citizens, about you to protecting trump at all costs. let me read a bit more on the phone call that pompeo sat and listened on. make the same disclosure will tell us what he did after he heard the president say this. donald trump initiated or asked the ukrainians to initiate or continue an investigation into the activities of former vice president joe biden and his son hunter biden. on the call he listened in on, he didn t say anything or do anything about, donald trump asked the ukrainians to assist in reportedly uncovering the allegations of russian interference in the 2016 election on this nated in ukraine. mike pompeo, you guys, america s secretary of state, i don t know checking his texting while the american president asked a foreign leader to assist in purportedly uncovering the allegations of russian interference in 2016, originated in ukraine.
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if the wall street journal is reporting this is a source close to pompeo disclosing that mike pompeo listened in while donald trump asked the president of ukraine to investigate joe biden? we not only have a president i think some things about trump we have become used to hearing. we re used to hearing him mobbed up, on his cell phone with rudy giuliani asking to cover up the porn star, or slip some, you know, money to michael cohen, or go float this on hannity and sanitize it with the base. we are not used to hearing an american secretary of state listening in on a call where a foreign leader is asked to dirty up a political opponent. what did he do the day after? what has mike pompeo done contemporaneous news. the other things, in addition to just the personalities knocking down these dominos, is all of them will be sources of evidence. that s why i have people close to pompeo giving him up.
among other things pressuring a foreign country to investigate one of the main political rivals, the president s personal lawyer, rudy giuliani is a center figure, ag barr appears in this effort as well. we know from the notes of the call that the white house released that donald trump said, i need a favor, though. and went on. so the white house has corroborated the part of the whistle-blower complaint that says that trump was solising foreign interference. we now know that the sitting secretary of the state heard the president solicit election interference. secretary of state, department of justice, these are like big agencies, the important ones, right? along with the treasury, are the ones the pantheon where titans have sat. we are now talking about a scandal that s enveloping the
ukraine and donald trump. that is call at the center of the impeachment inquiry, at the center of the whistle-blower complaint that put that in motion. from the wall street journal, quote mike pompeo was among administration officials who listened in on the july 25th phone call between president trump and ukrainian president zelensky, a senior state department official said monday. the disclosure that ties the state department more closely to the house impeachment inquirinq. mr. pompeo s participation hasn t been previously reported. last week a state department official disputed a contention in a complaint filed under federal whistle-blower laws by a central intelligence agency officer, that another official listened in on the call. joining our call, juanita tolliver, campaign director at the center for america progress action fund.