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REPORTS: SECRETARY OF STATE MIKE POMPEO WAS ON THE TRUMP-UKRAINE PHONE CALL

WASHINGTON – House Democrats on Monday subpoenaed Rudy Giuliani, President Donald Trump's personal lawyer, for a raft of documents related to his dealings with Ukrainian officials, the latest step in a fast-moving impeachment inquiry.
In a letter to Giuliani, three House committee chairmen said a "growing public record" indicates that Trump, Giuliani and others appear to have "pressed the Ukrainian government to pursue two politically-motivated investigations.”
Giuliani has publicly acknowledged his efforts to press Ukrainian government officials to open an investigation into former Vice President Joe Biden, a leading candidate for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination. He said he contacted Ukrainian officials at the direction of the State Department and that he has briefed U.S. diplomats on his conversations.
“In addition to this stark admission, you stated more recently that you are in possession of evidence – in the form of text messages, phone records, and other communications – indicating that you were not acting alone and that other Trump Administration officials may have been involved in this scheme,” the House committee chairmen wrote on Monday.
Giuliani and Trump have also pressed Ukrainian officials to prosecute individuals who helped expose Paul Manafort's lucrative lobbying work on behalf of former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych. The revelations about that work led to Manafort's resignation as Trump's 2016 campaign manager, and he is now serving prison time related to those dealings.
In the Manafort case, Giuliani has accused Ukrainian officials of trying to undermine Trump’s 2016 campaign by revealing payments to Manafort from Yanukovych, a pro-Russia politician.
Giuliani was subpoenaed on Monday, and the House has also planned depositions with five State Department officials for the next two weeks as the impeachment probe progresses.
The whistleblower complaint lists another top State Department official, T. Ulrich Brechbuhl, as being on the call.
“Here’s what I’ll say this morning about the engagement of the State Department,” Pompeo told reporters last week, before he says he read the full complaint. “To the best of my knowledge, so from what I’ve seen so far, each of the actions that were undertaken by State Department officials was entirely appropriate and consistent with the objective that we’ve had certainly since this new government has come into office.