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Troubling deviation from longstanding procedures. the committee confirmed it has in its possession, documented related to mark sandys assertion that president trump questioned ukraines military aid as early as mid june, as soon as there were press reports derived from a pentagon press relea release, saying the military aid was on its way. mark sangdy first heard about the presidents interest on june 19th, the day after the defense department announced the aid was going to the ukraine. he heard o...

Aid it caused them to quit their jobs. the news comes from this deposition which was just released tonight, the testimony of mark sandy, a career staffer a military veteran, a veteran official at omb. this is where he breaks that news. he is asked, are you aware of anyone resigning or leaving omb under any circ um starnss, at least in part because of the manner omb was handling ukraine security assistance. im aware of one colleague who left in september. im always reluctant to speak about others...

Withhold this aid to ukraine was an illegal act. after a trump appointee told mark sandy to sign the paperwork, officially putting a hold on the aid to ukraine, mark sandy says, on that day, i emphasize that that would raise a number of questions that we would need to address i advised that we would want to consult with our office of general concessions. at least two people in that office quit over what the president was doing. mark sandy himself doesnt quit over him sharing these concerns that ...

Part of whats being described here by mark sandy in this deposition, the president expressing concern, the president ordering withholding of the aid, the advice from career officials that that might be illegal, the career officials being replaced by the guy they told was going to be illegal. not only is that documented per mr. sandys deposition, but at least some of those documents have made it to congress. not to the impeachment committees, but to these other committees. the committee notes at ...

After that another official whose name is redacted. im aware of one individual in the budgets review office who expressed concerns. were those concerns expressed to you? yes. question, okay, and who was that individual at brd? answer, name was redacted. what did that redacted persons name tell you? >> she made a general comment that reflected a concern about the apportionments. her control was vis-a-vis the impoundment control. once congress has allocated these funds, the president cannot hold t...

Also new, mark sandy, senior official of office of management and budget told investigators that two of his colleagues in the agency quit after expressing frustration over frozen financial aid for ukraine. thats according to a newly released closed-door transcript. and democrats are now questioning why the department of justice inspector general isnt investigating trumps attorney general, william barr. joining me now to go through all that, christina greer from fordham university and political c...

Be -- participate in the proceedings before the judiciary committee, what signal does it send legally and to the public if he does or if he does not? >> so we have multiple people were dealing with. theres trump base where it doesnt matter what donald trump says, they will stick by him and they will believe whatever it is that he says. we have many democrats who believe we have to go through due process, the reasons we have articles of impeachment for a president or any other elected official in...

This is where it really becomes a serious confrontation. congressman, well talk about the process in the second. lets start with the headline. what does it mean to you that the president, not just the white house, was well aware of the whistle-blower complaint to some degree of detail just weeks before they released the aid? >> its obviously why he did it. if the whistle-blower didnt file his report, the president of ukraine would have gone on television, on your network at trumps request and an...

Has been filled in with these details. august 12th. that was the day the whistle blower filed their complaint at its core, was that infamous call two-and-a-half weeks prior on july 25th when the presidents asked president zelensky of ukraine for a favor and for investigations into the bidens in the 2016 election. later in august, the times now reports the president was briefed by white house lawyers about the complaint. the lawyers told him they were trying to figure out whether legally they nee...

That down. >> its hard for people around the world to keep up with. but what was the standout moment in the last 24 hours for you? >> i think hot were seeing is the donald trump administration has argued the defense of this quid pro quo is falling apart and being totally eviscerated. mark sandys claim, essentially, is that the white house didnt start asking about whether other countries with were contributing aid until months after there was a freeze on the foreign assistance. so that -- >> what...