Texas News Impeachment Probe Implicates Two Texas Politicians In Ukraine Scandal KWBU | By Jill Ament Published November 13, 2019 at 6:54 AM CST Twitter LinkedIn Email Listen • 5:54 Gage Skidmore/Flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0) Former Texas governor, and current energy secretary, Rick Perry, is alleged to have had "back-door" political dealings with Ukrainian officials. But he claims he never tried to influence them to investigate the Bidens. Outgoing energy secretary and former Texas governor, Rick Perry, says he didn’t urge Ukraine to investigate President Trump’s political rival, Joe Biden. Congressman Pete Sessions is also involved.