Thanksgiving. Democrats are seizing on a whistleblower complaint alleging President Trump abused his power by urging ukraine to interfere in the 2020 election and that the white house tried to cover it up. Ill get reaction from senator mazie hirono, a democrat on the judiciary committee. Our correspondents and analysts are also standing by. First, our senior Congressional Correspondent manu raju. Manu, a new subpoena for secretary of state mike pompeo. Reporter first batch of subpoenas since nancy pelosi announced an official impeachment inquiry earlier this week. Committees sent a subpoena to the secretary of state asking for documents about apparent efforts by Rudy Giuliani to reach out to ukraine officials to push for that investigation into the president s political rival, former Vice President joe biden and his son hunter biden. The democrats sent letters about most moves by the state department to help with those efforts. Now, at the same time the House Intelligence Committee, wh
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kiley, the suggestion was that volcker, the special envoy, the special u.s. envoy for ukraine, was working with rudy giuliani and ukrainian officials to establish a dialogue to work together in these areas. reporter: that s right, wolf. and just hours ago, the house foreign affairs committee said they had scheduled a deposition with ambassador kurt volcker next week. will he still partake in this deposition? how does this impact that? as you said, kurt volcker has been in contact with rudy giuliani. we know that because giuliani has been publicly showing everyone those text messages. that is the real question here. the state department hasn t said much about that. they said that everyone, secretary pompeo, when asked about this yesterday, said that to his knowledge everyone had acted entirely properly at the state department, meaning that no state department officials
were getting involved in this politically-driven agenda of rudy giuliani. but what giuliani is saying is different, he s saying he worked closely with kurt volcker on his efforts in ukraine, pushing for an investigation into joe biden. i was going to say, kiley, the whistle-blower complaint suggested that kurt volcker went to kiev at one point to work with the ukrainian officials, to guide them on how to deal with the president s demands. reporter: exactly. so we know that kurt volcker was talking to the ukrainians in that text message that rudy giuliani put out, was connecting giuliani with one of the top aides of president zelensky, the ukrainian president. so he was involved here. now, the state department has not been backing up volcker over the past week. they haven t been putting out any statements saying he wasn t doing anything wrong.
rouge ruling with t rudy giuliani with the ukrainians, in helping the ukrainians fight actually corruption. now that portfolio will be vacant because allegedly he was involved in doing the president s dirty work. now the question is who else will resign. we know that special envoy volcker was in a meeting with ukrainians the day after this july 25th call. he was with the u.s. ambassador to the eu who is another trump appointee. so i think it is possible that we may see other resignations, while the u.s. embassy in ukraine is staffed with career diplomats, people not appointed by the president. we may see battle lines drawn between the trump appointees and the career diplomats in ukraine and in washington, d.c. trying to do the actually work. kiley atkins joins us from new york right now.