In this week's update, more evidence of President Donald Trump's plot to remove Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch, a dramatic exchange between Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and a reporter, and an impeachment check-in.

"Get rid of her! Get her out tomorrow. I don't care. Get her out tomorrow. Take her out. OK? Do it."

Lev Parnus's legal team released a video last week that once again contradicts the Trump's repeated claims that he had never met Mr. Parnus or his associate Igor Fruman. During the conversation, Trump ordered the attendees to "get rid" of Ambassador to the Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch. The President can be heard saying "Take her out. OK? Do it."

The video shows President Trump attending a dinner with Parnus and Fruman, both of whom have since been indicted for campaign finance violations. Both are former business associates of Rudy Giuliani, Trump's personal lawyer, and Parnus especially has played an outsized role in the impeachment case being brought against the President. Parnus claims to have played a role in the ousting of Yovanovitch, even going so far as to put the ambassador "under physical surveillance in Kyiv," according to the House Intelligence Committee.

A collection of records, emails, and messages was released as a part of the Committee's impeachment investigation process. Messages show conversations between Giuliani and Parnus expressing their occasional frustrations with their year-long efforts to get Yovanovitch removed.

"Please don't tell anyone I can't get the crooked Ambassador fired or I did three times and she's still there," Giuliani messaged Parnus in May 2019. Giuliani did succeed in having the Ambassador removed just a month later.

Yovanovitch was recalled from her position in April 2019. Sources familiar with the recording in which Trump ordered the Ambassador's removal say it was made during an intimate dinner on April 30, 2018, at the Trump Hotel in D.C., a year before the Ambassador's ousting. According to the Ambassador, she was removed because of "unfounded and false claims by people with clearly questionable motives" that she had been acting against the President.

"Boy I'm so powerful I can intimidate the entire Ukrainian government." Giuliani messaged Parnus.

In the recording, according to Parnus, Trump was addressing his then-deputy chief of staff John Destefano when he ordered Yovanovitch fired.

In an interview with MSNBC, Parnus said Destefano responded, "we can't do that right now because [Secretary of State Mike] Pompeo hasn't been confirmed yet, that Pompeo is not confirmed yet and we don't have -- this is when [former Secretary of State Rex] Tillerson was gone, but Pompeo was confirmed." Indeed, Pompeo had been confirmed and privately sworn in just days earlier.

"Do you think Americans care about Ukraine?"

Speaking of Mike Pompeo, he has recently accused a National Public Radio (NPR) reporter of lying after an intense interview and post-interview expletive strewn conversation.

The reporter, Mary Louise Kelly, had been interviewing Pompeo primarily about Iran before she began asking him if he thought he owed Marie Yovanovitch "an apology". Yovanovitch, of course, was fired last spring, and many believe that Pompeo should have done more to defend her. Pompeo rejected repeated internal requests to publicly come to Yovanovitch's defense, according to Former Senior adviser to Pompeo, Michael McKinley. McKinley says he resigned because of the mistreatment of the Ambassador.

Pompeo showed no signs of wavering on that front during his NPR interview, and he left soon after. However, according to Kelly, he soon asked her to come to speak to him. According to Kelly, Pompeo shouted and swore at her and accused her of asking about Ukraine under false pretenses, asking "Do you think Americans care about Ukraine?'

Pompeo has since made a statement calling Kelly a liar, but didn't address the post-interview conversation which he claims was "off-the-record".

The President has now weighed in as well. The president retweeted right-wing radio host Mark Levin when he asked, "Why does NPR still exist? We have thousands of radio stations in the U.S. Plus Satellite radio. Podcasts. Why are we paying for this big-government, Democrat Party propaganda operation." Trump's retweet included a comment, "A very good question!"

In response to the President's retweet, NPR host Steve Inskeep issued something of a challenge, "Thanks for asking. @NPR exists to tell the truth. Citizens support NPR to inform themselves and all citizens. We ask real questions, which many officials welcome, though some walk away. Through staff, you agreed to an NPR interview in 2016. You haven't done it yet. Are you ready?"

NPR is funded by the government and the donations of listeners and viewers. Both NPR and its television counterpart Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) act independently from the government and are not controlled or censored by it in any way.

"Shifty Adam Schiff... has not paid the price, yet."

In impeachment news, the House managers have made their argument and the White House's defense is underway.

House managers spent three days making their case against the President. They called on the sentiments of the founding fathers and asked their fellow Senators to "give America a fair trial".

The White House defense, so far, has argued that the Democrats did not paint a complete picture of events with their argument for Trump's removal. They also said Democrats were denying Americans the chance to vote on the issue in the 2020 election.

If it does turn out to be up to the American people, it seems as though Trump may be in trouble. According to a new Fox poll, 50% of Americans now believe the President should be convicted and removed from office. In the same poll, citizens gave the economy its highest rating in nearly two decades.

Trump, of course, shared his opinions about the process on Twitter. "Shifty Adam Schiff is a CORRUPT POLITICIAN, and probably a very sick man," Trump tweeted. "He has not paid the price, yet, for what he has done to our Country!"

Schiff, Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee and one of the House managers, responded to the President's tweet in an interview on NBC News' "Meet the Press".

"Do you take that as a threat?" host Chuck Todd asked.

"I think it's intended to be," Schiff replied.

The trial will continue next week, and the largest question at hand is whether or not the Senate will call for more witnesses. It seems as though Democrats won't be able to convince enough Republican Senators to vote to allow any more evidence. The entire process will likely come to an end within the next two weeks. Meanwhile, some Republicans lawmakers are privately worried that further revelations damaging to Trump will come out after they vote to acquit him.

After all, further damaging revelations have been coming out since the investigation began, and they show no signs of stopping. In a book manuscript leaked to the press (according to Bolton's attorney), former national security adviser John Bolton alleges that Trump directly tied Ukrainian security aid to the investigations into his political rivals that he wanted the country to carry out. Bolton is one of the officials that Democrats want to hear testimony from.

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