'If it's authenticated, what bothers me the most ... is this line, 'take her out,'' Rep. Demings said. 'As a former law enforcement officer, that line usually comes out of the mouths of gangsters or mobsters or gang members.'
"It's hard to be able to say to the president, who meets 1,000 people a day, OK, do you know this person that was at a dinner with you a year and a half ago and to say you have a relationship?" Lankford said.
NBC News has not confirmed that the voices on the tape are those of Trump, Parnas and Fruman, but Trump can be seen in early parts of the video. Neither he nor the White House have disputed that the recording is authentic. In an interview with Fox News on Sunday, White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham said she believed Parnas was at the dinner with Giuliani,"somebody that the president trusts." And she pointed to Trump's comment that he had already heard similar allegations about Yovanovitch by then.
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