Rudy Giuliani pressed the Trump administration to grant a visa to the controversial former top prosecutor of Ukraine, a State Department official testified to Congress this week.

George Kent, the deputy assistant secretary of state for European and Eurasian affairs, told lawmakers that Giuliani asked the State Department in about January to grant the visa to allow Viktor Shokin to come to the U.S., according to CNN.

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