From NBC News, this is Article 2, Inside Impeachment.

I'm Steve Kurnaki.

Today is Monday, November 25th, and here's what's happening.

So we're getting a little bit of new information now

about Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's role

in this whole Ukraine controversy.

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has spent most of the fall

avoiding scrutiny over his role in the Ukraine scandal, but then witnesses

from the State Department began to testify against Pompeo's orders.

And what they told Congress put Pompeo closer and closer to the events around the impeachment inquiry.

Secretary Pompeo essentially gave me the green light to brief President Salinsky about making those announcements.

Just last week in his televised hearing,

Gordon Sonland, the ambassador to the European Union,

directly implicated the Secretary of State.

And based on the context of that email,

this was not the first time you had discussed these

investigations with Secretary Pompeo, was it?

No.

He was aware of the connections that you were making between the investigations and the

White House meeting and security assistance? Yes. Did he ever take issue with you and

say no that connection is not there or you're wrong? Not that I recall.

Mike Pompeo was supposed to fix the State Department after former Secretary Rex Tillerson was fired last year.

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