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Mueller probe haunts Pompeo’s bid to lead Trump’s State Department

By Joel Gehrke
Published April 12, 2018 7:29pm ET
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Mueller probe haunts Pompeo’s bid to lead Trump’s State Department
CIA Director Mike Pompeo, President Trump's pick to former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, testifies before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on his nomination, on April 12, 2018 in Washington, DC. | Graeme Jennings

Secretary of State nominee Mike Pompeo on Thursday deflected several questions about special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation of President Trump’s campaign from Senate Democrats who indicated they may not be able to support him in the role of Trump’s top diplomat.

Fourteen Democrats supported Pompeo’s nomination to lead the CIA in January of 2017, ensuring a comfortable cushion of support at his final confirmation vote. But his nomination to lead the State Department is less certain, as Democrats appear to be uniting against Pompeo in a bid to require near-unanimity from Republicans to install him on the seventh floor of Foggy Bottom.

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