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Aware of this person's frustrations in that area. question, okay, so this person who worked at omb legal expressed concerns and resigned from omb. does this person tell you they were leaving or resigning from omb because of their concerns or frustrations about the hold on ukraine security assistance? >> yes, in terms of how -- yes, in terms of the process. and then there's back and forth with the lawyer who's there with mark sandy, but eventually sandy comes back to the point and says, the individual who resigned from the legal office at omb, did note a disagreement on this topic. and this top...

Whole story. that the president was directing. that the president wanted to exchange this military aid for political help in going after one of his opponents. the fact that not only was he willing to do that, he was willing to violate u.s. law in order to do so. you know, the impoundment control act has a specific procedure for the president to use if he thinks there's a reason to withhold money, he's supposed to notify congress and congress has the authority to concur with him. if they don't concur, the money has to be delivered. this isn't some sort of process he can make up as he goes along...

Committee's october deadline to produce those documents, but in this surprise twist today the house budget committee announced they have started receiving some of those documents. they shared a summary of the findings with reporters. that summary says in part, after careful review of the materials providing the committees, the chairs have become concerned that the apportionment process has been abused to undermine congress's constitutional power of the purse. specifically, the time line of actions taken by omb suggests a pattern of abuse. number two, omb took the seemingly unprecedented step o...

We're going to get really really really expert advice on that part of this coming up a little later on in the show tonight. that's a little later in the slow. that's still to come tonight. this new news we're learning tonight is that the leverage, the part where president trump didn't just demand they help him with these allegations. he put a suspension on the aid to ukraine. that part of the scandal. the leverage part of the scandal. the withholding military aid from ukraine, we are learning tonight for the first time that that apparently caused two different officials in the office of manage...

Part of what's being described here by mark sandy in this deposition, the president expressing concern, the president ordering withholding of the aid, the advice from career officials that that might be illegal, the career officials being replaced by the guy they told was going to be illegal. not only is that documented per mr. sandy's deposition, but at least some of those documents have made it to congress. not to the impeachment committees, but to these other committees. the committee notes at the end of its summary, omb's documentation to date confirms that the apportionment process has be...