Were hearing from a source, they told rich edson that mike pompeo, the secretary of state himself went to President Trump and said you need to fire this guy, steve linick. We found out late last night that he would be dismissed in 30 days. An obama era employee who briefed on ukraine last fall. The white house not commenting why the president did this. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi put out a lengthy statement about the friday night firing. Its concerning that the president has taken the action as the house passes the heroes act, which contains critical funding for the state department ig to oversee and ensure the effective wise spending of Coronavirus Response funds. This firing will set back the important work of the office of Inspector General to perform critical audits, investigations and inspection of u. S. Embassies and programs around the world during the crisis. Kristin, this is interesting, this is from the chairman of the Foreign Relations committee eliot engel. Ive learned that