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- Secretary of State Mike Pompeo called Fox News host Sean Hannity to find out about attacks the Trump ally was launching against former Ukraine ambassador Marie Yovanovitch, according to transcripts of her testimony to House representatives.
- "What I was told by [State Department official] Phil Reeker was that the Secretary or perhaps somebody around him was going to place a call to Mr. Hannity on FOX News to say, you know: 'what is going on?'" — Yovanovitch testified.
- "I mean, do you have proof of these kinds of allegations or not? And if you have proof, you know, tell me, and if not, stop," he continued, Yovanovitch added.
- The transcript seemingly shows that while the secretary of state himself was locked out of the shadow foreign policy in Ukraine, Hannity was playing a key role.
- Hannity denied communicating with Pompeo regarding his claims about Ukraine in a tweet Monday.
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Secretary of State Mike Pompeo called Fox News host Sean Hannity to find out if there was any substance behind smears he was spreading on his show about former US ambassador to Ukraine, Marie Yovanovitch, according to transcripts of her congressional testimony released Monday.
In the testimony, Yovanovitch claimed that Hannity — who is so close to the Trump White House he serves as an informal policy adviser — played a key role in a campaign waged against her by conservative media allies of the president. See the rest of the story at Business Insider NOW WATCH: Extremists turned a frog meme into a hate symbol, but Hong Kong protesters revived it as an emblem of hope See Also:  |