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The public in disinformation campaigns. but the bigger thing here i think with that call is the fact that it shows exactly what the heart of this impeachment is going towards, and that is, look, there are only two people that could have negotiated a deal with zelensky. and zelensky's the only one who could have started an investigation -- donald trump, and before she was removed, ambassador yovanovitch. and what we saw with sondland is that with that call, and that what he said is zelensky will do anything that you ask him to do. and the point here is that with yovanovitch in place, until she ...

Like military aid to ukraine, those career officials were taken out of the process of taking or withholding the aid to ukraine. those career officials were replaced instead with a trump political appointee who had been the executive director of the wisconsin republican party. until now there has been no public reporting -- excuse me, until now there has been public reporting but no testimony to the impeachment inquiry that the reason the white house may have had to do that, the reason they may have had to take those career technocratic officials out of that process and instead install their ap...

Progress as the pressure campaign was at its apex. so 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 that tomorrow there's going to be another closed door deposition. for the first time an official from the office of budget and management is going to be testifying. from good reporting from "the wall street journal" and also "the washington post," we believe the official testifying tomorrow will testify to a appears to be a strange process inside the white house in which somebody decided the care...

"the wall street journal" reported that after career budget staffers questioned the legality of denying military aid to ukraine the when you say instead gave a politically appointed official the authority to with hold those funds citing people familiar with the matter. quote, career officials at the office of management and budget became worried they didn't have the legal authority to hold up the funds. and while those career civil servants did put the initial hold on the aid the white house ultimately gave an apolitical appointee the authority to keep the aid on hold after the staff began rai...

But how secretary of state mike pompeo allowed those who worked for him to be undermined and smeared repeatedly, it has significant ramifications going forward. and as you played that video, there is a lot of explaining that i believe he has to do given that so many people and so many professional lives now have been really undermined and without his support. >> so many of his aides said you have to say something nice about marie yovanovitch and he refused to do so. it is a significant element. chris cillizza, yovanovitch testified that when she asked the u.s. ambassador to the european union ...