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- Lev Parnas, a Ukrainian associate of Rudy Giuliani, gave MSNBC's Rachel Maddow in an exclusive interview on Wednesday.
- He told Maddow that President Donald Trump "knew exactly what was going on" when Parnas was carrying out his orders in a pressure campaign against Ukraine's new president.
- Parnas, who pleaded not guilty to charges of campaign-finance violations last year, said he "wouldn't do anything without the consent of Rudy Giuliani, or the president."
- "Why would [Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy's] inner circle ... or [former Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko] meet with me? Who am I? They were told to meet with me," Parnas added. "And that's the secret that they're trying to keep. I was on the ground doing their work."
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Lev Parnas, a Ukrainian associate of President Donald Trump's personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani, told MSNBC's Rachel Maddow, in an exclusive interview airing Wednesday, that the president was aware of and involved with his actions connected to a pressure campaign in Ukraine at every step of the way.
Specifically, Parnas and Giuliani were instrumental in Trump's efforts to strong-arm Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky into publicly committing to investigations that would be beneficial to Trump's reelection campaign.See the rest of the story at Business Insider NOW WATCH: Extremists turned a frog meme into a hate symbol, but Hong Kong protesters revived it as an emblem of hope See Also: SEE ALSO: Explosive new documents involving Rudy Giuliani and a Ukrainian associate show the shocking extent of Trump's pressure campaign  |