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Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani said he began dealing with Ukrainian officials at the behest of the State Department.

During an interview Tuesday evening on Fox News, Giuliani was prompted to respond to a Washington Post report in which White House insiders complained about how he was improperly “injecting himself” into U.S.-Ukraine relations.

“Man, I really did,” Giuliani said sarcastically. “And you know who I did at the request of? The State Department. I never talked to a Ukrainian official until the State Department called me and asked me to do it.”

Holding up his mobile phone, Giuliani said he reported every conversation he had to the Trump administration and that evidence of this communications with the State Department were all on the device.

Asked why people are “out to get you,” Giuliani told host Laura Ingraham, “because I do a pretty good job for [Trump] and they try to destroy everyone everybody around him. But they will not intimidate me,” he added taking off his glasses. “In fact, I’m going to work harder because I don’t get intimidated by bullies.”

Giuliani, who claims all his investigative work was “perfectly legitimate,” is at the center of a controversy stemming from a July call President Trump had with Ukraine’s president in which he reportedly pressed for an investigation into Joe Biden’s son, Hunter, who did business in Ukraine while his father was vice president.

Democrats are concerned that Trump leveraged millions of dollars in military aid to pressure Ukraine to look into a political rival who seeks to challenge him in the 2020 presidential election. Ukraine’s foreign minister has said there was no pressure by Trump during the call, but Democrats want to see the transcript as well as a whistleblower complaint that reportedly relates to his communications with Ukraine. They are led by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who on Tuesday said she supports an impeachment inquiry.

So far the Trump administration has refused to give Congress the whistleblower complaint, citing jurisdictional issues, but Trump says he will release the transcript of his call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to show he did nothing wrong and a Politico report out late Tuesday said the White House is preparing to release the complaint. The White House is also expected to release a document to show the whistleblower had “political bias,” according to Fox News.

Giuliani insists he has evidence to show corruption in Ukraine tied to the Democrats and said Trump’s enemies “have walked into a trap.”