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That fund, that comes from the omb, the office of management and budget. so there is really not a lot of knowledge what was going on within that unit at the white house. and that is not for a lack of trying, we know they had to try to talk to people, and they had five suspects, they released documents, but sandy, he is here and he is testified, he respo responded to a subpoena, and it goes to the fact that she a career official that worked with democrats and republicans. you can likely expect qu...

All right, the weekend is not stopping house democrats from pushing their impeachment inquiry against president trump. they are testified behind closed doors and a source tells cnn that while sandy did not know why u.s. military aide was being withheld, he knows that political officials came to make the decision taking the authority away from career officials. one washington post congressional reporter joining me now. so sandy is the first omb official to appear before investigators. he was subp...

That is noteworthy as well as who he works for. chad herbrun is outside the room where theyre talking to mr. sandy right now. >> reporter: hes been going for about four hours. its significant that they have him here. theyve been trying to get other omb officials in the door to understand why the aid was held up and eventually released. they tried to get the acting director in. they tried to get the actual director, mick mulvaney in, hes the acting white house chief of staff. mark sandy is the fi...

Sandy today sglirks getting a little bit of deal now out of the room in terms of sandys deposition. im told that so far -- and remember, he started around 10:00 this morning -- this has been a fairly technical discussion about how this money, which is approved by congress, is actually moved through the federal bureaucracy and gets where its supposed to go, or in this case, how it didnt. you know, youd think that when congress votes to approve, in this case, $400 million, that somebody just write...

And theres still more new today as i was saying. our panel is here to unpack whats happened today and what we have learned. they will share their reporting as well as their perspectives on how this new testimony is affecting the narrative on day 53. but first, a closed door deposition with omb official mark sandy just finishing. sandy is a career employee who has worked under both republican and democratic presidents. his remarks are filling in gaps about nearly half a billion dollars of militar...

Government, was it even legal to stop the spending of this money once it had been sort of moved along in the process. sandy can tell these lawmakers much more about what happened behind the scenes in the real machinery of government to make this happen. >> all right. clearly important testimony going on behind those closed doors, garrett. thank you for that. lets go to kelly at the white house, as kelly, we are getting some word of the presidents most ardent supporters in the house, their defens...

That democrats have not been able to do thus far. if you look at the witnesses that have come forth so far, youve had state department officials, a surprising number of officials connected to the national security council, but you have not had people come forward who have had their hands on this money at some point in the process. sandy is the first of those. so he could potentially tell democrat as great deal about where the money was going, why it was held up, and the concerns in the building,...

Military aid to ukraine. and there was an earlier suspension, remember, on the javelin missiles, separate from the full package that had been approved by four levels, intelligence, defense, state department, but was held up by omb, and nobody knew why. and the javelin missiles were important, and there were reports that mulvaney held it up because he was worried about the russian reaction to the provision of javelin missiles, which are a very effective antitank weapons that are very important to...

Is the plain sense of the matter. >> and how significant do you think it is that today were having mr. sandy testify and literally put the -- the plot in the words of the president, in the mouth of the president meaning that were now discovering the donald trump himself discussed very openly that he wanted his political rival and this conspiracy theory to be investigated by ukraine? >> i think weve all watched enough perry mason, boy does that date me, weve all -- enough law & order. even that d...

Give me a sense of the significance of this testimony in terms of what democrats want to hear from him. >> well, i think its important, because if youll recall, donald trumps current chief of staff, mick mulvaney, was the director of omb. thats what he was before he, you know, let that go in order to just be chief of staff -- >> i think he still oversees that job, too, right? hes still overseeing it, right. >> exactly. and sandys sort of acting in lieu of him because hes also chief of staff. so,...