delegations meeting with president zelensky. during the meeting, secretary perry passed president zelensky a list that perry described as, quote, people he trusts. secretary perry told president zelensky that he could seek advice from the people on this list on issues of energy associate reform which was the topic of subsequent meetings between secretary perry and key ukrainian energy sector contacts. embassy personnel were excluded from in of these later meetings by secretary perry s staff. on may 23rd, ambassador volker, ambassador sondland and secretary perry and senator ron johnson, who had also attended the inauguration, though not on the official delegation, returned to the united states and briefed president trump. on may 29th, president trump signed a congratulatory letter to president zelensky which included an invitation to visit the white house at an unspecified date. it is important to understand that a white house visit was critical to president zelensky.
officials and directed to deal with government officials by the president? i take that as an admission that he was furthering the purpose of the original phone call between president trump and president zelensky which was to extort othe ukranian president o give him political dirt on a prospective political opponent in exchange for military aid that was held and a prospective visit between the two presidents that was highly desirable by the new president of ukraine. congressman connelly, i want to talk about what manu raju just reported, that you and the democrats have signalled you re fast-tracking the impeachment proceedings, avoiding a court battle, limiting public hearings and that the impeachment could be done in the house as soon as
that it was michael mckinley that senior adviser to pompeo who resigned because there was not more done to defend against yovanovitch. this happened months ago. so pompeo knew that people wanted him to defend ambassador yovanovitch for a long time now. and he has been asked in an interview just last friday, he was asked, did you do enough to defend ambassador yovanovitch and he pivoted. he didn t really answer the question. he talked about the team at the state department delivering on the mission of the state department, but never once mentioning ambassador yovanovitch by name. so if he feels so beleaguered, why did pompeo stay quiet on yovanovitch when there was this clear campaign from giuliani and others to get rid of her. yeah. and this clear campaign encouraging him to say something. well let s take a step back. look at what president trump thinks of ambassador yovanovitch. in that phone call with president zelensky and president trump, president trump said that yovanovitch w
with giuliani before making any deals with the ukrainian president. perry defends the president s question to circumvent official channels. as the governor of texas i use people outside of government to give me information all of the time. i respect the state department but i happen to know people in the energy industry that are smarter than the state department folks. reporter: well perry has also admitted he urged the president to make that now infamous july 25th call to zelensky which was the basis of that whistle-blower complaint. but perry said he pushed for discussion on energy issues but we all saw that transcript and there were no substantial mentions of that on the call. jake. rene marsh, thank you. also in the politics lead, mike pompeo is frustrated and feeling victimized over claims against him during the impeachment inquiry. in testimony former state department officials blamed pompeo for not defending former u.s. ambassador to ukraine marie
intelligence community, the old intelligence community that was corrupt and failed? they are cia agents out there risking them lives but brandon and clapper, i am hoping and praying that somebody will look at the way the intelligence investigation began. it was it based on stuff coming from countries friendly to us? sean: when we were speaking with president zelensky which were never should be elites, or no foreign leader is going to want to talk on the phone again, and we need that to happen, when the president says i need a favor. we ve had these election problems and you guys seem to be in the center of it all and we even have politico outlining here that they were admitting that they help hillary clinton and they were trying to make amends for the work that they did to sabotage our elections. i thought everybody in the media cared about that but it s only if it s donald trump. it doesn t matter if it s