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Office. his boss comes to talk to him, this political appointee michael duffy comes to talk to him and tells him now since he's been on vacation it's now longer just the president asking questions about the aid to ukraine, the president is now ordering that aid to ukraine be stopped. and again there's a paper trail. mark sandy, quote, when i returned from leave july 18th i was informed of the president's direction to hold military support funding for ukraine. who communicated that to you? >> mike duffy. he shared he had communicated this direction to the department of defense. he being mr. duf...

Mark sandy says, quote, i'm aware of one individual from the budget review division who expressed similar concerns. were those concerns expressed to you? answer, on one occasion i definitely recall. question, who was that one individual? the name is redacted. what did that redacted persons name tell you? she made a general comment that reflected the concern about ath apportionments. her concerns were visa vi the impoundment control act. visa vi the law that says once congress has appropriated these funds, the white house can't just hold them up for whatever reason. i mean, we also know from th...

He says he wants to go to it lawyers on this. well, of course in this scandal that will not do. and so the way this unspools and the way we can now see it in a way we didn't know about before this deposition tonight -- the way this unspools is that the president has ordered this hold up on the aid. the career staff that are supposed to execute an order like that, they all raise red flags. you want us to do what now? isn't that illegal? i think we're going to need to run this by the lawyers. the white house response to that we now know by taking the career staff member who's literally supposed ...

>> now, it bears noting that even before sondland had finished his testimony today the president used a time-honored technique of his and started distancing himself from his own political appointee, a man who gave his inauguration effort $1 million, gordon sondland. saying he, quote, hardly knows the gentleman. it's a talking point the president first used about a week ago. and sondland was just the first half of this marathon day. just this evening we heard testimony from senior pentagon official laura cooper, and the number three official at state, david hale. in something of a surprise ms. ...

Campaign was at its apex. so i mean, that's all happened. that's all come out tonight. since the yovanovitch testimony at this dramatic hours' long hearing today. i should also tell you tomorrow there's going to be another close-door deposition. for the first time, an official from the white house office of management and budget is going to be testifying. we believe that the official who's going to testify tomorrow from omb will be able to describe what appears to have been a strange process inside the white house in which somebody decided that the career expert officials in charge of tracking...