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As we said, this is a fast-moving story. these developments just happening. it s not the only major development tonight from the whistleblower complaint. a key figure named in it has just resigned. kurt volker is his name. the u.s. special envoy to ukraine. our national security reporter, kiley atwood, joins us now with that. what have you learned about the resignation of this official? reporter: well, we should note that kurt volker is probably the key player when it comes to looking at if the state department was helping rudy giuliani a little bit too much with his partisan, politically motivated agenda in terms of encouraging ukraine to investigate joe biden, right. so what we know is that kurt volker had actually met with giuliani. he d talked with giuliani. he had even, according to the whistleblower complaint, met with zelensky, president zelensky of ukraine, and talked about how to navigate the demands made by president trump over this summer. so clearly kurt volker was in ....
Reading the whistleblower report really is that he was he was giving zelensky advice about how to, quote, navigate the president after the phone call. the president had with zelensky. what kind of advice was he giving him on that? was he just trying to work out a way to secure the aid for ukraine and work around rudy giuliani? i mean, don t forget, volker is somebody who s a mccain guy. and he would have been personally very much in favor of aiding ukraine against the russians. and that s where he comes from politically. so we have to hear from him, and i think it s much more likely that as a private citizen we would hear from him a lot more freely. asha, do you agree with that? just from a legal standpoint, his resignation makes it more likely for him to cooperate? that he s not under some state department restriction? yes, he definitely has more ....
The center of it, and we still have a lot of unanswered questions because the state department has said on the record that kurt volker did, indeed, connect a zelensky aide with rudy giuliani. but they haven t gone any further than that. so we need to hear from the state department about what kurt volker was doing, and he clearly had had enough of it. the state department hadn t come out defending him in the last week. instead, we had rudy giuliani on fox news waving his cell phone, showing off text messages that he said were from kurt volker. he said that he was doing everything he was doing because the state department told him to. and now we have kurt volker, who is the person he was talking to, resigning from the state department. the other question, of course, is what secretary of state mike pompeo knew or knows now. secretary pompeo has been subpoenaed by the house. is there something specific that we know has precipitated that, and would he be forced to comply? do we know what ....
The whistle-blower report really is that he was he was giving zelensky advice about how to, quote, navigate the president after that after the phone call the president had with zelensky. what kind of advice was he giving him on that? was he just trying to work out a way to secure the aid for ukraine and work around rudy giuliani? i mean, don t forget volker is somebody who is a mccain guy, and he would have been personally very much in favor of aiding ukraine against the russians, and that s where he comes from politically. so we have to hear from him, and i think it s much more likely that as a private citizen, we would hear from him a lot more freely. asha, do you agree with that? i mean just from a legal standpoint, his resignation makes it more likely for him to cooperate, that he s not under some state department restriction? yes, he definitely has more ....
Anderson. pamela brown, thanks very much. as we said, this is a fast-moving story. these developments just happening. a key figure named in the complaint has just resigned. kurt volker, the u.s. envoy to ukraine. what have you learned about the resignation of this official? reporter: well, we should note that kurt volker is probably the key player when it comes to looking at if the state department was helping rudy giuliani a little bit too much with his partisan, politically motivated agenda in terms of encouraging ukraine to investigate joe biden, right? so what we know is that kurt volker had actually met with giuliani. he had talked with giuliani. he had even, according to the whistle-blower complaint, met with zelensky, president zelensky of ukraine and talked to him about how to navigate the demands made by president trump over this summer. so clearly kurt volker was in ....