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Leader chuck schumer cited duffey's emails to push republicans to allow witnesses at the president's trial. >> what happened over the weekend with duffey's emails made public has only bolstered the case that documents should be produced and witnesses testify. if everything was on the up and up, if the call was perfect, as president trump said, why does one of his top aides who is a political appointee say let's keep it hush hush. >> i am joined by heidi presley, and jonathan swan, and former congresswoman during watergate. going to heidi on this. tell us what this tells us as a missing piece o...

He's a political appointee. mark sandy, the top career official at the white house budget office, told lawmakers in closed-door testimony last month that as soon as duffey ordered him to delay the ukraine aid, sandy immediately brought up with impoundment control act. he said basically we need to talk to the lawyers. but in an unprecedented move, the political appointee, duffey, took control of the process away from sandy, the career official. both mark sandy and a pentagon official involved in discussions at the time testified to congress that they repeatedly expressed their legal concerns to...

Stonewalled. these deputies have not testified. the only person with omb who testified was one career official, mark sandy. everyone else is in a black hole. "new york times," cnn that have filed for four years have tried to get documents from omb. what's interesting in omb is in the white house, both documents don't have to go. at some point more and more and more is going to come out with what happened inside omb through lawsuits, through information requests, through lots of things they have to comply with that the white house doesn't. how long could the democrats have waited? what if they ...

Politically viable that is. one of the things is that democrats and republicans like to extent of 71%, they believe there should be witnesses called before the senate, and interestingly one ofschumer cald for is michael duffy. >> who is that? >> excuse me, mark sandy was mark duffy's predecessor at omb. mark duffy keeps the paper flowing, he is the one that wrote the e-mail that said let's take this offline and finally -- it's the e-mail that joyce is referring to. he is the paper pusher, but a very senior person at omb. he coincidentally released it 91 minutes after the phone call and he was ...

Okay? it tells us that within 90 minutes of the president asking for investigations of biden's son, that that hold, which they had been discussing previously, was formalized. it was formalized until the e-mail from duffy to the pentagon. and then 24 hours after that, kristen, what did we see? we saw gordon sondland confirming with the president, loudly, over a cell phone, that they had pressured president zelensky into acquiescing to those investigations. so all of this is very important. it underscores that these omb officials, who have more information, are refusing to testify. we know from ...