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Aware of this persons frustrations in that area. question, okay, so this person who worked at omb legal expressed concerns and resigned from omb. does this person tell you they were leaving or resigning from omb because of their concerns or frustrations about the hold on ukraine security assistance? >> yes, in terms of how -- yes, in terms of the process. and then theres back and forth with the lawyer whos there with mark sandy, but eventually sandy comes back to the point and says, the individu...

Whole story. that the president was directing. that the president wanted to exchange this military aid for political help in going after one of his opponents. the fact that not only was he willing to do that, he was willing to violate u.s. law in order to do so. you know, the impoundment control act has a specific procedure for the president to use if he thinks theres a reason to withhold money, hes supposed to notify congress and congress has the authority to concur with him. if they dont concu...

Committees october deadline to produce those documents, but in this surprise twist today the house budget committee announced they have started receiving some of those documents. they shared a summary of the findings with reporters. that summary says in part, after careful review of the materials providing the committees, the chairs have become concerned that the apportionment process has been abused to undermine congresss constitutional power of the purse. specifically, the time line of actions...

Were going to get really really really expert advice on that part of this coming up a little later on in the show tonight. thats a little later in the slow. thats still to come tonight. this new news were learning tonight is that the leverage, the part where president trump didnt just demand they help him with these allegations. he put a suspension on the aid to ukraine. that part of the scandal. the leverage part of the scandal. the withholding military aid from ukraine, we are learning tonight...

Part of whats being described here by mark sandy in this deposition, the president expressing concern, the president ordering withholding of the aid, the advice from career officials that that might be illegal, the career officials being replaced by the guy they told was going to be illegal. not only is that documented per mr. sandys deposition, but at least some of those documents have made it to congress. not to the impeachment committees, but to these other committees. the committee notes at ...

Proceedings. even as the process is moving forward in that way, with the scheduled public hearings for the intelligence committee writing up their report now on what the investigation determined. theyre planning to hand that over to the judiciary committee. articles of impeachment against the president and put those on the floor of the house for a vote. even as all of that is moving forward at pace right now, were still getting more about how this whole thing went down. including inside the exec...

Questioning the aid to ukraine and ordering the hold. at least two officials resigned over it. multiple officials overtly expressed that the hold might be illegal, including telling the guy that -- the guy they were telling to signed the paperwork, to implement the hold. hes one of the people that told them, this may be an illegal thing youre asking me to do. i think we should bring this to the lawyers, in response, that guy was replaced by a trump apointee who said this was the presidents wish,...

Apportionments which are legally binding documents suggest a pattern of the abuse of the apportionment process, ombs authority and current law. so that is what the house budget committee is saying happened there, a pattern of abuse with a paper trail. the question now is what the house budget committee intends to do about it. joining us now congresswoman barbara lee, democrat of california and a member of the house budget committee. congresswoman, thank you for joining us. >> thank you. my pleas...

This is all documented. in a summary of a new report from the house budget committee the committee writes, quote, after careful review of the materials provided to the committees, the chairs have become more concerned that the apportionment process has been used to -- has been abused to undermine congress constitutional power of the purse. specifically, the timeline of omb actions, actions taken by omb as seen by the apportionments which are legally binding documents suggest a pattern of the abu...

The house budget committee announced actually it has started receiving some of those documents. now, the committee is not releasing those raw documents to show the public at this time, but they did share a summary of the findings from these documents with reporters. that summary says in part, quote, after careful review the chairs have become more concerned that the apportionment process has been abused to undermine congress constitutional power of the purse. specifically number one, the time li...