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Posted: 2020-01-25T04:53:51Z | Updated: 2020-01-25T07:43:39Z

An audio tape played by Rachel Maddow on Friday appears to support a bombshell ABC News report that President Donald Trump was recorded ordering the removal of the U.S. ambassador to Ukraine .

Trump was reportedly recorded telling associates at a private dinner in April 2018 at the Trump Hotel to get rid of then-Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch , to take her out, ABC News reported Friday. The recording itself was played Friday night on MSNBC s The Rachel Maddow Show. ABC News then also released the actual recording.

Get rid of her! an angry voice that appears to be Trumps can be heard saying on the recording. Get her out tomorrow. I dont care. Get her out tomorrow. Take her out. OK? Do it. The White House has not denied the voice is Trumps , according to ABC.

A voice that appears to be indicted Rudy Giuliani associate Lev Parnas can be heard on the tape disparaging Yovanovitch before Trumps tirade. 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, he says. (In fact, Yovanovitch joined the Foreign Service during the Reagan administration .)

Shes basically walking around telling everybody, Wait, hes gonna get impeached, just wait, the voice believed to be Parnass adds as men at the table laugh.

Its unclear why Trump would issue an order to get rid of Yovanovitch at a dinner with Parnas, a Ukrainian American businessman who had no role in the federal government. But his attorney, Joseph Bondy, told Maddow he believed Trump was giving the order to his aide John DeStefano, who was with the group at the time. Bondy said Donald Trump Jr. was also present.

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