Hill inside the room where we will see House Speaker nancy pelosi later on this hour in just about 40 minutes or so. Peter, i want to start with you. For the first time we are hearing from secretary of state mike pompeo who is overseas about his role, his involvement in that call thats at the heart now of this whistleblower complaint and impeachment inquiry. Hallie, youre exactly right. This is the first time that we are hearing mike pompeo address the reports, confirmed by nbc news that he was on that july phone call between President Trump and ukraines president , president zelensky there. As you noted, pompeo is traveling today in italy and he did not elaborate on the call, though he was pressed on it beyond that. He didnt say anything else about whether it raised any red flags for him. But heres what he did say and notably on the back end of this sound bite youll see he addressed the u. S. Policy toward ukraine more broadly. Take a listen. I was on the phone call. Its what our team