CNN: Pompeo Spoke to Hannity, Giuliani About Yovanovitch

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MATTINGLY: “He’s undersecretary for political affairs. One of the biggest questions last week was why didn’t Secretary of State Pompeo do anything about it. Mike Pompeo not only spoke to Rudy Giuliani twice during the time frame that the smear campaign was ongoing, he also reached out to Sean Hannity. This had emerged on his show at one time or another as they were pushing the narrative that the Ambassador was a bad character. Hale also knows there were two phone calls with Rudy Giuliani. He says he doesn’t have the details or transcript of what any of those calls were but it came during the time period of the campaign to oust Maria yovanovitch. Pompeo said at least according to hale he wasn’t going to do anything if there wasn’t anything he needed to take action, meaning he didn’t believe that any of the allegations rose to the level of being true and therefore he wasn’t going to say anything. State Department officials who have testified and we saw two career State Department officials testify last week said that was a problem in and of itself, that he wouldn’t come out and defend. There does seem to be some behind-the-scenes work to try and address this. It didn’t have enough much of an effect. But Pompeo was doing something. What is still a question. How much obviously State Department officials, many, feel like he didn’t do enough.”