Lev Parnas, an associate of Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani, talks with Rachel Maddow in an exclusive interview about disturbing texts he exchanged with Republican activist Robert Hyde in which they appear to be surveilling U.S. Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch. Parnas insists he did not take Hyde seriously, accusing him of excessive drinking. Aired on 1/15/2020.
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'Drunk All The Time': Lev Parnas Dismisses Hyde Tracking Yovanovitch | Rachel Maddow | MSNBC
Turn this entire case over to SDNY & charge everybody involved clear up to the top, involved in this cover up with RICO & conspiracy crimes.
M Murph
What’s with the “ WE” you imbecile? You are in a position to do nothing loser so shut up pathetic child
M Murph It took a complete imbecile to sit in the White House for all this circus to unravel. 4 more years of this? Are you crazy
John Deegan Enjoy 4 more years of this you little communist coward
The Superpac, Mike Spence’s brother etc..The lawyer, what a guy, watching Rachel like a hawk.
Mike Pence’s brother (Greg Pence, Indiana State Congressman)
@San Diego Oh, really. Sweet justice!
What does, ‘got into a thing (fight) with him’ mean? Was Greg Pence fighting Hyde; the drunk; at a Super PAC meeting? (PAC=America One?)
Bob Jones ………….. Here’s the deal: they really were ALL in on it . EVERYONE in the trump orbit . Flynn, Manafort, Cohen, Rudy, Barr, Nunes, Moscow Mitch, Pence, Lev, Igor, etc. etc. Most of the time, conspiracies fail ( or never happen ) because too many players make secrecy impossible . But this is the MOB model where bragging and street cred is more important.
Lev trying to keep clear of a lot of trouble with this Hyde clown.
Trying to keep clear of an allegation of being a co-conspirator to dodgy happenings …
He lied to save his *ss. This is a serious issue. They were probably planning to have her assassinated.
He leaks all things Trump, Kev a Russian double agent, call 007.
Wouldn’t be the first time Rachel went bush diving & came up empty.
@Conrad Weis Seriously doubt that.
President Pence, have you anything to say before the US Senate passes it’s judgement upon you?
The majority of members in the Senate are Republican sycophants and traitors to their oath of service. Pence will be judged the most honorable Vice President to ever serve and will receive a special Moscow Mitch Medal of Honor.
o cute little comment just another sheep led by his demmy leaders
Trump who? says Pence.
I had a theory that some people will just start hallucinating the reality of Trump being removed and jailed. I though it would happen after acquittal but looks like its starting already.
This is nuts. I love it
Most conspiracy theories are. He probably know where Hoffa is buried.
This Rachel Maddow interview with Parnas is like listening to the Nixon tapes. And just like the Nixon tapes, it’s worse than we ever imagined.
@kudos premier Whined up dead???
Or wind up dead???
That only happens with Killary & Obammy.
@Alex Mitchell hey Alex……Sounds like maybe you’ve had practice with those Billy goats.😎
@Johnnie Pinkney NO shes lying evil.
So ticked that I missed it last night. I can only find bits and pieces of it.
Sycophants.. Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely….Sad!!!
Power doesn’t corrupt character, it reveals it.
The comment sounds like the Democrats
@Deplorable NO it sounds like YOU a Deplorable, not a Clinton fan but she was right all along.
@Charles Cruz
I remember Hillary Clinton do you remember this?
Do you remember the Benghazi ordeal?
President Obama, Vice President Biden, Hillary Clinton, Susan Rice John Brennan, etc are all involved with a coup.
The Obama Administration immediately covered up and said it was an anti-muslim video that caused the attack on the US embassy killing 4 Americans. It was an attack by terrorist jihadists against the United States.
The Americans that were being attacked for 13 hours never got any help.
Barack Obama had to be in Las Vegas for election campaign rally early next morning. (was that more important?)
The Obama Administration watched on closed circuit as Americans getting killed without getting any help for 13 hours.
Hillary actually went on TV News and said that people took J.Christopher Stevens to the hospital but in reality they dragged his dead corpse through the city and then left him.
Hillary knew this, but lied regardless.
Susan Rice continued to lie and the media bought all of it.
It was a total coup by the Obama Administration.
And Maddow never presented the public with misleading information. NEVER!
What is up with the lawyer staring at Rachel? Anyone??
Lizzard Breath – PERFECT come back! Well done! 😂👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼😂
I felt that everytime lev threw out a bomb he be looking at Rachel like “you didnt see that coming did you”..like all.he needed to do was stand up and shout boo jaa
they probably dont have man-ladies in russia
Watch Lev’s lawyer when he gives the drunk excuse…he is nervously looking at what Rachael is writing down and when she gives a wtf face after his excuse the lawyer has a little oh S$#t look on his face…it’s subtle…but definitely there. They were gonna off Yanny or pay someone in Ukraine to do it for them. “you can get anything for money” there.
I don’t know if this flies… They were talking about costs and what’s in it for them to make the ambassador go away.
SB ESPN that was Hyde that was saying all that, which tells me him and trumps team were the ones spearheading the spying.
Apparently Parnas wasn’t directly involved. It was Robert F. Hyde, and Trump’s immediate team (Guiliani, Barr, Nunes, and that guy who gave Trump’s campaign a million bucks who testified, Sondland? – can’t recall his name).
SB ESPN, It clearly sounds like Trump was entertaining the idea of executing an extrajudicial killing to have Ambassador Yovanovitch murdered to cover his criminality. Trump telegraphed his moves long ago when he claimed he could “stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody” and not “lose any voters.”
When you have enough cash anything flies.
