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Ukraine last summer, and hes the only budget official to testify in the house inquiry. he testified he received the order to freeze aid to ukraine by e-mail, noting the e-mail did not mention any other country nor any other aid package. it targeted just ukraine. he testified that throughout all of july and august he could get no explanation for why the hold was put in place. it wasnt until early september that sandy received an e-mail that attributed the hold to the presidents concern about othe...

To normal order. one other thing from the dep zu deposition of the transcript. sandy, in fact, had his job responsibility obof overseeing the spending of the money taken away from him and given to a trump political appointee. >> joining us now is democratic congressman from maryland whos a member of the house judiciary committee ewho will have its first impeachment hearing next week. why are you starting with basically an explainer for how impeachment with works. it almost seems like its going t...

Finally, two budget staffers at the office of management and budget expressed frustration about the unexplainable on this ukrainian aid. one official told sandy there were legal agency at least in part because of their concerns over the whole. >> joining us now our leig leigh ann caldwell and jill wine-banks. welcome both of you. jill, i want to start with the newest information we have. the reporting that the president was being looked at and he knew what the whistleblower complaint was about, ...

Ambassador volker and i worked with mr. rudy giuliani on ukraine matters at the express direction of the president of the united states. meanwhile, freezing security aid for ukraine during closed-door testimony, omb director mark sandy explained to impeachment investigators earlier this month that he received an email from the white house chief of staff mick mulvaneys office july 12th directing a hold on aid. on july 26th, sandy testified that the omb office, the white house budget office did ...

Watergate. >> and weve heard from a whole parade of witnesses who testified there were legal concerns not only at the white house but at the defense department and you see negotiations going on sandy was testifying about, how theyre going to do the footnote, what exactly theyre going to say to explain what the legal justification is for what theyre doing. >> sequence this. was this something being done as effort to justify the shakedown, basically? was it done after the president knew about the ...

Sandys deposition as well as all others. you know that report is now being report. we saw two weeks worth of public testimony that was i think courageous career diplomats, wu remember there are dozen of f hours of private testimony, depositions, that will be part of the report and evidence that will come to the judiciary as early as next week. >> the acting eck sec phil re reeker ed that sondland had wha he calls a script for president zelensky to use. is that how fp oreign policy is supposed to...

News talking about ukraine. what happened the day before is that the department of defense announced the $250 million in military aid. and what this transcript suggests is that trump saw a news report about the d.o.d. announcement of the $250 million going out of the door and suddenly paying attention piqued his interest. he sent a note saying hey i would like information about the money were sending to ukraine. on the same day hes talking about ukraine and the bogus server thing on fox news. so...

Interesting note as well. sandy testified that early in the first or second week of august, several omb officials signed off on a memo asking or recommending to the administration they release the hold and signing it lined up with the national security strategy or u.s. policies and prerogatives to push back against russia and every reason to release the hold. so not just omb and weve heard testimony, people from state and people from the department of defense across the u.s. government saying th...

Breaking the law. sandy raised those concerns and then he was removed as the career official, removed from the approval process and a political figure highly unusual move, a political figure was put in to make those approvals. sandy also testified that his understanding is that one of the lawyers at omb resigned at least in part related to this issue. so there is showing there were deep concerns at omb about the legality and that the white house was pushing for them to do it -- to do it anyway a...

And budget to answer the question as to why there was a hold on aid to ukraine and we still havent seen that trans. >> that is true. >> i was there for that deposition and his answer was very important. >> so i asked about that off camera and sandys transcript, the deposition will be released it is going through the redaction process right now. but i guess a couple of points, one, it came out in testimony this week that the ukrainians did know that the aid was on hold before the phone call. i do...