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I was a nursing student and going to Cal
State of LA and, you know, hanging out and
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doing what most 20, 21-year-olds do,
and I was dragged to this club,
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and there was left-partness.
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Gold chain, and his cardiac glasses,
and his Christian out-to-jare,
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gold-foiled hoodie.
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He said he was in LA to produce a movie.
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The evening went by.
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We were talking.
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We were relating.
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Me and Love are both immigrants from
Ukraine.
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Similar background.
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Similar upbringing.
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The foundation.
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It's still the Soviet Union.
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The next day, he shows up in a stretch limo
in front of my house to pick me up for lunch.
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It's just a certain way that
they produce people out of
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Russian and Ukraine that's
different than anywhere else.
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He proposed four days later, and we were
married within six months.
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All of our friends and family thought we
were completely off our rockers.
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It was like, nobody matters.
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Nothing you say can stop us.
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Like, that's it.
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It's like Beyonce and Jay-Z, Bonnie and
Clyde.
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Like, let's do this.
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We're going to conquer the world.
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I don't think you could
have convinced me with
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anything that this is
where we would be in 2024.
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Love-parnissed.
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Love-parnissed.
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Love-parnissed.
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Love-parnissed.
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Love -parnissed.
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Parnissed.
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The shady and indicted Ukrainian
businessman, Love-parnissed.
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That he would be involved in one of the
biggest scandals.
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President Trump pressured the head of Ukraine
to pursue an investigation into Joe Biden.
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My call was perfect.
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Having to do with our birth country,
Ukraine.
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Having to deal with presidents of Ukraine
and of the United States.
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Parniss is a recently indicted goon who
worked with Giuliani to help Trump
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blackmail Ukraine into investigating Joe
Biden.
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The impeachment of President Donald Trump
is here.
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Love-parnissed.
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He is now talking and he has documents to
back up his words.
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Parniss implicated several
top Trump administration
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officials, including
the president himself.
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Were you relying on Love-parniss to get
rid of your ambassador?
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I mean, who does that?
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What happened?
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What happened?
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Love happened.
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Democrats are really
scraping the bottom of the barrel
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if they think that Love
-parniss is their star witness.
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Love-parnissed.
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He is a creepy, sleazy, self-serving,
super-snitch.
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He will do and say anything he can.
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I think I'm crazy, but I really thought
I'm going to get the Medal of Honor.
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Boy, was I wrong.
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That was born in Odessa Ukraine,
February 6, 1972.
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My father used to own underground
factories.
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During communism, you weren't allowed to
have your own business.
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People that were caught running these type
of factories would get the death sentence.
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We immigrated to the United States in 1976
when I was four years old.
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We had friends and family that were all
immigrating to a little town.
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Right by Coney Island, it was Brighton
Beach, and we called it Little Odessa.
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It was kind of like one big family.
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We all came from the same persecution,
and we all wanted the same thing,
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which was the American dream.
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Certain individuals started leading and
taking control of the neighborhood.
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People, like my father, that were
businessmen in the Soviet Union,
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what you now call Russian organized crime.
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When my father passed
away and I was 11 years
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old, I had to get more
involved into that world.
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While other kids were going to school,
I was on the streets hustling.
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And the girl I was dating,
her uncle, happened to
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be one of the leaders in
that organized crime group.
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And I ended up working for him as a
runner, collecting money.
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So one day, I'm in South New Jersey,
and I'm collecting.
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I've had somewhere around two and a half,
three million dollars in cash and checks,
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sitting in the back of my Lincoln Town
car.
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And an 18-wheeler hits me and drives over
the back of my car.
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So I remember calling my uncle and telling
him, I'm stuck and the cops are on their way.
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What do I do with their leg?
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Whatever you do, don't open the trunk.
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We're on our way.
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At the end of the night, there was a bunch
of fun and laughs that Atlantic City could
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see, discussing how I almost got arrested
with two and a half million in cash.
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Then around 1989, there was a big boom in
the Russian community.
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The Cold War might be over, and there
might be a lot of opportunity.
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So now fast forward.
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I've made some really good money over the
next several years in Russia, import, export.
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I probably had every most powerful
Russian, Ukrainian, ex-Soviet Union,
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businessman, mobster there to do business.
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At some point, it became too crazy.
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People were dying left and right,
and I saw it was my time to exit.
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One day, I decided to give my cousin Oleg
a call.
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Come on by, let's grab some sushi.
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I wanted to impress him.
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So here Oleg is pulling up in this red
Ferrari, gets out in a pinstripe suit,
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looking like a million bucks, and I look
at him, I say, who did you kill?
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He goes, nah, it's called Wall Street.
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If anybody's seen the movie, The Wolf of
Wall Street, that didn't do it justice.
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My first day in the office, I see guys
doing lines on the table.
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You got guys smoking weed in the corner.
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There's just a bunch of
young guys running around
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with headphones and
screaming crazy numbers.
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That was my initiation into Wall Street.
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These were largely boiler rooms.
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They were low-level brokerage houses, not
very well-known, and love was on the hustle.
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Three of the brokerage
houses that he worked
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for had been expelled
for violations of fraud.
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All of a sudden, everybody
started getting arrested, and
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the news started coming up
with the mob on Wall Street.
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You know, it's time to exit.
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My cousin, Oleg, was opening another
office in Boca Raton, Florida,
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and he was looking for people to work
there.
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Boca Raton, Florida, here we come.
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The palm trees, the oceans, the warm sunny
weather, it was a paradise.
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But it was also an
opportunity for every fraudster
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in the world, because
you had a lot of retirees.
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I ended up working for the
same mobbed up, penny stock
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mobsters, doing the same
shit we were doing in New York.
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In Boca Raton, he had multiple cases,
non-payment of dots, and being evicted
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from various places where he lived, he had
been the target of at least nine court cases.
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2008, the Great Recession hits,
and my life goes upside down.
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I lose my wife, I lose my cars,
I lose my business.
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And I kind of started looking for a new
path in life.
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I got approached by one of
my friends and said, would you
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be willing to open up some
poker rooms in Beverly Hills?
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Next thing you know, here I am, running illegal
poker games on top of Road Day of Drive.
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Our clientele was the who's who,
if you ever seen Molly's game?
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Movie stars, directors, and business
titans.
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They were going all in, all the time.
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Thank you, Molly.
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This is for you.
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And that's it, and that was us.
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At the same time, I was introduced to this
Hollywood producer, Rudy Duran.
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He discovered Brook Shield,
saying it was Jack Nicholson's
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good friend, and he had the
script that he was dying to do.
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The main characters were supposed to be
Jack Nicholson and Mark Wahlberg.
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Now, here I am, running at night poker
games, and during the day, running around
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would sell the most powerful
people in Hollywood, trying
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to put together a movie
called Memory of Assassin.
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I had no idea about the movie
business, but I was a salesman,
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and I ended up going out
there and finding investors.
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He's always been someone that is doing a
lot at the same time.
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Serial entrepreneur?
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Yeah.
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For sure.
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Serial father, too.
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Love is a super likable guy.
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You know, I mean him, he makes a joke,
and I'm like, oh, I love you.
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You're so crazy.
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Love is kind of a lovable character.
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He is charismatic.
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He's full of energy, full of pissing
vinegar.
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You can't forget love.
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I've never met anyone that has not
recalled meeting love.
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While living the life of Adam,
I met a very special person.
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A little guy know that this person would
end up being the love of my life.
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Excuse me.
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Oh, that's it.
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Four days later, I dropped to one knee at
four o'clock in the morning, and I
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proposed her with the jar of pickles,
and she said, yes.
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I was going to be wife number three,
but baby mama number four.
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And it was like, okay, enough,
you have kids.
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All of the kids are in Florida.
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So for me, it was immediately I have to
move.
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I became an instant mom.
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I was a young woman.
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But then once you have three kids
instantly, you get really old really quickly.
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The movie deal fell apart back then in
2010.
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It would eventually be made later on
without me with Liam Neeson called memory.
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We all have to die.
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That's important.
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That's what you do before you go.
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I got retained December of 2017.
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You go after a character named left Parnas
about a judgment.
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Tonya Andre.
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Tonya Andre is a Miami lawyer.
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Great guy, but he was the root of all my
problems.
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And he was retained by a gentleman called
Michael Puse.
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He was an investor in the movie deal that
I was doing with Rudy Durant.
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Mr. Puse lent money from the trust that
took care of his elderly mother.
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Seven years later, he still out his 350
grand.
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Which is now $500,000 if you can't post
judgment interest.
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He was like a real pit bull.
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Once he got subpoena power through the
judgment, my life turned into a living hell.
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On paper, left look like terrible
collection.
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All the earmarks of a bum case.
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I think the column at typical Miami
hustler would do the game with this service.
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Now to the race for the White House and
after decades of very publicly slirting
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with the idea, billionaire
Donald Trump says he
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really is running for
president this time around.
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Watching him come out going down those
golden escalators.
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They're bringing drugs.
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They're bringing crime.
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They're rapists.
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I mean, I never voted.
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I had nothing to do with politics.
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I was never registered.
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But he wasn't a politician.
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He was a New York hustler.
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And we could relate.
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I'm working with a big real estate
company.
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We were out in a restaurant.
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Robert Pereira, I met for the first time
that evening.
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He was a very, very wealthy businessman
and also a powerful person in the
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Republican party.
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And they had ties close to Trump.
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At first, I was extremely excited to meet
this guy because of my real estate project.
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So that night we come
up with this crazy idea is
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we're going to hold a huge
fundraiser Robert's house.
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This is the La Palas.
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I mean, it's a $140 million house with
golden chandeliers, golden doors.
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So while Robert is basically figuring out
how we're going to raise this money for
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Donald Trump, I'm more excited about how
I'm going to have 20 Robert Pereira's in
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the same room where I could pitch my real
estate deal to.
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Until all of a sudden, it's breaking news.
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Trump taped bombshell.
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Donald Trump caught on a hot mic months
after marrying Melania, making vulgar
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comments about groping women, saying when
you're a star, they let you do it.
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It's a shit show.
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People are canceling left to right.
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We were able to salvage it.
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And that was my very first donation,
$50,000 to the Donald Trump campaign.
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But something happened that night.
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We were like two seats away from Trump and
Lev piped in and said something.
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And instantly, it was like no one else was
in the room.
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And the two of them were just talking.
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The moment that really got me is when I
asked him, I said, why are you doing this?
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And he looked out onto the ocean and then
stared back at us and said, you know what?
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I don't need to be doing this.
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I'm doing this for the regular folk,
for the common people.
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I'm trying to stop them from destroying
our country.
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And at that moment, it was something that
hit me at that moment.
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I was mesmerized, colonized, hypnotized.
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I was Trump-enized.
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For the month leading up to the 2016
election, we were Trump family.
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It was a world where we were flying around
all over the place following Donald Trump.
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It was a small group.
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A tough time for any
Republican right now to be
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standing up alongside
their party's standard bearer.
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Nobody believed he could win.
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Even we didn't believe he could win.
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There was rallies and dinners and then
finally the debate in Vegas.
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Putin, from everything I see, has no
respect for this person.
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Well, that's because he'd rather have a
puppet as president in the United States.
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No puppet.
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No puppet.
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It's pretty clear.
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You're the puppet.
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After that, Trump said I
want you guys with me
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on election night at
the Hilton in New York.
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It was such a roller coaster of a night,
all like sitting there nervous,
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trying to pray our way to having Trump
win.
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For Hillary Clinton, one of the most stunning
defeats in American political history.
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Donald Trump will be the 45th president of
the United States.
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I was like, our guy made it.
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Finally, we're gonna get back on track.
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Back to that, you know, make America great
again.
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At the crazy party, I didn't vote,
but we still won.
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I love this country.
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Shortly after that, we found out that we
were invited to the inauguration.
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It didn't take long for work to spread.
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That was just like the Trump guy.
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During this wild ride, I
started documenting taking
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pictures of everything and
posting them on social media.
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All of a sudden, I started getting phone
calls from everybody.
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I knew I didn't know in the Russian
-Ukrainian community wanting to be my friend.
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Everybody wanted to go to the
inauguration.
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You're gonna do a great job to the people
in this country.
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It was hilarious to see all these
characters from my previous life.
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mafia, kingpins, oligarchs,
hugging, sitting, VIP, and
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interacting with all these Republican
congressmen and senators.
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It was very interesting for me always not
only watching the way Lev was interacting,
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but the way everyone kind of accepts Lev.
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You wouldn't really come up to Trump and
say, hey, my brother, how you doing?
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Lev did.
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In the year and a half, I went from not
knowing anything about what politics is,
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to now being in the inner circle of the
president.
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Lev was just in state of shock that he was
at this level.
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This is a guy who's an immigrant and who
is living large, larger than he ever dreamed.
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Donald John Trump do solemnly swear.
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There are also plenty of congratulations
being extended to the president-elect,
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including those of Vladimir Putin.
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Putin said today he's ready to open a new
chapter with the U.S.
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I would have a very, very good
relationship with Putin and with Russia.
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Washington Post is reporting that
President Trump revealed highly classified
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information to the Russian
foreign minister and
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ambassador during a meeting
in the Oval Office last week.
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The White House blindsided tonight as the
Department of Justice reveals that they
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will appoint a special
counsel to now oversee the FBI
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investigation into Russian
meddling in any possible collusion.
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And then they launched the Robert Mueller
investigation.
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The man now leading the investigation,
former FBI director Robert Mueller.
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They're weaponizing
the DOJ to go after Donald
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Trump because they
can't stand that he won.
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U.S.
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officials believe Russia not
only tried to influence the election,
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but also worked to help Donald
Trump defeat Hillary Clinton.
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Over a month before the election,
U.S.
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intelligence agencies accused the Russian
government of hacking emails from the
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Democratic National Committee and Hillary
Clinton's campaign.
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My people, they said, they think it's
Russia.
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President Putin, he just said it's not
Russia.
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I don't see any reason why it would be.
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President Trump and those working with him
had scores of contacts with Russians and
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WikiLeaks, including attempts at setting
up bad channels with the Kremlin.
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I have nothing to do with Russia,
folks, okay?
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The Russia cloud over the Trump White
House seems to be darkening.
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Paul Manafort and a
deputy campaign official, Rick
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Gates, will turn themselves
into face charges.
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Well, towns, conspiracy
against the United
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States, unregistered
agent of a foreign principle.
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Paul Manafort was working for free as
Trump's campaign manager, but in reality,
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he used to get paid by Russian and
Ukrainian oligarchs.
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Paul Manafort, he was doing work in Ukraine
that was very definitely pro -Russian.
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The entire thing has been a witch hunt.
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This investigation is nothing more than a
witch hunt.
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Five defendants have pleaded guilty.
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It's only a witch hunt if you don't find
any witches.
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There's a great effort and a part of the
Trump administration to turn the tide.
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On collusion, they have nothing.
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They have nothing.
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It's somebody's version of the truth,
not the truth.
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Truth isn't truth.
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Giuliani takes this narrative and turns it
into Ukraine.
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It wasn't Trump and the Russians,
they meddled in the 2016 election.
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It was actually Hillary and the
Ukrainians.
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It's Ukrainian collusion, which was large,
significant, and proven.
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With Hillary Clinton, with the Democratic
National Committee.
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The real collusion scandal,
as we've said several times
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before, has everything to
do with the Clinton campaign.
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So that's where I think the Mueller
team should be investigating,
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which is the real crime,
which is the Clinton collusion.
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All of a sudden, my old friend,
somebody that I haven't seen for a while,
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Igor Fruman, comes back into my life.
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Igor Fruman was a
Ukrainian-American citizen that had
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lots of businesses
overseas, primarily in Ukraine.
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He had restaurants, he had nightclubs.
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One of them was called the mafia rave
club.
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In Ukraine, Igor knew
everybody, from the low-level street
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hustlers to the high -level
mobsters and politicians.
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They all came to his clubs.
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He made their dreams come true.
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I didn't think he was the right person for
Lev to be as close as they became.
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But, you know, they were.
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They were friends.
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Igor was a little bit more
mysterious than Lev, known
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particularly for connections
in organized crime.
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And he came to America with a significant
amount of money.
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Igor didn't fit into Trump World until he
started paying for their bills.
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Igor became everybody's best friend with
that American Express Black card.
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So when Igor comes back in my life,
at first I didn't understand, but then I
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realized that Igor has been looking
through my social media like everybody else.
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And that's when he made his proposal.
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There was a company in Ukraine,
an energy company that was up for sale,
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but they wanted to be bought out by an
American company.
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All of the people that really controlled oil
and gas industry were Republican mega donors.
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So we started a company called Global
Energy Producers.
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They had not spent a lot of time in that
energy sector, so I don't think they knew
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a lot about it, but look, they were
salesmen.
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Between the connections
he had in Ukraine and the
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Republican Party, it's silly
not to put these two together.
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Instead of going, getting fancy offices
and investing money into advertising,
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we were going to become mega
donors to be able to have VIP
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access to everything that
goes on in the Republican Party.
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He was donating money left and right.
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And I'm like, what are you doing?
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We were donating to everybody who would
take our money.
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We donated $100,000 to
Kevin McCartry and Vice
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President Mike Pence
for Protect the House.
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We donated thousands of dollars to Pete
Sessions.
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We donated to Rick Scott's Senator
campaign.
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We donated $50,000 to the Ron DeSantis
campaign for Florida Governor.
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I'm the one that got him to govern a ship.
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That was a matchmaker between Governor
DeSantis and Trump.
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I mean, it was like to learn the roof.
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Matchmaker, matchmaker, make me a match.
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The night he won, the first person he gave
a hug to was me.
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And then we made our
commitment for a million dollars
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to the pro-Trump Super
PAC, America First Action PAC.
