33-year veteran went to ambassador gordon sondland, say point man for the president on ukraine for advice. his response. you need to go big or go home. tweet out there that you support the president and all of these are lies and everything else. mckinley for his part said he was disturbed by the implication that foreign governments were being approached to procure negative information on political opponents. and what appears to be the utilization of our ambassadors overseas to advance domestic political objectives. he went to secretary of state mike pompeo three times for a show of support for yovanovitch. but pompeo didn't respond which is directly at odds with what pompeo told abc news. >> i never heard him say a single thing about his concerns with respect to the decision -- >> so you were never asked -- >> not once. not once, george, did ambassador mckinley say something to me during that entire time period. >> reporter: officials at the state department were reluctant to show support yovanovitch was told in case the rug would be pulled out from under them by