let the witnesses testify. what are you afraid of? for more on this development, here s jeremy herb in washington. reporter: newly released emails reveal that the white house s order to freeze ukraine aid came roughly 90 minutes after president trump s call with president zelensky on july 25th. the emails provide new detail to our understanding of how exactly the white house held up the aid. in the july 25th email, white house budget official michael duffey ordered the pentagon to hold the aid and signaled the decision could be politically explosive. duffey wrote, given the sensitive nature of the request, i appreciate your keeping that information closely held to those who need to know to execute direction. a spokeswoman said it would be reckless to tie the wuth holding the ukraine aid to the president s call. the emails are being released only now because a judge ordered them turned over to the center for public integrity in response
mike duff ey. he said let s keep quietly and he was concerned it could raise concerns. senator chuck schumer had been pushing to get mike duffey to testify and after these new emails came out, senator schumer tweeted this. quote. well, obviously senate republicans plan not to call any witnesses and highly unlikely we will hear from mike duffey. but do trump when the republicans need to worry about more revelations like this coming out and impacting public opinion? no, not at all. in fact, this trove of emails
settle this whole thing. we just found out this weekend that someone who works for mulvaney, michael duffey, had sent an email 90 minutes after the president made that critical call to the ukrainian president. this guy sent an email, i have it here. we just found it. it says given the sensitive nature of the kwft i appreciate you keeping this information closely held and said, don t release any of the funds. this man should testify. i wish that it had not been just a partisan vote. somebody will yell at me for saying that. i don t think this is a good time until our country s history, but we do all take an oath of office that requires us to protect our democracy and our national security. the case is thin that the house is sending over to us, if they ever send it over to us. what speaker pelosi is doing is focusing attention on the need for a fair trial and a fair trial means you get to call your witnesses. every american knows that that s what a trial is all about.
president trump s now infamous phone call with the ukrainian president. in one. emails office of management and budget staffer mike duffey wrote, based on guidance i have received and in light of the administration s plan to review assistance to ukraine, please hold off on any additional department of defense obligations of these funds pending direction from that process. earlier today a spokesperson for the omb responded with a statement he claims the holding back of funds was announced well before that calling it actually reckless to tie it to trump s phone call. meanwhile, the stalemate in congress continues over if and when the house will relay those impeachment articles to the senate. lawmakers did starring on the sunday shows as you might expect. we have a situation to me is simple. you ll have a trial. have the first hand witnesses, innocent, have acting chief of staff mulvaney come before the senate. swear to an oath.
between the standard for impeachment or indictment, and the standard for conviction at trial. so while there is more than ample evidence not just for impeachment. i would say for a jury to vote conviction as well, more evidence is always helpful. you don t want to go to trial without the most evidence you could have, and clearly, we have people like mulvaney, a direct witness, pompeo, a direct witness. perry, giuliani, duffey. these are all people that americans should want to hear from, and that mcconnell should not stand in the way of, and i think that the democrats under leadership of speaker pelosi are doing the right thing in saying, let s have a fair trial before you get this i want to be assured what the rules will be. then i will appoint appropriate managers based on what the rules are. and meantime, outside of impeachment, president trump congratulated himself on his