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And we wired $325,000 for our first
installment.
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It was Igor's money.
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And the money's going to various shell
companies that they formed, LLCs.
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It's going to other business partners,
and then it's coming back to them again.
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This was a real exercise in following the
money.
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So we're invited to
our first intimate dinner
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with Donald Trump to the
America First Super PAC.
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And it was being held
at the Trump International
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tell I was sitting face-to
-face with Donald Trump.
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When Trump saw us, he
greeted us like he always
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greeted us by saying,
my guys to me and Igor.
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Igor secretly recorded the whole thing.
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And all of a sudden, topic changes to
Ukraine.
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Me being me, I got into the conversation.
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How did Ukraine do?
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Don't ask me.
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They love you, though.
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00:22:09,330 --> 00:22:11,200
I realize that Trump has no idea about
Ukraine.
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How long did Ukraine last in a fight with
Russia?
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Not very long.
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Without us, not very long.
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He has no idea they have oil.
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You can't have oil?
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No.
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No, but one in Euro.
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00:22:23,280 --> 00:22:24,280
Yeah, we could...
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Yes.
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So prior to us coming to the event,
I heard all these stories about what was
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going on with the Ukrainian ambassador and
that how she was, you know, a Soros plant
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and how she was part of the Clinton
regime.
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The first thing that came out of my mouth
is I said...
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The biggest problem there, I think,
is we got to get rid of the ambassador.
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She's still left over from the Clinton
administration.
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Where the ambassador?
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Where Ukraine?
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I'm repeating gossip.
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I have no idea.
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I have no facts, no vetting.
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00:22:48,540 --> 00:22:52,180
She's basically walking around telling
everybody, wait, he's going to get impeached.
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He got angry all of a sudden, turned
around to one of his aides and said...
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Get rid of her.
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Okay?
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Get around.
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Take her out.
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Okay?
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It was silence.
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00:23:03,360 --> 00:23:04,476
The table looked at each other.
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Nobody knew what to do.
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Do it.
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So we all start clapping.
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00:23:08,520 --> 00:23:09,520
Yeah.
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Left shared a piece of silly gossip,
probably from somebody that was corrupt.
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00:23:20,380 --> 00:23:23,300
And because of that, she should be
immediately fired.
437
00:23:23,680 --> 00:23:24,680
She's like, why?
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00:23:25,100 --> 00:23:25,600
It was putative.
439
00:23:25,920 --> 00:23:26,440
It was terrible.
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00:23:26,760 --> 00:23:27,760
It was Trump.
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00:23:28,940 --> 00:23:33,460
I get some voicemail, you know,
from a reporter saying, left Parnas
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through this entity named Global Energy
Producers, there was this, you know,
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LLC that was started in April.
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00:23:40,680 --> 00:23:44,440
And in May, they gave 325,000 to America's
first action.
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And I was like, that doesn't make any
sense.
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00:23:47,460 --> 00:23:49,420
This guy doesn't have two nickels rubbed
together.
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00:23:50,520 --> 00:23:52,040
You know, he's in the room with Trump.
448
00:23:52,740 --> 00:23:57,200
Tony Andre comes in as a civil lawyer,
but through the subpoena power,
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is able to get a lot of the transfers and
how the money bounced around.
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To the various banks, which gets loud in
big trouble later.
451
00:24:07,160 --> 00:24:10,160
It was like a freight train going off the
tracks.
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And I could see that it's going off the
tracks.
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00:24:12,580 --> 00:24:15,420
And I was trying to explain to him he's
going off the tracks.
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But he was like, if I go off the tracks,
then I go off the tracks.
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Whatever, you know, effort.
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00:24:32,470 --> 00:24:33,470
My world changed.
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00:24:33,690 --> 00:24:38,631
I started associating myself and hanging out
with hardcore right-wing mega -republicans.
458
00:24:39,920 --> 00:24:42,330
Trump International Hotel, it was like
home away from home.
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00:24:45,145 --> 00:24:46,170
Everybody knew my name.
460
00:24:46,590 --> 00:24:49,170
Everybody knew my association with the
Trump family.
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00:24:49,860 --> 00:24:52,310
And it was kind of like feeling like I was
at my own hotel.
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00:24:53,070 --> 00:24:58,570
The managers, the hotel employees, everybody
knew to report back to Donald Trump.
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He knew who the highest rollers were.
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If you wanted any favor from Donald Trump,
you better stay at his hotel.
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At least $7.8 million he received from 20
foreign governments.
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00:25:11,510 --> 00:25:13,570
It's about Trump Tower and Trump hotels.
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Almost entirely.
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That's where this money went.
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00:25:16,110 --> 00:25:19,070
Waking up at the Trump hotel would be like
waking up in the war zone with the
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congressmen, senators, conspiracy
theories, Fox TV all over the place.
471
00:25:23,970 --> 00:25:27,510
You're basically hotboxing, right-wing,
Fox News, Russian propaganda.
472
00:25:28,430 --> 00:25:29,430
All day long.
473
00:25:29,530 --> 00:25:31,130
Everybody believed in the same bullshit.
474
00:25:31,730 --> 00:25:33,470
Everybody wanted to please Donald Trump.
475
00:25:34,315 --> 00:25:37,296
But what nobody could
understand at the time was how
476
00:25:37,297 --> 00:25:39,711
close Rudy Giuliani really
was with Donald Trump.
477
00:25:39,990 --> 00:25:41,870
And their relationship goes way back.
478
00:25:44,650 --> 00:25:46,030
You know, you're really beautiful.
479
00:25:48,290 --> 00:25:49,630
Oh, you dirty boy!
480
00:25:49,970 --> 00:25:52,310
Oh, oh, Donald, I thought you were a
gentleman.
481
00:25:52,650 --> 00:25:53,750
You can't say I didn't try.
482
00:25:55,780 --> 00:25:57,890
When I met Giuliani, he was going through
a divorce.
483
00:25:58,550 --> 00:26:00,030
He was having financial difficulties.
484
00:26:00,800 --> 00:26:05,710
I can certainly tell you, the person that
you see now is not the man that I married.
485
00:26:06,430 --> 00:26:10,150
Giuliani's last hurrah was when he ran for
president during that debate when Joe
486
00:26:10,151 --> 00:26:12,557
Biden basically embarrassed
Rudy in front of the world by
487
00:26:12,558 --> 00:26:14,971
saying There's only three things
he mentioned in a sentence.
488
00:26:15,010 --> 00:26:17,970
And now in the verb in 9-11, I mean,
there's nothing now.
489
00:26:18,090 --> 00:26:19,330
Rudy could never forget that.
490
00:26:20,150 --> 00:26:22,350
Yes, he was still Rudy Giuliani,
America's mayor.
491
00:26:22,990 --> 00:26:24,370
But he wasn't in the limelight.
492
00:26:24,590 --> 00:26:25,910
And that's what he really missed.
493
00:26:26,385 --> 00:26:30,910
Rudy was hustling, being the unofficial
lobbyist, the unofficial ambassador.
494
00:26:31,780 --> 00:26:35,930
People started giving him jets and private
airplanes and paying for dinners.
495
00:26:36,450 --> 00:26:39,530
People started finding out that he was the
key to Trump's ear.
496
00:26:40,520 --> 00:26:45,550
Rudy was basically working with anybody
that was willing to give him a dollar.
497
00:26:45,870 --> 00:26:46,870
That's where I came in.
498
00:26:47,350 --> 00:26:51,610
But we sat down to discuss Rudy being my
partner and my company called Fraud Guarantee.
499
00:26:51,611 --> 00:26:54,890
He believed for him to do for us,
but he did to life-lock.
500
00:26:55,270 --> 00:26:56,910
Identity is that you steal from everyone.
501
00:26:57,130 --> 00:26:58,290
You have to protect yourself.
502
00:26:58,570 --> 00:27:00,430
I protect myself with life-lock.
503
00:27:00,830 --> 00:27:01,870
Who needs fraud guarantee?
504
00:27:02,790 --> 00:27:03,790
I take fraud credit.
505
00:27:03,890 --> 00:27:04,530
It was me.
506
00:27:04,830 --> 00:27:07,310
Who better to start a company like that
than a lot of partners?
507
00:27:07,730 --> 00:27:11,870
Looking back, you could see where the
irony is that now, you know, especially I
508
00:27:11,871 --> 00:27:15,030
get convicted of fraud for fraud
guarantees, so yeah.
509
00:27:15,290 --> 00:27:17,710
Fraud guarantee becomes a guaranteed
fraud.
510
00:27:18,330 --> 00:27:21,330
Rudy was supposed to use his contacts to
promote the company.
511
00:27:21,570 --> 00:27:25,230
Instead, he took half a million dollars
and accomplished nothing.
512
00:27:25,550 --> 00:27:29,110
But in the beginning, I really looked up
to him and I really cared for Rudy Giuliani.
513
00:27:29,770 --> 00:27:31,990
I'm here with my friends, Lev and Igor.
514
00:27:32,330 --> 00:27:34,990
It was like a romance made in heaven.
515
00:27:37,290 --> 00:27:43,690
At some point, almost overnight,
Rudy became Lev's, I don't know,
516
00:27:43,691 --> 00:27:47,282
a work wife or something
because they spent so much time
517
00:27:47,283 --> 00:27:50,730
together and they had
such an intimate relationship.
518
00:27:51,250 --> 00:27:52,830
They were almost like father and son.
519
00:27:53,430 --> 00:27:55,959
Four to five days out
of the week, four or five,
520
00:27:55,960 --> 00:27:58,710
six times a day with phone
calls and text messages.
521
00:27:59,530 --> 00:28:01,650
And he was the godfather to my son Nathan.
522
00:28:02,650 --> 00:28:04,330
There's a picture of him wiping his mouth.
523
00:28:04,860 --> 00:28:07,750
I don't think Lev has ever offered me that
service.
524
00:28:08,750 --> 00:28:10,330
Maybe not even all of her kids.
525
00:28:10,770 --> 00:28:13,290
After that, I was like, yep, we're not
getting him back, people.
526
00:28:13,870 --> 00:28:14,870
Like...
527
00:28:15,770 --> 00:28:18,210
This is an ABC News special report.
528
00:28:19,450 --> 00:28:22,450
The death of President George Herbert
Walker Bush.
529
00:28:27,340 --> 00:28:29,020
There was the hottest ticket in
Washington.
530
00:28:29,660 --> 00:28:32,740
Dignitaries, billionaires from all over
the world were trying to get a ticket.
531
00:28:33,860 --> 00:28:35,540
Rudy says that you guys want to go with
me.
532
00:28:35,760 --> 00:28:37,400
I was like, hell yeah, we're going to go.
533
00:28:41,160 --> 00:28:45,820
But Rudy wasn't just taking me and Igor,
but Rudy was also taking a date.
534
00:28:45,821 --> 00:28:48,100
But not only the date, but her mother
also.
535
00:28:51,360 --> 00:28:53,560
At the time, Rudy was drinking nonstop.
536
00:28:54,310 --> 00:28:56,103
Right after he'd be
going right on TV and
537
00:28:56,104 --> 00:28:58,300
representing the President
of the United States.
538
00:28:58,540 --> 00:29:02,920
If I did one tenth of what Hillary Clinton
did, I'd be in jail.
539
00:29:03,200 --> 00:29:07,560
She paid people to create violence at his
rallies.
540
00:29:08,210 --> 00:29:11,880
She sold 20% of our uranium to Russia.
541
00:29:12,460 --> 00:29:14,040
Poor little Hillary, we got to be nice
there.
542
00:29:14,041 --> 00:29:16,000
There's something awful about Rudy
Giuliani.
543
00:29:18,420 --> 00:29:24,381
How many of the former President's terrible
ideas came from an inebriated Rudy Giuliani?
544
00:29:24,700 --> 00:29:29,560
But the funniest part is having to hear
the conversations through the speakerphone
545
00:29:29,561 --> 00:29:33,120
of Trump ripping Rudy after going on TV
drunk.
546
00:29:34,140 --> 00:29:37,780
Rudy always wanted to be Secretary of
State, but Trump didn't give him the
547
00:29:37,781 --> 00:29:40,179
opportunity because he thought
he was low energy, because
548
00:29:40,180 --> 00:29:42,380
he fell asleep in a meeting
and then on a plane ride.
549
00:29:43,280 --> 00:29:46,840
So at a certain point in time,
you had the official Secretary of State
550
00:29:46,841 --> 00:29:49,358
who was Secretary
Pompeo, and then you had the
551
00:29:49,359 --> 00:29:52,401
shadowed Secretary of
State who was Rudy Giuliani.
552
00:29:52,980 --> 00:29:54,880
This wasn't a normal presidency.
553
00:29:55,540 --> 00:30:01,041
It was turning American foreign policy,
basically into an episode of The Apprentice.
554
00:30:01,200 --> 00:30:02,200
Yes, I am.
555
00:30:09,165 --> 00:30:11,810
The Mueller investigation, it's winding
down.
556
00:30:12,450 --> 00:30:16,130
Giuliani is no longer looking back at the
2016 campaign.
557
00:30:16,710 --> 00:30:22,010
Joe Biden, former Vice President for eight
years, now emerging as the number one
558
00:30:22,011 --> 00:30:25,150
potential candidate now, to run against
Trump.
559
00:30:25,410 --> 00:30:28,950
You are the Democrat's top choice to run
against President Trump in 2020.
560
00:30:30,190 --> 00:30:32,031
President Trump says
that you're his dream
561
00:30:32,032 --> 00:30:33,970
candidate would be his
dream to run against you.
562
00:30:34,310 --> 00:30:37,430
He was the point man for the Obama
administration in Ukraine.
563
00:30:37,431 --> 00:30:43,370
His son, Hunter, takes a job with Burisma,
a large energy company in Ukraine.
564
00:30:43,950 --> 00:30:46,640
Trump's biggest nightmare
was Joe Biden, and
565
00:30:46,641 --> 00:30:50,191
he did not want him to
run and be his opponent.
566
00:30:50,280 --> 00:30:51,630
Let's go after Joe.
567
00:30:52,160 --> 00:30:55,510
Let's go after Hunter, and let's find that
way through Ukraine.
568
00:30:56,430 --> 00:31:02,230
Rudy was amazed to see how Igor and I were
aware about these intricacies that were
569
00:31:02,231 --> 00:31:04,489
going on in Ukraine
between all of these corrupt
570
00:31:04,490 --> 00:31:07,391
politicians and all the
guards and criminals.
571
00:31:07,795 --> 00:31:09,690
So Rudy says he has an idea.
572
00:31:09,970 --> 00:31:11,290
You guys are going to go Ukraine.
573
00:31:11,595 --> 00:31:14,710
And when we said yes, he called Trump up,
the plan was hatched.
574
00:31:15,310 --> 00:31:17,303
We were to go on our first
reconnaissance mission
575
00:31:17,304 --> 00:31:19,731
on behalf of Donald
Trump from Rudy Giuliani.
576
00:31:19,850 --> 00:31:22,450
It was almost like Levenigor landed in
Trump's lab.
577
00:31:23,190 --> 00:31:27,730
They were Ukrainian, they were citizens,
they were businessmen, and they were
578
00:31:27,731 --> 00:31:31,690
willing to do it on Trump's and Giuliani's
terms, 120%.
579
00:31:32,790 --> 00:31:34,990
Rudy says that this has to be all
secretive.
580
00:31:35,470 --> 00:31:36,230
This is very confidential.
581
00:31:36,231 --> 00:31:38,999
To look that Igor said
you have a $20 bill, Rudy
582
00:31:39,000 --> 00:31:41,230
took it and said, I'm
officially your lawyer now.
583
00:31:41,970 --> 00:31:45,130
Rudy's tool of choice was the lawyer
-client privilege.
584
00:31:45,930 --> 00:31:48,630
That would enable him, Trump, and
ourselves to communicate.
585
00:31:49,870 --> 00:31:52,430
They get people that can work in the
shadows.
586
00:31:53,670 --> 00:31:55,990
Not a Henry Kissinger, not a Phil Habib.
587
00:31:56,430 --> 00:31:57,470
Not any of those folks.
588
00:31:58,090 --> 00:31:59,910
Love and Igor.
589
00:32:00,950 --> 00:32:01,950
No guardrails.
590
00:32:02,330 --> 00:32:03,330
No oversight.
591
00:32:03,970 --> 00:32:03,990
Nothing.
592
00:32:03,991 --> 00:32:07,373
And that is how I was
recruited to start the secret
593
00:32:07,374 --> 00:32:09,650
mission to dig up dirt
on Joe and Hunter Biden.
594
00:32:10,060 --> 00:32:15,650
And this is where really the back-channel
campaign begins, and could that get them
595
00:32:15,651 --> 00:32:19,850
in trouble with various laws in place that
weren't against that, of course.
596
00:32:20,230 --> 00:32:22,270
But they didn't worry about that.
597
00:32:22,450 --> 00:32:25,270
They had protection, they had the
president, they had Rudy Giuliani.
598
00:32:26,130 --> 00:32:28,836
For the life of me, I can't
understand why they got
599
00:32:28,837 --> 00:32:32,610
recruited to do anything
sensitive with Rudy Giuliani.
600
00:32:32,611 --> 00:32:36,210
It makes no sense to me unless maybe
you're looking for a fall guy.
601
00:32:36,795 --> 00:32:42,230
I don't think Hillary Clinton or any other
sane person would be entrusting Lev and
602
00:32:42,231 --> 00:32:46,230
Igor with top secret government kind of
information.
603
00:32:46,490 --> 00:32:50,390
And then having them run around Ukraine,
he's not qualified.
