The State Department's inspector general has arrived on Capitol Hill after requesting an urgent briefing with senior congressional staff
From CNN's Zack Cohen and Ted BarrettSen. Bob Menendez, the top Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, called on Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to immediately recuse himself from all Ukraine related-matters due to “his direct conflict of interest in the Trump-Zelensky scandal.”
“I write to urge you to recuse yourself immediately from all Ukraine related-matters. You have a direct conflict of interest given your participation in the now-infamous Trump-Zelensky call, and there are serious questions concerning your role in the leveraging of US security assistance — taxpayer dollars — to advance President Trump’s personal and political agenda,” Menendez wrote in a letter to Pompeo.
Menendez added that he believes Pompeo's recusal is"the only option at this point to prevent further erosion of the integrity of US foreign policy."The letter comes one day after three House committee chairmen wrote a letter to Deputy Secretary of State John Sullivan, saying Pompeo “now appears to have an obvious conflict of interest” in the Ukraine inquiry due to his reported involvement in the July 25 phone call between President Trump and Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky.
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