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Here. >> it was a presidential directive? something the president -- >> yes. something the president ordered clearly and theres staffers at o mb, state, defense, trying to figure out how can we implement this, is it legal, and how long can we implement this for before we have to release the aid. >> all right. josh, as always, thank you so much for your reporting. >> thank you. joining us now, cnn chief legal analyst jeffrey toobin, political analyst david gregory and white house correspondent ...

That senior administration officials learned that through president trump the office of management and budget had frozen this congressionally mandated military aide package to ukraine. >> for the end of an otherwise normal meeting a voice on the call the person was off screen said that she was from omb and her boss instructed her not to approve any additional spending another further notice. we sat in astonishment. ukraines were fighting russians and counted on the training and weapons and assur...

Presidential directive prohibiting such a response." thats very different, she says, from the question of whether specific information that the aides may be asked to provide can be withheld from the committee. so in other words, she these is a two-step thing. first is do they have to respond to the subpoena? yes. do they have to respond to every question? no. >> talk to me about the precedent this could set going forward. you mention that other white houses have tangled with congress in this way...

Words about the use and possession of nuclear weapons. he called him a quote, and moral but he also visited nagasaki yesterday and this is his first trip to japan as the pontiff. arthel: there are reports this afternoon that the white house will allow disciplinary proceedings against navy seal eddie gallagher to move forward. lets go to jackie heinrich with the latest. jackie. reporter: yesterday navy secretary richard spencer denied that to step down over the presidents directive which came ove...

Spencer denied the threat that he would step down over the president directive. eddie gallagher was acquitted of several war crimes during his arrest including shooting zillion, murdering and isis fighter with a hunting knife and threatening to kill seals who reported him. the only charge he was actually convicted of was posing with a dead body of the isis teenager. the navy demoted gallagher until president trump reversed that the motion the same day he pardoned two other armed servicemembers a...

Stabbed him or posed with the body afterwards. these are things that are not respected by other soldiers, military law. they come pretty close to war crimes if he was acquitted. he wants to create a smoke cloud. it is very trumpian, isnt it? . >> i want to get what nbc news reported. defense secretary mark esper, general mark millie, secretary of state mike pompeo, all warned the president of following up that tweet with any sort of formal directive. what does he get against going against some o...

Say? the specter of john bolton loomed over the impeachment hearings. in accounts his top aide, fiona hill, gave of boltons concerns about the trump teams pressure on ukraine. >> he then in the course of that discussion said that rudy giuliani was a hand grenade that was going to blow everyone up. >> reporter: hill said bolton physically stiffened at a july 10th white house meeting between u.s. and ukrainian officials when eu ambassador gordon sondland first linked a possible trump meeting with ...

His account, quote, out of fear of what i might say. in accounts that his top aide fiona hill said about boltons concerns about pressure in ukraine. >> he then said that rudy giuliani was a hand grenade that was going to blow everyone up. >> reporter: hill said bolton physically stiffened at a july meeting when u.s. ambassador gordon sondland first linked to ukraine investigating the bidens. hill said bolton immediately walked out of the meeting and gave her an ominous directive afterwards. >> s...

Imply that he has insurance that is he has some leverage in his relationship with mr. trump. the one piece of information that we did not see out of the 12 witnesses was someone who said i spoke directly with the president of the united states and the president told me to tell zelensky or to pressure the ukrainians to make an announcement on an investigation into the bidens or else they will not get the $400 million in aid. no one testified to that particular conversation with the president. wha...

Blocked his access out of fear what i may say. the specter of john bolton loomed over the impeachment hearings in accounts his top aide fiona hill gave of boltons concerns about the trump teams pressure on ukraine. >> he then in the course of that discussion said that rudy giuliani was a hand grenade that was going to blow everyone up. >> reporter: hill said bolton physically stiffened as a july white house meeting between u.s. and ukrainian officials when eu ambassador gordon sondland first lin...