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From ukraine part of the scandal we are learning tonight for the first time that apparently caused two different officials in the office of management and budget, two different people who were involved in that process of trump holding up that military aid, it caused them to quit their jobs rather than be part of this, apparently. the news comes from this deposition which was just released tonight from the impeachment committees. it's the testimony of mark sandy who was a career staffer, incidentally a military veteran, also a veteran official at the office of management and budget at omb. and ...

That worked at omb legal expressed concerns about the hold on ukraine security assistance and resigned from omb. did this person tell you they were leaving or resigning from omb at least in part because of their concerns or frustrations about the hold on ukraine security assistance? answer, yes. in terms of how -- yes. in terms of process. and there's some back and forth with the lawyer who's there with mark sandy, this omb official. but eventually sandy comes back to the point and says this. he says, quote, the individual who resigned from the office at omb did note a disagreement on this top...

Law. number two, omb took the seemingly unprecedented step of stripping career officials of their normal role in the apportionment process and instead vesting a political appointee with that authority. this is a troubling deviation from long-standing procedures. the committee also confirmed it has in its possession documents related to mark sandy's assertion that president trump questioned ukraine's military aid as early as mid-june. as soon as there were press reports derived from a pentagon press release that said that the military aid was on its way. you'll remember mark sandy testified he ...

Contained in its summary the budget committee today says that specifically on june 19th omb asserts in our documents that they first inquired with the defense department about ukraine security assistance. which means part of what's being described here by mark sandy in this deposition, the president expressing concern, the president ordering the withholding of the aid, the advice from career officials that that might be illegal, those career officials then being replaced by the guy who they told this was all going to be illegal, it appears that not only is that documented per mr. sandy's depos...

This was the much heralded dirt retained. the involvement of a political official like mr. duffy in the against joe biden that this whole scheme had been designed to elicit from the government of aproportionment process is unusual. ukraine. he was like this is it, i got according to several former omb it. what that document was that rudy officials, career staff have historically overseen the giuliani was waving around on tv was a sworn statement from a apportionment process, people with years and sometimes decades former ukrainian official, who of technical knowledge of the had sort of left of...