New York (CNN) President Donald Trump was captured on tape at a 2018 dinner with Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman demanding the firing of Marie Yovanovitch, who was then the US ambassador to Ukraine, according to an attorney for Parnas. According to Parnas' attorney, Joseph Bondy , the recording was made by Fruman and shared with Parnas "shortly after it was recorded." Bondy told CNN on Friday evening, hours after the tape's existence was initially reported, that he had turned over the audio to the House Intelligence Committee. "We do believe that contents of the conversation as portrayed by ABC News are of critical importance in the impeachment trial of the President," Bondy said in a statement. "In the conversation, the subject of Ukraine was brought up," Parnas told CNN in an interview earlier this month.

Source: CNN January 24, 2020 21:23 UTC