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Leader chuck schumer cited duffeys emails to push republicans to allow witnesses at the presidents trial. >> what happened over the weekend with duffeys emails made public has only bolstered the case that documents should be produced and witnesses testify. if everything was on the up and up, if the call was perfect, as president trump said, why does one of his top aides who is a political appointee say lets keep it hush hush. >> i am joined by heidi presley, and jonathan swan, and former congres...

Hes a political appointee. mark sandy, the top career official at the white house budget office, told lawmakers in closed-door testimony last month that as soon as duffey ordered him to delay the ukraine aid, sandy immediately brought up with impoundment control act. he said basically we need to talk to the lawyers. but in an unprecedented move, the political appointee, duffey, took control of the process away from sandy, the career official. both mark sandy and a pentagon official involved in d...

Stonewalled. these deputies have not testified. the only person with omb who testified was one career official, mark sandy. everyone else is in a black hole. "new york times," cnn that have filed for four years have tried to get documents from omb. whats interesting in omb is in the white house, both documents dont have to go. at some point more and more and more is going to come out with what happened inside omb through lawsuits, through information requests, through lots of things they have to...

Politically viable that is. one of the things is that democrats and republicans like to extent of 71%, they believe there should be witnesses called before the senate, and interestingly one ofschumer cald for is michael duffy. >> who is that? >> excuse me, mark sandy was mark duffys predecessor at omb. mark duffy keeps the paper flowing, he is the one that wrote the e-mail that said lets take this offline and finally -- its the e-mail that joyce is referring to. he is the paper pusher, but a ver...

Okay? it tells us that within 90 minutes of the president asking for investigations of bidens son, that that hold, which they had been discussing previously, was formalized. it was formalized until the e-mail from duffy to the pentagon. and then 24 hours after that, kristen, what did we see? we saw gordon sondland confirming with the president, loudly, over a cell phone, that they had pressured president zelensky into acquiescing to those investigations. so all of this is very important. it unde...

Pressuring or quid pro quo or however you want to put it. the problem here is mark sandy testified under oath that it was a wholesale investigation going into foreign aid. you can quote all you want but this year he testified there was a wholesale investigation on the foreign aid everywhere. trump actually raised this in 2017 and that was testified to. when you look at this, there is no direct evidence of what was said and to try to come back to put it into a different perspective. mr. yermak sa...

Evidence of what theyre trying to spin here and that there was a pressuring or quid pro quo or however you want to put it to mr. zelensky. the problem here mark sandy testified there was a wholesale investigation going into foreign aid this year. quote 2017, 2018, but this year because of the problems there was a wholesale investigation on foreign aid everywhere. president trump raised this with mr. poroshenko and that was testified by mr. volker and the former ambassador. theres no direct evide...

Back, we held them back. >> we had testimony counter to that, and isnt this something would you have said as soon as someone asked about it as opposed to in the last hour? >> well, this is coming in response to a letter from the government accountability office, which is essentially a nonpartisan congressional watchdog. >> sure. >> but as you mentioned, chris, we have heard testimony, including from mark sandy, one of the senior officials, career officials at omb, that this was anything but a ro...

>> now i want to talk about the presidents skepticism of foreign aid. the president is very skeptical of foreign aid, is that correct? >> he is deeply skeptical of sending u.s. taxpayer dollars into an environment that is corrupt, because its as good as kissing it good-bye. >> is that something new that he believes or is that something he ran on? >> this is something that he has run on. something that he has implemented policies, as soon as he became president. the third ranking state department...

>> yes. now i want to talk about the presidents skepticism of foreign aid. the presidentci is very skeptic of foreign aid, that is correct? >> he is deeply skeptical of sending u.s. taxpayer dollars into an environment that is corrupt because its as good as kissing it goodbye. >> is that something new that he believes ors is that something he ran on? >> this is something he has ran on, implemented policies as soon as he became president, ambassador hale, the third ranking state department offici...