terrible collection, all the earmarks of a bum case. I think to call him a typical Miami Hustler would do the game a disservice. [laughter] now to the race for the White House. And after decades of very publicly flirting with the idea, billionaire Donald Trump says he really is running for president this time around. Watching him come out, going down those golden escalator. Theyre bringing drugs. Theyre bringing crime. Theyre rapists. I mean, ive never voted. Had nothing to do with politics. I was never registered. But he wasnt a politician. He was a New York hustler. And we could relate. Im working with a big Real Estate company. Were out in a restaurant. Robert pereira, i met for the first time that evening, he was a very, very wealthy businessman and also a powerful person in the republican party. And they had ties close to trump. At first, i was extremely excited to meet this guy because of my Real Estate project. So that night, we come up with this crazy idea, is were going to hold a huge fundraiser at roberts house. This is the la palas. I mean, its 140 Million house with golden chandeliers, golden doors. So while robert is basically figuring out how were going to raise this money for Donald Trump, im more excited about how im going to have 20 Robert Pereiras in the same room, where i could pitch my real Estate Deal to. Until all of a sudden, its breaking news. Trump Tape Bombshell Donald Trump caught on a hot mic months after marrying melania, making vulgar comments about groping women, saying, when youre a star, they let you do it. Its a shit show. People are canceling left or right. We were able to salvage it. And that was my very first donation, 50,000 to the Donald Trump campaign. But something happened that night. We were like two seats away from trump, and lev piped in and said something. And instantly, it was like, No One Else was in the room. And the two of them were just talking. The moment that really got me is when i asked him, i said, why are you doing this . And he looked out into the ocean, and then stared back at us and said, you know what . I dont need to be doing this. Im doing this for the regular folk, for the common people. Im trying to stop them from destroying our country. And at that moment, it was something that hit me. At that moment, i was mesmerized, cultanized, hypnotized i was trumponized. 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Well, thats because hed rather have a puppet as President Of The United States. No puppet. No puppet. And its pretty clear youre the puppet. After that, trump said, i want you guys with me on Election Night at the hilton in New York. [energetic music] it was such a Roller Coaster of a night. All, like, sitting there nervous, trying to pray our way to having trump win. For Hillary Clinton, one of the most stunning defeats in american political history. Donald trump will be the 45th President Of The United States. It was like, our guy made it. Finally, were going to get back on track. Back to that, you know, make america great again. And the crazy part, i didnt vote, but we still won. [laughs] i love this country. Shortly after that, we found out that we were invited to the inauguration. It didnt take long for word to spread. Lev was just like the trump guy. During this wild ride, i started documenting, taking pictures of everything and posting them on social media. All of a sudden, i started getting Phone Calls from everybody i knew or didnt know in the russianukrainian community wanting to be my friend. Everybody wanted to go to the inauguration. They do a great job for the people in this country, so whoo. Whoo. Its hilarious to see all these characters from my previous Life Mafia kingpins, oligarchs hugging, sitting vip, and interacting with all of these republican congressmen and senators. It was very interesting for me always, not only watching the Way Lev was interacting, but the Way Everyone Kind of accepted lev. You wouldnt really come up to trump and say, hey, my brother. How you doing . Lev did. In a year and a half, i went from not knowing anything about what politics is to now being in the Inner Circle of the president. Lev was just in a State Of Shock that he was at this level. This Is A guy who Is An immigrant and who is living large. Larger than he ever dreamed. I, donald john trump, do solemnly swear. [trumpets playing] there are also plenty of congratulations being extended to the President Elect, including those of vladimir putin. [speaking russian] putin said today, hes ready to open a new chapter with the us. I would have a very, very good relationship with putin and with russia. Washington post is reporting that President Trump revealed highlyclassified information to the russian foreign Minister And Ambassador during a meeting in the Oval Office last week. The White House blindsided tonight as the Department Of Justice reveals that they will appoint a Special Counsel to now oversee the Fbi Investigation into russian meddling and any possible collusion. And then they launched the Robert Mueller investigation. The man now leading the investigation, former Fbi Director Robert mueller. Theyre weaponizing the doj to go after Donald Trump because they cant stand that he won. Us officials believe russia not only tried to influence the election, but also worked to help Donald Trump defeat Hillary Clinton. Over a month before the election, us Intelligence Agencies accused the russian government of hacking emails from the democratic national committee and Hillary Clintons campaign. My people, they said, they think its russia. President putin, he just said its not russia. I dont see any reason why it would be. President trump and those working with him had scores of contacts with russians and wikileaks, including attempts at setting up back channels with the kremlin. I have nothing to do with russia, folks, ok . The Russia Cloud over the trump White House seems to be darkening. Paul manafort and a deputy campaign official, rick gates, will turn themselves in to face charges. 12 counts, conspiracy against the united states, unregistered agent of a foreign principal. Paul manafort was working for free as trumps campaign manager. But in reality, he used to get paid by russian and ukrainian oligarchs. Paul manafort, he was doing work in ukraine that was very definitely prorussian. The entire thing has been a Witch Hunt. This investigation is nothing more than a Witch Hunt. Five defendants have pleaded guilty. Its only a Witch Hunt if you dont find any witches. Theres a great effort on the part of the Trump Administration to turn the tide. On collusion, they have nothing. They have nothing. Its Somebodys Version of The Truth, not The Truth. Truth isnt truth. Giuliani takes this narrative and turns it into ukraine. It wasnt trump and the russians that meddled in the 2016 election. It was actually hillary and the ukrainians. Its ukrainian collusion, which was large, significant, and proven, with Hillary Clinton, with the democratic national committee. The real collusion scandal, as weve said several times before, has everything to do with the clinton campaign. So thats where i think the Mueller Team should be investigating, which is the real crime, which is the clinton collusion. All of a sudden, my old friend, somebody that i havent seen for a while, Igor Fruman, comes back into My Life. Igor fruman was a ukrainianamerican citizen that had lots of businesses overseas, primarily in ukraine. He had restaurants, he had nightclubs. One of them was called the mafia rave club. [laughs] [electronic music] in ukraine, igor knew everybody, from the Lowlevel Street hustlers to the highlevel mobsters and politicians. They all came to his clubs. He made their dreams come true. I didnt think he was the right person for lev to be as close as they became. But, you know, they were. They were friends. Igor was a little bit more mysterious than lev, known particularly for connections in Organized Crime. And he came to america with a significant amount of money. Igor didnt fit into Trump World until he started paying for their bills. Igor became everybodys best friend with that american express black card. So when igor comes back in My Life, at first i didnt understand. But then i realized that igor has been looking through my social media, like everybody else. And thats when he made his proposal. There was a company in ukraine, an Energy Company that was up for sale, but they wanted to be bought out by an american company. All of the people that really controlled Oil And Gas industry were republican megadonors. So we started a company called Global Energy Producers. They had not