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Doing in terms of his foreign entanglements. when we ask people at the white house is he prepared to let guiliani sail away, close ties. he will stick with him, he's his confidante and is willing to go on constantly on tv amid impeachment. >> whose idea was it to hold up the money to fet the dirt on wide season. >> "the washington post" looked into this and found nick mulvaney have been involved in e-mail exchanges whether they can hold up the aid. >>s who idea was it to get the dirt? >> it's been clear on testimony that it's president trump's decision. >> but who, was it guiliani came up with...

Indeed inside the executive branch after the president decided in july to with hold the congressionally mandated military aid to ukraine. and it reveals some pretty heated discussions behind the scenes. >> and do they actually expose the real reason the aid was put on hold? >> you know, it doesn't quite take us there. what's apparent from some of the e-mail exchanges that we've heard about and also some of the public testimony is that the president decided -- made a decision to with hold the aid or at least to delay it initially without an explanation. and then the e-mail trove that we're most...

Come testify. democrats have long to be weary. it is also possible that they'll move on with this process and still get some of the testimony later on. if you are john bolton, for example, perhaps he's not available and cooperating much later until the process. democrats know their case and they know the facts but the witnesses like bolton, mulvaney and pompeo are full names that do not require an introduction and who much closer to the president. it could be powerful in whatever format it comes, not in a house impeachment hearing. >> garret haake for us on capitol hill. e-mail exchanges bet...

Yesterday, my phone exploded with alerts and texts and e-mails. take us through what you broke about the e-mail exchanges where it looks like mick mulvaney is trying to conjure up some jus justification. >> reporter: that's right. it's great piece of reporting by some of my colleagues. it looks at the efforts by the acting white house chief of staff, mulvaney to come up with an explanation for why the president withheld the aid temporarily from ukraine. this effort was conducted after the aide w was withheld. a number of e-mails among and other budget officials in the administration and includ...

Memos reflect. >> in fact, according to "the washington post," there were email exchanges asking whether this was legal to withhold the aid and they came to the conclusion, guided by some of the legal counsel in all of these email exchanges that it was okay and legal to do it as long as the hold was temporary. does that i guess give them cover? >> it sounds like lawyer talk giving them cover for temporarily withholding the aid when they didn't even know why he was withholding it at the time, just what it was doing, and it was buzzing throughout the system that this aid was being withheld and t...