A top Senate Democrat has asked special counsel Robert Mueller if he put any restrictions on what CIA Director Mike Pompeo can say in public about his interview with Mueller, after Pompeo refused to talk about it during a Senate hearing this week.

“I would like to know whether there is any prohibition on Director Pompeo answering my questions,” New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez, the top Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, wrote to Mueller in a Thursday letter released Friday afternoon.

"I asked him about those conversations, and he refused to answer the questions," Menendez wrote. "When I asked Director Pompeo whether you had instructed him not to speak about this conversation with you, he replied that he would not speak about the conversation while the investigation is ongoing."

“You want me to put my faith in you, but I can’t do that blindly,” Menendez said at one point during a discussion of what Pompeo might recommend regarding U.S. policy towards the Iran nuclear deal. “I need to have some sense of what you'll be advocating, even if it's not what the president decides.”

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