president trump fired us ambassador marie yovanovitch. - that morning, i wake up from a phone call from wicked witch is gone. like, you know, from "the wizard of oz." - the wicked old witch at last is dead. [cheers and applause] - she is the anti-corruption fighter. and we were celebrating that we got her out. all: ♪ ding, dong, the witch is dead ♪ - what they were doing was this dangerous form of diplomacy. they had the wherewithal and the means to get recalled an american ambassador. they did that. and there was no turning back. - and so as the ukrainian presidential elections start heating up in april, all of a sudden, here comes volodymyr zelenskyy out of nowhere. [dramatic music] ♪ ♪♪ here was a guy that was a comedian that had no chance whatsoever. every day, he got bigger and bigger until eventually he just took over and won in a landslide. - having played the role of president in a tv show, volodymyr zelenskyy is now on course to make that role a reality. zelenskyy and his team can celebrate this election victory, but defeating corruption and ending the war with russia is going

you can tell the story from the perspective of marie yovanovitch, the ambassador-- you can tell from against ukraine, at the heart of the impeachment, this culminating thing here, you can tell it from the perspective of rudy giuliani, you can tell it from the perspective of trump. two tell it from the perspective of lev , obviously a very flawed person, very open about the fact that he has a background where he was a hustler. he was involved in organized crime, he came up in that environment. the whole reason that characters like tony audrey were going after him all those years is because he had all of these legal judgments and debts people were trying to collect from him. definitely not a boy scout, but that is also a part of the story. that is a part of what is so amazing that he ended up in the white house, that he ended up being test tasked to do something by the president of the united states. and when you layer it on top of that, what i believe is genuine repentance, and the fact that is phone has terabytes of evidence about what all these people did, it is unlike any other sto

moment in the documentary when lev was relating the way in which he talked to donald trump about marie yovanovitch being the problem, the u.s. ambassador to ukraine being the problem and needing to get rid of her and literally donald trump looks over his shoulder and says get rid of her, she is done and you realize in that moment, the power that people like lev parnas had in the donald trump circle. this is a real story about a fake story, essentially and lev parnas was involved in creating the fake story. there is a point where he is sitting in the control room, overseeing the interview with the former ukrainian minister of internal affairs and he describes it very well as old soviet style state tv propaganda. you have spent so much time talking about the funnel of misinformation in america and you have basically done a documentary about the funnel of misinformation. >> i mean when lev says at one point in the film, you know, i eventually realized that there was not anybody who fed us any piece of the story who wasn't either working for the russian government directly or working for russian intel