604
00:32:51,070 --> 00:32:52,850
I mean, it's just... it's ridiculous.
605
00:32:53,490 --> 00:32:55,146
With Trump, it was never about competency.
606
00:32:55,170 --> 00:32:56,610
It was never about the Constitution.
607
00:32:56,690 --> 00:32:57,746
It was always about loyalty.
608
00:32:57,770 --> 00:32:59,170
It was always about protecting him.
609
00:32:59,270 --> 00:33:00,930
It was always about doing things for him.
610
00:33:01,230 --> 00:33:03,490
Like fear and loathing in Washington,
D.C.
611
00:33:03,840 --> 00:33:06,670
As your attorney, I advise you to rent a
very fast car with no top.
612
00:33:06,810 --> 00:33:12,430
There's this president talking to this
crazy cat, his lawyer, who's got these two
613
00:33:12,431 --> 00:33:14,623
people that should not
even be in the room, that
614
00:33:14,624 --> 00:33:16,891
are now participating
in a really high level.
615
00:33:17,280 --> 00:33:20,330
But comedic as it was, it was also gravely
serious.
616
00:33:21,170 --> 00:33:22,170
Wait!
617
00:33:22,250 --> 00:33:23,250
We can't stop here!
618
00:33:23,790 --> 00:33:24,790
This is bad country.
619
00:33:25,160 --> 00:33:26,770
This was the beginning of the BLT team.
620
00:33:27,350 --> 00:33:31,870
We would meet at the BLT Steakhouse
restaurant at the Trump International Hotel.
621
00:33:32,130 --> 00:33:34,790
They had a private room there that I was
told by that junior.
622
00:33:35,110 --> 00:33:38,410
It was swept once a week to make sure that
there was no listening devices there.
623
00:33:38,995 --> 00:33:43,090
The BLT team was compiled of Rudy Giuliani,
who's the head, and it was me and Igor.
624
00:33:43,630 --> 00:33:46,610
And then you had John Solomon,
who was the Hill reporter at the time.
625
00:33:46,810 --> 00:33:49,785
Then you had Joe, DeGeneva,
and Victoria Tunzing, who
626
00:33:49,786 --> 00:33:52,290
was two right-wing lawyers
that used to work for Trump.
627
00:33:52,530 --> 00:33:55,830
They were key part in getting Bill Barr to
become Attorney General.
628
00:33:56,380 --> 00:33:58,250
Victoria told them, don't worry about it.
629
00:33:58,590 --> 00:34:01,270
Bill Barr is going to wipe away the
Mueller report, and that was it.
630
00:34:01,710 --> 00:34:05,244
Bill Barr, one of the most
respected jurists in the country,
631
00:34:05,245 --> 00:34:08,870
highly respected lawyer, a
terrific man, a terrific person.
632
00:34:09,650 --> 00:34:13,970
He will be nominated for the United States
Attorney General.
633
00:34:15,120 --> 00:34:18,150
So the BLT team had this big round table
with windows.
634
00:34:18,670 --> 00:34:20,790
People couldn't see him the way you were
sitting down.
635
00:34:20,990 --> 00:34:22,230
And Rudy was like Tom Corleone.
636
00:34:22,830 --> 00:34:24,270
Rudolph Giuliani, the U.S.
637
00:34:24,271 --> 00:34:26,111
Attorney for the Southern District of New
York.
638
00:34:26,335 --> 00:34:28,857
New York City is affected
by organized crime, more
639
00:34:28,858 --> 00:34:31,131
so probably than any other
city in the United States.
640
00:34:31,390 --> 00:34:33,650
I'd be right by his side as his soldier.
641
00:34:34,200 --> 00:34:35,970
He's part of a criminal family.
642
00:34:36,630 --> 00:34:38,550
He's, you know, he's the Tom Hagen.
643
00:34:39,830 --> 00:34:40,871
I have a special practice.
644
00:34:40,970 --> 00:34:41,970
I handle one client.
645
00:34:42,590 --> 00:34:47,350
He is fascinated by the mob and constantly
talk about the Godfather.
646
00:34:47,750 --> 00:34:49,550
Sounds like a poor imitation of the
Godfather.
647
00:34:49,810 --> 00:34:50,970
Almost like, you know, the Godfather.
648
00:34:50,971 --> 00:34:51,971
This is business.
649
00:34:52,050 --> 00:34:56,070
You could see his love for that mob
lifestyle.
650
00:34:56,920 --> 00:34:59,767
Everybody knew that I
was so close to the president
651
00:34:59,768 --> 00:35:01,850
and Rudy Giuliani,
that I was a gatekeeper.
652
00:35:02,300 --> 00:35:05,970
To be able to walk into a room and have
all of these powerful people, congressmen,
653
00:35:05,971 --> 00:35:09,670
senators, bow down to you, run up to you,
kiss your ass.
654
00:35:10,050 --> 00:35:10,530
It was amazing.
655
00:35:10,950 --> 00:35:11,950
The power, the rush.
656
00:35:13,150 --> 00:35:16,270
December, 2018, we were invited to the
White House Hanukkah Party.
657
00:35:17,610 --> 00:35:18,010
Hello.
658
00:35:18,350 --> 00:35:19,350
Hello.
659
00:35:19,790 --> 00:35:20,150
Hello.
660
00:35:20,270 --> 00:35:20,410
Hello.
661
00:35:20,670 --> 00:35:20,670
Hello.
662
00:35:20,671 --> 00:35:21,671
Hello.
663
00:35:22,170 --> 00:35:24,729
Trump comes straight up to
me, shakes my hand, looks
664
00:35:24,730 --> 00:35:27,310
me in the eye and says,
Rudy tells me great things.
665
00:35:27,570 --> 00:35:28,610
Thank you for what you do.
666
00:35:28,910 --> 00:35:30,750
And then his keep up to good work.
667
00:35:32,840 --> 00:35:35,382
The president of the
United States is sending me
668
00:35:35,383 --> 00:35:37,871
on the mission to be able
to save our democracy.
669
00:35:38,210 --> 00:35:39,690
But a week later, we were in Ukraine.
670
00:35:41,820 --> 00:35:44,250
I knew he was out of his league right from
the beginning.
671
00:35:44,490 --> 00:35:45,210
I told him, listen.
672
00:35:45,211 --> 00:35:47,810
You entered a good old boys club.
673
00:35:48,470 --> 00:35:49,890
You don't belong there.
674
00:35:50,875 --> 00:35:53,110
You do not have membership to this club.
675
00:35:53,890 --> 00:35:54,890
At all.
676
00:35:55,010 --> 00:35:56,010
You think you might.
677
00:35:56,410 --> 00:35:57,530
But all you have is access.
678
00:35:58,730 --> 00:36:00,170
And access is going to get denied.
679
00:36:00,430 --> 00:36:02,110
The second there are done with you.
680
00:36:10,370 --> 00:36:13,762
When he started traveling
to Ukraine and being on this
681
00:36:13,763 --> 00:36:16,570
mission, I knew almost everything
he was doing was a bad idea.
682
00:36:16,870 --> 00:36:19,710
I'd get home and tell her, you can't
believe what just happened.
683
00:36:19,711 --> 00:36:21,191
And you can't believe who I was with.
684
00:36:21,350 --> 00:36:22,710
She'd be like, what are you doing?
685
00:36:23,285 --> 00:36:26,790
Every chance I had to tell him that he
thought of his mind, and instead of a
686
00:36:26,791 --> 00:36:30,430
medal, he's going to get handcuffs because
he's going to be the fall guy.
687
00:36:30,735 --> 00:36:31,990
This was a mission impossible.
688
00:36:32,850 --> 00:36:33,850
A mission stupid.
689
00:36:33,930 --> 00:36:35,950
I don't know which one, but maybe both.
690
00:36:36,390 --> 00:36:37,470
See you in Ukraine soon.
691
00:36:37,910 --> 00:36:39,530
We're in Ukraine.
692
00:36:41,230 --> 00:36:45,070
There was a convoy of cars with a bunch of
people in there with guns.
693
00:36:45,450 --> 00:36:48,597
We were driven first to one
house where we switched
694
00:36:48,598 --> 00:36:51,671
cars I mean, this is
right out of a spy thriller.
695
00:36:51,850 --> 00:36:54,490
It was in the middle of nowhere,
like a log cabin.
696
00:36:55,030 --> 00:36:56,070
There was a Victor Shokin.
697
00:36:56,520 --> 00:36:58,230
He was a elderly gentleman.
698
00:36:58,910 --> 00:37:00,670
But this guy is not your typical
grandfather.
699
00:37:00,830 --> 00:37:01,830
This guy is hardcore.
700
00:37:02,440 --> 00:37:06,910
Victor Shokin was a very disreputable
former prosecutor.
701
00:37:08,030 --> 00:37:11,717
There are various
allegations of corruption for this
702
00:37:11,718 --> 00:37:15,450
country to get the kind of
help and aid that it needed.
703
00:37:16,080 --> 00:37:18,470
Various funding agencies wanted them out.
704
00:37:18,670 --> 00:37:22,430
Then Vice President Biden went over there
to get rid of this guy.
705
00:37:22,710 --> 00:37:23,890
As I'm leaving it six hours.
706
00:37:24,490 --> 00:37:26,850
If the prosecutor's not fired,
you're not getting the money.
707
00:37:27,070 --> 00:37:28,070
That happened.
708
00:37:28,290 --> 00:37:29,710
Shokin was let go.
709
00:37:30,390 --> 00:37:31,390
Oh, son of a bitch.
710
00:37:32,410 --> 00:37:33,410
You got fired.
711
00:37:33,750 --> 00:37:37,750
Ukraine's embattled prosecutor general
Victor Shokin is no longer in office.
712
00:37:38,150 --> 00:37:41,070
Victor Shokin's departure comes after the
country's president, Poroshenko,
713
00:37:41,490 --> 00:37:43,690
publicly urged the general prosecutor to
resign.
714
00:37:43,691 --> 00:37:48,690
By the time Lev Parnas gets the shokin,
he has a vendetta.
715
00:37:49,810 --> 00:37:53,790
Shokin told us Joe Biden was involved in
the firing to protect his son,
716
00:37:53,910 --> 00:37:59,711
Hunter Biden, who was a board member of a
Burisma corrupt, the Ukrainian energy company.
717
00:38:00,040 --> 00:38:01,330
It's a huge bombshell.
718
00:38:01,870 --> 00:38:03,310
It would cause Biden the nomination.
719
00:38:05,010 --> 00:38:06,810
We fly down to New York.
720
00:38:07,010 --> 00:38:08,530
We meet up with Rudy in Park Avenue.
721
00:38:08,531 --> 00:38:11,970
He was very excited because Victor
Shokin's willing to play ball.
722
00:38:11,971 --> 00:38:14,490
So Victor Shokin now needs to get a visa.
723
00:38:14,750 --> 00:38:16,430
He then goes to the US embassy.
724
00:38:16,910 --> 00:38:17,910
Then he gets rejected.
725
00:38:18,430 --> 00:38:20,386
Rudy looks at me and says, don't worry
about that.
726
00:38:20,410 --> 00:38:21,410
I'll take care of that.
727
00:38:23,090 --> 00:38:26,510
He calls me on later that evening,
says he just met with Pompeo.
728
00:38:26,950 --> 00:38:27,590
Everything is good.
729
00:38:27,770 --> 00:38:28,770
Shokin goes back.
730
00:38:29,430 --> 00:38:30,751
Then they take away his passport.
731
00:38:34,320 --> 00:38:38,150
Shokin is obviously irate screaming to the
media and everything that the US
732
00:38:38,151 --> 00:38:40,370
ambassador, Marie Vonnovich, blocked his
visa.
733
00:38:40,371 --> 00:38:43,070
I said, Rudy, it's Marie Vonnovich again.
734
00:38:43,370 --> 00:38:44,370
She's back at it.
735
00:38:44,810 --> 00:38:45,810
Rudy loses it.
736
00:38:46,260 --> 00:38:48,310
She's going to get involved in my
investigation.
737
00:38:48,970 --> 00:38:49,970
I'll show her.
738
00:38:50,190 --> 00:38:51,970
If he texts me, I'm calling number one.
739
00:38:52,150 --> 00:38:53,150
That was Donald Trump.
740
00:38:53,930 --> 00:38:57,650
Calls me back and tells me in two days,
everything's going to be alright.
741
00:38:58,370 --> 00:39:01,552
If Shokin gets called into
the embassy where he gets a
742
00:39:01,553 --> 00:39:04,930
strict letter saying that he
is put on a do not fly list now.
743
00:39:05,250 --> 00:39:07,250
So the more pressure we
were putting on together, the
744
00:39:07,251 --> 00:39:09,610
visa, the more they were
destroying Shokin over there.
745
00:39:09,611 --> 00:39:11,070
He was flipping, losing it.
746
00:39:11,670 --> 00:39:15,770
The President of the United States can't
even get a visa for somebody.
747
00:39:16,310 --> 00:39:18,990
It was like the Baton Rouge Bears of
politics.
748
00:39:20,010 --> 00:39:22,627
One thing about Marie
Vonnovich, she's not
749
00:39:22,628 --> 00:39:25,550
going to do the back
room, you know, diplomacy.
750
00:39:26,310 --> 00:39:31,070
She was a very disciplined and respected
civil servant.
751
00:39:31,500 --> 00:39:33,510
They needed to get her out.
752
00:39:35,480 --> 00:39:37,010
And we can't get a visa for a Shokin.
753
00:39:37,011 --> 00:39:38,750
So we arranged a Skype call.
754
00:39:39,150 --> 00:39:40,530
It was Rudy, myself, and Igor.
755
00:39:40,870 --> 00:39:44,570
We were joined by XFPI agent that Rudy had
there to take notes.
756
00:39:45,150 --> 00:39:46,750
And on the other side was Victor Shokin.
757
00:39:47,080 --> 00:39:55,030
How long had he been conducting that
investigation that involved Biden's son?
758
00:39:55,770 --> 00:39:59,110
Rudy said, was there anything illegal that
Hunter Biden or Joe Biden did?
759
00:39:59,310 --> 00:40:00,310
Do they get a kickback?
760
00:40:00,490 --> 00:40:01,490
Do they get a bribe?
761
00:40:02,170 --> 00:40:04,570
And there's a two second pause and then
you hear...
762
00:40:06,670 --> 00:40:09,637
No, but if I would be
able to investigate it, I'm
763
00:40:09,638 --> 00:40:12,070
convinced that we would
have found something there.
764
00:40:12,370 --> 00:40:15,170
Shokin did it previously investigated
Briezma.
765
00:40:15,455 --> 00:40:20,390
There was no credible evidence at that
time to charge Briezma or Hunter Biden.
766
00:40:20,830 --> 00:40:24,350
So for Shokin to then bring it up again,
it seemed ludicrous.
767
00:40:27,670 --> 00:40:32,710
Tonight, we have more evidence of Ukraine
gas company Briezma leveraging Hunter
768
00:40:32,711 --> 00:40:38,410
Biden for political access and more lies from
Joe Biden as he tries to cover up this story.
769
00:40:38,810 --> 00:40:40,990
The bullshit pipeline worked like this.
770
00:40:41,630 --> 00:40:44,325
Between five and seven in
the evenings, Rudy would text
771
00:40:44,326 --> 00:40:46,870
what we have anything for
the president or John Solomon.
772
00:40:48,610 --> 00:40:50,170
And get some information from Ukraine.
773
00:40:51,130 --> 00:40:53,045
I'd send it over to John
Solomon and literally
774
00:40:53,046 --> 00:40:55,371
within an hour or two
it'd be all over Fox News.
775
00:40:55,950 --> 00:41:00,370
Joe, remember you heard it here first,
credible evidence about your son peddling
776
00:41:00,371 --> 00:41:03,461
your influence as vice
president in exchange for
777
00:41:03,462 --> 00:41:06,010
millions in one case and
billions in another case.
778
00:41:06,270 --> 00:41:09,930
If some Ukrainian caught me up with some
crazy deer, like the sky is yellow,
779
00:41:10,230 --> 00:41:12,061
Solomon would turn around
and say, yep, my source
780
00:41:12,062 --> 00:41:14,710
has confirmed the sky is
yellow and the anonymity.
781
00:41:15,090 --> 00:41:17,250
I can confirm to you tonight that the U.S.
782
00:41:18,020 --> 00:41:22,990
government had open source intelligence
and was aware as early as February of 2019
783
00:41:22,991 --> 00:41:27,550
that the Ukrainian government was planning
to reopen the Briezma investigation.
784
00:41:27,551 --> 00:41:31,092
Part of my job was to make
sure that the information
785
00:41:31,093 --> 00:41:34,030
we were getting was
coming from credible sources.
786
00:41:34,650 --> 00:41:37,190
People that were in power in office and
had authority.
787
00:41:37,970 --> 00:41:42,055
But there was lots of other
characters like oligarchs, street
788
00:41:42,056 --> 00:41:46,070
guys, businessmen that were
all trying to get into the mix.
789
00:41:46,610 --> 00:41:49,530
Most of those were actually GRU and
Russian agents.
790
00:41:49,930 --> 00:41:52,130
They were just babbling all this Russian
disinformation.
791
00:41:52,570 --> 00:41:54,730
Nobody would listen to it until Rudy
Giuliani.
792
00:41:55,550 --> 00:41:58,412
I mean, Rudy did not
care as long as it fit his
793
00:41:58,413 --> 00:42:01,610
narrative and the narrative
was Joe Biden is bad.
794
00:42:01,920 --> 00:42:05,850
Having his son, who had just been tossed
out of the military for drug problems,
795
00:42:06,210 --> 00:42:09,030
put on the board of the most corrupt
company in Ukraine.
