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Dollars to essentially extort ukraine. all of this is attempting to make up excuses after the fact, knowing that they've been caught. >> so the other story that's out today is that the president knew about the whistleblower report in late august. he knew about the whistleblower report before he released aid. he knew about the the whistleblower report before he told gordon sondland, spoke to him on the phone and told him to say there was no quid pro quo, and he wants nothing. he knew that this was percolating before that stuff happened. when we're talking about ukrainian security aid, they were...

Truth, which is that the president was cheating and committing crimes to try to help himself one in 2020. >> and ben rhodes, as former national security adviser watching all of this, there's another country now which is losing aid temporarily, mandated congressional aid, it's $100 million, about $100 million, to lebanon, which is involved in a lot of fighting on its borders and internally. and this is something that was just tweeted by senator chris murphy, remember, he had gone to ukraine before we heard about the whistle-blower, trying to figure out why the ukrainian aid been withheld. he ju...

Democrats have another piece of evidence to bolster their argument that the president only followed the law after he was caught trying to break it. it is day 65 of the impeachment inquiry, and here is what's happening. "the new york times" reports that mr. trump knew about the whistleblower complaint when he released security aid to ukraine. according to the "times" white house lawyers told the president about the complaint in late august that revised timeline is now at odds with the narrative the republicans have been pushing for weeks, that there was no quid pro quo because the money was r...

Ambassador volker and i worked with mr. rudy giuliani on ukraine matters at the express direction of the president of the united states. meanwhile, freezing security aid for ukraine during closed-door testimony, omb director mark sandy explained to impeachment investigators earlier this month that he received an email from the white house chief of staff mick mulvaney's office july 12th directing a hold on aid. on july 26th, sandy testified that the omb office, the white house budget office did not know why the money was being withheld. sandy then raised legal concerns that the unexplained ho...

Ukraine's security aid was being withheld when an omb official told him via teleconference that the order came from the president to the chief of staff to omb. well, mark sandy's deposition gives us more color about what was happening behind the scenes at omb. he testified he told omb lawyers and leadership the order which came without explanation may very well have violated the law. and two staffers left after expressing frustrations about the hold on ukrainian aid. he spent it last several hours combing through these transcripts. josh, i think there were 400 pages -- speed-reader. what did y...