videoconference. an omb official told the group that white house chief of staff mick mulvaney has placed what she called an informal hold on the aid to ukraine. catherine croft testified that the reason given then for the hold on ukraine, the hold on ukraine aide was that the order came at the direction of the president. catherine croft testified under subpoena today according to an official working on the impeachment inquiry in light of an attempt by the white house and state department to direct catherine croft not to appear for her scheduled deposition. nbc news has learned more about lieutenant colonel vindman s deposition yesterday. nbc news is reporting colonel vindman told house impeachment investigators on tuesday that a white house meeting between president donald trump and ukrainian president zelensky as well as nearly $400 million
learned of the trump white house s plan to hold up ukrainian military assistance to ukraine during a july 18th office of budget and management meeting and she listened in by videoconference. told the group that white house chief of staff mick mulvaney had placed what she called an informal hold on the aid to ukraine. catherine croft testified that the reason given then for the hold on ukraine, the hold on ukraine aide was that the order came at the direction of the president. catherine croft testified under subpoena today according to an official working on the impeachment inquiry in light of an attempt by the white house and state department to direct catherine croft not to appear for her scheduled deposition. nbc news has learned more about lieutenant colonel vindman s deposition yesterday. nbc news is reporting colonel vindman told house impeachment
is the wall coming down? there s certainly a different scene in the senate among republicans as opposed to the house. when i was in the capital yesterday talking to senators, they re nervous about the president s conduct, whether it s his tweet about lynching, comparing that to the impeachment process, to his comments about syria and the middle east, to the way he s handling and characterizing his own conversations with senate republicans. leader mcconnell is very careful and likes to have his words be precise. for the president to make his own characterizations, even mitch mcconnell, the majority leader, decided to speak up. and then there is john thune, the number three in the republican leadership, as you know. john thune, this is audio of him reacting when asked about ambassador bill taylor s deposition yesterday. the picture coming out of it based on the reporting that we ve seen is, yeah, i would say is not a good one. i think that whatever he said in
confirmation what we heard from fiona hill yesterday and from the former ambassador. i think he can become a very credible with the tons either augment when the ambassador said last week and add more substance to it. he is still presently within the administration, within the state department. i think these are true heroes, because they are not being bullied by the president who is trying to suggest that somehow they cannot speak before congress. they have an okbligation to spek before congress when they are subpoenaed. and kent was subpoenaed, right, congresswoman? yes, he was. he was. let me get your reaction. i know were you traveling. and i don t think you were in the room for fiona hill s deposition yesterday, am i correct in my understanding? that s correct. i was not. we have reporting, though , what he said in the room talking about national security adviser