He confirms ambassador bill taylor telling investigators that the ukrainians were told that military assistance, not just the white house meeting, was conditioned on a public announcement of political investigations that the president wanted. Now, that news breaking even as a saturday deposition was just wrapping up this afternoon. Office of management and budget official marc sandy defying white house orders to testify. Speaking with congressional investigators for roughly 5 1 2 hours. Now, the omb, its at the center of all of this because its the agency that actually hold held up the military aid to ukraine. Lets get right to Garrett Haake on capitol hill with the latest. And, garrett, lets start with the breaking news and the transcripts and what weve learned from it. What do you got . Well, richard, the transcripts are fascinating. They talk about two different people who were on that july 25th phone call who had two different reactions to it. Jennifer williams, who you mentioned,
national security adviser tim morrison. joining us knick ackerman, back with us, jill wine-banks and former watergate special assistant prosecutor. who better to have on every day in the last two weeks? nick, as i mentioned you just got in, what do you make of these two data dumps from the transcripts, hundreds of pages. we have exerts right here. but from what you ve been able to to see, what stands out? vice president s person. it looks like now pence was kept away from president zelensky s inauguration as part of a pressure campaign and part of this whole bribery scheme to get the ukrainian government to investigate the bidens. so, i mean, that s kind of the piece that strikes me the most. and i m sure it s something that the committee is going to investigate further. with respect to morrison, it really is more of the same. i mean, he s reporting more of the same facts.