national security money. he s defied a subpoena from the impeachment panel. but senate democrats still want him to testify. this e-mail is explosive. a top administration official, one we requested, saying stop the aid after talking to zelensky, and keep it hush hush. what more do you need to request a witness? the trial will start when nancy pelosi sends the articles of impeachment to the senate majority leader mitch mcconnell. that will be when schumer and mcconnell can find ideas to conduct a fair trial. we re confident that this position is untenable and she s going to move it along.
case in the standoff with mitch mcconnell. this email is explosive. a top administration official, one that we requested, is saying stop the aid night 1 minutes after trump called zelensky and said keep it hush hush. what more do you need to request a witness? as for the email about the ukraine aid, the white house budget office released a statement claiming, quote, it is reckless to tie the hold of funds to the phone call. as has been established and publicly reported, the hold was announced in an interagency meeting on july 18th to pull a line out of one email and failed to address the context is misleding and inaccurate. but nick confessore, what the democrats want to do is provide context. what they re hoping is that mitch mcconnell will help them to do that by allowing witnesses
call be moved to the highly classified code word level server to keep it hush hush. we re learning about what happened in almost five hour gap between senior diplomat taylors text questioning with holding security assistance for help with a political campaign. and ambassador sondland actual answer. in a source telling cnn that sondland the u.s. ambassador to the eu and million dollar trump donor actually spoke to the president about the situation. that led to sondland reply of bill, i believe you are incorrect about the intentions. the president has been crystal clear no quid pro quo of any kind. a lot to discuss here. we have the perfect man for the job. james clapper. the former direct tr of national intelligence joins me now. can t think of a better person than you. on this segment.
official on the national security consal alerted the white house s national security lawyer s about their concerns. those same lawyers would go on to order the transcript of the call be moved to the highly classified code-word level servererer to keep it hush hush. we re also learning about what happened. in that almost five-hour gap between senior diplomat s text questioning what he perceiveds as holding and ambassador sondeland s actual answer and a source saying that sondeland actual spoke to the president about the situation. that led to his reply of bill, i believe you were incorrect about president trump s intentions. the president has been crystal clear no quid pro quos of any kind. a lot to discuss here and we
that doesn t get a lot of traffic in the 21st century. we know he s at a pay phone, that got really interesting for me there. i m sitting in the car, cell phone went off, let it ring a few times, and answer the phone, you know. this is d money. you stopped by yesterday. yeah, i came by yesterday, man. what s that? the problem is my boy is locked down in the pen like i told you yesterday. we don t know what s going on, and my boy, you know, took care of a little business, so we just trying to get paid just to keep it hush, you know what i mean. you got paid everything. once he told me, hey, i thought i paid you guys everything, home run. it s one of those feelings where you ve known this all along, and you actually hear it from him. and so i think it was overwhelming feeling of