Article snippet: WASHINGTON — Rudy Giuliani, President Trump’s personal lawyer and a key figure in the impeachment inquiry, managed to inadvertently telephone an NBC News reporter at 11 p.m. one night this month and leave a lengthy voice message filled with snippets of an overheard conversation. In the muffled recording — left Oct. 16 with NBC reporter Rich Schapiro — Giuliani, the chairman of a security consulting firm, can be heard discussing business in Turkey and Bahrain. At one point, speaking with a pair of unidentified men, Giuliani declares: “The problem is we need some money.” Nearly 10 seconds of silence tick by before Giuliani clarifies: “We need a few hundred thousand.” It was not the first time that Giuliani had left remnants of a conversation on Schapiro’s phone. In a voicemail in September, he can be heard railing against the family of Joe Biden, suggesting with no evidence that he knows of corrupt activities by the former vice president. Calls and texts to Giuliani seeking clarity about the messages went unreturned Friday. And Schapiro, in an appearance on MSNBC, said he had tried without success to ask Giuliani about the unusual recordings. “I have yet to receive an intentional or unintentional call back,” Schapiro said. Given Giuliani’s sensitive role in the impeachment inquiry, and his taste for the spotlight, there was some speculation that the messages could have been staged. But based on reactions from the Washington press corps who cover him, Giuliani, 75,... Link to the full article to read more