After the summary became public on September 25, McKinley said he was troubled by Mr. Trump's comments "impugning" Yovanovitch, who he called "a serious, committed colleague." He said the president's comments "raised alarm bells for me."
McKinley told lawmakers the call summary clarified a couple of things for him. He said that "State Department officials, if not the State Department itself, were being drawn into the domestic political arena in some way." And he also told the committees it was clear that both special envoy Kurt Volker and U.S. Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland "were engaging the Ukrainian Government in conjunction with Rudy Giuliani on domestic political issues."