Volker testified that Pompeo wanted Giuliani reined in on Ukraine
by Joel Gehrke
| October 21, 2019 06:45 PM
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo believed that Rudy Giuliani was hampering U.S. interests in Ukraine, a key U.S. diplomat told House investigators.
Ambassador Kurt Volker, whose two-year tenure as the State Department’s point-man for the war in Ukraine ended with his resignation last month, testified this month that Giuliani’s search for evidence implicating Biden in a corruption scandal was a burden on his own efforts to advance U.S. policy in Ukraine. Volker told lawmakers that he briefed Pompeo on his attempt to rein in Giuliani in August, according to a source familiar with his testimony, and that Pompeo approved.
“I’m glad you’re doing that,†Pompeo told Volker, according to the source familiar with his closed-door Oct. 4 deposition.
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