spent a lot of time in that energy sector, so i dont think they knew a lot about it. But look, they were salesmen. Between the connections he had in ukraine and the republican party, its silly not to put these two together. Instead of going, getting fancy offices and investing money into advertising, we were going to become megadonors. To be able to have Vip Access to everything that goes on in the republican party. He was donating money left and right. And im like, what are you doing . We were donating to everybody who would take our money. We donated 100,000 to Kevin Mccarthy and Vice President Mike Pence for protect the house. We donated thousands of dollars to pete sessions. We donated to rick scotts senator campaign. Weve donated 50,000 to the Ron Desantis Campaign for florida governor. Im the one that got him the governorship. [laughs] i was the matchmaker between Governor Desantis and trump. I mean, it was like fiddler on the roof. Matchmaker, matchmaker, make me a match. [laughs] the night he won, the first person he gave a hug to was me. And then we made our commitment for A Million dollars to the protrump super Pac America first action pac. And we wired 325,000 for a first installment. It was igors money. And the moneys going to various Shell Companies that they formed, llcs. Its going to other business partners. And then its coming back to them again. This was a real exercise in following the money. [register dings] so were invited to our first intimate dinner with Donald Trump to the america first super pac. And it was being held at the trump international hotel. I was sitting facetoface with Donald Trump. [applause] [classical music] when trump saw us, he greeted us like he always greeted us by saying, my guys, to me and igor. Igor secretly recorded the whole thing. And all of a sudden, the topic changes to ukraine. Me being me, i got into the conversation. [laughter] i realize that trump has no idea about ukraine. He has no idea they have oil. Yes. Yes. So prior to us coming to the event, i heard all these stories about what was going on with the ukrainian ambassador and how she was, you know, a Soros Plant and how she was part of the clinton regime. The first thing that came out of my mouth is i said im repeating gossip. I have no idea. I have no facts, no vetting. He got angry all of a sudden, turned around to one of hIs Aides and said it was silence. The table looked at each other. Nobody knew what to do. So we all started clapping. [applause] lev shared a piece of silly gossip, probably from somebody that was corrupt. And because of that, she should be immediately fired. Just like, why . Its punitive. It was terrible. It was trump. I get some voicemail, you know, from a reporter saying, Lev Parnas, through this entity named Global Energy Producers, there was this, you know, llc that was started in april, and in may, they gave 325,000 to americas first action. And i was like, that doesnt make any sense. This guy doesnt have two nickels to rub together. You know, hes in the room with trump. Tony andre comes in as a civil lawyer, but through the Subpoena Power, Is Able to get a lot of the transfers and how the money bounced around to the various banks, which gets lev in Big Trouble later. 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And it was kind of like feeling like i was at my own hotel. The managers, the hotel employees, everybody knew to report back to Donald Trump. He knew who the High Rollers were. If you wanted any favor from Donald Trump, youd better stay at his hotel. At least 7. 8 million he received from 20 foreign governments. Its about Trump Tower and Trump Hotels. Almost entirely, thats where this money went. Waking up at the Trump Hotel would be like waking up in the War Zone with congressmen, senators, conspiracy theories, Fox Tv All Over The Place. Youre basically hotboxing rightwing Fox News russian propaganda all day long. Everybody believed in the same bullshit. Everybody wanted to please Donald Trump. But what nobody could understand at the time was how close Rudy Giuliani really was with Donald Trump. Their relationship goes way back. You know, youre really beautiful. Oh. You dirty boy. Oh. Oh. Donald, i thought you were a gentleman. Cant say i didnt try. When i met giuliani, he was going through a divorce. He was having financial difficulties. I can certainly tell you, the person that you see now is not the man that i married. Giulianis last hurrah was when he ran for president during that debate when Joe Biden basically embarrassed rudy in front of the world by saying theres only three things he mentioned in a sentence a noun and a verb and 9 11. I mean, theres Nothing Else. Rudy could never forget that. Yes, he was still Rudy Giuliani, americas mayor, but he wasnt in the limelight. And thats what he really missed. Rudy was hustling, being the unofficial lobbyist, the unofficial ambassador. People started giving Him Jets and private airplanes and paying for dinners. People starting finding out that he was the key to trumps ear. Rudy was basically working with anybody that was willing to give him a dollar. Thats where i came in. We sat down to discuss rudy being my partner in my company called fraud guarantee, pleading for him to do for us what he did to lifelock. Identity thieves steal from everyone. You have to protect yourself. I protect myself with lifelock. I take full credit. It was me. Who better to start a company like that than Lev Parnas . Looking back, you could see where the irony is that now, you know, especially i get convicted of fraud for fraud guarantee. So yeah. Fraud guarantee becomes a guaranteed fraud. Rudy was supposed to use his contacts to promote the company, and instead, he took half A Million dollars and accomplished nothing. But in the beginning, i really looked up to him, and i really cared for Rudy Giuliani. Im here with my Friends Lev and igor. It was like a bromance made in heaven. [whimsical music] at some point, almost overnight, rudy became levs i dont know, work Wife Or Something because they spent so much time together. And they had such an intimate relationship. They were almost like father and son. Four to five days out of the week, four or five, six times a day with Phone Calls and text messages. And he was the godfather to my son, nathan. Theres a picture of him wiping his mouth. I dont Think Lev has ever offered me that service. Maybe not even all of our kids. After that, i was like, yeah. Were not getting him back, people, like. This Is An Abc News special report. The death of President George Herbert walker bush. [choir singing] it was the hottest ticket in washington. Dignitaries, billionaires from All Over The World were trying to get a ticket. Rudy says, you guys want to go with me . I was like, hell, yeah, were going to go. But rudy wasnt just taking me and igor. Rudy was also taking a date. But not only the date, but her mother also. [laughs] at the time, rudy was drinking nonstop. Right after, hed be going right on tv and representing the President Of The United States. If i did 1 10 of what Hillary Clinton did, id be in jail. She paid people to create violence at his rallies. She sold 20 of our uranium to russia. Poor little hillary, we got to be nice to her. Theres something off about Rudy Giuliani. How many of the former President S terrible ideas came from an inebriated Rudy Giuliani . But the Funniest Part is having to hear the conversations through the speakerphone of trump ripping rudy after going on tv drunk. I think rudy always wanted to be secretary of state, but trump didnt give him the opportunity because he thought he was low energy, because he fell asleep in a meeting, and then on the plane ride. So at a certain point in time, you had the Official Secretary of state who was secretary pompeo, and then you had the Shadow Secretary of state, who was Rudy Giuliani. This wasnt a normal presidency. It was turning american foreign policy basically into an episode of the apprentice. Youre fired. Getting older is part of the journey, even with worsening heart failure. 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Joe biden, former Vice President for eight years now emerging as the number one potential candidate now to run against trump. He was the Point Man for the Obama Administration in ukraine. His son, hunter, takes a job with burisma, a large Energy Company in ukraine. Trumps biggest nightmare was Joe Biden, and he did not want him to run and be his opponent. Lets go after joe. Lets go after hunter. And lets find that way through ukraine. Rudy was amazed to see how igor and i were aware about these intricacies that were going on in ukraine between all of these corrupt politicians and oligarchs and criminals. So rudy says he has an idea. You guys are going to go ukraine. And when we said yes, he called trump up. The plan was hatched. We were to go on our first Reconnaissance Mission on behalf of Donald Trump and Rudy Giuliani. It was almost like Lev And Igor landed in trumps lap. They were ukrainian, they were citizens, they were businessmen, and they were willing to do it on trumps and giulianis terms. 