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That same time. so it ultimately leads to what was the president thinking and who else could shed more light on that? >> who, what, where, when, why. all of it is important. sandy also testified that two omb officials, including one in the legal division, left after expressing concerns over the hold on the ukrainian aid. and senior administration officials are actually disputing this. we know one of them went to the government accountability office, the gao. how significant is all of this now? >...

Clear until september came along, when duffy, the political appointee, sent him an email and said the reason why the aid had been withheld is because the president wanted more european countries to provide security assistance to ukraine. but the question of the timeline raise a lot of questions because during that duration of those several weeks and months, many people were asking questions about why that aid was being withheld, and of course we know the president was pushing for ukraine to anno...

Transcript. it was released for him. he was a career white house budget staffer. sandy said two staffers who left their jobs at omb expressed frustration over this money being withheld. omb denies that. its my understanding you know mark sandy. michael, can you tell me about him? >> sure. yeah. i mean, mark -- ive worked -- we didnt overlap at omb but he came right over and ive worked with mark. she a dedicated career official. one of the highest level career officials at omb. you have to unders...

Months after the hold had been put in place. sandy also testified that he believed t lt the agency in part because of the concerns the way the security assistance was handled. a senior administration official denied that two staffers who left during that time did so because of the ukraine issue. and there are concerns at the office of management and budget and other agencies and mark sandy testified that he was concerned that holding back the aid may have been illegal. >> sara murray, thank you ...

>> i would suggest rudy giuliani and some of the other presidents men go take a trip and see what it feels like in prison and understand -- hes not doing hard time. hes not in danger, but the depressing nature of being locked up where you cant leave. i think rudy and some of the others should do a check and go up and see what that feels like before they decide how this is going to play out. a career official in the office of management and budget undercut the white houses defense for freezing ...

For impeachment moving in the other direction. moving more towards the president. so i think the white house wants to find out a little bit more about what chairman nadler envisions. but right now, it seems as though theyre disinclined to do a full participation. ali. >> hans, thank you. hans nichols for us at the white house. and "the new york times" piece wasnt the only damning revelation. new testimony transcripts from an office of management and budget official, mark sandy, reveals how inten...

Countries was yanked away from him and given instead to his boss. a guy named michael duffy, who is a trump political appointee. >> and sandy is not. sandy is a career guy. and that job was taken away from him. the responsibility over this money. >> thats right. and he also testified that in his entire career as a budget official, he had never seen that kind of authority given to a supervisor of that. its not the kind of work he would normally have him do. >> thanks for your reporting on this. j...

Violate appropriation laws to his higher up, michael duffy. duffy, a political appointee took the lead on approving omb funds for foreign aid, a process typically overseen by career officials. sandy testified it was not until around september the 9th days before the money was released he was told the reason for the initial halt was because of president trumps desire to see other countries contribute more aid to ukraine. sandy added two career officials in the omb office resigned over their frust...

It is a well-written article. when you combine it with sandys testimony, you have a very compelling narrative. a timeline that leads no question of what happened and puts in jeopardy of the lawyers who were involved in this. all the lawyers who decided they would not release this to congress which was legally required under the whistleblowerwhistleblower statue. i should have gone to congress. they go to the person about who the accusation is to get his opinion on whether it should go to congres...

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...