796
00:42:09,770 --> 00:42:12,991
They needed to help
feed the beast, get it out
797
00:42:12,992 --> 00:42:15,911
there on the hill, get it
out there in Fox News.
798
00:42:16,510 --> 00:42:19,512
Well, Joe Biden has spent weeks
deflecting the flood of questions
799
00:42:19,513 --> 00:42:22,590
about his son's shady business
deals in Ukraine and China.
800
00:42:22,591 --> 00:42:29,150
And then all of a sudden, Hunter Biden
resigns from the board, Lev and Igor,
801
00:42:30,030 --> 00:42:31,030
they got a victory.
802
00:42:31,170 --> 00:42:32,170
They're riding high.
803
00:42:34,210 --> 00:42:36,650
It was good, but we needed more.
804
00:42:36,930 --> 00:42:38,210
We didn't have the smoking gun.
805
00:42:38,570 --> 00:42:43,431
Two days later, here comes a call, and it's
current general prosecutor Yuri Lutzenko.
806
00:42:43,810 --> 00:42:44,810
Come on down.
807
00:42:44,970 --> 00:42:46,050
You're the next contestant.
808
00:42:47,370 --> 00:42:50,130
Yuri Lutzenko didn't have a great
reputation.
809
00:42:50,131 --> 00:42:55,050
Like a lot of prosecutors, these are
largely political hacks.
810
00:42:55,890 --> 00:42:58,650
They feed a certain faction that's in
power.
811
00:42:59,540 --> 00:43:03,491
He came in with a pile of
paperwork that had to do
812
00:43:03,492 --> 00:43:06,291
with Marisma, but he's not
showing any hardcore facts.
813
00:43:07,140 --> 00:43:10,717
He never left any records,
nor was very specific
814
00:43:10,718 --> 00:43:13,630
as to, okay, where
did the money come in?
815
00:43:13,950 --> 00:43:14,970
How was it delivered?
816
00:43:15,790 --> 00:43:17,770
How did Vice President Biden benefit?
817
00:43:18,310 --> 00:43:22,090
Giuliani said we needed to announce an
investigation into the Bidens.
818
00:43:22,870 --> 00:43:25,248
Lutzenko was willing
to get this investigation
819
00:43:25,249 --> 00:43:27,491
announced, but he
needed something in return.
820
00:43:27,710 --> 00:43:32,090
Yvonne Vich had to go, and that wasn't a
problem because Rudy wanted Yvonne Vich gone.
821
00:43:32,490 --> 00:43:34,110
The problem is Trump already fired her.
822
00:43:34,770 --> 00:43:38,550
Remember, when we had our dinner, he
said, get rid of her, and she's still there.
823
00:43:38,830 --> 00:43:39,886
But he couldn't understand it.
824
00:43:39,910 --> 00:43:42,830
He would just scream, she's fired,
and expect that's it.
825
00:43:43,010 --> 00:43:43,210
He's gone.
826
00:43:43,770 --> 00:43:46,390
Trump told Pompeo to fire her,
but Pompeo refused.
827
00:43:46,391 --> 00:43:51,050
He even screamed so loud at his secretary
of Madeleine to fire, and she told him,
828
00:43:51,310 --> 00:43:53,086
Mr. President, I don't have the authority
to do it.
829
00:43:53,110 --> 00:43:58,150
A man that's known for firing people on TV,
and here he can't fire his own ambassador.
830
00:43:58,770 --> 00:44:00,130
I mean, it was hilarious.
831
00:44:00,570 --> 00:44:06,410
I don't know if I'm more offended as a
Ukrainian or as an American to see the
832
00:44:06,411 --> 00:44:10,230
extents and lengths that President Trump
was willing to go.
833
00:44:10,730 --> 00:44:14,810
It didn't make sense to me, and I think the
only person that made sense to was Trump.
834
00:44:15,310 --> 00:44:22,751
It was just astonishing to see such high
levels of governments acting like children.
835
00:44:34,315 --> 00:44:39,820
One of the things that I was fascinated to
find was that when global energy producers
836
00:44:39,821 --> 00:44:44,940
did get bank accounts, I see charges of
Leves in Ukraine.
837
00:44:45,680 --> 00:44:47,840
You know, he's living it up in Kiev.
838
00:44:48,880 --> 00:44:54,560
While Leves is being chased by creditors
all through South Florida, he is now
839
00:44:54,800 --> 00:45:03,080
orchestrating a stream of money with Igor
that goes through a foreign bank to the U .S.
840
00:45:03,600 --> 00:45:09,880
The money is flowing, and he is spending
it with Igor with reckless abandon.
841
00:45:10,480 --> 00:45:11,560
They flew for his class.
842
00:45:12,115 --> 00:45:13,960
They stayed in top-level hotels.
843
00:45:13,961 --> 00:45:16,700
They ate $1,000 dinners.
844
00:45:17,440 --> 00:45:22,840
We're talking $600 at Tutsis, a strip club
in Kiev.
845
00:45:23,640 --> 00:45:25,900
They were not only moving around Ukraine.
846
00:45:26,460 --> 00:45:28,040
They were jet-setting around the globe.
847
00:45:28,760 --> 00:45:30,680
Paris, Warsaw, London.
848
00:45:31,200 --> 00:45:34,500
They were globe-trotting diplomats,
if you will.
849
00:45:34,920 --> 00:45:36,160
And I use that for him loosely.
850
00:45:39,260 --> 00:45:44,480
Here I am, a kid at Brooklyn going to meet
the president of Ukraine, a country that
851
00:45:44,481 --> 00:45:48,380
was born in, relaying a message from the
most powerful man in the world.
852
00:45:49,610 --> 00:45:51,560
It's time, game time.
853
00:45:52,300 --> 00:45:55,080
I was scared every time he went to Ukraine
that he wouldn't come back.
854
00:45:55,820 --> 00:45:59,860
Petro Poroshenko battling to hold on to
his presidency against Zelensky.
855
00:46:00,920 --> 00:46:02,320
Elections were going on in Ukraine.
856
00:46:02,640 --> 00:46:03,280
They tell Poroshenko.
857
00:46:03,281 --> 00:46:07,020
If he would giveuzenko the go-ahead to
open an investigation into the Biden,
858
00:46:07,620 --> 00:46:10,393
and if Poroshenko
himself would come out and
859
00:46:10,394 --> 00:46:13,281
discuss the involvement
in the meddling of U.S.
860
00:46:13,480 --> 00:46:18,460
Ambassador Maria Varnovich into Ukrainian
politics, in return, down Trump would then
861
00:46:18,461 --> 00:46:24,220
not only have Poroshenko visit him at the
White House, but he would also come visit
862
00:46:24,221 --> 00:46:26,540
him in Ukraine and support him in his
elections.
863
00:46:27,520 --> 00:46:31,260
I made the very, very first quid pro quo
to the president of Poroshenko,
864
00:46:31,560 --> 00:46:32,920
Ukraine from President down Trump.
865
00:46:33,160 --> 00:46:36,520
After I'm done talking, Poroshenko sits
back, starts laughing and said,
866
00:46:36,700 --> 00:46:37,200
hold on a second.
867
00:46:37,201 --> 00:46:39,140
He goes, we're not going to do this again.
868
00:46:39,300 --> 00:46:39,920
Thank you very much.
869
00:46:39,960 --> 00:46:42,680
It's a great honor to be with President
Poroshenko.
870
00:46:43,380 --> 00:46:46,072
He got screwed by Trump
on some shady cold deal,
871
00:46:46,073 --> 00:46:48,380
and now he can't even
get a phone call back.
872
00:46:48,600 --> 00:46:52,220
So, at this point, he didn't trust that
Trump would hold up his end of the deal.
873
00:46:52,830 --> 00:46:56,391
John Solomon, Rudy,
everybody starts going crazy, and it
874
00:46:56,392 --> 00:47:00,180
becomes an all-out war between
Yuri Lutenko and Rudy Giuliani.
875
00:47:00,620 --> 00:47:05,900
Finally, after Rudy getting on the phone
and literally screaming at Lutenko and
876
00:47:05,901 --> 00:47:09,336
cursing, Lutenko, he's going
to do the interview, and he's
877
00:47:09,337 --> 00:47:11,940
going to give us a bombshell
that we're not even ready for.
878
00:47:12,160 --> 00:47:15,460
This isn't a normal political exercise.
879
00:47:16,440 --> 00:47:20,160
This is subterfuge on an entirely another
level.
880
00:47:20,420 --> 00:47:21,640
You just don't see that.
881
00:47:22,340 --> 00:47:23,520
Nowhere in American history.
882
00:47:23,521 --> 00:47:24,960
You guys understand that.
883
00:47:25,020 --> 00:47:26,360
I mean, I was at the studios.
884
00:47:26,840 --> 00:47:28,520
I was at the control room.
885
00:47:30,080 --> 00:47:36,140
Overseeing this interview, old Soviet style,
you know, propaganda, state TV type of shit.
886
00:47:36,410 --> 00:47:39,620
Today we'll launch the criminal
investigation about this fact,
887
00:47:39,820 --> 00:47:44,420
and we'll give legal assessment of all
this information.
888
00:47:44,940 --> 00:47:49,586
Lutenko tells the Hill
we're doing an investigation,
889
00:47:49,587 --> 00:47:53,080
and boom, that was
another victory for the team.
890
00:47:53,081 --> 00:47:55,020
How real was the investigation?
891
00:47:55,555 --> 00:47:58,520
No more real than a lot of the
investigations that happened there.
892
00:47:58,890 --> 00:48:00,011
So let's be perfectly clear.
893
00:48:00,360 --> 00:48:02,841
Trump already never cared if there was an
actual investigation.
894
00:48:02,960 --> 00:48:06,740
Trump even himself said it several times
to announce it and leave the rest to me.
895
00:48:06,980 --> 00:48:12,560
How do you gauge the relationship between
Ukraine and specifically our U.S.
896
00:48:13,080 --> 00:48:14,120
ambassador, Ms. Ivanovich?
897
00:48:14,565 --> 00:48:16,400
That's when Lutenko heads us with the
bomb.
898
00:48:17,180 --> 00:48:20,620
Unfortunately, from the first meeting with
the U.S.
899
00:48:21,160 --> 00:48:27,740
ambassador here, Ms. Ambassador gave me a
list of people who should not prosecute.
900
00:48:28,500 --> 00:48:30,840
And all hell broke loose.
901
00:48:31,300 --> 00:48:32,380
There was no proof of that.
902
00:48:32,500 --> 00:48:36,580
And the State Department flatly denied
that and said it was a fabrication.
903
00:48:37,480 --> 00:48:40,540
But you know, the end of the day the
damage was done.
904
00:48:41,290 --> 00:48:47,020
We were on cloud nine high fives and having
dinner and drinks and thinking we did it.
905
00:48:47,300 --> 00:48:47,900
We got it.
906
00:48:48,180 --> 00:48:49,180
Mission accomplished.
907
00:48:50,740 --> 00:48:53,064
Breaking news in the Russia
investigation, a summary
908
00:48:53,065 --> 00:48:55,421
of the Mueller report has
been delivered to Congress.
909
00:48:55,560 --> 00:49:00,380
Attorney General William Barr reported
that the special counsel found no evidence
910
00:49:00,381 --> 00:49:05,660
that the Trump campaign, or anyone
associated with it, conspired or
911
00:49:05,661 --> 00:49:10,300
coordinated with Russia to influence the
2016 presidential election.
912
00:49:10,301 --> 00:49:11,640
This was all bullshit.
913
00:49:11,900 --> 00:49:14,722
Worries among Mueller's
investigators that Barr may have
914
00:49:14,723 --> 00:49:17,241
shaped the entire narrative
about the Russia investigation.
915
00:49:17,700 --> 00:49:19,900
But it was party time at the Trump
International.
916
00:49:20,660 --> 00:49:24,460
Music was going, congressmen, senators
were all over the place.
917
00:49:24,940 --> 00:49:27,520
Finally, this Russian collusion is going
to bad.
918
00:49:28,060 --> 00:49:30,100
We knew that Bill Barr was going to take
care of it.
919
00:49:30,675 --> 00:49:33,303
After Mueller, you would
think at that point the
920
00:49:33,304 --> 00:49:36,540
administration would be
breathing a collective sigh of relief.
921
00:49:36,541 --> 00:49:37,541
No.
922
00:49:37,780 --> 00:49:42,260
There wasn't any effort to kind of,
okay, let's play this straight.
923
00:49:42,820 --> 00:49:43,980
Let's do it right.
924
00:49:44,520 --> 00:49:44,900
No.
925
00:49:45,440 --> 00:49:46,680
They're right back in the hunt.
926
00:49:46,980 --> 00:49:49,000
Now let's target an ambassador.
927
00:49:49,600 --> 00:49:50,960
It's been a dramatic day.
928
00:49:51,300 --> 00:49:54,540
President Trump fired US ambassador Marie
Yovanovitch.
929
00:49:55,090 --> 00:49:58,320
That morning I wake up from a phone call
to, from Lutenko and he's like,
930
00:49:58,640 --> 00:49:58,980
congratulations.
931
00:49:59,560 --> 00:50:01,080
Finally, you guys did something right.
932
00:50:01,300 --> 00:50:04,220
Yovanovitch said she was never told why
she was removed.
933
00:50:04,470 --> 00:50:07,600
By text Victoria Tunzing and she said the
wicked witch is gone.
934
00:50:07,960 --> 00:50:09,660
I'm like, you know, from the Wizard of Oz.
935
00:50:09,880 --> 00:50:11,840
The wicked old Richard loves his name.
936
00:50:13,260 --> 00:50:17,420
She is the anti-corruption fighter and we
were celebrating that we got her out.
937
00:50:19,560 --> 00:50:22,980
What they were doing was this dangerous
form of diplomacy.
938
00:50:23,640 --> 00:50:29,000
They had the wherewithal and the means to
get recalled an American ambassador.
939
00:50:29,860 --> 00:50:32,360
They did that and there was no turning
back.
940
00:50:36,035 --> 00:50:39,730
And so as the Ukrainian presidential
elections start heating up in April,
941
00:50:40,500 --> 00:50:43,610
all of a sudden, here comes Vladimir
Zelensky out of nowhere.
942
00:50:47,920 --> 00:50:51,500
Here was a guy that was a comedian that
had no chance whatsoever.
943
00:50:52,040 --> 00:50:54,655
Every day he got bigger
and bigger until eventually
944
00:50:54,656 --> 00:50:57,221
he just took over and
won in the landslide.
945
00:50:57,370 --> 00:51:00,931
Having played the role of
President in a TV show, the Lord
946
00:51:00,932 --> 00:51:05,040
and me, Zelensky is now on
course to make that role a reality.
947
00:51:06,120 --> 00:51:11,520
Zelensky and his team can celebrate this
election victory, but defeating corruption
948
00:51:11,521 --> 00:51:15,740
and ending the war with Russia is going to
prove far harder.
949
00:51:16,460 --> 00:51:19,440
All of a sudden, it's a holy cast of
characters and our mission changes.
950
00:51:21,100 --> 00:51:26,180
We need to open up a backdoor channel between
Zelensky and Giuliani on behalf of Trump.
951
00:51:26,520 --> 00:51:30,720
The integration date of President-elect
Volodymyr Zelensky is being discussed.
952
00:51:31,260 --> 00:51:33,795
The inauguration is going
to be big, and it's going
953
00:51:33,796 --> 00:51:36,060
to be this huge event to
show a strain for Russia.
954
00:51:36,460 --> 00:51:38,200
It was very important for Trump to be
there.
955
00:51:38,830 --> 00:51:41,370
And Trump said, I don't
think I can make it, but
956
00:51:41,470 --> 00:51:44,240
I will send the next best
thing, I'll send Pence.
957
00:51:44,680 --> 00:51:47,175
So they were all set,
Rudy realized that the
958
00:51:47,176 --> 00:51:50,181
inauguration was going
to be their pressure point.
959
00:51:50,640 --> 00:51:52,480
Then he would use it to our advantage.
960
00:51:53,080 --> 00:51:59,820
We have runaway diplomats operating in
another country under nobody's watch.
961
00:52:00,640 --> 00:52:01,920
Nobody's age is nothing.
962
00:52:02,420 --> 00:52:04,140
If we lose sight of that, we have
problems.
963
00:52:04,640 --> 00:52:08,340
And if we lose sight of what happened,
we're in serious trouble as a country.
964
00:52:18,150 --> 00:52:22,550
Lev started to slip away, reminds me of
the Titanic scene.
965
00:52:24,430 --> 00:52:25,690
Jack, there's a boat.
966
00:52:27,990 --> 00:52:33,871
Jack, that's pretty much where we were during
the four years of the presidency of Trump.
967
00:52:38,260 --> 00:52:40,020
I'd never know when he was coming or
going.
968
00:52:40,340 --> 00:52:42,428
He could buy a ticket in the
morning and then cancel it
969
00:52:42,429 --> 00:52:44,820
by night and then be somewhere
else by the next morning.
970
00:52:45,840 --> 00:52:47,580
When he was home, he was unbearable.
971
00:52:48,160 --> 00:52:51,960
It was Trump, Trump, Trump, MAGA,
MAGA, Ukraine, scandal, Joe Biden.
972
00:52:52,370 --> 00:52:54,091
There was nothing else to talk to Lev
about.
973
00:52:54,700 --> 00:52:58,000
It was hardcore control over my family.
974
00:52:59,050 --> 00:53:00,050
Are you kidding me?
975
00:53:00,860 --> 00:53:02,300
You're going to watch MSNBC.
976
00:53:02,301 --> 00:53:07,580
You don't know that that's full of lies
and they hate Trump.
