Secretary of State Mike Pompeo grilled by local reporter in testy interview
and asked whether or not the two had met when both were in Warsaw, Poland, earlier in the year. Again the Secretary refused to answer, saying, “You know, I don’t talk about who I meet with. I went to Warsaw for a particular purpose. It was an important mission. We brought together people all across the world to take down the world’s largest state-sponsored terror, the Islamic Republic of Iran. That’s what I worked on on that mission.
Amons continued to press: “So, you’re not going to say whether or not you met with him?” But Pompeo again filled the air with a non-answer, leading Amons to call him out on it while asking, “It sounds like you’re not going to say?” Then Pompeo repeated the answer he already gave.text messages sent by diplomats regarding the US-Ukraine relationship
. Amons asked: “Text messages show that diplomats under your authority told the Ukrainians that a good relationship with President Trump was only possible if they investigated his political opponent and theories about what happened in 2016. Were you aware that this was happening?” A seemingly fed-up Pompeo then lashed out in his reply, accusing the journalist of bias: “Again, you’ve got your facts wrong — it sounds like you’re working at least in part for the Democratic National Committee,” the secretary said.
The interview received attention and praise online because of Amons’s no-nonsense approach and unflinching follow-up questions. When asked on Twitter if she felt unsafe while dishing the hard hitting questions, Amons said no, adding, “I think he liked me less at the end though than at the beginning.”
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