WASHINGTON — Rick Perry was one of several senior Trump administration officials who knew about and approved of President Donald Trump's attempt to “use the powers of his office to solicit foreign interference on his behalf in the 2020 election," according to a report by Democrats running an impeachment inquiry into the president.

The report, the culmination of weeks of public and private hearings by the House Intelligence committee, says the president “subverted” foreign policy toward Ukraine and “undermined” national security when he pushed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy to announce investigations into Trump’s political rival, former Vice President Joe Biden, as well as debunked theories that Ukraine interfered in the 2016 election.

Trump’s so-called scheme was “undertaken with the knowledge and approval of” senior administration officials, including Perry, the former Texas governor who stepped down as U.S. Secretary of Energy earlier this week.

Though it offers few new bombshells, the report details Perry’s involvement in Trump’s effort, which included participating in a sort of diplomatic back channel with Ukraine led by the president’s personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani. The report, largely built off accounts of officials who publicly testified before the committee over the last several weeks, notes that Perry, along with 11 other administration officials, refused to testify or turn over information subpoenaed by the committee “at President Trump’s direction.”

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Perry, who was originally named in the whistleblower report that sparked the impeachment inquiry, has emerged as a central figure in the ongoing scandal. Perry, 69, has denied wrongdoing and last month said he doesn’t “see the American people buying into this thing.” He has framed his work in Ukraine as part of a long-term effort as energy secretary to expand the market for U.S.-produced LNG abroad.

The report says that Perry was one of the so-called “Three Amigos” who Trump put in charge of dealing with Ukraine. Trump ordered the group, which also included Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland and Ambassador Kurt Volker, special representative for Ukraine negotiations, to work with Giuliani, the report says.

The three led the U.S. delegation to Zelenskiy’s inauguration in May, according to the report. During a meeting with Zelenskiy on that trip, Perry handed Zelensky a list of “people he trusts” from whom Zelensky could seek advice on energy sector reform, the report says David Holmes, counselor for political affairs at the U.S. Embassy in Kyiv told the committee. Perry’s staff excluded embassy personnel from subsequent meetings between Perry and key Ukrainian energy sector contacts, Holmes told the committee.

The report cites testimony from Sondland that “everyone was in the loop” about the scheme. He told the committee that the “Three Amigos” did as Trump ordered and worked with Giuliani. Sondland testified that Perry agreed to reach out to Giuliani first “given their prior relationship.” Sondland said Giuliani made it clear to the “Three Amigos” that Trump wanted a public statement about the investigations he sought from Zelenskiy.

The group allegedly informed senior Ukrainian officials during two separate White House meetings in July that there was a “prerequisite of investigations” before an Oval Office meeting between Trump and Zelenskiy.

That grated on former National Security Advisor John Bolton, who warned “nobody should be meeting with Giuliani,” according to Fiona Hill, a former Russian expert at the White House. Following one White House meeting with Ukrainian officials in July, Bolton ordered Hill to follow Perry, Sondland and Volker as they walked out with the Ukrainians, instructing her to “find out what they’re talking about and come back.”

Perry has previously pushed back on Sondland’s testimony, including in a Fox News interview last month when he said that “not once was the name Burisma or Biden mentioned to me.”

“If there’s anyone saying anything different, then they’re surmising — and that’s not a wise thing to do,” Perry said at the time. “I know what I saw, I know what I heard.”