CNN Obtains 2019 Audio of Giuliani Pressuring Ukrainian Officials to Announce Biden Probe in Exchange for Improved Relations

‘You may recall the allegations that Donald Trump pressured Ukraine to investigate Biden in exchange for better relations and military aid’

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TAPPER: “We’ll play before you a never before heard audio of a 2019 phone call obtained by CNN. You will hear Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani in the call relentlessly pushing a Ukrainian government official to investigate the baseless conspiracy theories with then presidential candidate President Biden. You may recall the allegations that Donald Trump pressured Ukraine to investigate Biden in exchange for better relations and military aid. That was the central focus of Trump’s first impeachment. Now the partial transcript of this call became public earlier this year but to hear the actual audio for the first time is quite stunning. The president’s personal attorney telling a top aide to the Ukrainian president that if they want a better relationship with Trump, if they want to solve their problems with Trump they needed to do what Giuliani was propose and have a prosecutor publicly announce an investigation into Joe Biden. If you do this, you could get that. I think there’s a term in Latin for that. CNN’s CNN international correspondent Matthew Chance walks us through this quite damning recording.”

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