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Proceedings. even as the process is moving forward in that way, with the scheduled public hearings for the intelligence committee writing up their report now on what the investigation determined. they're planning to hand that over to the judiciary committee. articles of impeachment against the president and put those on the floor of the house for a vote. even as all of that is moving forward at pace right now, we're still getting more about how this whole thing went down. including inside the executive branch with these previously reported protest resignations, inside the white house office ma...

Questioning the aid to ukraine and ordering the hold. at least two officials resigned over it. multiple officials overtly expressed that the hold might be illegal, including telling the guy that -- the guy they were telling to signed the paperwork, to implement the hold. he's one of the people that told them, this may be an illegal thing you're asking me to do. i think we should bring this to the lawyers, in response, that guy was replaced by a trump apointee who said this was the president's wish, who ordered it done and had been advised by the career staffers this may be an illegal thing. an...

Apportionments which are legally binding documents suggest a pattern of the abuse of the apportionment process, omb's authority and current law. so that is what the house budget committee is saying happened there, a pattern of abuse with a paper trail. the question now is what the house budget committee intends to do about it. joining us now congresswoman barbara lee, democrat of california and a member of the house budget committee. congresswoman, thank you for joining us. >> thank you. my pleasure. glad to be with you. >> the house budget committee is learning details something we'd had the ...

This is all documented. in a summary of a new report from the house budget committee the committee writes, quote, after careful review of the materials provided to the committees, the chairs have become more concerned that the apportionment process has been used to -- has been abused to undermine congress' constitutional power of the purse. specifically, the timeline of omb actions, actions taken by omb as seen by the apportionments which are legally binding documents suggest a pattern of the abuse of the apportionment process, omb's authority and current law. so that is what the house budget ...

The house budget committee announced actually it has started receiving some of those documents. now, the committee is not releasing those raw documents to show the public at this time, but they did share a summary of the findings from these documents with reporters. that summary says in part, quote, after careful review the chairs have become more concerned that the apportionment process has been abused to undermine congress' constitutional power of the purse. specifically number one, the time line of actions taken by omb as seen in the provided apportionments which are legally abiding documen...