Nope doesn’t fly 👍🏻
It doesn’t matter that Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch wasn’t in danger. This wannabe co-conspirator Mr. Hyde wanted people to believe that she was. If that doesn’t warrant a lengthy prison term then I don’t know what would..By the way in the book Mr. Hyde was also always drunk. Coincidence. I think not..
No one can say she wasn’t in danger. Obviously, Lev wouldn’t want to cop to any knowledge of that. He’ll want to protect himself too. But I know what you’re saying, that even if that WERE true, the intrigue itself is highly corrupt.
*over here waiting for crooks to tell us what Dr Jeckyll was up to…
and the crime was what
David Goldman See the movie in 3 to 4 years. Probably you’ll get it then
Tf2knight ……………… BEST retort to these jerkwater nitwits that profess ignorance . Kudos !
Seems to me that Lev is trying to avoid more charges.
no, he was ALREADY charged with everything he was doing with Giuliani & Ukraine. Parnas is trying to get acquitted of current charges, or get some type of plea bargain with the prosecutors in those charges
@San Diego I mean in the way he denied knowing anything about Yovanovich being surveilled. The last thing this goon needs is a charge related to stalking a US ambassador.
That occured to me, too. However, I did notice in those texts that Lev simply responded “LOL” after Hyde solicited a price to accost Yovanovitch. It is possible Hyde was speaking for someone else, but Lev wanted no parts of that level of action.
I don’t think so. Lev has already been charged and will go to prison based on all the evidence gathered so far and his testimony does nothing to absolve him from any of this. I think this is a matter of self preservation. Bill Barr is attorney general and was during the Epstein debacle and look what happened to Epstein. These republican fools have a lot to lose and do you really think that at this point anything would stop Barr from taking a similar action in the cause of self preservation. I never believed Epstein was murdered until now. This has changed everything.
ya think!?! although i find it interesting he is talking to Maddow and not a jury
Obviously he’s not going to admit that Giuliani or Hyde were under the impression that Lev would have the ambassador killed.
Just like “we eventually gave Ukraine the aide so I did nothing wrong get over it”
@hamid malik they didnt get ot all. 14% has still not been paid
When you have someone killed you hire a professional and not tell anyone.
Its like a little mystery!!
If the Senate acquits Trump, then that day will be the exact date that the USA becomes a banana republic.
I just want to give a shoutout to this guy’s hairdo.
Conor K ………………. It’s a reverse trump .
Conor,
It’s the best they could do when trying to get 40 hairs to cover the whole middle third of someone’s scalp.
This is not funny. Whether drunk or not, a drunk man is more dangerous than a sober man
In a way it does, because alcoholics after awhile start showing signs of personality disorders.
@Daniel Schaeffer I completely agree with the idea that a drunk man is more dangerous than a sober man. Absolutely.
But, you can’t say that a drunk man is dangerous, whether he is drunk or not. That’s what the original comment said.
That makes no sense.
Correct?
Drunk men usually spill their guts (secrets) to the wrong people. Meaning …there is probably a lot of real facts and details that just got spewed up.
The drunk is especially dangerous to himself if he has secrets to hide.
Yes treat anyone is very serious and a drank man talking should be take very serious
He’s never seen him not drunk. Oh my Jesus
Sadly there are people like that. Alcoholism is no joke. I had an uncle who was drunk every single hour that he wasn’t at work. He was the functional type who always held a good job, never got into fights and never got a DUI. He understood that the more he followed the rules, the more he could drink on his spare time.
just like cohen he’s gonna try to hide stuff. I believe THIS section is what he is hiding: he WAS in on it, but has to spin it otherwise to try and avoid THOSE charges.
Indeed. It’s hard to believe that he’s suddenly discovered a sense of decency. Once again, the problem is sorting out the truth from the self-serving spin.
he will never testify. ths is strictly for your consumption.
How did this drunken lunatic (who appears to have emerged straight from Dr Jekyll’s laboratory), how did Mr. Hyde know that Yavanovitch was a person of interest to Parnas ? There is at least one piece still missing to this story.
A very good point indeed. This is the dog that didn’t bark.
Did anyone become curious about Lev Parnas’s lawyer way of staring at Rachel?
Vortex Scale Curios? Seems completely normal under this circumstances
Vortex Scale He is a lawyer, does not want to miss a word , he also had that look with the Anderson interview.
He looks exhausted! Rachel was up all night before so it’s a sure bet the lawyer was too! He’s got the serious nods after an all nighter!
Watch Lev’s lawyer when he gives the drunk excuse…he is nervously looking at what Rachael is writing down and when she gives a wtf face after his excuse the lawyer has a little oh S$#t look on his face…it’s subtle…but definitely there. They were gonna off Yanny or pay someone in Ukraine to do it for them. “you can get anything for money” there.
This is one thing Lev really doesn’t want to talk about. It sure sounds like in those texts they were under the impression Parnas could have the ambassador killed.
If there was no T R U M P , the media would have to invent one.
That killing thing would never be any part of the Trump admin.
Ukrainians yes. Victor SHOKIN was already poisoned by mercury…. honest men prosecutors get attacked.
Ukraine is 3rd most highly corrupted nation………..which is why Trump held up temporarily the aide.
Trump had Pompeo & Pence make sure the new Ukrainian president had corruption under control………BEFORE..
Handing over billions in TAXPAYERS $$$$$$$$.
TRUMP doesn’t want our $$$$$$ wasted.
The other killing thing……we ALL KNOW who does that in our nation hrc.
Teengenerate,
Not only that, but I think he genuinely fears for his own life. His lawyer watches Rachel like she’s a potential assassin. He _never_ takes his eyes off of her — in any of the clips. Notice also how he glances at her hands when she moves them. Normally you would think a lawyer would look toward his client once in awhile, but not once during this interview.
Kevin NYC You could say the same thing about the republican party.
CRICKET MICKEY hello troll.