the other thing that we are learning from this transcript is that steve linick was not only shocked thatthat he had also told senior state department officials who were close with secretary pompeo of some of the ongoing investigations into pompeo's potential misuse of political appointees. secretary pompeo said he would have no way of knowing about those investigations. he has used that justification to say that he did not suggest that president trump fire linick in retaliation, but the fact that his two top aides were told about that investigation and were told that they didn't have to keep that investigation from secretary of state mike pompeo raises new questions about the secretary claiming that he didn't know about them. >> just very quickly, kylie. do those investigations end with his departure or yes or no? >> that's a key question. we don't know the answer yet. >> we know you'll stay on top of it. kylie atwood, thanks very much. >> we are following the house judiciary committee hearing on police reform on capitol hill. the brother of george floyd just gave a powerful opening stat

trump let him go at the request of his chief diplomat. >> i recommended to the president that steve linicke time ago. >> reporter: at the time, linick was looking into pompeo's potential misuse of taxpayer funds and the decision to expedite an $8 billion arms sale to saudi arabia, both previously known. now we're learning of three additional ones, an audit of special immigrant visas, and review of the international women of courage award, as well as individuals in the office of protocol which handles diplomatic engagements. they may have failed to report allegations of workplace violence. pompeo called it crazy to suggest he ousted linick as retaliation, claiming he's kept in the dark about ongoing i.g. investigations. >> i didn't have access to that information so i couldn't possibly have retaliated. it would've been impossible. >> reporter: but linick's testimony to congress this month cast doubt on that reasoning. linick testified pompeo's most senior advisers were aware that he was looking into pompeo and his wife, allegedly misusing government resources. including tapping a political

pompeo responded this morning. >> steve linick was a bad actor in the inspector general office here. he-- he didn't take on the mission of the state department, to make us better. that's what i.g.s are supposed to do.ey ork for the agency head--e- that'smy mistake was letting mr. linick stay here as long as he did. >> woodruff: linick had been the state department's inspector general since 2013. elections officials in georgia are under searing criticism and voting machineed, inhours, tuesday's primary. amid the confusion, a democratic contest for a u.s. senate seat remains too close to call. we will get the tails, right after the news summary. and on wall stre, recession fears overshaded news that interest rates will stay low. the dow jones industrial average slid 282 points, back below 27,000. the nasdaq rose 66 points, but the s&p 500 lost 17 points. still to come on the newshour: what election mishaps in georgia mean for the november vote. "reopening risks." alabama sees a surge in covid cases. how gardening can offer fresh air, and some sanity, in turbulent times. plus, much more

steve linick anyone pushing back?> you know, i'm seeing somewhat on social media, i'm a lifelong new yorker, i have friends in new york of all political stripes. affixing this movement among new yorkers to say we don't want to defund the police. we feel safer when the police are there, and it's growing. these crime numbers will not go ignored. when it's happening in white neighborhoods we have these liberal white people decide that they do like the police all. >> tucker: it seems like new york has to listing less than every 3030 years or so. >> that's probably true. that's part of the thing, lifelong new yorkers like me understand that we can't just rest when the numbers are good and, when it's only quality of life crimes happening. i think a lot of the new arrivals have a misplaced idea of what new york city is like and what it's been like. they don't know a time when it didn't feel safe to walk around and they don't understand that there was a time when new york was bad. >> tucker: they think history started yesterd

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steve linick you said something else a moment ago when you mentioned that a key factor here is in texas you are trying to protect senior citizens and nursing homes, something that wasn't frankly done enough in states like new york here. the governor, andrew cuomo is facing criticism for that. he was pressed about it yesterday. i want you to react to this as well. >> do you take responsible to for that order and the role he may have played in those deaths? >> there are republicans are politics. i understand that. we had more people die in nursing homes than anywhere el else. it's io, it's republicans fault. >> the principal one is a significant loss of life that has occurred. in all of us at any level of government should be focused on doing what we can to prevent the spread of this illness, obviously provide medical countermeasures when they are appropriate. and learn from a brand-new vir virus. more information is gathered about the biologic behavior of the virus so i am grateful that governor abbott in texas is paying attention, and is doing what i would consider the right things on t

steve linnic. you write, pompeo likes to be the boss and advertises his s g swagger as pompeo likes to say, but he chafes at the essential reality that he is a public servant and linick's duty was to question him. inspectors general like linick are paid to be meddlesome, they're supposed to be intrusive and sometimes a little disrespectful of authority. cabinet secretaries like pompeo are paid to take the heat and to remember always that they are the servants of the people, not their master. and david, if you could expound upon this, because it seems mike pompeo has -- he doesn't seem to understand his role and this is a confusion that many cabinet secretaries and people who work for trump are struggling with. >> so i said in the lead to that column, mika, that pompeo had made a telling comment in explaining why he fired linick, supposedly the watchdog, the auditor, the public's representative in effect. and pompeo said, he works for me, he works for me, i'm the head of the agency, and i didn't think he was doing a good job. he doesn't work for the boss. he works for the american people. he is -- these inspectors general are in 80 different agencies to try to make sure