he will be the flaft string of current and former foreign service officers who are defying the trump administration orders not to comply. so we expect him to trudge up here to capitol hill and tell these house investigators what he knows. we should also mention that he s also represented by the same lawyer who represented michael mckinley. he s the former right-hand man to secretary of state mike pompeo, who resigned i guess a week or two ago now over complaints within the state department about the pressure that was being put on career officials. so the story now that is being sort of echoed and supported by one diplomat after another, it s all of them telling the same chapter of the same story about how career diplomats were really sidelined by this pressure campaign that president trump s outside attorney rudy giuliani ran and a lot of them raised flags about it and the ones that did were the targets of a smear campaign by rudy giuliani and his associates. and so house investigators
keep track of. mckinley had been up until friday mike pompeo s defacto chief of staff. he resigned amid the morale. he is painting a pressure of political bullying inside trump s state department. i am told he was particularly appalled by, galled by the ouster, the unceremonious ouster of former ambassador to you crane marie yovanovitch. according to a source in the room, we are told when these concerns were brought up to secretary of state mike pompeo, that pompeo went radio silent. he didn t offer any reasonable explanation as to why it was that yovanovitch was recalled from her post. so if you add this to all of the existing testimony, the reported testimony of which we are aware, you get to see, because you start to see the contours of the case that democrats are building. it s not j you the call. this july 25th interaction between presidents trump and