Pompeo didn't dispute Kelly's most explosive allegation: that he shouted and cursed. He also suggested she mistook Bangladesh for Ukraine on a map.
WASHINGTON – Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Saturday accused an NPR reporter of lying to him after he made news Friday for allegedly shouting at her after an interview about Ukraine.
NPR's senior vice president for news, Nancy Barnes, said the station stood by Kelly's account. “Mary Louise Kelly has always conducted herself with the utmost integrity, and we stand behind this report,” she said on Saturday. Pompeo did not dispute her account of the conversation, except to say she had agreed to keep it off the record. Kelly said on Friday that Pompeo and his aides never asked for the conversation to be off the record.
"He used the F-word in that sentence and many others," Kelly said."He asked if I could find Ukraine on a map. I said yes, and he called out for aides to bring us a map of the world with no writing. I pointed to Ukraine. He put the map away."
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