Donald Trump's personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani has told Sky News he would like to testify to Congress over impeachment allegations facing Donald Trump, saying the president "didn't do a darn thing wrong".

An unnamed whistleblower, believed to be an intelligence official, claims Mr Trump pressured new Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy during a phone call in July to investigate political rival Joe Biden, days after ordering a freeze of some military help for Kiev.

The whistleblower report alleges the Republican president pressed Mr Zelenskiy to work with Mr Giuliani and attorney general William Barr to look into unsubstantiated corruption accusations against former vice president Mr Biden - a leading Democratic contender for the 2020 presidential race.

Image: Rudy Giuliani spoke to Sky News

It is alleged Mr Trump tried to influence next year's US election and White House staff attempted to "lock down" details of their phone conversation.

Mr Trump is now facing an inquiry into possible impeachment - the process where a president could ultimately be removed from office.


Mr Giuliani is believed to have travelled to Madrid, Spain, in early August to meet one of Mr Zelenskiy's advisers, Andriy Yermak, and US officials characterised the meeting as a "direct follow-up" to Mr Trump's call.

The complaint cites published reports of meetings Mr Giuliani held with Ukraine's chief prosecutor in New York in January and Warsaw, Poland, in February, after a phone call he had late last year with the prosecutor's predecessor.

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Mr Giuliani told Sky's US correspondent Cordelia Lynch of his meeting with Mr Yermak: "I was asked to do this by the state department. I didn't know Mr Yermak from a hole in the wall. The name of Yermak was given to me by [Ukraine envoy] Kurt Volker. I was asked to meet with him. I did meet with him.

"I briefed them, two of them, on everything I did and I have a very nice text at the end explaining how honest and straightforward I was, which I am."

Asked by Lynch if he was willing to testify in front of Congress, Mr Giuliani replied: "Well there's a lot of problems with that. I mean would I like to testify and tell my story. Sure. I've been telling it. All the time in fact you know my story.

"Nothing I can tell them that you can't read online. From the very beginning I've been totally transparent about this. There are things that I can't testify to because I'm a lawyer."

Mr Giuliani also said he was "not concerned" about his future, adding: "What I did is perfectly lawful, perfectly legal."

Image: Donald Trump and Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy met in New York earlier this week

Mr Trump had asked Mr Zelenskiy in the phone call to probe whether Mr Biden tried to block a Ukrainian investigation into his son Hunter's relationship with a company called Burisma, which was drilling for gas in Ukraine.

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Mr Trump wanted Ukraine to investigate the Biden family, accusing Joe Biden of strong-arming Ukrainian authorities, including the then president Petro Poroshenko, to fire general prosecutor Viktor Shokin in 2016 to protect his son.

Mr Shokin said he was sacked to prevent him from investigating Hunter Biden, which the Biden family strongly denies.

Speaking at a campaign rally on Friday, Mr Biden said: "We have a president who has violated his oath of office, who has put at risk our national security, who may - and this will be a decision for Congress to make - have committed a crime, and who used the power of his office and your tax dollars to try and persuade a foreign leader to once again interfere in a presidential campaign."

Mr Giuliani claimed he himself should be seen as a whistleblower and should be getting protection.

He told Sky News: "You're asking about the process I follow to uncover one of the biggest scandals. I should be considered a whistleblower, I should be getting whistleblower protection. I actually found facts that are true. The other guy, half of what he wrote is false."

Ukraine's anti-corruption investigation agency said on Friday a Ukrainian investigation of Burisma is focused solely on activity that took place in 2010-2012 before Hunter Biden was hired to sit on its board. He was reportedly a director from 2014-2018.

Lynch asked Mr Giuliani: "You don't have any issue with a foreign power investigating a political rival of the president?"

He replied: "I do if you don't do anything. But if he bribed the president of that country I have an issue if they don't investigate."

Lynch then asked: "So the ends justify the means?", to which Mr Giuliani replied: "No. Opposite way around, it would be totally illegitimate not to investigate it.

"If a president, if a vice president of the United States goes somewhere and extorts the president of that country. Or bribes the president of that country to get his son out of trouble, I'd find it extraordinary if they didn't investigate."

Mr Trump has denied the allegations and has dismissed them as a "witch-hunt".