During the conversation, several of the participants can be heard laughing with the President. At another point, the recording appears to capture Trump praising his new choice of Secretary of State, saying emphatically: ‘Pompeo is the best.’ But the most striking moment comes when Parnes and the President discuss the dismissal of his ambassador to Ukraine.
Parnas appears to say: ‘The biggest problem there, I think where we need to start is we gotta get rid of the ambassador. She’s still left over from the Clinton administration,’ Parnas can be heard telling Trump. ‘She’s basically walking around telling everybody ‘Wait, he’s gonna get impeached, just wait,’ he said. (Yovanovitch actually had served in the State Department since the Reagan Administration.)
