Secretary of State Mike Pompeo responded Saturday following media reports that said he scolded an NPR reporter after they sat for an interview -- one that Pompeo claimed afterward had strayed from an agreement he had reached with the journalist. “NPR reporter Mary Louise Kelly lied to me, twice,” Pompeo said in the statement. Jason Rezaian of The Washington Post, for example, called Pompeo's statement "a shameful assault on #PressFreedom." The remark was an apparent reference to an interaction between Pompeo and Kelly in Pompeo's office after the recorded interview ended. And while Pompeo’s statement said Kelly promised the discussion in his office would be off the record, NPR reported Kelly was never told that.

Source: Fox News January 26, 2020 08:03 UTC