The day after the Trump admin. blocked a diplomat from attending his scheduled deposition, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said his department and the White House would fulfill their legal and constitutional requirements in the House impeachment inquiry
"I've made clear, I think the White House has made very clear, we will ensure that we do everything that we're required to do by the law and the Constitution. Every time," he told"PBS NewsHour" on Wednesday. But Pompeo's comments, coming amid a week of silence from the rest of State Department on all matters related to the impeachment inquiry, offered little clarity as to whether the department will allow its diplomats to cooperate with the probe.
"Sadly, there have been congressional inquiries that have harassed and abused State Department employees by contacting them directly and seeking to have them provide documents -- documents that belong to the State Department, that are official US government records -- and ask them to do so without -- saying, 'Hey, don't bother calling the State Department lawyers; just talk to us directly.
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