120 . Rudy says that this has to be all secretive. This is very confidential. The two look at igor, said, you have a 20 bill . Rudy took it and said, im officially your lawyer now. Rudys tool of choice was the lawyerclient privilege. That would enable him, trump, and ourselves to communicate. They get people that can work in the shadows. Not a henry kissinger, not a phil habib, not any of those folks. Lev and igor, no guardrails. No oversight. Nothing. And that is how i was recruited to start this secret mission to Dig Up Dirt On Joe and Hunter Biden. This is where really the Backchannel Campaign begins. And could that get them in trouble with various laws in place that warned against that . Of course. But they didnt worry about that. They had protection. They had the president. They had Rudy Giuliani. For the life of me, i cant understand why they got recruited to do anything sensitive with Rudy Giuliani. It makes no sense to me, unless maybe youre looking for a fall guy. I dont think Hillary Clinton or any other sane person would be entrusting Lev And Igor with top secret Government Kind of information, and then having them run around ukraine. Hes not qualified. I mean, its just ridiculous. With trump, it was never about competency. It was never about the constitution. It was always about loyalty. It was always about protecting him. It was always about doing things for him. This was the beginning of the Blt Team. We would meet at Blt Steakhouse Restaurant at the trump international hotel. They had a private room there that i was told by don jr. It was swept once a week to make sure that there was no Listening Devices there. The Blt Team was compiled of Rudy Giuliani, who was the head, and it was me and igor. And then you had John Solomon, who was the Hill Reporter at the time. Then you had Joe Digenova and Victoria Toensing, who were two rightwing lawyers that used to work for trump. They were a key part in getting Bill Barr to become attorney general. Victoria told them, dont worry about it. Bill barr is going to wipe away the Mueller Report. And that was it. Bill barr, one of the most respected jurists in the country, highly respected lawyer, a terrific man, a terrific person, he will be nominated for the united states attorney general. So the Blt Team had this big Round Table with windows. People could see in, the way you were sitting down. And rudy was like don corleone. Rudolph giuliani, the us attorney for the southern district of New York. New York City Is Affected by Organized Crime, moreso probably than any other city in the united states. Id be right by his side as his soldier. He is fascinated by the mob, and constantly talking about the godfather. Sounds like a poor imitation of the godfather. Almost like, you know, the godfather. This is business. You could see his love for that mob lifestyle. Everybody knew that i was so close to the president than Rudy Giuliani, that i was a gatekeeper. To be able to walk into a room and have all of these powerful people congressmen, senators bow down, run up to you, kiss your ass. It was amazing. The power, the rush. December 2018, we were invited to the White House hanukkah party. Yeah. Yeah. Baruch atah adonai, eloheinu melech haolam. Trump comes straight up to me, shakes my hand, looks me in the eye and says, rudy tells me great things. Thank you for what you do. And then his keep up the good work. [laughs] the President Of The United States is sending me on a mission to be able to save our democracy. A week later, we were in ukraine. I knew he was out of his league right from the beginning. I told him, listen, you entered a good ol boys club. You dont belong there. You do not have membership to this club at all. You think you might, but all you have Is Access. 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You cant believe who i was with. Shed be like, what are you doing . Every chance i had to tell him that hes out of his mind and instead of a medal, hes going to get handcuffs because hes going to be the fall guy. This was a mission impossible. A mission stupid. I dont know which one, but maybe both. Ill see you in ukraine soon. Yeah. Were in ukraine. There was a convoy of cars with a bunch of people in there with guns. We were driven first to one house, where we switched cars. I mean, this is right out of a spy thriller. It was in the middle of nowhere, like a log cabin. There was a Viktor Shokin. He was an elderly gentleman. But this guy is not your typical grandfather. This guy is hardcore. Viktor shokin was a very disreputable former prosecutor. There are various allegations of corruption. For this country to get the kind of Help And Aid that it needed, various Funding Agencies wanted them out. Then Vice President biden went over there to get rid of this guy. As im leaving in six hours, if the prosecutors not fired, youre not getting the money. That happened. Shokin was let go. Well, son of a bitch. [laughter] got fired. Ukraines embattled prosecutor, general Viktor Shokin, is no longer in office. Viktor shokins departure comes after the Countrys President , poroshenko, publicly urged the general prosecutor to resign. By the time Lev Parnas gets to shokin, he has a vendetta. Shokin told us Joe Biden was involved in the firing to protect his son Hunter Biden, who was a Board Member of burisma, a corrupt ukrainian Energy Company. Its a huge bombshell. It would cost biden the nomination. We fly down to New York. We meet up with rudy in park avenue. He was very excited because Victor Shokin is willing to play ball. So Viktor Shokin now needs to get a visa. He then goes to the us embassy, then he gets rejected. Rudy looks at me and says, dont worry about that. Ill take care of that. He calls me on later that evening, says he just met with pompeo. Everything is good. Shokin goes back, and they take away his passport. [laughs] and shokin is obviously irate, screaming to the media and everything that the us ambassador, Marie Yovanovitch, blocked his visa. I said, rudy, its Marie Yovanovitch again. Shes back at it. Rudy loses it. Shes going to get involved in my investigation. Ill show her. He texts me, im calling number 1. That was Donald Trump. Calls me back and tells me in two days, everythings going to be all right. Its shokin gets called into the embassy, where he gets a strict letter saying that he is put on a donotfly list now. So the more pressure we were putting on to give him the visa, the more they were destroying shokin over there. And he was flipping losing it. [laughs] the president of the united States Cant even get a visa for somebody. It was like the Bad News Bears of politics. One thing about Marie Yovanovitch, shes not going to do the back room, you know, diplomacy. She was a very disciplined and respected civil servant. They needed to get her out. And we cant get a visa for shokin. So we arranged a skype call. It was rudy, myself, and igor. Were joined by an Exfbi Agent that rudy had there to take notes. And on the other side was Viktor Shokin. How long had he been conducting that investigation that involved Bidens Son . And rudy said was there anything illegal that Hunter Biden or Joe Biden did . Do they get a kickback . Do they get a bribe . And theres a Twosecond Pause and then you hear no. He was basically saying no. But if i would be able to investigate it, im convinced that we would have found something there. Shokin had previously investigated burisma. There was no credible evidence at that time to charge burisma or Hunter Biden. So for shokin to then bring it up again just seemed ludicrous. [gritty music] tonight, we have more evidence of ukraine Gas Company Burisma leveraging Hunter Biden for political access and more lies from Joe Biden, as he tries to cover up this story. The Bullshit Pipeline worked like this. Between 5 00 and 7 00 in the evenings, rudy would text you. Do we have anything for the president or John Solomon . And get some information from ukraine. Id send it over to John Solomon, and literally, within an hour or two, itd be all over Fox News. Joe, remember, you heard it here first. Credible evidence about your son peddling your influence as Vice President