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Documents from the administration. they talk about pressure to ukraine announcing investigations. thats one area he wants information about. also withholding a white house meeting from president zelensky, which was considered a quid pro quo in order to freeze military aid for ukraine. the white house blocked it, they chose not to go to court to get this information, but were seeing more and more information come out that the democrats heard on moving impeachment quickly through the house instead...

Zelensky of ukraine in which the president urged ukraine to open an investigation against the bidens. he says in this email, he said, based on guidance i have received and in light of the administrations plan to review assistance to ukraine, including the ukraine security assistance initiati initiative, please hold off on any additional dod obligations of these funds, pending direction from the process. they said they were announcing a meeting on july 18 and they were saying this line was out of...

The pentagon to say quote "based on guidance i have received and in light of the administrations plan to review assistance to ukraine, including the ukraine security assistance initiative, please hold off on any additional dod obligations of these funds, pending directions from that process." walk us through that. is it a mere coincidence that president trump speaks to zelensky and duffy says to the pentagon, hold off on assistance. >> thats so important for the timeline to put the timeline into...

Clearly pelosi is trying to get at the witness thing and they want to see these key witnesses. but right now the story is not about the pressure on the purple state republicans. republicans are lashing out and sort of using this to go after the democrats to say theyre playing politics. which message breaks through? who blinks first? >> some new emails released under a freedom of information. this is from michael duffey. the house democrats wanted him to testify. the president blocked him. the em...

Received and in light of the administrations plan to review assistance to ukraine, please hold off on any additional d.o.d. obligations of those funds pending direction from that process. basically, dont release the aid. and goes on to say, i appreciate you keeping that closely held to those who need to know to execute the direction. the president spwhaoeuentirely unaffected by what is happening. >> theres no crime. theres no nothing. how do you impeach? you have no crime. people said there was ...

Testify before the senate. take michael duffey, he is the omb official thats basically in charge of funding for national security, so that includes a lot of military aid. this is all being housed in the white house through different agencies, whether its the state department or the defense department. after that july 25th phone call -- and omb says, with he should be clear, that this is basically a coincidence, but basically 90 minutes after that call that president trump has with president zele...

Extensive hold because this was pretty uncontroversial in the government bureaucracy, but i think probably there are some officials that were just doing their job. you have kind of the loyal foot soldiers. but it was interesting to see that the comptroller of the pentagon, elaine mccluskey, there were so many emails between her and michael duffey -- and this is the person who is in charge of the entire dod budget -- and she is spending all of this time dealing with this ukraine aid and this hold...

Was right? why didnt he speak up more and kind of question the reasons behind this hold? and its also interesting that this guy is not a typical national security official. he used to be the executive director of the wisconsin republican party and so he also has some dod experience, he came over from dod to the white house, but this is not someone who is just someone from the dod bureaucracy, this was a political actor who knows kind of -- you know, he knows his way around politics. >> before i ...

Spending package to keep the budget. hell also sign a bill giving people federal leave. and he believes ukraine interfered in 2016, according to some, because "putin told me." trump grew more insistent that ukraine had grown to defeat him in the 2016 election. secretary esper did not mention any country specifically, but he says the dod understands the threat. >> the critical thing is we preserve the integrity of our

Im important to the president of the united states and even people at the state, people at dod and the white house understood the risk that rudy actually had towards donald trump and the presidency. you know, jimmy nailed it when he said that rood say small mud in search of a balcony. all of this is about nothing more than rudy giuliani being desperate to stay relevant. it was so desperate to remain relevant and continues to be so desperate to remain relevant that he keeps endangering the presid...