inquiry continues. this will be further evidence of an effort by the administration to obstruct the lawful and constitutional duties of congress. this will only further add to the body of evidence on a potential obstruction of congress charge against the president. our nbc news has learned that lev parnas, the indicted ukrainian businessman with ties to rudy giuliani is preparing to comply with requests for records and testimony from congressional impeachment investigators, according to his attorney. the news was first reported by reuters. it s a 180 for parns a who last month rebuffed a request for documents and information from committees. parnas is a key figure in the impeachment inquiry. parnas s attorney is refuting president trump s claim that he does not know parnas. in a statement to the washington post, the attorney says in part, that quote any
really need to watch my back. when asked to explain, she mentioned giuliani, his now indicted associates lev parnas and igor fruman and ex ukrainian prosecutor saying they were interested in having a different ambassador at post there is also this. yovanovitch testified that she asked the u.s. ambassador gordon sondland on how to handle attacks from sean hannity and don jr. and told lawmakers we need to go big or go home and need to tweet out there that you support the president and all these are lice a, lies and ever else and it was advice i didn t see how i could implement in my role as an ambassador as a foreign service officer. another reference to hannity. his attacks apparently went from fox news, prime time to the top of the state department. yovanovitch said she was told the secretary or someone around him would call hannity, to see if he had proof of the allegations against her. and if not, to stop it.
with daily revelations about the quid pro quo being pushed on ukraine by president trump, his lawyer, rudy giuliani, appears to have his own very own serious legal exposure. first his associates lev parnas and igor fruman were indicted on campaign finance violations and conspiracy to use foreign money to pi political influence. they pled not guilty yesterday. and then multiple sources including the new york times and bloomberg reported federal prosecutors are investigating giuliani himself. then came further reporting there s also a counter intelligence component of the investigation into rudy giuliani. despite all that last week rudy giuliani parted ways with his former lawyer john sale, saying,
giuliani does not appear to be represented by any other counsel other than himself. and though i am not a lawyer it just seems to me that s not a great idea. last week giuliani s two associates lev parnas and igor fruman men he once referred to as his clients and those two men were arrested trying to leave the country at dulles airport in d.c. just a few hours after lunching with rudy giuliani at of course the trump international hotel in washington. then a series of news outlets reported perhaps not surprisingly that giuliani himself is now under criminal investigation by the office he used to run in the southern district of new york. that was followed by a spate of stories about giuliani appearing to lobby on the behalf of the
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