in exchange for millions in one case and billions in another case. If some ukrainian called me up with some crazy theory like the sky is yellow, solomon would turn around and say, yep, my sources confirmed the sky is yellow, and itd be on hannity. I can confirm to you tonight that the us government had open Source Intelligence and was aware as early as February Of 2019 that the ukrainian government was planning to reopen the burisma investigation. Part of my job was to make sure that the information we were getting was coming from credible sources. People that were in power in office and had authority. But there was lots of other characters like oligarchs, street guys, businessmen that were all trying to get into the mix. Most of those were actually gru and russian agents. They were just babbling all this russian disinformation. Nobody would listen to it until Rudy Giuliani. I mean, rudy did not care, as long as it fit his narrative. And the narrative was Joe Biden is bad. Having his son, who had just been tossed out of the military for drug problems, put on the board of the most corrupt company in ukraine. They needed to help feed the beast. Get it out there on the hill, get it out there on Fox News. Well, Joe Biden has spent weeks deflecting the flood of questions about his sons Shady Business deals in ukraine and china. And then all of a sudden, Hunter Biden resigns from the board. Lev and igor, they got a victory. Theyre riding high. [whimsical music] that was good. But we needed more. We didnt have the Smoking Gun. Two days later, here comes a call, and its current general prosecutor Yuriy Lutsenko. Come on down. Youre the next contestant. [laughs] Yuriy Lutsenko didnt have a great reputation. Like a lot of prosecutors, these are largely political hacks. They feed a certain faction thats in power. He came in with a pile of paperwork that had to do with burisma, but hes not showing any hardcore facts. He never left any records nor was very specific as to, ok, where did the money come in . How was it delivered . How did Vice President Biden Benefit . Giuliani said, we need you to announce an investigation into the bidens. Lutsenko was willing to get this investigation announced, but he needed something in return. Yovanovitch had to go, and that wasnt a problem because rudy wanted yovanovitch gone. The problem is, trump already fired her. Remember, when we had our dinner, he said get rid of her, and shes still there. But he couldnt understand it. He would just scream, shes fired and expect thats it. Shes gone. Trump told pompeo to fire her. Pompeo refused. He even screamed so loud at his secretary, madeline, to fire her and she told him, mr. President, i dont have the authority to do it. A man thats known for Firing People on tv, and here, he Cant Fire his own ambassador. I mean, it was hilarious. I dont know if im more offended as a ukrainian or as an american to see the extents and lengths that President Trump was willing to go. It didnt make sense to me. And i think the only person it made sense to was trump. It was just astonishing to see such high levels of Government Acting like children. 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Were talking 600 at tootsies, a Strip Club in kyiv. They were not only moving around ukraine, they were Jet Setting around the globe paris, warsaw, london. They were globetrotting diplomats, if you will. And i use that term loosely. Here i am, a kid out of brooklyn going to meet the president of ukraine, the country that i was born in, relaying a message from the most powerful man in the world. Its time. Game time. I was scared every time he went to ukraine that he wouldnt come back. Petro poroshenko battling to hold on to his presidency against zelenskyy. Elections were going on in ukraine. I told poroshenko that he would give Lutsenko The Go ahead to open the investigation into the bidens, and poroshenko himself would come out and discuss the involvement and the meddling of us ambassador Marie Yovanovitch into ukrainian politics. In return, Donald Trump would then not only have poroshenko visit him at the White House, but he would also come visit him in Ukraine And Support him in his elections. I made the very, very first Quid Pro Quo to the President Poroshenko of ukraine from President Donald Trump. After im done talking, poroshenko sits back, starts laughing, and said, hold on a second. He goes, were not going to do thIs Again. Thank you very much. Its a great honor to be with President Poroshenko. He got screwed by trump on some shady coal deal, and now he cant even get a Phone Call back. So at this point, he didnt trust that trump would hold up his end of the deal. John solomon, rudy, everybody starts going crazy. And it becomes an allout war between Yuriy Lutsenko and Rudy Giuliani. Finally, after rudy getting on the phone and literally screaming at lutsenko and cursing, lutsenko, hes going to do the interview. And hes going to give us a bombshell that were not even ready for. This isnt a normal political exercise. This is subterfuge on an entirely nother level. You just dont see that. Nowhere in american history. You gotta understand. I mean, i was at the studios. I was at the control room. [laughs] overseeing this interview. Old soviet style, you know, propaganda, State Tvtype of shit. Today, well launch a criminal investigation about this fact and well give a legal assessment of this information. Lutsenko tells the hill, were doing an investigation. And boom, that was another victory for the team. How real was the investigation . No more real than a lot of the investigations that happened there. So lets be perfectly clear. Trump or rudy never cared if there was an actual investigation. Trump, even himself said that several times to announce it and leave the rest to me. How do you gauge the relationship between ukraine and specifically our us Ambassador Yovanovitch . Thats when lutsenko hits us with the bomb. Unfortunately, from the first meeting with the us ambassador in kyiv, ms. Ambassador gave me a list of people whom we should not prosecute. And all hell broke loose. There is no proof of that, and the State Department flatly denied that and said it was a fabrication. But, you know, at the end of the day, the damage was done. We were on cloud nine, high fives, and having dinner and drinks and thinking, we did it. We got it. Mission accomplished. Breaking news. In the russia investigation, a summary of the Mueller Report has been delivered to congress. Attorney general William Barr reported that the Special Counsel found no evidence that the Trump Campaign or anyone associated with it conspired or coordinated with russia to influence the 2016 president ial election. This was all bullshit. Worries among muellers investigators that barr may have shaped the entire narrative about the russia investigation. But it was party time at the trump international. Music was going. Congressmen, senators were All Over The Place. Finally, this russian collusion is going to bed. We knew Bill Barr was going to take care of it. After mueller, you would think at that point, the administration would be breathing a collective sigh of relief. No. There wasnt any effort to kind of ok, lets play this straight. Lets do it right. No. Theyre right back in the hunt. Now, lets target an ambassador. Its been a dramatic day. President trump fired us ambassador Marie Yovanovitch. That morning, i wake up from a Phone Call from lutsenko, and hes like, congratulations. Finally, you guys did something right. Yovanovitch said she was never told why she was removed. I texted Victoria Toensing and she said, the Wicked Witch is gone. Like, you know, from the wizard of oz. The Wicked Old Witch at last is dead. [cheers and applause] she is the anticorruption fighter. And we were celebrating that we got her out. All ding, dong, the witch is dead what they were doing was this dangerous form of diplomacy. They had the wherewithal and the means to get recalled an american ambassador. They did that. And there was no turning back. And so as the ukrainian president ial elections start heating up in april, all of a sudden, here comes Volodymyr Zelenskyy out of nowhere. [dramatic music] here was a guy that was a comedian that had no chance whatsoever. Every day, he got bigger and bigger until eventually he just took over and won in a landslide. Having played the role of president in a tv show, Volodymyr Zelenskyy is now on course to make that role a reality. Zelenskyy and his team can celebrate this election victory, but defeating corruption and ending the war with russia is going to prove far harder. All of a sudden, its a whole new cast of characters and our mission changes. We need to open up a back Door Channel between Zelenskyy And Giuliani on behalf of trump. 