the office of management and budget, though, is denying that anything improper took place. here s a statement from a spokeswoman for the office of management and budget, rachel semmel. she said, to be clear, there was a legal consensus at every step of the way that the money could be withheld in order to conduct the policy review. the washington post also has an early august exchange between mick mulvaney and the acting head of the office of management and budget, russ vogt, in which mulvaney asks for an update on the justification. two administration officials say that doesn t mean that mulvaney was seeking to change that justification or that one wasn t already in place. thank you, jeremy. the officials named in the e-mails include many who have not testified in the impeachment hearings. also on the no testifying list is john bolton. adam schiff is urging bolton to testify and follow the lead of his former staffers. he did not choose to come in
aid to ukraine. according to the washington post, that review is turning up hundreds of documents to suggest that white house officials and officials in the office of management and budget, were trying to draw up a legal justification for that move after the fact. this was another instance of a scramble by officials to catch up with another one of president trump s decisions. the office of management and budget, though, is denying that anything improper took place. here s a statement from a spokeswoman for the office of management and budget, rachel semmel. she said, to be clear, there was a legal consensus at every step of the way that the money could be withheld in order to conduct the policy review. the washington post also has an early august exchange between mick mulvaney and the acting head of the office of management and budget, russ vogt, in which mulvaney asks for an update on
that white house officials and officials in the office of management and budget, were trying to draw up a legal justification for that move after the fact. this was another instance of a scramble by officials to catch up with another one of president trump s decisions. the office of management and budget, though, is denying that anything improper took place. here s a statement from a spokeswoman for the office of management and budget, rachel semmel. she said, to be clear, there was a legal consensus at every step of the way that the money could be withheld in order to conduct the policy review. the washington post also has an early august exchange between mick mulvaney and the acting head of the office of management and budget, russ vogt, in which mulvaney asks for an update on the justification. two administration officials say that doesn t mean that mulvaney was seeking to change that
ukraine. according to the washington post, that review is turning up hundreds of documents to suggest that white house officials and officials in the management and budget, were trying to draw up a legal justification for that move after the facts. this was another instance of a scramble by officials to catch up with another one of president trump s decisions. the office of management and budget, though, is denying that anything improper took place. here s a statement from a spokeswoman for the office of management and budget, rachel semmel. she said, to be clear, there was a legal consensus at every step of the way that the money could be withheld in order to conduct the policy review. the washington post also has an early august exchange between mick mulvaney and the acting head of the office of management and budget, russ vogt, in which mulvaney asks for an update on the justification. two administration officials say that doesn t mean that mulvaney
way as part of a white house counsel office s review of that correspondence looking into this matter and it just shows the extent to which mulvaney and others in the administration were part of an effort to create a cover story for the president s decision to withhold that aid. there s so much in that story. i want to read you one more chunk. i got two more areas i want to explore. i want to get into this idea that the cover up appears to be inching as close as the crime in terms of the potential sort of blast radius for this white house and the people in it. let me read some more of this great reporting. you guys report that also included in the review from the white house lawyers our e-mail communications between omb and state department officials and others discussing why the white house was holding up nearly $400 million in military aid and whether the hold might violate the law. december 2018 months before the ukraine issue surfacediority fo