An attorney for Lev Parnas, a former associate of Trump’s personal attorney Rudolph W. Giuliani, confirmed Friday that he provided a recording of Trump allegedly demanding the firing of then-U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch to the House Intelligence Committee.

ABC News was the first to report Friday that during a dinner with top donors in April 2018, Trump was recorded saying: “Get rid of her! Get her out tomorrow. I don’t care. Get her out tomorrow. Take her out. Okay? Do it.”

Parnas’s attorney, Joseph A. Bondy, told The Washington Post Friday that the recording was not leaked by him or his client, but that it validates Parnas’s recollection of that event with Trump.

“For some time, Mr. Parnas has indicated that he had previously heard such a recording. We do not possess the recording, and all of Mr. Parnas’s statements regarding that event were based on his independent recollection of that event rather than the contents of the tape,” he said. Parnas located the recording in his iCloud accounts Friday, Bondy said, and provided it to the House Intelligence Committee.

In an interview with Fox News Friday, Trump did not deny it was him on the tape. Instead, when asked about it, he defended his decision to fire Yovanovitch and skirted whether he was relying on Parnas to do it.

“Well, I wouldn’t have been saying that. I probably would have said — it was Rudy there, or somebody — but I make no bones about it, I want to have ambassadors — I have every right, I want ambassadors that are chosen by me. I have a right to hire and fire ambassadors, and that’s a very important thing,” Trump said.

The Post first reported that Parnas and his business partner Igor Fruman bad-mouthed Yovanovitch to Trump at the dinner and that the president reacted strongly, saying she should be fired. The recording of the conversation was made by Fruman, ABC reported.

In an interview with MSNBC late Friday, Bondy said that he wants the House to enter the recording into the public record.

“I hope they make it public” Bondy told MSNBC. “I think it’s of critically importance that we hear the evidence. It’s the best chance we have to have a fair trial, or real trial, if you will.”