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Okay, maybe not at work. Point Is At xfinity. Were constantly engineering new ways to get the entertainment you love to you faster and easier than ever. Thats what i do. Is that Love Island . Lev started to slip away. Thats pretty much where we were during the four years of the presidency of trump. Id never know when he was coming or going. He could buy a ticket in the morning, and then cancel it by night, and then be somewhere else by the next morning. When he was home, he was unbearable. It was trump, trump, trump. Maga, maga, maga. Ukraine scandal. Joe biden. There was Nothing Else to talk to lev about. It was hardcore control over my family. That was part of the maga cult movement. Once they got you in and they told you what you could watch, who you could speak to, and what you could believe. Now i have to eat and pretend like its not a big deal that trump is making fun of disabled people. I dont know what i said. Uh, i dont remember being derogatory towards women. Shes shocked that i picked her. Im not thinking, mr. President. Thats ok. I know youre not thinking. You never do. Im sorry . My husband is now turning into the same orange person on tv. Thank god, he didnt go spray tanning. Eventually, that might have gotten there, you know . I mean, eventually him and rudy would have been going together to get spray tanned. They were in this sort of like, republican political industrial complex. They were in it. He seemed like he thought he was untouchable. My client had gotten a Phone Call. Hey, you know, our guy, lev, has connections straight to the top. Why are you busting our chops about this 500 grand . It was a thinlyveiled threat. My client Is A real toughminded guy. He wasnt going to be deterred by any threat, thinly veiled or otherwise. That inspired me to be just as tenacious. The mission was now to schedule a meeting between Rudy Giuliani and President Elect Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Trump wanted the new president to announce an investigation into Joe Biden and Hunter Biden. The announcement would legitimize the story that weve been pushing in the media. He wanted rudy to close the deal. Were in ukraine, were pounding the pavement. Were meeting with every kind of character, from your foreign ministers, your oligarchs, your criminal. Anybody in there, from rabbis to popes. My dear brother, we are here in ukraine. Were here with the rabbi moshe. God bless you, mr. Giuliani. There wasnt a rock that we didnt overturn. I mean, from bartenders to waitresses, we went everywhere. It was like groundhog day. We would get promises. Everybody would tell us, yeah. Great. Absolutely. Well set it up. And then two hours later, they disappear. It started getting really creepy because some forces out there are stopping this from happening. We didnt know at the time the us embassy was following everything we were doing. After every meeting, somebody from the embassy would come right in afterwards and tell them, dont meet with rudy, this is illegitimate. Theres proper channels. This needs to stop. It was us versus the deep state and the embassy, and we represent Donald Trump. Kiss our ass. So after several people ghosting us, i finally Set Up a meeting with minister avakov. He said, well, i need an official letter. I said, no problem. Gave rudy a call. Within a couple of minutes, there was an official letter emailed over to me. Avakovs eyes changed. He understood that this was real now. We had an agreement on may 10. Rudy was supposed to fly in, and there was supposed to be a meeting between zelenskyy and rudy. So its 5 oclock in the morning. I hear my phone going crazy. [phone buzzing] its rudy. I thought maybe he was drunk or something. Pick up the phone, and hes screaming. Theyre all against us. This was all a Set Up. The ukrainians were going to come out after giuliani and align me with zelenskyy, and claimed that giuliani was trying to shake them down. And giuliani said, thats it. Get out of there. Were not going back to ukraine. Fuck them. Theyre all liars. You know, were done. About an hour later, my phone starts blowing up again. Now its the ukrainians. All the ukrainian officials and oligarchs calling me up saying, what the fuck is going on . Rudy went On Fox and basically went on a rampage. Im not going to go because i think im walking into a group of people that are enemies of the president. Calling out names. A gentleman by the name of lutsenko. He even told the whole world that ukraine is corrupt and Fuck You. So no trip on sunday. No trips to ukraine. No trips. My ass is on the line. Any one of these guys out there that i was dealing with could have just said, hes not leaving and im not leaving. It was a terrible morning. All of us and ukrainian relations are now on the line. So i Set Up a meeting with lutsenko. And i started going strong and saying, this could all be resolved. President zelenskyy needs to announce a fucking investigation. This will stop. Lutsenko said, give me an hour. And within an hour, i got a call from shefir. Serhiy shefir was the interim Chief Of Staff to President Elect zelenskyy. He was his partner in his entertainment business. So i Called Rudy. Ill never forget that conversation. He was very loud, so i had to hold the phone over here. And he was very i mean, he was like, you make sure you tell them like, were not messing around. Make him understand that if zelenskyy does not announce an investigation into the bidens by monday, there will be no relationship. There will be no Military Aid. There will be no medical aid. And Vice President pence will not show up at your inauguration. I was like, holy shit. Pence canceling it was a message to vladimir putin that we are no longer supporting ukraine. Like, how am i going to say this . So i start practicing with igor. I see igor is turning pale white. Hes like, youre not going to say this. You do understand, this is the president of ukraine. We have to think about our safety. We have to get out of here. We get downstairs, theres a whole entourage of bodyguards and cars. Igor kept trying to explain to me, yeah, lev, theyre protecting us. But if tomorrow they decide not to protect us. [laughs] were off to see serhiy shefir. The meeting was at a restaurant called prague. The whole restaurant was closed. Probably 40 or 50 bodyguards between Mine And Serhiy shefirs. And then there was the three of us and a little table outside. This was literally like a scene out of a spy movie. I mean, James Bond has nothing on us. Bond. James bond. Igor sitting next to me taking shots because he was nervous as hell. I hit shefir hard. I understand this meeting might not be pleasant, but its very serious. This is what needs to happen. Weve been trying to get a meeting with President Elect zelenskyy. For some reason, were having difficulty. We need your help to be able to arrange this meeting. Looking back at, it was just incredible how i was explaining to him that we were trying to root out corruption while at that moment corrupting him to the fullest extreme. It was a simple meeting. There was not that much to discuss, and that was it. That night, they ghosted me. I remember rudy saying, well, now theyre going to see the wrath of trump. Next morning, the ukrainians got a Phone Call from the united states telling him that Mike Pence is not going to be coming to the inauguration. Boy, was that a problem. Like, this is the way hes going to go out . Running around for trump . Is this really worth his life . 