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Sondland testify that trump told him and other officials to talk to rudy when it came with dealing with ukraine. >> secretary perry, ambassador voel kerr and i worked with mr. rudy giuliani on ukraine matters at the express direction of the president of the united states. >> this evening the house intelligence committee released the closed door transcripts from two more impeachment witnesses, phillip reeker and mark sandy, an official at the white house office of management and budget who spoke ...

Question, what what do you know about that? answer, this person in the legal office expressed to me concerns about actions vis-a-vis the impoundment control act. question, in the context of the ukraine security assistance and the hold? >> answer, yes, i am aware of this persons frustrations in that area, yes. question, okay, so this person that worked at omb legal expressed concerns about the hold on ukraine security assistance and resigned from omb. did this person at omb legal tell you they we...

Up on the aid. the career staff that are supposed to execute an order like that, they all raise red flags. you want us to do what now? isnt that illegal? i think were going to need to run this by the lawyers. the white house response to that we now know by taking the career staff member whos literally supposed to sign the paperwork to hold up the money, mark sandy, they took him off this job. this part of his job where he signs off on the money either being dispersed or held up, that part of his...

Quit in protest but they maybe didnt know that a second official also quit as well. so theyre asking about the person from the legal office, that kind of volunteers someone else he knew quit over this as well. so this is news tonight. again, we dont know the names of these officials who quit over the president holding up this aid. but the questions about the potentially illegal nature of what the president was ordering appeared to not have been niche concerns, they appear to have been widespread...

Michael duffy told mark sandy to sign the paperwork officially putting a hold on the aid to ukraine, mark sandy says this. quote, so on that day i emphasized that would raise a number of questions that we would need to address. and so i advised we would want to consult with our office of general counsel on those questions first. so we know as of tonight at least two people in the office of management and budget quit over what the president was doing holding up this aid to ukraine. mark sandy him...

People the democrats in congress plenty of information from which we can infer that there was in fact a corrupt scheme here, an abuse of power ongoing with this being the linchpin evidence on the timeline showing that once they knew that the gig was up and they were about to be discovered, they took steps to try to have this final defense of, well, we gave up the aid so no harm, no foul. >> and, eli, we can combine this with the transcripts we got last night from mark sandy, the omb official who...

Funds was signed by mark sandy. by july 30th, five days later, sandy says his boss took over responsibilities for allocating that aid. duffy, his boss is not a career official like sandy. duffy is a political appointee. sandy testified all throughout the month s of july and august, why aid was being withheld. and it was not until the time the hold on aid was lifted in early september that mark sandy heard for the first time, the rational for the home that you are familiar with. the president was...

Withholding of ukraine security assistance. and he said yes. and just yesterday the white house budget office put out a statement saying everything that happened with this aid happened with legal consensus and routine standards and practices were followed. you dont tend to have not one but two people who resigned at least in part because theyre so concerned if everything is going according to normal order. one other thing we learned from the deposition we saw the transcript from today, mark sand...

Report and that he was seeking additional information. so thats june 19th, and according to this deposition that we just got tonight, according to this testimony on june 19th there is an e-mail that proves that the order to start questioning the military aid to ukraine is from the president personally. the president has reportedly seen something in the media about the u.s. giving aid to ukraine. that sparks him having questions about that aid. we dont exactly know what he might have seen in the ...

White house to not do that. the president ordered that the funding should be held up. and now we know as of tonight that two people including one in the legal office at omb resigned over that. one person resigned from omb because of according to this witness, not understanding the reason for the hold that president trump put on those funds for ukraine. another person apparently resigned from the legal office at omb because of the prospect that what the president ordered the holding up of those f...