WASHINGTON _ Two Democratic senators are turning up the pressure on Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to explain what promises President Donald Trump may have made to Russian leader Vladimir Putin during their two-hour private meeting last month in Helsinki, Finland.
New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez, the ranking Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, wants Pompeo to provide to the committee a "clear and complete description" of any commitments Trump made and provide the committee any relevant classified and unclassified cable traffic, interpreter notes and policy directives related to the meeting.
"As you know, Russian officials have taken advantage of the lack of communication by the White House to circulate their own, possibly false, readouts of what occurred in this private meeting," Menendez wrote.
