Giuliani associate claims Pence didn't attend Ukrainian president's inauguration because Ukraine didn't announce an investigation into the Bidens

• Rudy Giuliani's associate Lev Parnas gave an exclusive interview to MSNBC's Rachel Maddow on Wednesday.
• Parnas claimed in the interview that Trump asked Vice President Mike Pence to cancel his trip to Ukraine after the country didn't announce an investigation into the Bidens.
• He also told Maddow that Pence was "in the loop" on Trump's pressure campaign on Ukraine for an investigation into former Vice President Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden.
• Hunter sat on the board of Ukrainian energy company Burisma until last April.
• A fuller picture of Parnas' role in Trump's pressure campaign against Ukraine emerged after the House Intelligence Committee released a slew of documents related to Trump's impeachment trial.
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Rudy Giuliani's Ukrainian associate claimed to MSNBC's Rachel Maddow that Vice President Mike Pence was "in the loop" on the Trump's pressure campaign on Ukraine.

Lev Parnas gave an exclusive interview to "The Rachel Maddow Show" on Wednesday, and claimed that President Donald Trump asked Pence to cancel his trip to Kyiv for Ukrainian President Zelensky's inauguration after Ukraine didn't announce an investigation into former Vice President Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden, who served on  the board of Ukrainian energy company Burisma until last April. 

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