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State Dept. official broached Pompeo's role in Ukraine in new testimony | TheHill

posted onOctober 27, 2019
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Article snippet: A leading State Department official testified before Congress on Saturday and touched upon Secretary of State "The accusations that are being leveled against the president aren't being corroborated in any of this witness testimony," Perry said. "And today, in my opinion, is no different." Democrats, though, emerged from the closed-door testimony with a different view; Rep. MORE (D-Mass.), a member of the Oversight and Reform Committee, suggested Reeker was providing more evidence of presidential misconduct in Ukraine. "He is corroborating previous witnesses and their testimony. So it's helpful in that respect," Lynch said. "I think it's fair to say it's a much richer reservoir of information than we originally expected." Pompeo has emerged as a central figure in the Democrats' impeachment inquiry, particularly after revelations that the secretary of State was on the July 25 phone call between Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, in which Trump asked Zelensky to launch a corruption investigation into former Vice President Democrats have already subpoenaed Pompeo for documents related to his involvement in the Ukraine saga, but following last week's testimony from former Pompeo adviser Michael McKinley, many Democrats want Pompeo to appear before Congress as well.“The secretary has some hard questions to answer,” Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney (D-N.Y.), a member of the Intelligence Committee, said last week after McKinley's deposition. The Hill 1625 K Stree... Link to the full article to read more

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