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Military aid and the white house meeting. >> viola, there's another crazy irony here which is of course the sort of -- the pretext for all of this according to giuliani and the president. it's like a concern with corruption, corruption in ukraine specifically, an appearance of conflict or impropriety vis-a-vis hunter biden. well, his business associates are trying to push their natural gas scheme and he appears to be trying to land work there. they are actually fomenting corruption in ukraine. >> yeah. this is one of the more insidious parts of this whole story, and that is that ukraine finall...

Assistance? answer, correct. question, okay, just to be clear, what was the disagreement with? was the disagreement with the fact that omb was implementing the hold? was the disagreement with how the general counsel's office was handling it? what was the disagreement? answer, i think the best way to characterize it would be a dissenting opinion vis-a-vis the impoundment control act provisions. meaning a dissenting opinion over whether what the president had ordered here was illegal or not. and impoundment control act is not something that, you know, rolls trippingly off the tongue, it's not so...

Nunes has played in essentially sort of furthering, researching, fomenting the sort of main story lines that are the subject of the impeachment hearing in that phone call with zelensky, there was an ukrainian effort essentially to hack the dnc server and frame russia and that, you know, there's some deep corruption rot, illegal activity vis-a-vis the bidens? >> the allegation seems to be that's exactly what nunes tried to do from late november 2018 to at least late march 2019 which was to try to get dirt on joe biden and to try to get this corrupt former prosecutor in ukraine shulkin to also g...

Sandy, who was one of these senior budget officials at the white house. lawmakers wanted to make sure that this was specifically a reason that those two had left. and so they asked. i want to show you exactly what he said. they said are you aware of any individual in the legal division resigning or leaving omb, that's the white house budget office, at least in part because of ukraine security assistance? and he said, oh, yes, i am. he also said he was asked this personally expressed to me about concerns and actions vis-a-vis the impoundment control act. that's the law that was passed after wat...

And what were those concerns? answer, the concerns were vis-a-vis the impoundment control act. so that appears to be a pentagon official speaking on behalf of herself and her staff raising concerns about potential illegality of this hold from the president. there's other official whose name is also redacted. mark sandy says, quote, i'm aware of one individual from the budget review division who expressed similar concerns. were those concerns expressed to you? answer, on one occasion i definitely recall. question, who was that one individual at brd? answer, name is redacted. question, what did ...