President Trump Donald John TrumpBiden says voters should choose who nominates Supreme Court justice Trump, Biden will not shake hands at first debate due to COVID-19 Pelosi: Trump Supreme Court pick 'threatens' Affordable Care Act MORE’s personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani Rudy GiulianiThe Hill's Campaign Report: GOP set to ask SCOTUS to limit mail-in voting CIA found Putin 'probably directing' campaign against Biden: report Democrats fear Russia interference could spoil bid to retake Senate MORE, said he told the president “a couple times” that former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch Marie YovanovitchGrand jury adds additional counts against Giuliani associates Lev Parnas and and Igor Fruman Strzok: Trump behaving like an authoritarian Powell backs Biden at convention as Democrats rip Trump on security MORE had been blocking investigations Giuliani sought from Kyiv that could’ve helped Trump politically.

Giuliani told The New York Times in an interview published late Monday that Yovanovitch blocked visas for Ukrainian prosecutors to come to the U.S. to present evidence to him and federal authorities that Giuliani said would be damaging to former Vice President Joe Biden Joe BidenBiden says voters should choose who nominates Supreme Court justice Trump, Biden will not shake hands at first debate due to COVID-19 Joe Biden should enact critical government reforms if he wins MORE, a leading 2020 Democratic presidential candidate, and Biden's son Hunter Biden.

Giuliani also told the newspaper that the ambassador sought to block investigations in Ukraine.

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“I think I had pointed out to the president a couple of times, I reported to the president, what I had learned about the visa denials,” Giuliani told the Times.

“I may or may not have passed along the general gossip that the embassy was considered to be a kind of out-of-control politically partisan embassy, but that was, like, general gossip, I didn’t report that as fact,” he added.

Yovanovitch testified in a public impeachment hearing that Giuliani helped lead a smear campaign against her. There is no evidence to support claims that she disparaged the president.

Giuliani told the Times that it was likely his “information” to Trump led to Yovanovitch being ousted.

“There’s a lot of reasons to move her,” he said.

“I think my information did,” he continued. “I don’t know. You’d have to ask them. But they relied on it.”

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He told the newspaper he did not recommend Trump or Secretary of State Mike Pompeo Michael (Mike) Richard PompeoWatchdog confirms State Dept. canceled award for journalist who criticized Trump Trump's push for win with Sudan amps up pressure on Congress Putin nominated for Nobel Peace Prize MORE remove Yovanovitch.

“I just gave them the facts,” he said. “I mean, did I think she should be recalled? I thought she should have been fired."

Giuliani told The New Yorker in an interview published earlier Monday that he needed Yovanovitch “out of the way” because “she was going to make the investigations difficult for everybody.”

The investigations into the Bidens are at the heart of the Democrats' articles of impeachment against Trump.

House Democrats allege that Trump abused his office by withholding aid to Ukraine in an attempt to pressure Kyiv into announcing an investigation into Biden and his son. Democrats are also charging Trump with obstruction over the administration's effort to block evidence and witnesses from testifying as part of the impeachment inquiry.

The House is preparing to take a full vote on the articles this week.