inside the offices of a bank before the gunman was killed after a shootout with police. all the attention now turning to the victims as well as a possible motive. sandra: and we are expecting another news conference from investigators in louisville coming up, that is happening less than an hour from now. a lot we still don t know. welcome back as america reports rolls into a second hour. i m sandra smith and a big welcome to you, bill. bill: i m bill melugin in for john roberts today. the white house set to face a whole lot of important questions at the briefing, how the white house reacts to the china dress rehearsal of a threatened invasion of taiwan. sandra: a snub from america s oldest ally, france. french president the latest leader to cozy up to china as that country works to create a new world order. bill: and now china scoring another political win, president biden heads to ireland, expecting john kirby to join the white house press briefing to preview the p
This brings me to the topic of todays proceedings. I would like to recap my recollection of the timeline in which these events played out. I testified about all of this at length in my deposition. In july, i became aware of a hold being placed on obligation of the State Departments military financing or fmf and dods usai fund. In meetings i heard the president directed the Office Of Management And Budget to hold the funds because of his concern for corruption in ukraine. Let me say at the outset i have never discussed this or any other matter with the president and never heard directly from him about this matter. At a senior level meeting i attended july 26th chaired by National Council Security Leadership as in all other interagency meetings on this topic of which i was wear, the
national Security Community expressed unanimous support for resuming funding in the u. S. National security interests. At the July 26th Meeting there was also a discussion how ukrainian anticorruption efforts
Todays proceedings. I would like to recap my recognition of the timeline in which these events played out. I testified about all of this at length in my deposition. In july, i became aware of a hold being an obligation of the State Departments Foreign Military financing and dods usai funds. In a series of interagency meetings, i heard that the president had directed the office of of management and budget to hold the funds becausf his concerns about corruption in ukraine. Let me say at the outset that i have never discussed this or any other matter with the president and never heard directly from him about this matter. At a senior level meeting i attended on july 26, chaired by National Security council leadership, as at all other interagency meetings on this topic of which i was aware, the National Security community
expressed unanimous support for resuming the funding as in the u. S. National security interest. At the july 26 meeting, there was a discussion of how ukrainian anticorrup
that, the timeline will be looked at as well. the main concern is that they are out there, period. they don t they shouldn t be, shouldn t be in the public domain. john, has the u.s. changed its timeline for getting the necessary weapons to the ukraine military in any way? i m not going to i wouldn t even in the wake of even before this story, i would not sit here and talk about specific timelines of equipment deliveries, you guys know that. i ll go back to what i said to ryan. we are going to continue to support ukraine, that has not changed, it s not gonna change. a second question separately on nato expansion, now that finland is officially a member of nato, what s the timetable for sweden being a part of the defense alliance? we would like to see sweden join the alliance as soon as possible, but that s going to be a discussion between sweden and the alliance and as you know, there is still some work being done in that regard. we are excited to have them as
did reference the importance of civilian control of the military which relates more broadly to none of us would argue that fixes the corruption throughout the rest of the country. miss cooper maybe you can shed light on specific details, we talk the security assistance program, $250 million. some would argue that because the pause, people died in account because of the pause. can you help us understand exactly what obligated and was there things about to be delivered to ukraine? was ukraine out of ammunition? were they out of javelins or all of this stuff, because of this pause they didn t get certain lethal equipment they needed in order to protect their folks during the month of august? sir, we will deliver all of the i understand. i m trying to get a time. there was no shortfall in equipment deliveries expected within that time frame. obligate means you re putting