Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo bars an NPR reporter from his plane after confrontation with network over his profanity-laced attack on its interviewer.
on accusations of pressuring the government to investigate his political rivals.
On Friday, in an interview with NPR host Mary Louise Kelly, Pompeo grew testy when Kelly asked him why he hadn’t done more to defend Marie Yovanovitch, the former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine who was smeared by Trump allies and abruptly removed from her post last year. Kelly also said that Pompeo asked for a map without country names and demanded she locate Ukraine. She said she did. On Saturday, Pompeo issued a strident statement, saying Kelly had lied about her plans for the interview and blasting her as “shameful” for disclosing the subsequent conversation, which he claimed was off the record. Kelly said Pompeo’s aide never asked for that stipulation, nor would she have agreed to it.
He ended the statement with an insinuation that Kelly had not, in fact, correctly identified Ukraine on the map, which only seemed to confirm that he indeed had demanded she do so. “It is worth noting Bangladesh is NOT Ukraine,” he said.
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