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fact clash between office of management and budget officials and the national security council. omb arguing the freeze is legal, nfc said it broke the law. the documents include e-mails to and from the acting white house chief of staff mick mulvaney and his deputy office of management and budget chief ross fot. alex thomas of politico joins the conversation. the e-mails which the counsel's office dug up, once the impeachment area was launched, let's find out what happened here, for now, the white house says not sharing. >> skpand that's been part of t issue with the impeachment investigation to begin with, the documents that the democrats have subpoenaed, have been demanding have not been turned over to capitol hill, and those documents that would be part of the review ordinarily presumably would if they were to comply with the subpoena. that's why there are still some questions about exactly what happened with the freezing of the aid. we do know from all the witness testimony that there was a conference call that happened in
these career public servants. >> to that point, ross and mick mulvaney's chaief of staff, all refusing to testify. they know the back and forth, they know what happened. >> there's an interesting timing question for the democrats. as you noted, they aren't turning over all the documents. do democrats wait, try and get every document they can. if they do this impeachment inquiry could extend into the democratic primaries, you have five senators running, the longer they wait, you could end up with several senators off the campaign trail in the final stretch of the presidential primary. >> and when these things happen in the white house, "the washington post" was first to report this story, cnn matching most of the reporting and looking into it, senior administration official says seems like amateur hour in the white house counsel's office. >> i wonder who said that. we know these lines of demarcation. we know that the white house