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Phone records detail extent of Giuliani, White House contacts | TheHill

posted onDecember 4, 2019
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Article snippet: The House Intelligence Committee released phone records on Tuesday showing extensive communications between MORE and the White House as well as several other key figures in the impeachment inquiry. The phone logs revealed frequent contact between MORE (R-Calif.), Giuliani associate Lev Parnas and John Solomon, a conservative columnist formerly with The Hill. In one instance, on Aug. 8, Giuliani was in regular contact with the White House as other administration officials sought to finalize a meeting in Washington between Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. Giuliani connected with the White House switchboard for roughly two minutes at about 12:45 p.m. that day, and he exchanged texts with an unspecified White House phone number roughly 20 minutes later. A phone number associated with the Office of Management and Budget connected with Giuliani’s phone at about 3:13 p.m. that day for a call that lasted 13 minutes, according to the records. That evening, a caller from an unidentified number tried to reach Giuliani several times in the span of about 60 seconds. Minutes later, Giuliani phoned the White House switchboard and connected for 47 seconds, the records show. About 16 minutes after that, the afternoon caller from an unidentified number connected with Giuliani for a call that lasted just over four minutes. The records do not contain the contents of the calls or identify the individuals Giuliani was reaching out to, but they include details such as ... Link to the full article to read more

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