977
00:53:08,130 --> 00:53:10,360
That was part of the MAGA cult movement.
978
00:53:10,600 --> 00:53:12,588
Once they got you in and
they told you what you could
979
00:53:12,589 --> 00:53:14,801
watch, who you could speak
to and what you could believe.
980
00:53:15,540 --> 00:53:18,060
Now I have to eat and pretend like it's
not a big deal.
981
00:53:18,735 --> 00:53:21,280
That Trump is making fun of disabled
people.
982
00:53:21,760 --> 00:53:22,960
I don't know what I said.
983
00:53:23,280 --> 00:53:24,320
I don't remember.
984
00:53:25,240 --> 00:53:26,920
Being derogatory towards women.
985
00:53:27,440 --> 00:53:28,721
She's shocked that I picked her.
986
00:53:29,040 --> 00:53:30,256
I'm not thinking, Mr. That's okay.
987
00:53:30,280 --> 00:53:30,940
I know you're not thinking.
988
00:53:31,280 --> 00:53:31,700
You never do.
989
00:53:31,701 --> 00:53:32,701
I'm sorry.
990
00:53:32,740 --> 00:53:35,587
My husband is now turning
in to the same orange
991
00:53:35,588 --> 00:53:38,481
person on TV that he
didn't go spray tanning.
992
00:53:39,320 --> 00:53:41,320
Eventually, that might have gotten there,
you know?
993
00:53:41,560 --> 00:53:45,120
I mean, eventually him and Rudy would have
been going together to get spray tanning.
994
00:53:46,600 --> 00:53:51,660
They were in this sort of, like,
Republican political-industrial complex.
995
00:53:52,100 --> 00:53:53,100
They were in it.
996
00:53:53,540 --> 00:53:55,300
He seemed like he thought he was
untouchable.
997
00:53:55,840 --> 00:53:57,420
My client had gotten a phone call.
998
00:53:57,421 --> 00:54:02,860
Hey, you know, our guy Lev has connections
straight to the top.
999
00:54:03,270 --> 00:54:05,700
Why are you busting our chops about this
500 grand?
1000
00:54:06,020 --> 00:54:07,240
It was a thinly veiled threat.
1001
00:54:07,550 --> 00:54:10,100
My client is a real tough-minded guy.
1002
00:54:10,525 --> 00:54:15,480
He wasn't gonna be deterred by any threat
thinly veiled or otherwise.
1003
00:54:16,130 --> 00:54:18,340
That inspired me to be just as tenacious.
1004
00:54:19,840 --> 00:54:24,360
The mission was now to schedule a meeting
between Rudy Giuliani and President-Black
1005
00:54:24,460 --> 00:54:25,460
Vladimir Zelensky.
1006
00:54:25,785 --> 00:54:28,979
Trump wanted the new
president to announce an
1007
00:54:28,980 --> 00:54:31,880
investigation into Joe
Biden and Hunter Biden.
1008
00:54:32,365 --> 00:54:35,940
The announcement would legitimize the
story that we've been pushing in the media.
1009
00:54:36,550 --> 00:54:38,780
He wanted Rudy to close the deal.
1010
00:54:39,700 --> 00:54:40,320
We're in Ukraine.
1011
00:54:40,720 --> 00:54:41,840
We're pounding the pavement.
1012
00:54:42,060 --> 00:54:43,740
We're meeting with every kind of
character.
1013
00:54:43,820 --> 00:54:46,700
From your foreign ministers, your
oligarchs, your criminal.
1014
00:54:47,220 --> 00:54:49,640
Anybody in there from rabbis to pope.
1015
00:54:50,040 --> 00:54:51,640
My dear brother, we are here in Ukraine.
1016
00:54:52,720 --> 00:54:54,040
We're here with the Rabbi Moist.
1017
00:54:54,041 --> 00:54:55,820
God bless you, Mr. Giuliani.
1018
00:54:56,300 --> 00:54:58,020
There wasn't a rock that we didn't
overturn.
1019
00:54:58,080 --> 00:55:01,380
I mean, from bartenders to waitresses,
we went everywhere.
1020
00:55:02,080 --> 00:55:03,640
It was like a groundhog day.
1021
00:55:04,360 --> 00:55:05,480
We would get promises.
1022
00:55:05,940 --> 00:55:07,100
Everybody would tell us, yes.
1023
00:55:07,260 --> 00:55:07,400
Great.
1024
00:55:07,780 --> 00:55:08,780
Absolutely.
1025
00:55:09,320 --> 00:55:09,900
We'll set it up.
1026
00:55:10,220 --> 00:55:12,140
And then two hours later, they disappear.
1027
00:55:12,620 --> 00:55:14,994
I was starting getting
really creepy because some
1028
00:55:14,995 --> 00:55:17,421
forces out there are
stopping this from happening.
1029
00:55:18,160 --> 00:55:19,640
We didn't know at the time the U.S.
1030
00:55:19,760 --> 00:55:21,680
Embassy was following everything we were
doing.
1031
00:55:21,681 --> 00:55:24,011
After every meeting, somebody
from the embassy would
1032
00:55:24,012 --> 00:55:26,540
come right in afterwards and
tell them, Domi would rooty.
1033
00:55:26,700 --> 00:55:27,700
This is illegitimate.
1034
00:55:27,920 --> 00:55:28,920
There's proper channels.
1035
00:55:29,220 --> 00:55:30,220
This needs to stop.
1036
00:55:31,430 --> 00:55:32,780
It was us first in deep state.
1037
00:55:33,200 --> 00:55:36,720
And the embassy, and we represent Donald
Trump, kiss her ass.
1038
00:55:37,250 --> 00:55:41,760
So after several people ghosting us, they
finally set up a meeting with Minister Vakhov.
1039
00:55:42,280 --> 00:55:43,920
He said, well, I need an official letter.
1040
00:55:44,360 --> 00:55:45,360
I said, no problem.
1041
00:55:45,420 --> 00:55:46,080
I gave Rudy a call.
1042
00:55:46,400 --> 00:55:49,740
Within a couple of minutes, there was an
official letter e-mailed over to me.
1043
00:55:50,240 --> 00:55:51,000
Vakhov's eyes changed.
1044
00:55:51,001 --> 00:55:52,660
He had to say that this was real now.
1045
00:55:53,180 --> 00:55:56,540
We had an agreement on May 10th,
Rudy was supposed to fly in.
1046
00:55:56,820 --> 00:55:59,380
And there was supposed to be a meeting
between Zelensky and Rudy.
1047
00:55:59,940 --> 00:56:03,140
So at five o'clock in the morning,
I hear my phone gone crazy.
1048
00:56:04,400 --> 00:56:05,400
It's Rudy.
1049
00:56:05,460 --> 00:56:07,140
I thought maybe he was drunk or something.
1050
00:56:07,560 --> 00:56:09,280
Pick up the phone and he's screaming.
1051
00:56:09,780 --> 00:56:11,160
They're all against us.
1052
00:56:11,520 --> 00:56:12,520
This was all a setup.
1053
00:56:12,780 --> 00:56:17,380
The Ukrainians were going to come out
after Giuliani and I mean Zelensky.
1054
00:56:17,381 --> 00:56:20,620
And claimed that Giuliani was trash-shaked
them down.
1055
00:56:20,940 --> 00:56:22,580
And Giuliani said, that's it.
1056
00:56:22,740 --> 00:56:23,440
Get out of there.
1057
00:56:23,680 --> 00:56:24,960
We're not going back to Ukraine.
1058
00:56:25,260 --> 00:56:25,860
Fuck them.
1059
00:56:26,180 --> 00:56:26,960
They're all liars.
1060
00:56:27,140 --> 00:56:28,140
You know, we're done.
1061
00:56:29,160 --> 00:56:31,820
About an hour later, my phone starts
blowing up again.
1062
00:56:32,360 --> 00:56:33,360
Now it's the Ukrainians.
1063
00:56:33,580 --> 00:56:37,740
All the Ukrainian officials and oligarchs
call me up saying what the fuck is going on.
1064
00:56:37,900 --> 00:56:40,560
Rudy went on Fox and basically went on a
rampage.
1065
00:56:40,990 --> 00:56:43,274
I'm not going to go because
I think I'm walking into
1066
00:56:43,275 --> 00:56:45,960
a group of people that are
enemies of the president.
1067
00:56:45,961 --> 00:56:47,360
Calling out names.
1068
00:56:47,780 --> 00:56:49,220
A gentleman by the name of Leshanko.
1069
00:56:50,000 --> 00:56:53,000
If you had told the whole world that
Ukraine is corrupt, then fuck you.
1070
00:56:53,320 --> 00:56:55,220
So no trip on Sunday, no trips to Ukraine.
1071
00:56:55,800 --> 00:56:56,400
No trips.
1072
00:56:56,700 --> 00:56:57,520
My ass in the light.
1073
00:56:57,720 --> 00:57:00,860
Any one of these guys out there that I was
dealing with could have just said,
1074
00:57:01,020 --> 00:57:02,500
he's not leaving and I'm not leaving.
1075
00:57:02,725 --> 00:57:03,765
It was a terrible morning.
1076
00:57:04,220 --> 00:57:05,220
All of U.S.
1077
00:57:05,360 --> 00:57:07,660
and Ukrainian relations are now on the
line.
1078
00:57:08,210 --> 00:57:11,420
So I set up a meeting with Lukasenko and I
started going strong and saying,
1079
00:57:11,640 --> 00:57:12,720
this could all be resolved.
1080
00:57:12,800 --> 00:57:15,700
President Zelensky needs to announce a
fucking investigation.
1081
00:57:16,620 --> 00:57:19,120
This will stop Lukasenko saying,
give me an hour.
1082
00:57:19,680 --> 00:57:21,920
And within an hour I got called from
Shafer.
1083
00:57:22,920 --> 00:57:27,620
Sergei Shafer was the intern chief of
staff to President Zelensky.
1084
00:57:27,820 --> 00:57:30,360
He was his partner in his entertainment
business.
1085
00:57:30,720 --> 00:57:31,280
So I called Rudy.
1086
00:57:31,545 --> 00:57:32,985
I'll never forget that conversation.
1087
00:57:33,220 --> 00:57:35,540
He was very loud, so I had to hold the
phone off over here.
1088
00:57:35,620 --> 00:57:37,837
And he was very, I mean,
he was like, you make
1089
00:57:37,838 --> 00:57:40,080
sure you tell them like
we're not messing around.
1090
00:57:40,300 --> 00:57:45,060
Make him understand that if Zelensky does not
pronounce an investigation into the Bidens.
1091
00:57:45,061 --> 00:57:47,880
By Monday, there will be no relationship.
1092
00:57:48,300 --> 00:57:49,740
There will be no military aid.
1093
00:57:49,820 --> 00:57:51,100
There will be no medical aid.
1094
00:57:51,540 --> 00:57:54,340
And vice president Pence will not show up
at your inauguration.
1095
00:57:55,120 --> 00:57:56,480
I was like, holy shit.
1096
00:57:56,760 --> 00:57:57,660
Pence canceling?
1097
00:57:57,720 --> 00:57:59,120
It was a message to Vladimir Putin.
1098
00:57:59,900 --> 00:58:01,541
That we are no longer supporting Ukraine.
1099
00:58:02,280 --> 00:58:03,600
Like, how am I going to say this?
1100
00:58:03,690 --> 00:58:05,120
So I start practicing with Igor.
1101
00:58:05,600 --> 00:58:07,100
I see Igor starting pale white.
1102
00:58:07,300 --> 00:58:08,676
He's like, you're not going to say this.
1103
00:58:08,700 --> 00:58:10,860
You do understand this is the president of
Ukraine.
1104
00:58:11,300 --> 00:58:12,660
We have to think about our safety.
1105
00:58:12,860 --> 00:58:13,880
We have to get out of here.
1106
00:58:13,881 --> 00:58:14,881
We get downstairs.
1107
00:58:14,920 --> 00:58:17,980
There's a whole entourage of bodyguards
and cars.
1108
00:58:18,540 --> 00:58:21,920
Igor kept trying to explain to me,
yellow, they're protecting us.
1109
00:58:22,080 --> 00:58:27,820
But if tomorrow they decide not to protect
us, we're off to see Sergei Shafer.
1110
00:58:28,600 --> 00:58:30,400
The meeting was at a restaurant called
Prague.
1111
00:58:30,760 --> 00:58:32,040
The whole restaurant was closed.
1112
00:58:32,340 --> 00:58:35,920
Probably 40, 50 bodyguards between mine
and Sergei Shafer's.
1113
00:58:36,020 --> 00:58:37,340
And then there was a three of us.
1114
00:58:37,595 --> 00:58:38,756
And the little table outside.
1115
00:58:39,320 --> 00:58:41,280
This is literally like a scene I have a
spy movie.
1116
00:58:41,480 --> 00:58:43,280
I mean, James Bond has nothing on us.
1117
00:58:46,040 --> 00:58:46,480
Bond.
1118
00:58:46,481 --> 00:58:47,481
James Bond.
1119
00:58:48,270 --> 00:58:51,780
Igor sitting next to me, taking shots
because he was nervous as hell.
1120
00:58:52,160 --> 00:58:53,160
I had Shafer's heart.
1121
00:58:53,280 --> 00:58:56,240
I understand this meeting might not be
pleasant, but it's very serious.
1122
00:58:56,935 --> 00:58:58,096
This is what needs to happen.
1123
00:58:58,180 --> 00:59:00,576
We've been trying to get a meeting with
President Leggsolenski.
1124
00:59:00,600 --> 00:59:02,480
For some reason, we're having
difficulties.
1125
00:59:02,880 --> 00:59:05,500
We need your help to be able to arrange
this meeting.
1126
00:59:06,180 --> 00:59:10,000
Looking back at it, it was just incredible
how I was explaining to him that we were
1127
00:59:10,001 --> 00:59:11,959
trying to root our
corruption while at that
1128
00:59:11,960 --> 00:59:15,081
moment, corrupting
him to the fullest extreme.
1129
00:59:15,430 --> 00:59:16,440
It was a simple meeting.
1130
00:59:16,680 --> 00:59:18,120
There was not that much to discuss.
1131
00:59:18,360 --> 00:59:19,360
And that was it.
1132
00:59:20,620 --> 00:59:22,380
That night, they ghosted me.
1133
00:59:22,780 --> 00:59:25,700
I remember Rudy saying, well, now they're
going to see the wrath of Trump.
1134
00:59:26,180 --> 00:59:29,360
Next morning, the Ukrainians got a phone
call from the United States telling him
1135
00:59:29,361 --> 00:59:32,100
that Mike Pence is not going to be coming
to the inauguration.
1136
00:59:33,440 --> 00:59:34,440
Boy, was that a problem.
1137
00:59:35,240 --> 00:59:38,540
Like, this is the way he's going to go
out, running around for Trump.
1138
00:59:39,240 --> 00:59:40,820
Is this really worth his life?
1139
00:59:46,980 --> 00:59:50,302
Ukrainian officials wanted
Vice President Pence to attend
1140
00:59:50,303 --> 00:59:53,290
the inauguration for the new
president, Zelenski, in Kiev.
1141
00:59:53,850 --> 00:59:55,370
What are you learning about that trip?
1142
00:59:55,430 --> 00:59:56,430
It was canceled, right?
1143
00:59:56,590 --> 00:59:58,930
Pence canceling was almost like a death
sentence for us.
1144
00:59:58,931 --> 01:00:06,190
We were trying to
advance the election.
1145
01:00:06,495 --> 01:00:13,670
Oligar Igor Kolomoysky owned television
broadcast network where Zelenski made his bones.
1146
01:00:14,290 --> 01:00:18,750
Zelenski and Kolomoysky were essentially
friends and supporters of one another.
1147
01:00:19,210 --> 01:00:20,366
This guy is as bad as they come.
1148
01:00:20,390 --> 01:00:22,910
I mean, this guy has an army of 10,000
people of his own.
1149
01:00:23,250 --> 01:00:25,390
So this is not an irregular Oligar.
1150
01:00:29,050 --> 01:00:33,130
The first statement he makes on television
as he gets back is...
1151
01:00:33,131 --> 01:00:39,510
Basically threatening our lives.
1152
01:00:40,030 --> 01:00:43,870
I'm pretty sure I probably broke down
after that, and I was just like,
1153
01:00:44,810 --> 01:00:46,210
what if he doesn't come back?
1154
01:00:48,070 --> 01:00:53,350
Giuliani started tweeting, hitting all
media, basically telling Vladimir Zelenski
1155
01:00:54,020 --> 01:00:58,950
that if he does not arrest Igor Kolomoysky
immediately, and if something happens to
1156
01:00:58,951 --> 01:01:02,990
either me or Igor while we're in Ukraine,
that he will be the blame for it.
1157
01:01:03,560 --> 01:01:07,290
Now we're getting a call from the interior
minister saying, you're out of here now.
1158
01:01:07,610 --> 01:01:11,296
Within moments, we were
fitted with bulletproof vests
1159
01:01:11,297 --> 01:01:14,290
thrown on into a convoy of
cars and wished off into a plane.
1160
01:01:15,050 --> 01:01:16,690
No immigration, no passport control.
1161
01:01:17,270 --> 01:01:18,366
Next thing you know, we were gone.
1162
01:01:18,390 --> 01:01:20,110
We were out of Ukraine and off to Paris.
1163
01:01:20,111 --> 01:01:22,510
And that was the last time I ever was in
Ukraine.
1164
01:01:23,540 --> 01:01:25,430
That's when Trump has to enter the fray.
