state mike pompeo supported the move. yesterday president trump did not deny those reports. >> mr. president, why did you recall the u.s. ambassador to ukraine? was she a problem? why did you recall her? >> i heard very bad things about her. and i don't know if i recalled her or somebody recalled her but i heard very, very bad things about her for a long period of time. not good. >> while stuck in the middle of the ukraine saga, vice president mike pence continues to defend president trump's actions and doubled down on the validity of his own conversations with ukraine's leader yesterday, and reiterated that trump did nothing wrong during his now infamous july phone call with president zelensky. >> we focused entirely, in my meeting with president zelensky of ukraine, on the issues that president trump had raised as a concern, namely the lack of support from european partners for ukraine. and real issues of corruption in ukraine. but the simple truth is, that those are the same issues that