up this aid to ukraine on the president s orders and we believe expressing what the president orders was illegal, he appears to be the guy they had to push out, who they had to replace with the former executive director of the wisconsin republican party, the guy who would be happy to sign-off on keeping ukraine from getting its military assistance even if the career expert staff thought that was illegal to do so. now the acareer expert staff guy has agreed to testify. his lawyer telling the washington post tonight, quote, if he is subpoenaed he will appear. quote, mr. sandy was among the career staffers who raised questions about the hold up on the aid, and his role gave him responsibility for signing the documents required to hold it up. sandy s signature appears on at least one of these so-called apportionment letters in july that prevented the money from going to ukraine. but after that the process for approving or denying such funds was taken over by a political appointee who def
defy the white house and testify in the impeachment investigation. the washington post is reporting that mark sandy, a long time career employee at the white house office of management and budget is expected to break ranks and testify saturday in the house democrats impeachment inquiry, potentially filling in important details on the hold up of military aid yto ukraine. mark sandy could provide insight into the process by which almost $400 million in military and security aid to ukraine was held up over the summer. the post reports that mark sandy was among the career staffers who raised questions about the hold up on the aid. and speaker pelosi kicked her rhetoric up a notch today using the word bribery to describe trump s actions towards ukraine going further than she ever has before. the devastating testimony corroborated evidence of bribery uncovered in the inquiry and
this has been confirmed by nbc news. the post writes he would be the first omb employee to testify in the inquiry after omb acting director russell t. vought and two other political appointees at the agency defied. some $400 million in military and security aid to ukraine was held up. they go onto add he was among the career staffers who raised questions about the hold-up on the aid. this comes ahead of the public hearing of this investigation of course which begins in less than 12 hours now. tomorrow at 9:00 a.m. the former ambassador to ukraine marie yovanovitch will appear before the house intel committee. she was abruptly removed from her post earlier this year. while it is not unusual in that line of work for ambassadors to be recalled, in her closed door
and two other political appointees at the agency defied congressional subpoenas to appear. sandy could provide insight into the process by which some $400 million in military and security aid to ukraine was held up. they go on to add, he was among the career staffers who raised questions about the holdup on the aid. well, this comes ahead of the second public hearing in this investigation, of course, which begins in less than 12 hours now. tomorrow, 9:00 a.m., the former ambassador to ukraine, marie yovanovitch, will appear before the house intel committee. she was abruptly removed from her post earlier this year. and while it is not unusual in that line of work for ambassadors to be recalled, in her closed-door testimony, she told impeachment investigators there was,he quote, a concerted campaign against me, and that the department had been under pressure from the h president t remove me since the summer of 2018. she said a senior ukrainian official, quote, told me i
under who the president appoi appointed. that s a significant step on the gravity of this. this is a charge that involves the former congress mman. i was going to ask about your article here in the washington post. you write about the political appointees overriding career staffers when it comes to the aid that was frozen to ukraine. can you talk to me about when the aid was frozen in relation to the call that president trump made to the ukraine president? and who froze it? that article focuses more on the office of management and budget. we knew previously, an order had come from the president to freeze and hold up ukraine s aid on jewel uly 18th. that s a week before the president and ukrainian president spoke in that phone