omb phone number. these calls suggest contact between giuliani and key officials a week after giuliani met with the ukrainian official and almost a month after trump officially ordered military aid to ukraine be frozen. something that omb, the office of management and budget, was directly involved in. but people familiar with the phone records tell "the new york times" that quote, the phone number is a generic white house switchboard number. making it difficult to tell whose desk it came from. "the times" reports quote while government directories listed as associated with the budget office, they also show the number as associated with offices in other parts of the white house, including the upper floors of the west wing and the national security council. despite the new development, "the times" also underscores this important point. administration officials have not contested the broader assertion that the impeachment report made with the call records that -- the call records that mr. giuliani was in close contact with the white house as he carried out a shadow ukraine