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
impeachment inquiry today. christopher anderson served as the ukraine expert advising former special envoy to ukraine kirk volker. christopher anderson was followed in that job by catherine croft. christopher anderson, according to his opening statement, told house investigators that rudy giuliani prevented the trump administration from strengthening cooperation with ukraine. christopher anderson described a meeting he had with john bolton on the topic of having senior white house officials engage more with ukraine. john bolton identified an obstacle to better engagement with ukraine. he cautioned that mr. giuliani was a key voice with the president on ukraine which could be an obstacle to increased white house engagement. according to catherine croft s opening statement she first 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