1165
01:01:26,890 --> 01:01:32,010
A troubling private conversation between
President Trump and a foreign leader has
1166
01:01:32,011 --> 01:01:34,142
rung such an alarm
bell that the intelligence
1167
01:01:34,143 --> 01:01:38,350
community's internal watchdog
calls it an urgent concern.
1168
01:01:38,810 --> 01:01:43,570
This was a July 25th call between the
president and Ukrainian President Zelenski.
1169
01:01:43,840 --> 01:01:45,847
And what's jumping off
the page to me is that the
1170
01:01:45,848 --> 01:01:48,790
president of Ukraine says,
where are the javelins?
1171
01:01:48,990 --> 01:01:51,670
Where is the defense support you're giving
us?
1172
01:01:51,930 --> 01:01:56,410
And the very next sentence by the president
is, I would like you to do us a favor.
1173
01:01:56,710 --> 01:02:01,630
During the call, Mr. Trump pressured the
Ukrainian president eight times to
1174
01:02:01,631 --> 01:02:04,910
investigate former Vice President Joe
Biden's son, Hunter.
1175
01:02:05,150 --> 01:02:08,489
It was a very easy connect to
dots to what Levitz started to
1176
01:02:08,490 --> 01:02:13,110
do and what President Trump
had eventually tried to do himself.
1177
01:02:13,111 --> 01:02:15,950
The president was saying, I need this
favor.
1178
01:02:16,370 --> 01:02:17,806
And by the way, I've got your money.
1179
01:02:17,830 --> 01:02:20,590
This conversation was about a trade.
1180
01:02:21,020 --> 01:02:23,290
It clearly was a quid pro quo.
1181
01:02:23,650 --> 01:02:25,070
There was no quid pro quo.
1182
01:02:25,290 --> 01:02:26,330
No quid pro quo.
1183
01:02:26,530 --> 01:02:28,270
There was no quid pro quo.
1184
01:02:28,510 --> 01:02:31,630
This is a very dangerous situation for our
country right now.
1185
01:02:32,070 --> 01:02:36,510
And it is amazing that we continue to let
this man be in charge of nuclear weapons.
1186
01:02:37,190 --> 01:02:39,707
Question, sir, was what did
you want President Zelenski
1187
01:02:39,708 --> 01:02:42,130
to do about Vice President
Biden and his son, Hunter?
1188
01:02:43,790 --> 01:02:44,790
Are you talking to me?
1189
01:02:45,170 --> 01:02:51,170
The irony is that it comes shortly after
he had just been investigated from using a
1190
01:02:51,171 --> 01:02:53,930
foreign power to meddle in a presidential
election.
1191
01:02:54,630 --> 01:02:57,170
And it's happening all over again.
1192
01:02:57,530 --> 01:02:58,530
That call was perfect.
1193
01:02:58,630 --> 01:02:59,950
It couldn't have been night, sir.
1194
01:03:00,110 --> 01:03:03,270
Even if you don't believe the whole
Russia, Russia, Russia, that Trump
1195
01:03:03,420 --> 01:03:07,042
colluded with the Russians, I
want to make it very clear that
1196
01:03:07,043 --> 01:03:10,910
he colluded with the Ukrainians
to meddle in the 2020 election.
1197
01:03:10,911 --> 01:03:13,450
And I know it because I was there.
1198
01:03:15,170 --> 01:03:18,710
That's really where things started to
accelerate downward quickly.
1199
01:03:20,010 --> 01:03:23,290
Mr. Trump did order a hold on military aid
to Ukraine.
1200
01:03:23,650 --> 01:03:27,770
President Trump ordered his acting chief
of staff, Mick Mulvaney, to delay that
1201
01:03:27,771 --> 01:03:31,850
military aid to Ukraine just days before a
call with the Ukrainian president.
1202
01:03:32,550 --> 01:03:35,870
We found out that Trump actually withheld
military aid.
1203
01:03:36,530 --> 01:03:38,870
That was a very, very serious moment in my
life.
1204
01:03:39,070 --> 01:03:42,230
The message I gave them, Trump actually
acted on it.
1205
01:03:42,430 --> 01:03:42,830
I was horrified.
1206
01:03:43,390 --> 01:03:45,930
It was like holy cow.
1207
01:03:47,020 --> 01:03:48,110
Now we're in it.
1208
01:03:48,570 --> 01:03:52,410
We're talking about not releasing aid to
Ukraine.
1209
01:03:52,890 --> 01:03:56,970
Officials at the Office of Management and
Budget, we laid Mr. Trump's order to
1210
01:03:56,971 --> 01:04:00,070
withhold hundreds of millions of dollars
in military aid.
1211
01:04:00,310 --> 01:04:04,690
One career diplomat sounding the alarm
very directly by noting in writing in this
1212
01:04:04,691 --> 01:04:07,508
text, I think it's crazy
to withhold security
1213
01:04:07,509 --> 01:04:10,071
assistance for help
with a political campaign.
1214
01:04:11,150 --> 01:04:14,050
Never in a million years I think we were
get to that point.
1215
01:04:14,410 --> 01:04:16,850
I never thought that we would not get a
meeting with Zelensky.
1216
01:04:17,310 --> 01:04:25,390
Zelensky really stood up to live and to
Rudy and to Trump and he just wouldn't budge.
1217
01:04:25,610 --> 01:04:27,646
Ukrainian weren't as corrupt as he thought
they were.
1218
01:04:27,670 --> 01:04:29,230
They weren't as corrupt as him or Rudy.
1219
01:04:29,750 --> 01:04:33,430
I really hope that you and President Putin
get together and can solve your problem.
1220
01:04:33,431 --> 01:04:35,210
That would be a tremendous achievement.
1221
01:04:35,790 --> 01:04:38,554
I thought Trump's a hero
saving our democracy and
1222
01:04:38,555 --> 01:04:41,810
Zelensky is a corrupt leader
and it was all the opposite.
1223
01:04:42,190 --> 01:04:44,523
At the end of the day, it
turned out that Trump was
1224
01:04:44,524 --> 01:04:47,051
the actual criminal and
Zelensky was a stand-up guy.
1225
01:04:47,850 --> 01:04:53,831
We were all waiting for Trump to get presidential
and instead he just became a monster.
1226
01:04:54,310 --> 01:04:56,870
And he's a bully and he really needs to
focus on himself.
1227
01:04:57,770 --> 01:04:59,650
Like, please stop focusing on the United
States.
1228
01:04:59,910 --> 01:05:00,910
Go sit down.
1229
01:05:00,950 --> 01:05:01,950
It's time.
1230
01:05:05,190 --> 01:05:07,990
He's serial entrepreneur type judgment
debtors.
1231
01:05:08,325 --> 01:05:10,970
They're going to find themselves into
something.
1232
01:05:11,290 --> 01:05:16,550
And Lev found himself into the biggest
something I've ever seen a debtor ever get into.
1233
01:05:17,150 --> 01:05:21,150
We were able to find a
account that Lev controlled
1234
01:05:21,151 --> 01:05:24,710
through an entity called
Aaron Investments 1 LLC.
1235
01:05:25,450 --> 01:05:28,890
The $325,000 actually came from.
1236
01:05:28,891 --> 01:05:32,950
They gave 325,000 to America's first
action.
1237
01:05:33,710 --> 01:05:35,970
The money got flagged by a bank.
1238
01:05:36,290 --> 01:05:40,790
They saw the hallmarks of money laundering
and fraud.
1239
01:05:41,270 --> 01:05:43,830
That got the attention of the feds.
1240
01:05:45,160 --> 01:05:49,090
The campaign legal center filed a
complaint with the ABC.
1241
01:05:50,685 --> 01:05:54,490
They're basically alleging a straw man
donation by global energy producers.
1242
01:05:55,520 --> 01:05:57,490
And then we were off to the races.
1243
01:05:57,790 --> 01:05:59,730
That was the smoking gun we needed.
1244
01:06:02,700 --> 01:06:06,701
And then a tweet came
out that listed the top five
1245
01:06:06,702 --> 01:06:10,131
donors for Trump and him
and Igor were on that list.
1246
01:06:10,830 --> 01:06:13,016
People started to dig
in into trying to figure
1247
01:06:13,017 --> 01:06:15,411
out where his love is
from, what he's doing.
1248
01:06:15,550 --> 01:06:18,370
At that point I started to feel more kind
of unsafe.
1249
01:06:19,150 --> 01:06:21,950
I felt like things were destabilizing a
bit.
1250
01:06:24,250 --> 01:06:27,190
This is an NBC News special report.
1251
01:06:27,690 --> 01:06:31,290
Breaking this evening, House Democrats
tonight are taking the first formal step
1252
01:06:31,291 --> 01:06:34,190
that could potentially lead to the
impeachment of President Trump.
1253
01:06:34,310 --> 01:06:36,469
The impeachment inquiry
is centered on President
1254
01:06:36,470 --> 01:06:38,771
Trump's phone call with
the leader of Ukraine.
1255
01:06:38,970 --> 01:06:41,295
Now the question, did
the president pressure
1256
01:06:41,296 --> 01:06:43,851
him to investigate
political rival Joe Biden?
1257
01:06:44,435 --> 01:06:48,790
They testified that President Trump froze
military aid to Ukraine in order to force
1258
01:06:48,791 --> 01:06:51,810
a public announcement of investigation
into his political rivals.
1259
01:06:52,395 --> 01:06:56,112
Forced out, the former American
ambassador to Ukraine tells
1260
01:06:56,113 --> 01:06:59,370
lawmakers that President
Trump pressed to have her fired.
1261
01:06:59,850 --> 01:07:04,530
Yvonnevich was recalled from her post in
May, amidst charges from Rudy Giuliani and
1262
01:07:04,531 --> 01:07:08,050
in conservative media that she had spoken
out against the president.
1263
01:07:08,051 --> 01:07:11,950
Getting rid of Ambassador Yvonnevich
helped set the stage for an irregular
1264
01:07:11,951 --> 01:07:17,011
channel that could pursue the two investigations
that mattered so much to the president.
1265
01:07:17,280 --> 01:07:22,390
The 2016 conspiracy theory, and most
important, an investigation into the 2020
1266
01:07:22,391 --> 01:07:26,250
political opponent he apparently feared
most, Joe Biden.
1267
01:07:26,935 --> 01:07:32,210
I get a letter from Congress, basically
requesting all of the information that I
1268
01:07:32,211 --> 01:07:35,590
have gathered in Ukraine while I was doing
work for President Trump and Rudy.
1269
01:07:35,591 --> 01:07:39,430
I called Rudy right away and told him,
he said, oh, don't worry about it.
1270
01:07:39,710 --> 01:07:41,510
Let me call Trump and we'll take care of
this.
1271
01:07:42,120 --> 01:07:44,270
We're going to get you a lawyer and it was
John Dowd.
1272
01:07:44,770 --> 01:07:47,790
He represented President Trump in a matter
prior to that.
1273
01:07:48,130 --> 01:07:52,050
For John Dowd to officially represent me,
the president had to sign a letter to
1274
01:07:52,051 --> 01:07:54,550
waive a conflict of interest, and I have
that letter.
1275
01:07:59,695 --> 01:08:03,560
So I fly in directly to John Dowd's house
and Cape Cod.
1276
01:08:03,860 --> 01:08:07,500
The first thing he does is get all the
president's lawyers, all the president's
1277
01:08:07,501 --> 01:08:09,860
men on the phone and says, you know,
it's game time.
1278
01:08:10,260 --> 01:08:15,320
On the call was J.Suckolo, Rudy Giuliani,
Victoria Tunzing, and Joe DeGeneva.
1279
01:08:16,020 --> 01:08:17,320
All the president's putzes.
1280
01:08:18,500 --> 01:08:21,720
John Dowd sent the letter of response,
basically a fuck you letter.
1281
01:08:22,095 --> 01:08:26,260
It was a big joke about everybody couldn't
believe that the way he responded to
1282
01:08:26,261 --> 01:08:28,777
Congress, and the
Catholics, for him to not speak
1283
01:08:28,778 --> 01:08:31,481
to the government, not
attempt to cooperate.
1284
01:08:31,520 --> 01:08:34,440
One could say that
Lev's first lawyers were
1285
01:08:34,441 --> 01:08:37,961
concerned about interest
other than Lev Parnas.
1286
01:08:38,240 --> 01:08:39,921
I mean, I'm a little confused at the time.
1287
01:08:40,300 --> 01:08:43,163
I thought they wanted me to
testify on behalf of Trump to
1288
01:08:43,164 --> 01:08:46,000
tell the truth of everything I
uncovered about the Bidens.
1289
01:08:46,260 --> 01:08:46,780
It was the opposite.
1290
01:08:47,220 --> 01:08:48,220
We're going to go dark.
1291
01:08:48,520 --> 01:08:50,201
Nobody on our side was scared of Congress.
1292
01:08:50,560 --> 01:08:51,640
There was no repercussions.
1293
01:08:52,080 --> 01:08:56,100
Trump and Rudy thought and still think
that they're above the law.
1294
01:08:56,101 --> 01:08:59,220
The message in Trump world was,
don't worry about accountability.
1295
01:08:59,880 --> 01:09:00,480
There won't be any.
1296
01:09:00,760 --> 01:09:02,481
You do what you need to do to protect
Trump.
1297
01:09:12,380 --> 01:09:14,630
Right, as we have mentioned
in our monologue, we
1298
01:09:14,631 --> 01:09:17,480
obtained new Ukrainian
documents from Rudy Giuliani.
1299
01:09:18,160 --> 01:09:19,160
You interviewed Shoken.
1300
01:09:19,720 --> 01:09:20,720
We know why he was fired.
1301
01:09:21,040 --> 01:09:22,360
He was told why he was fired.
1302
01:09:22,560 --> 01:09:25,342
He's now set at five separate
times that he was fired because
1303
01:09:25,343 --> 01:09:28,720
he was interviewing and
investigating Biden's corrupt son.
1304
01:09:28,970 --> 01:09:31,280
Rudy Giuliani goes on TV with the Victor
Shoken letter.
1305
01:09:31,600 --> 01:09:36,300
The letter basically said the first time
ever that he officially got fired by Joe
1306
01:09:36,301 --> 01:09:40,400
Biden because he was looking into Burisma
and Hunter Biden.
1307
01:09:41,140 --> 01:09:43,940
Now Hannity wants to do an exclusive
interview with Shoken.
1308
01:09:44,440 --> 01:09:47,880
Rudy asked me to help Fox to set up this
exclusive interview.
1309
01:09:53,340 --> 01:09:55,800
So the interview was arranged in Vienna.
1310
01:09:56,380 --> 01:09:57,380
We had the studios ready.
1311
01:09:57,760 --> 01:09:58,760
Shoken was there.
1312
01:09:58,880 --> 01:10:00,480
And we were flying out there.
1313
01:10:01,650 --> 01:10:03,929
In the morning, we met
up with Rudy at the BLT
1314
01:10:03,930 --> 01:10:07,281
breakfast area and
went over our game plan.
1315
01:10:07,315 --> 01:10:09,460
Lev and I spoke during that day just fine.
1316
01:10:09,660 --> 01:10:13,360
He was telling me he's just singing out the
Trump hotel with Rudy waiting for his plane.
1317
01:10:14,120 --> 01:10:16,097
Rudy said that he got
called from President Trump
1318
01:10:16,098 --> 01:10:18,161
and he needed to see
him at the White House.
1319
01:10:18,260 --> 01:10:20,180
Rudy was going to meet us a couple of days
later.
1320
01:10:20,380 --> 01:10:21,416
So I didn't think anything of it.
1321
01:10:21,440 --> 01:10:24,360
He told me go ahead and set everything up
and I'll see you there Saturday.
1322
01:10:24,605 --> 01:10:25,960
And then he left for the airport.
1323
01:10:27,600 --> 01:10:28,600
Lev's boarding time.
1324
01:10:29,160 --> 01:10:31,640
A couple of men jumped out and said,
can we see your passports?
1325
01:10:32,060 --> 01:10:33,500
Me and Igor gave them our passports.
1326
01:10:33,580 --> 01:10:35,380
And they turned around and said,
this is them.
1327
01:10:35,440 --> 01:10:36,100
You are on their arrest.
1328
01:10:36,360 --> 01:10:37,480
They started handcuffing us.
1329
01:10:38,600 --> 01:10:41,340
And one of the FBI agents says,
you know, I don't want to be the bearer of
1330
01:10:41,341 --> 01:10:43,540
bad news, but your house is being raided
right now.
1331
01:10:44,980 --> 01:10:48,163
They busted through
the back door as if, I don't
1332
01:10:48,164 --> 01:10:50,680
know, they're coming to
Osama bin Laden's house.
1333
01:10:50,681 --> 01:10:54,260
One lingering thought was that I had,
like, what did you do?
1334
01:10:54,440 --> 01:10:59,880
The arrests of two associates of Trump lawyer
Rudy Giuliani on campaign finance violations.
1335
01:11:00,300 --> 01:11:04,400
The two arrested at Dulles Airport after
buying a one-way ticket out of the country.
1336
01:11:04,620 --> 01:11:07,520
They're associates of the president's
personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani.
1337
01:11:07,920 --> 01:11:11,860
These are the first criminal charges
emerging from the Trump administration's
1338
01:11:12,160 --> 01:11:13,960
controversial relationship with Ukraine.
1339
01:11:14,300 --> 01:11:16,415
The government documents
show that the men helped
1340
01:11:16,416 --> 01:11:19,041
Giuliani set up a meeting
with high -level Ukrainians.
1341
01:11:19,560 --> 01:11:23,500
Who Giuliani was lobbying to investigate
Joe Biden and his son, Hunter.
1342
01:11:23,620 --> 01:11:27,020
One of the agents said to me, I could try
to get your wife on the phone.
