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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...

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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...

Conversation with an individual named problem blair. and mr. blair provided insight into the reason for the pause? >> sandy was one of the few witnesses that we had that was able to give us a firsthand account inside of omb, the reason for the pause related to the presidents concern about european burden sharing. >> right. >> in the region. >> and he -- and in fact in his conversations, the presidents conversations with senator johnson, he mentions his concern about burden sharing. and i believe...

Concerns about burden sharing with europe. is that consistent with the evidence that yall uncovered. >> it is a good question. because mr. sandy did say that. but mr. sandy said that he only heard that in early september. that that reason was never provided to him or anybody else before early september for the first two months of the hold. and of course it was given at that point as this -- the gig was up so to speak. >> so that was after everything came out to light? >> it was -- he wasnt sure ...

Supported the continuation of the security answer, isnt that right? >> that is correct. >> i and others sat in astonish: the ukrainians were fighting russians and counted ott not only the training and weapons but at -- but the assurance of of u.s. support. >> am i crecked that the witnesses that appeared before your committee confirmed there was no credible explanation for with holding the military aid and that it was in fact against our national security interest to do so? >> everyone agreed it...

That even as early as july 25th, at the time of the call, that ukrainian officials suspected that the aid was being withheld and there was a "new york times" article last week that was included in the report but from the deputy foreign minister who said that ukraine -- president zelenskys office received a diplomatic cable from the embassy here the week of july 25th saying that the aid had been held. >> correct. and what ill also show you on the screen is that it was on july 25th also, the same ...

Rule of law and how to impeach an american president and this is not how were supposed to run a country. it cant be. 17 out of 24 of our colleagues over there already voted to proceed with impeachment before we started all of this. theyve already made up their minds. they were prejudice before we walked in but the american people are are not. fairness still matters. truth matters and the people can see clearly that this is a smam. ip yield back. >> the gentleman yields back. mr. swalwell. >> mr....