BREAKING: Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says he was on Trump's call with Ukraine president.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo confirmed that he was on President Donald Trump's controversial phone call with Ukraine's new president on July 25, days after evading questions about what he knew of the call that has sparked a congressional investigation and an impeachment inquiry.
"I was on the phone call," he said during a press conference in Rome on Wednesday, adding it was"in the context of" the Trump administration's"remarkably consistent" Ukraine policy -- to counter the Russian threat to Ukraine, help"the Ukrainians to get graft out, and corruption outside of their government, and to help now this new government in Ukraine build a successful, thriving economy.
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