1343
01:11:27,440 --> 01:11:28,960
I told her I love there.
1344
01:11:29,040 --> 01:11:30,440
I told her not to work called Rudy.
1345
01:11:31,120 --> 01:11:33,860
That was the last I spoke to him for the
next, like, ten days.
1346
01:11:34,300 --> 01:11:37,960
Your froom in and left parties were picked
up at Dulles on Wednesday night.
1347
01:11:38,180 --> 01:11:41,200
Just hours after the Wall
Street Journal reports, they had
1348
01:11:41,201 --> 01:11:45,260
lunch with Rudy Giuliani at
the Trump International Hotel.
1349
01:11:45,261 --> 01:11:49,900
I think Rudy knew and was told not to be
on that plane.
1350
01:11:50,710 --> 01:11:56,680
I didn't get from Rudy that he knew this
was going to happen, but I also got from
1351
01:11:56,681 --> 01:11:59,640
Rudy that he wasn't very surprised that it
happened.
1352
01:12:00,380 --> 01:12:03,380
Rudy was saying that, you know,
don't worry, everything's gonna be fine.
1353
01:12:03,620 --> 01:12:05,180
What's the Democrats at the deep state?
1354
01:12:05,770 --> 01:12:09,531
It started to feel more and
more and more of everybody
1355
01:12:09,532 --> 01:12:12,160
kind of just disappearing
into the background.
1356
01:12:12,161 --> 01:12:15,640
I guess I met him one time and he came to
an event and took a picture with me.
1357
01:12:16,240 --> 01:12:20,020
That was hard to go through having people
just turn away.
1358
01:12:20,460 --> 01:12:21,440
I don't know that far yet.
1359
01:12:21,441 --> 01:12:22,441
In the summary.
1360
01:12:24,060 --> 01:12:25,520
How well do you know Parnas?
1361
01:12:25,740 --> 01:12:26,360
It was funny.
1362
01:12:26,460 --> 01:12:27,636
I didn't even realize he was you graining.
1363
01:12:27,660 --> 01:12:28,660
I thought he was Israeli.
1364
01:12:29,640 --> 01:12:35,040
When Trump came on TV... Were you relying
on Lev Parnas to get rid of your ambassador?
1365
01:12:35,360 --> 01:12:36,360
And he was like, no.
1366
01:12:37,080 --> 01:12:38,080
I don't know him.
1367
01:12:38,175 --> 01:12:38,980
Well, I don't know him.
1368
01:12:39,100 --> 01:12:42,940
I don't know Parnas other than I guess I
had pictures taken, which I do with
1369
01:12:42,941 --> 01:12:45,680
thousands of people and million people
today that I didn't meet.
1370
01:12:46,400 --> 01:12:48,080
I don't know who he is.
1371
01:12:48,280 --> 01:12:49,440
I don't know what he's about.
1372
01:12:49,660 --> 01:12:50,900
Don't know where he comes from.
1373
01:12:51,180 --> 01:12:52,256
Don't know nothing about him.
1374
01:12:52,280 --> 01:12:53,680
He might be a fine gentleman.
1375
01:12:54,445 --> 01:12:55,445
Perhaps he's a fine man.
1376
01:12:55,620 --> 01:12:56,320
Perhaps he's not.
1377
01:12:56,520 --> 01:12:57,540
I know nothing about him.
1378
01:12:57,700 --> 01:13:00,420
I mean, that was like so low.
1379
01:13:00,940 --> 01:13:02,520
It was just a lie.
1380
01:13:03,180 --> 01:13:04,140
Of course you know him.
1381
01:13:04,141 --> 01:13:10,740
Trump says he doesn't know these guys,
but there he is with Igor, looking like
1382
01:13:10,741 --> 01:13:13,720
they just won best RV dealership in Gary,
Indiana.
1383
01:13:14,480 --> 01:13:19,360
When I told him that Trump said he doesn't
know him, he didn't believe me.
1384
01:13:19,980 --> 01:13:20,980
He's like, no way.
1385
01:13:21,560 --> 01:13:22,560
What's Rudy doing?
1386
01:13:22,820 --> 01:13:23,840
Where's the Genova?
1387
01:13:24,200 --> 01:13:25,260
Where are they?
1388
01:13:25,700 --> 01:13:29,780
He had no idea that they weren't all
running to get him out.
1389
01:13:29,781 --> 01:13:31,820
I was waiting for the cavalry.
1390
01:13:32,260 --> 01:13:33,300
The cavalry that we came.
1391
01:13:34,100 --> 01:13:35,360
Love was expendable.
1392
01:13:35,910 --> 01:13:37,160
He was a good front person.
1393
01:13:37,570 --> 01:13:41,460
He was someone you could ultimately
disavow or maybe arrest and shut up.
1394
01:13:42,210 --> 01:13:44,600
The federal government took notice of our
case.
1395
01:13:45,120 --> 01:13:48,051
Someone was absolutely
looking at what we were
1396
01:13:48,052 --> 01:13:51,461
doing and it was aiding
them in their investigation.
1397
01:13:51,690 --> 01:13:57,300
Obviously, our intent was not to have Mr.
Parnas indicted and put in jail.
1398
01:13:57,955 --> 01:13:59,476
People who are in jail can't pay debt.
1399
01:14:00,095 --> 01:14:04,100
In the middle of the night, I see a piece
of paper being slipped under my jail cell.
1400
01:14:04,750 --> 01:14:06,151
It's a postcard from Rudy Giuliani.
1401
01:14:06,920 --> 01:14:11,620
Dear Lev and Igor, the lunch was good,
and I enjoyed sharing a table with you.
1402
01:14:12,195 --> 01:14:14,280
Trump's hotel is nice, don't you think?
1403
01:14:14,720 --> 01:14:16,765
I'm sorry what happened
at those airports, and
1404
01:14:16,766 --> 01:14:19,761
I guess we won't be
meeting in Vienna after all.
1405
01:14:19,880 --> 01:14:22,220
Don't worry, Paul's lawyers are good.
1406
01:14:23,000 --> 01:14:26,500
He only got eight to ten years,
so maybe things will work out.
1407
01:14:27,160 --> 01:14:28,160
Rudy G.
1408
01:14:29,090 --> 01:14:30,171
I felt extremely abandoned.
1409
01:14:30,780 --> 01:14:31,900
He was like a father figure.
1410
01:14:31,970 --> 01:14:32,970
I really trust him.
1411
01:14:33,280 --> 01:14:37,960
This is where the first time I... it was the
beginning of me getting out of the code.
1412
01:14:38,660 --> 01:14:42,592
I didn't want to believe
that he could hurt us
1413
01:14:42,593 --> 01:14:46,261
after how much Lev
put into that relationship.
1414
01:14:46,440 --> 01:14:48,140
Maybe more than our marriage at the time.
1415
01:14:48,840 --> 01:14:52,838
I stopped trusting everything
they were telling me and
1416
01:14:52,839 --> 01:14:56,040
wanted to get somebody to
represent me that I could trust.
1417
01:14:57,270 --> 01:15:02,060
When I entered the case, Lev and I decided
remaining silent was not in his best interest.
1418
01:15:02,540 --> 01:15:06,420
That it would be far better for Lev if he
appeared to be a credible person,
1419
01:15:06,735 --> 01:15:09,660
willing to tell important truths at great
risk to himself.
1420
01:15:10,640 --> 01:15:12,600
I basically was going to tell the world
the truth.
1421
01:15:12,660 --> 01:15:13,680
I'm not going to hide from anybody.
1422
01:15:13,681 --> 01:15:16,760
Lev, pardon me.
1423
01:15:24,810 --> 01:15:31,640
I look forward to defending myself
vigorously in court, and I'm certain that
1424
01:15:31,641 --> 01:15:34,960
in the time truth will be revealed,
and I will be vindicated.
1425
01:15:35,490 --> 01:15:37,051
Thank you both for agreeing to do this.
1426
01:15:37,120 --> 01:15:41,660
I know that this is a leap of trust to speak
publicly in this way for the first time.
1427
01:15:41,800 --> 01:15:42,760
Thank you for having us here.
1428
01:15:42,761 --> 01:15:46,480
You gave the message of a quid pro quo to
Ukrainian officials.
1429
01:15:46,880 --> 01:15:49,720
The first quid pro quo again was when we
met with President Poroshenko.
1430
01:15:50,300 --> 01:15:53,080
I want to talk to the FBI, the DOJ,
the Southern District.
1431
01:15:53,300 --> 01:15:54,526
Well, nobody wants to talk to me.
1432
01:15:54,550 --> 01:15:56,700
Are you afraid, Mr. Mayor, that you could
be indicted?
1433
01:15:57,140 --> 01:15:58,380
Oh, wow.
1434
01:15:59,000 --> 01:16:03,380
What's really interesting is
Brie Giuliani has never been
1435
01:16:03,381 --> 01:16:06,900
charged for operating as
an unregistered foreign agent.
1436
01:16:07,320 --> 01:16:12,140
They helped me find people, and as I've
said, they did a good job.
1437
01:16:12,565 --> 01:16:15,786
The marquee count in
the first indictment was
1438
01:16:15,787 --> 01:16:19,601
lived somehow exerting
suasion on the president.
1439
01:16:19,805 --> 01:16:23,940
On behalf of some Ukrainian officials to
remove the U.S.
1440
01:16:24,260 --> 01:16:28,920
Ambassador Ukraine, with the superseding
indictment, the government very quietly
1441
01:16:28,921 --> 01:16:32,312
excised their marquee
allegation and glummed into
1442
01:16:32,313 --> 01:16:35,220
that indictment, a
garden variety, fraud case.
1443
01:16:35,221 --> 01:16:42,760
The best thing that happened to President
Trump and Brie Giuliani is that Igor and
1444
01:16:42,761 --> 01:16:46,140
Lev get charged with campaign finance
violations.
1445
01:16:46,680 --> 01:16:47,200
I'm poor Lev.
1446
01:16:47,440 --> 01:16:48,040
I don't know what he's doing.
1447
01:16:48,200 --> 01:16:48,400
He's up.
1448
01:16:48,660 --> 01:16:51,140
You can now paint them as fraudsters.
1449
01:16:51,635 --> 01:16:55,284
How did these two guys,
and I don't think it's a stretch to
1450
01:16:55,285 --> 01:16:58,100
say thugs, how were they
meeting with our political leaders?
1451
01:16:58,580 --> 01:16:59,780
None of this raises red flags.
1452
01:17:00,360 --> 01:17:02,200
Criminals with no credibility.
1453
01:17:02,201 --> 01:17:04,280
Paul Giuliani and associates.
1454
01:17:04,720 --> 01:17:05,720
Lev Parnas.
1455
01:17:05,960 --> 01:17:06,960
Hey!
1456
01:17:07,340 --> 01:17:09,020
I am Igor Ferrimas.
1457
01:17:09,560 --> 01:17:10,680
Hey, you guys!
1458
01:17:13,200 --> 01:17:17,780
And therefore, their testimony and what
they have to say doesn't come.
1459
01:17:17,980 --> 01:17:19,140
I don't know those gentlemen.
1460
01:17:19,760 --> 01:17:22,980
Now it's possible I have a picture with
them because I have a picture with everybody.
1461
01:17:23,340 --> 01:17:24,340
I don't know them.
1462
01:17:24,800 --> 01:17:26,600
I welcome him to say that even more.
1463
01:17:26,880 --> 01:17:29,600
Every time he says I'll show him another
picture, he's lying.
1464
01:17:29,601 --> 01:17:30,601
He's lying.
1465
01:17:31,100 --> 01:17:37,740
What people probably didn't expect is that
Lev photo documented everything.
1466
01:17:38,320 --> 01:17:40,040
He literally had the receipts.
1467
01:17:40,780 --> 01:17:47,421
Over 750 pages of those materials formed the
basis for the vote on the first impeachment.
1468
01:17:47,540 --> 01:17:55,080
On this vote, the A's are 229,
the A's are 198, present is one,
1469
01:17:56,080 --> 01:17:57,780
article two is adopted.
1470
01:17:58,780 --> 01:18:00,540
So I have the 300 page impeachment
articles.
1471
01:18:01,060 --> 01:18:03,400
A hundred pages of those are my direct
evidence.
1472
01:18:03,950 --> 01:18:05,680
No, I was not able to testify.
1473
01:18:06,120 --> 01:18:08,860
Republicans made a huge thing and they
didn't allow me in.
1474
01:18:09,600 --> 01:18:10,780
What were they scared of?
1475
01:18:11,000 --> 01:18:15,280
Do you know if Mr. Giuliani was ever in
contact with Mr. Barr specifically about
1476
01:18:15,281 --> 01:18:20,040
the fact that he was trying to get Ukraine to
announce these investigations into Joe Biden?
1477
01:18:20,440 --> 01:18:20,960
Oh, absolutely.
1478
01:18:21,440 --> 01:18:22,480
Mr. Barr knew about that.
1479
01:18:22,870 --> 01:18:24,520
Mr. Barr, I have to have known everything.
1480
01:18:24,521 --> 01:18:28,412
It was clearly a high level
of concern at the highest
1481
01:18:28,413 --> 01:18:31,720
levels of the Justice
Department and Congress.
1482
01:18:32,330 --> 01:18:36,500
A lot of people had to be involved to try
to keep the truth from coming out.
1483
01:18:36,800 --> 01:18:42,220
Bill Barr, not only politicized,
he weaponized the DOJ on behalf of Donald
1484
01:18:42,221 --> 01:18:46,060
Trump to go after his political enemies
and help his political friends.
1485
01:18:46,061 --> 01:18:51,780
Swaddle the critic, shut up the witness,
change the charging decisions,
1486
01:18:52,090 --> 01:18:54,320
recover to try to protect the President.
1487
01:18:55,400 --> 01:18:57,161
I believe that this was worse than
Watergate.
1488
01:19:08,190 --> 01:19:11,486
Lev Parnas, an associate
of Rudy Giuliani, sentenced
1489
01:19:11,487 --> 01:19:14,311
to 20 months in federal
prison in Lower Manhattan.
1490
01:19:14,670 --> 01:19:18,610
Parnas has been found guilty of federal
campaign finance criminal charges.
1491
01:19:19,215 --> 01:19:22,930
Prosecutors accused Parnas of hatching a
scheme to funnel millions of dollars in
1492
01:19:22,931 --> 01:19:25,990
funds from a wealthy Russian financier in
the U.S.
1493
01:19:26,230 --> 01:19:26,390
elections.
1494
01:19:27,010 --> 01:19:28,530
I was used to watch cult movies.
1495
01:19:28,950 --> 01:19:30,430
Well, you know what they think of me?
1496
01:19:30,560 --> 01:19:31,761
They think I'm the son of God.
1497
01:19:32,070 --> 01:19:35,610
I think, you know, something wrong with
these people never happened to me.
1498
01:19:35,960 --> 01:19:40,090
People call things, you know, a lie,
a lie.
1499
01:19:40,410 --> 01:19:44,810
But my God's grace, if I didn't get
arrested and died, it decolonized.
1500
01:19:44,811 --> 01:19:51,050
Whatever caused me to stop following this
madman and to be able to wake up again.
1501
01:19:51,770 --> 01:19:52,846
I would have been divorced.
1502
01:19:52,870 --> 01:19:53,990
I would have lost my family.
1503
01:19:54,620 --> 01:19:55,620
He just got caught up.
1504
01:19:55,850 --> 01:20:00,990
And by the time he realized it,
unfortunately, he was already behind bars.
1505
01:20:01,890 --> 01:20:04,350
Trump inspired me for the first time in my
life to vote.
1506
01:20:05,130 --> 01:20:05,470
And I did.
1507
01:20:05,990 --> 01:20:07,630
I voted for Joe Biden in 2020.
1508
01:20:08,725 --> 01:20:10,750
Hopefully, it's not too late for other
people.
1509
01:20:12,170 --> 01:20:13,250
I betrayed Ukraine.
1510
01:20:14,330 --> 01:20:15,330
I betrayed America.
1511
01:20:16,170 --> 01:20:17,170
I'm sorry.
1512
01:20:18,580 --> 01:20:22,750
When I met him, I saw me in that,
you know, he was a broken man.
1513
01:20:23,050 --> 01:20:25,070
He paid a huge price for all this.
1514
01:20:26,710 --> 01:20:29,510
Luckily, he's got a strong family,
and that remained.
1515
01:20:30,930 --> 01:20:33,406
Since the day of my rest,
every day for the past five
1516
01:20:33,407 --> 01:20:36,890
years, I've been saying I'm
sorry to my wife, to my family.
1517
01:20:38,530 --> 01:20:41,010
I'll be saying sorry for the rest of my
life.
1518
01:20:45,360 --> 01:20:50,040
I saw Marie Ivanovich testify in the
impeachment and to see the pain and to see
1519
01:20:50,041 --> 01:20:52,560
what she went through, what I put her
through.
1520
01:20:52,790 --> 01:20:56,123
President Trump said that I
was bad news to another world
1521
01:20:56,124 --> 01:20:58,561
leader, and that I would be
going through some things.
1522
01:20:58,830 --> 01:21:00,071
She didn't deserve any of this.
1523
01:21:01,910 --> 01:21:03,340
It was a terrible moment.
1524
01:21:04,000 --> 01:21:05,440
I feel foolish.
1525
01:21:05,680 --> 01:21:06,120
I feel disgusted.
1526
01:21:06,680 --> 01:21:08,580
I feel ashamed of myself.
1527
01:21:08,581 --> 01:21:13,180
I truly believe that we're helping
America.
1528
01:21:13,800 --> 01:21:14,960
We're looking back at it now.
1529
01:21:15,440 --> 01:21:16,440
We've destroyed America.
