Mike Pompeo Confirms: I've Been Interviewed by Mueller
But the CIA director refused to divulge details of a controversial Trump meetingor whether the Mueller chat was related.
SPENCER ACKERMAN
04.12.18 11:27 AM ET
Donald Trumps nominee for secretary of state began his Senate confirmation testimony Thursday by refusing to discuss a reported meeting he had with Trump about then-FBI director James Comey.
He also confirmed that he has been interviewed in Special Counsel Robert Muellers probe, but declined to say whether it was related to that Trump meeting.
Though introduced by Sens. Richard Burr (R-NC) and Pat Roberts (R-KS) as honest and candid, CIA Director Mike Pompeo wouldnt talk about the conversations the president and I had.
As reported by the Washington Post last June, Trump had asked his intelligence chiefs to get Comey to back off ex-national security adviser Mike Flynn, who subsequently pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI. Pompeo said the articles implication that Trump asked him to do anything improper is false.
But when Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ) asked what Trump actually asked him to do, Pompeo said, I dont recall.
Menendez said that he was troubled by Pompeos refusal to answer. The chairman of the Senate foreign relations committee, Republican Bob Corker, an ally of ex-Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, said it was fair to ask if Pompeos closeness with Trump is based on deferential willingness to go along to get along.
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