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Ex-district councillor Clement Woo will become the seventh political appointee from the DAB to join Carrie Lam’s administration.
Explosive. what is a trial with no witnesses and no documents. it's a sham trial. and that's why we feel so strongly that there ought to be witnesses and documents. >> cnn's kristen holmes is in west palm beach near the president's mar-a-lago resort where he is spending the holidays. how emboldened might democrats be with this new information about time lines. >> reporter: fred, this gives democrats a lot of ammunition when it comes to the stalemate between democrats and republicans over what exactly the senate trial would look like, and here is why, the person who penned this e-mail is a man ...
They're saying there is no evidence, but that's not an argument. it's a conclusion. and i would call it a legal conclusion. it's bereft of any legal support. they're saying these are nameless, faceless bureaucrats hurling these accusation in this last time i looked, gordon sondland, mega donor to trump, political appointee, buried everybody, threw everybody under the bus -- perhaps i shouldn't use that phrase, but he was very clear, we all did this because the president directed us to do it, yeah, there was a quid pro quo. >> what has happened to the republican party since the time you were wo...
And this set up a whole series of events that occurred that led to discussions internally and that led to this hold being placed in july. then sandy had multiple questions because he wasn't getting answers to those questions. a top political appointee, mike duf duffy, came in, and he took control of the authority to hold that aid going forward after sandy initially placed that aid. he was asking why that happened. the answers weren't particularly 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...
Until just september, a few months ago. talk about why that's so important here. >> well, he's the only official from the white house budget office to go behind closed doors and testify before house impeachment investigators. he's a career official in charge of this process, and what he describes is what he says is a highly unusual process in delaying this military aid to ukraine. that in june, he heard from a senior political appointee that the president apparently had concerns about this aid being withheld because the president read some press report about it. and this set up a whole series ...