1530
01:21:19,540 --> 01:21:20,920
We have such division.
1531
01:21:21,620 --> 01:21:23,020
People are at each other's throats.
1532
01:21:25,880 --> 01:21:30,080
And the sad part, that was exactly what
Vladimir Putin wanted.
1533
01:21:30,740 --> 01:21:33,040
And we gave it to him in a solar platter.
1534
01:21:33,580 --> 01:21:34,960
And how ironic is it?
1535
01:21:35,240 --> 01:21:40,540
The Reagan Republicans were that anti
-Soviet Union Russia stopped the Cold War,
1536
01:21:40,960 --> 01:21:41,960
pushed for democracy.
1537
01:21:42,540 --> 01:21:46,380
Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall.
1538
01:21:47,880 --> 01:21:51,920
And now here we have the Republicans
screaming, literally, Russian propaganda.
1539
01:21:52,540 --> 01:21:54,316
Why shouldn't that root for Russia,
which I am?
1540
01:21:54,340 --> 01:21:55,340
Putin ain't woke.
1541
01:21:55,600 --> 01:21:56,080
We get along.
1542
01:21:56,300 --> 01:21:56,740
I like Putin.
1543
01:21:56,960 --> 01:21:57,400
He likes me.
1544
01:21:57,620 --> 01:21:58,060
You know, we get along.
1545
01:21:58,320 --> 01:21:59,100
Putin's a killer.
1546
01:21:59,101 --> 01:22:00,380
A lot of killers.
1547
01:22:00,740 --> 01:22:03,340
We get a lot of killers while you think
our country's so innocent.
1548
01:22:03,580 --> 01:22:07,160
I don't know how anyone can look at Putin
and think anything but a monster.
1549
01:22:07,600 --> 01:22:09,420
Just like I don't think you can look at
Trump.
1550
01:22:10,060 --> 01:22:12,380
I can't look at Trump without thinking
that he's a monster.
1551
01:22:13,240 --> 01:22:15,008
Anybody that's ever been
around down Trump to
1552
01:22:15,009 --> 01:22:16,720
work for him at the White
House knows the truth.
1553
01:22:17,220 --> 01:22:18,220
He's unfit for office.
1554
01:22:18,660 --> 01:22:22,180
I cannot, in good conscience, endorse
Donald Trump.
1555
01:22:22,450 --> 01:22:25,203
Pence is joining a remarkably
large choir, former Trump
1556
01:22:25,204 --> 01:22:29,220
administration officials, who
have come out against him.
1557
01:22:29,540 --> 01:22:32,360
Trump's former attorney general,
two former defense secretaries,
1558
01:22:33,220 --> 01:22:35,980
two of his chiefs of staff, two national
security officers.
1559
01:22:35,981 --> 01:22:38,120
I was as close as you could get to him.
1560
01:22:38,405 --> 01:22:42,420
I did all his dirty work, and Donald Trump
doesn't care about anybody except for himself.
1561
01:22:42,700 --> 01:22:44,260
He doesn't care about the Constitution.
1562
01:22:44,340 --> 01:22:45,940
He doesn't care about the United States.
1563
01:22:46,270 --> 01:22:48,400
Because Donald Trump doesn't want to be
president.
1564
01:22:48,820 --> 01:22:49,856
He wants to be a dictator.
1565
01:22:49,880 --> 01:22:51,840
He wants to be Vladimir Putin,
president for life.
1566
01:22:53,690 --> 01:22:57,700
I hope one day not only will the country
forgive me, Ukraine will forgive me.
1567
01:22:58,300 --> 01:23:00,520
I hope one day Hunter Biden could really
forgive me.
1568
01:23:01,065 --> 01:23:05,640
I feel a lot of responsibility because of
our actions in Ukraine, pushing all of
1569
01:23:05,641 --> 01:23:09,566
this information against Hunter
Biden has now caused real
1570
01:23:09,567 --> 01:23:12,360
problems, real criminal
problems that he is now facing.
1571
01:23:13,060 --> 01:23:17,260
The first child of a sitting US president
has been convicted of a crime.
1572
01:23:17,261 --> 01:23:22,520
To watch Hunter Biden, an American citizen
that has nothing to do with politics,
1573
01:23:22,600 --> 01:23:28,720
a son, and I have sons to watch the pain
that caused in his life.
1574
01:23:29,320 --> 01:23:34,940
A jury in Delaware fighting presidential son
Hunter Biden guilty of three federal counts.
1575
01:23:35,460 --> 01:23:40,340
I just hope one day I can say I'm sorry
and make a right.
1576
01:24:16,940 --> 01:24:17,940
You ready, babe?
1577
01:24:20,020 --> 01:24:21,020
Are you ready?
1578
01:24:35,960 --> 01:24:36,960
Hunter.
1579
01:24:38,760 --> 01:24:39,760
One long time.
1580
01:24:40,110 --> 01:24:41,631
Thanks for making the trip, my friend.
1581
01:24:53,400 --> 01:24:57,660
2018, November, we were sitting with Rudy
in the York of the Grand Habanabro.
1582
01:24:58,360 --> 01:25:02,260
And Rudy gets a call from one of his
investigators and starts telling him all
1583
01:25:02,261 --> 01:25:05,120
this stuff about Marisse Ma and all kinds
of stuff.
1584
01:25:05,920 --> 01:25:07,660
And Rudy, like usual, he'd sit back down.
1585
01:25:07,920 --> 01:25:11,260
We would have drinks at cigars if he'd
tell us everything that was going on.
1586
01:25:11,261 --> 01:25:16,900
And he starts talking a few months before
my partner Igor had sent a video from
1587
01:25:16,901 --> 01:25:21,640
Ukraine from one of these that we later
found out to be a Russian operative in the
1588
01:25:21,641 --> 01:25:24,800
city of your father, basically saying,
Oh, son of a bitch.
1589
01:25:25,920 --> 01:25:26,920
We got fired.
1590
01:25:27,120 --> 01:25:30,140
Rudy took a look at that video and
basically said, we got your joke.
1591
01:25:30,460 --> 01:25:32,100
A week later, we were at the White House.
1592
01:25:32,380 --> 01:25:34,060
Or meeting with Trump in the Red Room.
1593
01:25:34,260 --> 01:25:35,360
The week later, we were in Ukraine.
1594
01:25:35,361 --> 01:25:40,880
We were looking for Victor Schulke to
pressure him to give us darn or make up
1595
01:25:40,881 --> 01:25:43,300
information to be able to start this whole
thing.
1596
01:25:43,620 --> 01:25:44,720
See you in Ukraine soon.
1597
01:25:45,180 --> 01:25:49,937
When did it cross over from
being a hair -brained Rudy
1598
01:25:49,938 --> 01:25:53,540
Giuliani operation in concert
with Trump to the DOJ?
1599
01:25:54,240 --> 01:26:01,780
When did Trump's lackeys inside the DOJ
begin to also conspire to, you know,
1600
01:26:01,920 --> 01:26:02,280
to take daily?
1601
01:26:02,840 --> 01:26:04,320
I mean, basically from the very beginning.
1602
01:26:04,321 --> 01:26:09,520
From that first initial meeting with Trump
and right after that, Giuliani started
1603
01:26:09,521 --> 01:26:13,980
calling all his contacts at the DOJ and
FBI to start putting pressure to look into
1604
01:26:13,981 --> 01:26:16,560
you, to look into your dad and all of your
Ukraine dealings.
1605
01:26:17,100 --> 01:26:20,200
You have to say, Hunter, at that time,
I truly believe that was a deep state.
1606
01:26:20,640 --> 01:26:22,466
I truly believe that you
were up to some shit,
1607
01:26:22,467 --> 01:26:24,560
but there was never any
criminality and anything.
1608
01:26:24,940 --> 01:26:25,380
That's the whole thing.
1609
01:26:25,560 --> 01:26:29,300
There were just basically, you know,
innuendos, conspiracy theories,
1610
01:26:30,120 --> 01:26:31,460
but no actual facts.
1611
01:26:31,461 --> 01:26:32,461
The crazy part?
1612
01:26:32,680 --> 01:26:33,896
I mean, I feel embarrassed, Hunter.
1613
01:26:33,920 --> 01:26:34,940
I mean, you're bankrupt.
1614
01:26:35,620 --> 01:26:37,180
How does it get my bank records?
1615
01:26:37,440 --> 01:26:39,120
My bank records aren't even on a computer.
1616
01:26:39,240 --> 01:26:43,840
I got an email from John Solomon that said
that his friends at the FBI got your
1617
01:26:43,841 --> 01:26:45,500
records and I don't know where,
how, what.
1618
01:26:45,700 --> 01:26:49,420
So the FBI secretly subpoenaed and got my
bank records under the Trump
1619
01:26:49,421 --> 01:26:54,040
administration, handed them to John
Solomon, and then Rudy Giuliani
1620
01:26:54,041 --> 01:26:58,540
recirculates them back into the DOJ and on
the meeting.
1621
01:26:58,880 --> 01:26:59,260
Absolutely.
1622
01:26:59,261 --> 01:27:04,620
John Solomon, him and Hannity,
and Fox had a whole system go up.
1623
01:27:04,740 --> 01:27:04,820
Yeah.
1624
01:27:05,040 --> 01:27:07,980
So Fox was definitely, like, directly
involved?
1625
01:27:08,340 --> 01:27:09,340
Oh, 100%.
1626
01:27:10,500 --> 01:27:15,600
I watched after you got arrested,
and then clearly were kind of chunks.
1627
01:27:16,160 --> 01:27:17,420
They turned their back on you.
1628
01:27:18,140 --> 01:27:22,000
And at that point, I just say,
you know, I wasn't very sympathetic.
1629
01:27:22,440 --> 01:27:23,120
Oh, I'm sure.
1630
01:27:23,121 --> 01:27:24,121
I'm not sure.
1631
01:27:25,760 --> 01:27:30,040
What conversations have you had with Lev
Parnas and Igor Fruhman?
1632
01:27:30,080 --> 01:27:31,240
I don't know those gentlemen.
1633
01:27:31,520 --> 01:27:37,620
What they did, though, is that they so
quickly turned you into this supervillain.
1634
01:27:37,840 --> 01:27:43,160
It may very well be with these Russian
payments to Lev Parnas that Lev himself is
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01:27:43,161 --> 01:27:45,940
part of a disinformation campaign,
a guy that's under indictment,
1636
01:27:46,480 --> 01:27:48,600
a guy that's a known
grifter, a guy that had a
1637
01:27:48,601 --> 01:27:50,740
company called Fraud Inc
that he ran into the ground.
1638
01:27:50,741 --> 01:27:53,020
The man was a demonstrated liar.
1639
01:27:53,480 --> 01:27:56,780
And they, you know, go after your personal
life, and they talk about, you know,
1640
01:27:56,900 --> 01:27:58,060
that you're really a Russian.
1641
01:27:58,360 --> 01:28:00,240
I mean, all of these things, similarly.
1642
01:28:00,960 --> 01:28:02,200
I gave him a lot of ammunition.
1643
01:28:03,560 --> 01:28:06,320
Addiction is never an excuse, but it's an
explanation.
1644
01:28:07,060 --> 01:28:10,540
It's an explanation why I ended up in some
of the rooms that I ended up in,
1645
01:28:10,660 --> 01:28:12,600
doing things that I'm ashamed of today.
1646
01:28:12,880 --> 01:28:15,716
The best thing that could have ever
happened to me was getting arrested.
1647
01:28:15,740 --> 01:28:16,860
That's crazy as that sounds.
1648
01:28:17,360 --> 01:28:19,740
It really takes a big person.
1649
01:28:20,680 --> 01:28:24,184
To not only admit that
they're wrong, but to do
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01:28:24,185 --> 01:28:27,201
so in public, and to do
it on the stage you did.
1651
01:28:27,500 --> 01:28:31,509
Lev Parnas was the centerpiece
of a bomb -throwing congressional
1652
01:28:31,510 --> 01:28:34,140
hearing on the Biden
impeachment inquiry this week.
1653
01:28:34,460 --> 01:28:37,000
Today, I admit my own wrongdoings.
1654
01:28:37,260 --> 01:28:39,495
I have been a convicted
federal election campaign
1655
01:28:39,496 --> 01:28:42,221
and fraud crimes, and
served my sentence.
1656
01:28:42,480 --> 01:28:47,960
Despite rigorous attempts by those in power
to silence me, I will be silenced no longer.
1657
01:28:48,020 --> 01:28:53,858
To go in front of a hostile
committee in Congress that you
1658
01:28:53,859 --> 01:28:59,300
know has no compulsion to
break every role to embarrass you.
1659
01:28:59,680 --> 01:29:03,460
And to put yourself in that position just
so you can tell the truth.
1660
01:29:04,080 --> 01:29:07,500
There are American people have been lied
to by Donald Trump, Rudy Giuliani,
1661
01:29:08,040 --> 01:29:11,440
and various cohorts of individuals in
government and media positions.
1662
01:29:12,010 --> 01:29:14,140
They created falsehoods
to serve their own interests,
1663
01:29:14,141 --> 01:29:16,020
knowing it would undermine
the strength of our nation.
1664
01:29:16,021 --> 01:29:20,840
One of the hardest things to do in life is
to make amends.
1665
01:29:21,290 --> 01:29:23,475
And it's one of the
principles of like the
1666
01:29:23,476 --> 01:29:26,561
program I follow in terms
of my own addictions.
1667
01:29:26,640 --> 01:29:32,880
But to do it, the way that you've done it,
on TV, in public, where you're getting the
1668
01:29:33,055 --> 01:29:34,860
goddamn hell beat out of you.
1669
01:29:35,200 --> 01:29:38,640
Sounds like everyone here today, the only
one working for a Russian oligarch was you.
1670
01:29:38,900 --> 01:29:41,360
They didn't listen to the truth because if
they would listen to the questions...
1671
01:29:41,361 --> 01:29:43,980
The question Mr. Gates had is for me to
hear the truth.
1672
01:29:44,200 --> 01:29:45,520
You can't have a lot about Gates.
1673
01:29:46,120 --> 01:29:51,252
What I saw was somebody
with just an enormous
1674
01:29:51,253 --> 01:29:55,121
reserve of character
when it really counted.
1675
01:29:55,280 --> 01:29:56,960
Today I ask you to consider the following.
1676
01:29:57,320 --> 01:30:00,180
In nearly a year traveling the world and
interviewing officials in different
1677
01:30:00,181 --> 01:30:05,120
countries, I found precisely zero evidence
of the Biden's corruption in Ukraine.
1678
01:30:06,160 --> 01:30:08,101
The only information ever
pushed on the Biden's in
1679
01:30:08,102 --> 01:30:10,760
Ukraine has come from one
source and one source only.
1680
01:30:11,840 --> 01:30:13,400
Russia and Russian agents.
1681
01:30:14,440 --> 01:30:19,980
And so, bottom my heart, I promise you,
you're a hero to me.
1682
01:30:20,420 --> 01:30:21,420
I was proud, you know.
1683
01:30:21,965 --> 01:30:24,540
I was really, really, really proud.
1684
01:30:25,220 --> 01:30:25,820
I was proud of you.
1685
01:30:26,200 --> 01:30:30,260
Everything was for the ultimate benefit of
Donald Trump and thereby Vladimir Putin,
1686
01:30:30,840 --> 01:30:34,060
who used this narrative to manipulate the
public ahead of the 2020 elections.
1687
01:30:35,040 --> 01:30:39,080
Sadly, they're still doing this today as
we approach the 2024 elections.
1688
01:30:39,081 --> 01:30:42,269
Hunter, I want you to know
I wrote this book to tell the
1689
01:30:42,270 --> 01:30:44,841
truth about what happened
during the Trump administration.
1690
01:30:45,595 --> 01:30:48,459
He used your battle
with addiction for his own
1691
01:30:48,460 --> 01:30:50,980
agenda to hurt you and
your family and your father.
1692
01:30:51,440 --> 01:30:53,140
You were a casualty in all of this.
1693
01:30:53,860 --> 01:30:56,573
I regret very truly my
decision to work with those
1694
01:30:56,574 --> 01:30:59,081
that tried to bring you
and your family down.
1695
01:30:59,420 --> 01:31:02,760
I will do everything in my power to clear
your name going forward.
1696
01:31:04,060 --> 01:31:05,060
Thank you, my friend.
1697
01:31:05,320 --> 01:31:06,520
You know, I'll treasure this.
1698
01:31:07,540 --> 01:31:14,840
And one thing I've learned is that truth
and love always prevail.
1699
01:31:16,630 --> 01:31:19,889
It may take a little while,
but the fact of the matter
1700
01:31:19,890 --> 01:31:22,381
is we get up every day and
we do the next right thing.
1701
01:31:22,780 --> 01:31:23,780
We win.
1702
01:31:24,510 --> 01:31:25,510
I'm so sorry for that.
1703
01:31:25,800 --> 01:31:26,800
Yeah.
1704
01:31:28,120 --> 01:31:29,520
Say, it was a bit...
1705
01:31:33,120 --> 01:31:34,760
Please, please, excuse me.
1706
01:31:34,761 --> 01:31:37,120
Listen, listen.
1707
01:31:37,780 --> 01:31:38,780
We get a second chance.
1708
01:31:39,200 --> 01:31:39,980
Both of you do.
1709
01:31:40,160 --> 01:31:40,420
That's right.
1710
01:31:41,020 --> 01:31:41,940
Both of you.
1711
01:31:42,020 --> 01:31:43,020
Yeah.
1712
01:32:15,200 --> 01:32:16,240
Good evening.
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01:32:16,500 --> 01:32:18,580
{\an8}I'm Ali Velsian for my friend,
Stephanie Rule.
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