
Ex-Zelensky adviser: Giuliani's 'attempt at a quid pro quo' threatened Ukraine's national security
CNN
A former adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Wednesday evening that Rudy Giuliani's "attempt at a quid pro quo" during a 2019 phone call threatened Ukraine's national security.
The adviser, Igor Novikov, told CNN's Chris Cuomo on "Prime Time" that during a July 2019 phone call, Giuliani, former President Donald Trump's onetime personal lawyer, "was asking for investigations and public statements and many other things" from the Ukrainian government that would've harmed then-presidential candidate Joe Biden. "And in return, towards the end of the conversation he mentions that that would make it possible for him to go and speak with President Trump to solve the problem that he admits to kind of putting in President Trump's head," he said.
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