President Donald Trump praised Secretary of State Mike Pompeo for a testy exchange he has with NPR host and reporter Mary Louise Kelly, telling him, “I think you did a good job on her, actual…
At a White House ceremony with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Trump noted the presence of Pompeo and said, “That was very impressive. That reporter couldn’t have done too good a job on you yesterday. I think you did a good job on her, actually.”
Most reporters took Trump’s comment as having to do with NPR host Mary Louise Kelly’s interview with Pompeo on Friday, not Monday. Pompeo abruptly ended the interview as Kelly pressed him on when he specifically defended Marie Yovanovich, the U.S. ambassador to Ukraine who was recalled from her post last spring.After the interview ended, Kelly said, he glared at her for a moment and left the room. One of his aides summoned her to a State Department living room.
Pompeo then asked Kelly to identify Ukraine on a map with the names of countries left off. She said that she correctly identified where Ukraine is. On Saturday, the State Department issued a statement from Pompeo blasting Kelly. He accused her of lying about the terms of the interview and breaching an agreement to keep the post-interview conversation off the record. But Kelly said she did not agree to conditions placed on the interview, nor did she agree that anything was off the record. Rather, she said that one of Pompeo’s aides merely told her to leave her recording device behind before she had the post-interview conversation with him.
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