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Political appointee the authority to keep the aid on hold after the staff began raising their concerns. the political official like mr. duffy signing off on apportionments is unusual according to staffers. so it's weird for a political appointee to be shoved in there to do the job instead while what was his qualification, what was michael duffy's qualification for taking over this important process that usually people with decades of technocratic experience are only allowed to run inside the white house? trained expert career staff raised concerns what the president has ordered here is illegal...

That's the person who was saying that it was ukraine, not russia. that's where paul manafort got it from. who's constantine kilimnik, he's the guy manafort worked for -- worked with for years in ukraine. who came out of russian military intelligence. who the fbi assesses is still linked to russian military intelligence. so this whole thing that the president and the white house and republicans in congress now are actively promoting, this conspiracy theory that russia didn't intervene in the 2016 election, it was ukraine who did that, that theory appears to have originated with the gru, with th...

And so at least through july and august and well into september when this whole scheme ultimately got exposed and the whistle-blower complaint got delivered to congress and congress went nuts, through all that time ukraine was not getting its military aid on orders from the president. and in order to carry that out the white house had to install a guy to keep signing off on withholding that aid even though career staffers thought that was a crime. "the wall street journal" reported that october 10th. naturally the impeachment committees subpoenaed the wisconsin party guy to get him to testify....

Duffy's qualification for taking over this important process that usually people with decades of technocrattic experience are only allowed to run inside the white house? trained expert career staff raised concerns what the president has ordered here is illegal. so they take out those trained career expert staff, and they instead put in this guy michael duffy, this political appointee. what about him made him qualified to do this job instead of the expert career officials? what was his background? mr. duffy had been, quote, the executive director of the wisconsin republican party. oh. so the pr...

Oh,. so the president is pressuring ukraine to give him a joe biden investigation. he orders military aid to ukraine with hold while he's putting that pressure on them. the career staff at the white house say, well, okay, mr. president, we'll put a hold on this for now but we think it's illegal to do this in any sustained sort of way. i mean, the implication of this reporting in "the wall street journal" although they do not explicitly assert, is whether the career staff said they weren't going to keep signing off on this drug deal, on this proverbial drug deal. so the white house had to take ...