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President himself simultaneously pressuring ukraine that they need to give him these investigations he wants to help him for 2020. the president himself questioning the aid to ukraine, ordering the aid to ukraine, that's in writing now we now know. second at least two officials at the white house resigned over the president putting this hold on military aid to ukraine. third, multiple officials overtly expressed that the hold might be illegal, including telling the guy -- the guy they were telling to sign the paperwork to implement the hold. he's one of the people who told them, hey, this migh...

The committees had apparently asked omb for these documents in september, all related to the withholding of the military aid for ukraine. the agency ignored the committee's october deadline to produce those documents, but in a surprise twist today, hello, 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...

Question, what what do you know about that? answer, this person in the legal office expressed to me concerns about actions vis-a-vis the impoundment control act. question, in the context of the ukraine security assistance and the hold? >> answer, yes, i am aware of this person's frustrations in that area, yes. question, okay, so this person that worked at omb legal expressed concerns about the hold on ukraine security assistance and resigned from omb. did this person at omb legal tell you they were leaving or resigning from omb at least in part because of their concerns or frustrations about t...

Described here, the president expressing concern, the president withholding the order of the aid, the advice from career officials that might be illegal, those career officials being replaced by the guy who they told this was going to by illegal, it appears not only was that documented but some of those documents have made it to congress. not to the impeachment committee but to these other committees. okay. the committee notes ominously at the end of its summary, quote, omb's documentation to date confirms that the apportionment process has been misused to with hold congressionally and appropr...

Is there some process we should understand in terms of how and whether these documents could be publicly -- made publicly available and whether they could be provided to the impeachment inquiry which now seem tuesday be moving over to the folks in judiciary. >> that will be a decision the two chairs of the committees will make. but i do think ultimately they will be because the information we're receiving is consistent with everything else we've been hearing from the witnesses that have appeared before the intelligence committee, from other reports that are coming through. and the thing troubl...