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[speaking ukrainian] Oligarch Ihor Kolomoyskyi owned Television Broadcast Network where zelenskyy made his bones. Zelenskyy and kolomoyskyi were essentially friends and supporters of one another. This guy Is As bad as they come. I mean, this guy has an army of 10,000 people of his own. So this is not a regular oligarch. The first statement he makes on television as he gets back is basically threatening our lives. Im pretty sure i probably broke down after that. And i was just like, what if he doesnt come back . Giuliani started tweeting, hitting all media, basically telling Volodymyr Zelenskyy that if he does not arrest Igor Kolomoyskyi immediately, and if something happens to either me or igor while were in ukraine, that he will be to blame for it. Now, were getting a call from the Interior Minister saying, youre out of here now. Within moments, we were fitted with bulletproof vests, thrown on into a convoy of cars and whisked off into a plane. No immigration, no passport control. Next thing you know, we were gone. We were out of ukraine and off to paris. And that was the last time i ever was in ukraine. Thats when trump has to enter the fray. A troubling private conversation between President Trump and a foreign leader has rung such an Alarm Bell that the intelligence communitys internal watchdog calls it an urgent concern. This was a July 25 call between the president and ukrainian President Zelenskyy. And whats jumping off the page to me is that the president of ukraine says, where are the javelins . Where is the Defense Support youre giving us . And the very next sentence by the president is, i would like you to do us a favor. During The Call, mr. Trump pressured the ukrainian president eight times to investigate former Vice President Joe Bidens son, hunter. It was a very easy connect the dots to what lev had started to do and what President Trump had eventually tried to do himself. That the president was saying, i need this favor. And by the way, ive got your money. This conversation was about a trade. It clearly was a Quid Pro Quo. There was no Quid Pro Quo. No Quid Pro Quo there was no Quid Pro Quo. This Is A very dangerous situation for our country right now. And it Is Amazing that we continue to let this man be in charge of nuclear weapons. Question, sir, was, what did you want President Zelenskyy to do about Vice President biden and his Son Hunter . Are you talking to me . The irony is that it comes shortly after he had just been investigated for using a foreign power to meddle in a president ial election. And its happening all over again. That call was perfect. It couldnt have been nicer. Even if you dont believe the whole russia, russia, russia, that trump colluded with the russians i want to make it very clear that he colluded with the ukrainians to meddle in the 2020 election. And i know it, because i was there. Thats really where things started to accelerate downward quickly. Mr. Trump did order a hold on Military Aid to ukraine. President trump ordered hIs Acting Chief Of Staff, mick mulvaney, to delay that Military Aid to ukraine just days before a call with the ukrainian president. We found out that trump actually withheld Military Aid. That was a very, very serious moment in My Life. The message i gave them, trump actually acted on it. I was horrified. It was like, holy cow. Now were in it. Were talking about not releasing aid to ukraine. Officials at the office of Management And Budget relayed mr. Trumps order to withhold hundreds of millions of dollars in Military Aid. One Career Diplomat sounding the alarm very directly by noting in writing in this text, i think its crazy to withhold Security Assistance for help with a political campaign. Never in A Million Years Id think we would get to that point. I never thought that we would not get a meeting with zelenskyy. Zelenskyy really stood up to lev and to rudy and to trump, and he just wouldnt budge. Ukrainians werent as corrupt as he thought they were. They werent as corrupt as him or rudy. I really hope that you and President Putin get together and can solve your problem. That would be a tremendous achievement. I thought trumps a hero saving our Democracy And Zelenskyy Is A corrupt leader. And it was all the opposite. At the end of the day, it turned out that trump was the actual criminal and zelenskyy was a standup guy. We were all waiting for trump to get president ial. And instead, he just became a monster. Hes a bully, and he really needs to focus on himself. Like, please stop focusing on the united states. Go sit down. Its time. [whimsical music] the serial Entrepreneurtype Judgment debtors, theyre going to find themselves into something. And lev found himself into the biggest something ive ever seen a debtor ever get into. We were able to find a account that lev controlled through an entity called Aaron Investments i, llc that the 325,000 actually came from. They gave 325,000 to americas first action. The money got flagged by a bank. They saw the hallmarks of Money Laundering and fraud. That got the attention of the feds. The Campaign Legal Center filed a complaint with the fec. Theyre basically alleging a Straw Man Donation by Global Energy Producers. And then we were off to the races. That was the Smoking Gun we needed. And then a tweet came out that listed the top five donors for trump and him and igor were on that list. People started to dig in into trying to figure out where lev is from, what hes doing. At that point, i started to feel more kind of unsafe. I felt like things were destabilizing a bit. This Is An Nbc News special report. Breaking this evening, house Democrats Tonight are taking the first formal step that could potentially lead to the impeachment of President Trump. The Impeachment Inquiry is centered on President Trumps Phone Call with the leader of ukraine. Now, the question, did the President Pressure him to investigate political rival Joe Biden . They testified that President Trump froze Military Aid to ukraine in order to force a public announcement of investigation into his political rivals. Forced out. The former american ambassador to ukraine tells lawmakers that President Trump pressed to have her fired. Yovanovitch was recalled from her post in may amidst charges from Rudy Giuliani and in conservative media that she had spoken out against the president. Getting rid of Ambassador Yovanovitch helped set the stage for an irregular channel that could pursue the two investigations that mattered so much to the president the 2016 conspiracy theory, and most important, an investigation into the 2020 political opponent he apparently feared most, Joe Biden. I get a letter from congress basically requesting all of the information that i have gathered in ukraine while i was doing work for President Trump and rudy. I Called Rudy right away and told him. He said, oh. Dont worry about it. Let me call trump. Well take care of this. Were going to get you a lawyer. And it was John Dowd. He represented President Trump in a matter prior to that. For John Dowd to officially represent me, the president had to sign a letter to waive a conflict of interest. And i have that letter. So i fly in directly to John Dowds house in cape cod. The first thing he does is gets all the President S lawyers, all the President S men on the phone and says, you know, its game time. On The Call was jay sekulow, Rudy Giuliani, Victoria Toensing, and Joe Digenova. All the President S putzes. [laughs] John Dowd sent a letter of response, basically a Fuck You letter. There was a big joke about it. Everybody couldnt believe thats the way he responded to congress and colleagues. For him to not speak to the government, not attempt to cooperate, one could say that levs first lawyers were concerned about interests other than Lev Parnas. I mean, im a little confused at the time. I thought they wanted me to testify on behalf of trump, to tell The Truth of everything i uncovered about the bidens. It was the opposite. Were going to go dark. Nobody on our side was scared of congress. There was no repercussions. Trump and rudy thought, and still think, that they are above the law. The message in Trump World was, dont worry about accountability. There wont be any. You do what you need to do to protect trump. A perfect day for a Family Outing shingles doesnt care. But shingrix protects. Only shingrix is proven over 90 effective. Shingrix Is A vaccine used to prevent shingles in adults 50 years and older. Shingrix does not protect everyone and is not for those with severe allergic reactions to its ingredients or to a previous dose. 