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On Friday, ABC reported that a recording by Lev Parnas from April 2018 captured President Donald Trump telling associates that he wanted to get rid of the United States Ambassador to Ukraine, Marie Yovanovitch. On Saturday, a lawyer for Parnas released the full video.

The video, which according to BuzzFeed was released by Joseph Bondy, a lawyer for Parnas, is over an hour long.

(The video is not actually in the tweet below. Its a still with a play button added to it. The full video is at the bottom of this post.)

In its report about the video, PBS describes one of the key moments:

About 42 minutes into the video, Parnas appears to say, The biggest problem there, I think where we need to start, is we gotta get rid of the ambassador. Shes still left over from the Clinton administration.Trump then appears to say, Where? The ambassador to Ukraine?Parnas replies, Yes. Shes basically walking around telling everybody Wait, hes gonna get impeached, just wait.A few seconds later, Trump appears to say, Get rid of her! Get her out tomorrow. I dont care. Get her out tomorrow. Take her out. OK? Do it.Bondy said Parnas attended the dinner along with Igor Fruman, another of Giulianis business associates. Both Parnas and Fruman have been indicted on federal charges, including violating campaign finance laws.

When ABC News first reported the news on Friday, Dan Friedman described the same exchange:

[A]n intimate April 2018 dinner at Trumps Washington hotel that included, among others, the president and Lev Parnas, the since-indicted associate of Rudy Giuliani. According to the news outlet, a voice that sounds like Trump states during the recording: Get rid of her! Get her out tomorrow. I dont care. Get her out tomorrow. Take her out. Okay? Do it. Trump said this, according to ABC, after Parnas told him that Yovanovitch was a problem and was basically walking around telling everybody, Wait, hes gonna get impeached. Just wait. Its not clear exactly who Trump was instructing to get rid of her.

You can watch the full video below.

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The video of Donald Trump telling associates to "get rid of" Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch has been released - Mother Jones