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Shokin was there, and we were flying out there. In the morning, we met up with rudy at the Blt Breakfast Area and went over our game plan. Lev and i spoke during that day just fine. He was telling me hes just hanging out at the Trump Hotel with rudy waiting for his plane. Rudy said he got a call from President Trump, and he needed to see him at the White House. Rudy was going to meet us a couple of days later. So i didnt think anything of it. He told me, go ahead. Set everything up. And ill see you there saturday. And then he left for the airport. Its boarding time. A couple of men jumped out and said, can we see your passports . Me and igor gave him our passports. And they turned around and said, this is them. You are under arrest. They started handcuffing us. And one of the fbi agents says, you know, i dont want to be the bearer of Bad News, but your house is being raided right now. They busted through the Back Door as if, i dont know, theyre coming to Osama Bin ladens house. One lingering thought was in my head like, what did you do . The arrests of two associates of trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani on Campaign Finance violations. The two arrested at Dulles Airport after buying a oneway ticket out of the country. Theyre associates of the President S personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani. These are the first criminal charges emerging from the Trump Administrations controversial relationship with ukraine. Government documents show that the men helped giuliani Set Up a meeting with highlevel ukrainians who giuliani was lobbying to investigate Joe Biden and his Son Hunter. One of the agents said to me, i could try and get your wife on the phone. And i told her i loved her. I told her not to worry. Called rudy. That was the last i spoke to him for the next, like, 10 days. Igor fruman and Lev Parnas were picked up at dulles on wednesday night, just hours after the Wall Street journal reports they had lunch with Rudy Giuliani at the trump international hotel. And i think rudy knew and was told not to be on that plane. I didnt get from rudy that he knew this was going to happen. But i also got from rudy that he wasnt very surprised that it happened. Rudy was saying that, you know, dont worry. Everythings going to be fine. Its the democrats or the deep state. It started to feel more and more and more of Everybody Kind of just disappearing into the background. I guess i met him one time and he came to an event and took a picture with me. That was hard to go through, having people just turn away. I dont know Lev Parnas. How well do you Know Parnas . It was funny. I didnt even realize he was ukrainian. I thought he was israeli. When trump came on tv were you relying on Lev Parnas to get rid of your ambassador . No. And he was like, no. I dont know him. Well, i dont know him. I dont Know Parnas other than, i guess, i had pictures taken, which i do with thousands of people, including People Today that i didnt meet. I dont know who he is. I dont know what hes about. I dont know where he comes from. Know nothing about him. He might be a fine gentleman. Perhaps hes a fine man. Perhaps hes not. I Know Nothing about him. I mean, that was, like, so low. It was just a lie. Of course you know him. Trump says he doesnt know these guys, but there he is with igor [laughter] looking like they just won best Rv Dealership in gary, indiana. When i told him that trump said he doesnt know him, he didnt believe me. Hes like, no way. Whats rudy doing . Where is digenova . Where are they . He had no idea that they werent all running to get him out. I was waiting for the cavalry. The cavalry never came. Lev was expendable. He was a good front person. He was someone you could ultimately disavow or maybe arrest and shut up. The federal government took notice of our case. Someone was absolutely looking at what we were doing, and it was aiding them in their investigation. Obviously, our intent was not to have mr. Parnas indicted and put in jail. People who are in Jail Cant Pay debts. In the middle of the night, i see a piece of paper being slipped under my jail cell. Its a postcard from Rudy Giuliani. Dear Lev And Igor, the lunch was good and i enjoyed sharing a table with you. Trumps hotel is nice, dont you think . Im sorry what happened at Dulles Airport, and i guess we wont be meeting in vienna after all. Dont worry, pauls lawyers are good. He only got 8 to 10 years, so maybe things will work out. Rudy g. I felt extremely abandoned. He was like a father figure. I really trusted him. This is where the first time i it was the beginning of me getting out of the cold. I didnt want to believe that he could hurt us after how much lev put into that relationship. Maybe more than our marriage at the time. I stopped trusting everything they were telling me and wanted to get somebody to represent me that i could trust. When i entered the case, lev and i decided remaining silent was not in his best interest, that it would be far better for lev if he appeared to be a credible person, willing to tell important truths at great risk to himself. I basically was going to tell the world The Truth. Im not going to hide from anybody. [energetic music playing] i look forward to defending myself vigorously in court. And im certain that in the time, truth will be revealed, and i will be vindicated. Thank you both for agreeing to do this. I know that this Is A leap of trust to speak publicly in this way for the first time. Thank you for having us here. You gave the message of a Quid Pro Quo to ukrainian officials. The first Quid Pro Quo we gave them was when we met with President Poroshenko. I wanted to talk to the fbi, the doj, the southern district. Well, nobody wanted to talk to me. Are you afraid, mr. Mayor, that you could be indicted . Oh, wow. Whats really interesting is Rudy Giuliani has never been charged for operating as an unregistered foreign agent. They helped me find people. And as ive said, they did a good job. The marquee count in the first indictment was lev somehow exerting suasion on the president on behalf of some ukrainian officials to remove the us ambassador to ukraine. With this superseding indictment, the government very quietly excised their marquee allegation and glommed into that indictment a Garden Variety Fraud case. The best thing that happened to President Trump and Rudy Giuliani is that Igor And Lev get charged with Campaign Finance violations. Oh, poor lev. I dont know what hes doing to himself. And you can now paint them as fraudsters. How did these two guys and i dont think its a stretch to say thugs how are they meeting with our political leaders . None of this raises red flags . Criminals with no credibility. Call giuliani associates. Lev parnas. Hey. And Igor Fruman. Hey, you guys. [laughter] and therefore, their testimony and what they have to say doesnt count. I dont know those gentlemen. Now, its possible i have a picture with them, because i have a picture with everybody. I dont know them. I welcome him to say that even more. Every time he says that, ill show em another picture. Hes lying . Hes lying. Ooh. What people probably didnt expect is that lev photodocumented everything. He literally had the receipts. Over 750 pages of those materials formed the basis for the vote on the first impeachment. On this vote, the yeas are 229, the nays are 198. Present is one. Article 2 Is Adopted. So out of the 300page impeachment articles, 100 of pages of those are my direct evidence. Though i was not able to testify, the republicans made a huge stink and they didnt allow me in. What were they scared of . Do you know if mr. Giuliani was ever in contact with mr. Barr, specifically about the fact that he was trying to get ukraine to announce these investigations into Joe Biden . Oh, absolutely. Mr. Barr knew about that. Mr. Barr had to have known everything. It was clearly a high level of concern at the highest levels of the Justice Department and congress. A lot of people had to be involved to try to keep The Truth from coming out. Bill barr not only politicized, he weaponized the doj on behalf of Donald Trump to go after his political enemies and help his political friends. Swaddled the critic, shut up the witness, changed the charging decisions to cover up to try to protect the president. I believe that this was worse than watergate. Question. If you cant see whats behind all this, how do you already know, its jeep . Probably the same way you know if a trex is chasing a jeep wrangler. Is getting away. Yep or if it takes you places that make you say, woah. And their hair looks like this. Or someone says, the doors come off. 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I voted for Joe Biden, 2020. Hopefully, its not too late for other people. I betrayed ukraine. I betrayed america. Im sorry. When i met him, i saw a man that, you know, he was a broken man. He paid a huge price for all of this. Luckily, hes got a strong family and that remained. And since the day of my arrest, every day for the past five years, ive been saying im sorry to my wife, to my family. And ill be saying sorry for the rest of My Life. [indistinct chatter] i saw Marie Yovanovitch testify in the impeachment. And to see the pain and to see what she went through, what i put her through President Trump said that i was Bad News to another World Leader and that i would be going through some things. She didnt deserve any of this. It was it was a terrible moment. I feel foolish. I feel disgusted. I feelim ashamed of myself. [indistinct chatter] i truly believed we were helping america. But looking back at it now, weve destroyed america. [clamoring] we have such division. People are at each others throats. [chanting] and the sad part . That was exactly what vladimir putin wanted. And we gave it to him on a silver platter. And how ironic is it . The reagan republicans were the antisoviet union russia, stopped the cold war, pushed for democracy. Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall. [cheering] and now here we have the republicans screaming literally russian propaganda. Why shouldnt i root for russia . Because i am. Putin aint woke. Putins a killer. A lot of killers we got a lot of killers. What, you think our countrys so innocent . I dont know how anyone can look at putin and think anything but a monster, just like i dont think you can look at Trump I Cant look at trump without thinking that hes a monster. Anybody thats ever been around Donald Trump to work for him at the White House knows The Truth. Hes unfit for office. I cannot in good conscience endorse Donald Trump. Pence is joining a remarkably large choir of former Trump Administration officials who have come out against him. Trumps former attorney general, two former defense secretaries, two of his chiefs of staff, two national security advisors. I was as close as you could get to him. I did all his dirty work. And Donald Trump doesnt care about anybody except for himself. He doesnt care about the constitution. He doesnt care about the united states. Because Donald Trump doesnt want to be president. He wants to be a dictator. He wants to be vladimir putin, president for life. I hope one day not only will the country forgive me, ukraine will forgive me. I hope one day Hunter Biden could really forgive me. I feel a lot of responsibility because of our actions in ukraine. Pushing all of this disinformation against Hunter Biden has now caused real problems, real criminal problems that he is now facing. The first child of a sitting us president has been convicted of a crime. 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[soft dramatic music] i believe. 2018, november, we were sitting with rudy in New York at the grand havana room. Rudy gets a call from one of his investigators and starts telling him all this stuff about burisma and all kinds of stuff. And rudy, like usual, hed sit back down. Wed have drinks, have cigars, and hed tell us everything that was going on. Yeah. And he starts talking. A few months before my partner igor got sent a video from ukraine, from one of these that we later found out to be a russian operative the infamous video of your father basically saying well, son of a bitch. [laughter] got fired. Rudy took a look at that video and basically said, we got you, joe. A week later, we were at the White House. Yeah. Were meeting with trump in the red room. A week later, we were in ukraine looking for Viktor Shokin to pressure him to give us dirt or make up information to be able to start this whole thing. Ill see you in ukraine soon. Yeah. When did it cross over from being a harebrained Rudy Giuliani operation in concert with trump to the doj . When did trumps lackeys inside the doj begin to also conspire to, likeyou know, to take me on . I mean, basically from the very beginning, from that first initial meeting with trump. And right after that, giuliani started calling all his contacts at the Doj And Fbi to start putting pressure to look into you, to look into your dad and all of your ukraine dealings. You have to understand, hunter, at that time, i truly believed there was a deep state. I truly believed that you were up to some shit. But there was never any criminality in anything. Thats the whole thing. They were just basically, you know, innuendos, conspiracy theories, but no actual facts. The crazy part, i mean, i feel embarrassed, hunter. I mean, i got your bank records. How did they get my bank records . My bank records arent even on a computer. I got an email from John Solomon that said that his friends at the fbi got your records. I dont know where, how, what. So the fbi secretly subpoenaed and got my bank records under the Trump Administration, handed them to John Solomon, and then Rudy Giuliani recirculates them back into the doj and on the media . Absolutely. John solomon, him and Hannity And Fox had a whole system go out. Yeah. So fox was definitely like so fox definitely, like, directly involved . Oh, 100 . I watched after you got arrested and then clearly were kind of shunned. They turned their back on you. And at that point, i just so you know, i wasnt very sympathetic. Oh, im sure. [laughter] im sure. What conversations have you had with Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman . I dont know those gentlemen. What they did, though, is that they so quickly turned you into this supervillain. It may very well be, with these russian payments to Lev Parnas, that lev himself is part of a disinformation campaign. A guy thats under indictment, a guy thats a known grifter, a guy that had a company called Fraud Inc. That he ran into the ground. The man Is A demonstrated liar. And they, you know, go after your personal life. And they talk about, you know, that youre really a russian. I mean, all of these things. Similarly, i gave them a lot of ammunition. Yeah. Ammunition. Addiction is never an excuse, but its an explanation. Its an explanation why i ended up in some of the rooms that i ended up in, doing things that im ashamed of today. The best thing that could have ever happened to me was getting arrested, as crazy as that sounds. It really takes a big person to not only admit that theyre wrong, but to do so in public and to do it on the stage you did. Lev parnas was the centerpiece of a bombthrowing congressional hearing on the biden Impeachment Inquiry this week. Today, i admit my own wrongdoings. I have been a convicted federal Election Campaign and fraud crimes and served my sentence. Despite rigorous attempts by those in power to silence me, i will be silenced no longer. To go in front of a hostile committee in congress that you know has no compunction to break every rule to embarrass you and to put yourself in that position just so you could tell The Truth the american people have been lied to by Donald Trump, Rudy Giuliani, and various cohorts of individuals in Government And Media positions. They created falsehoods to serve their own interests, knowing it would undermine the strength of our nation. One of the hardest things to do in life is to make amends. And its one of the principles of, like, the program i follow in terms of my own addiction. But to do it the way that youve done it, on tv, in public, while youre getting the goddamn hell beat out of you sounds like everyone here today, the only one working for a russian oligarch was you. They didnt listen to The Truth because if they will listen to The Truth the question mr. Gaetz had is for they didnt want to hear The Truth. You cant handle The Truth, matt gaetz. What i saw was somebody with just an enormous reserve of character when it really counted. Today, i ask you to consider the following. In nearly a year traveling the world and interviewing officials in different countries, i found precisely zero evidence of the Bidens Corruption in ukraine. The only information i ever pushed on the bidens in ukraine has come from one source and one source only russia and russian agents. And so, bottom of my heart, i promise you, youre a hero to me. Thank you so much. I was really, really, really proud. I was proud of you. Everything was for the ultimate benefit of Donald Trump and thereby vladimir putin, who used this narrative to manipulate the public ahead of the 2020 elections. Sadly, they are still doing this today as we approach the 2024 elections. Hunter, i want you to know i wrote this book to tell The Truth about what happened during the Trump Administration. He used your battle with addiction for his own agenda, to hurt you and your family and your father. You were a casualty in all of this. I regret very truly my decision to work with those that tried to bring you and your family down. I will do everything in my power to clear your name going forward. Thank you, my friend. You know, ill treasure this. And one thing ive learned is that Truth And Love always prevail. May take a little while. But the fact of the matter is, we get up every day and we do the next right thing, we win. [voice breaking] and im sorry for what yeah. Hey. That wasnt me. [speaks indistinctly] hey. I promise you. Hey. Listen, listen. We get a second chance. Yeah. Both of us. We do. Thats right. Both of us. Yeah. We do. Both of us. [soft dramatic music]