request for investigations. it makes that discussion morrell va more relevant. when you tell somebody there is no quid pro quo, you know they re looking for it. julian, thank you for your reporting. we know even more crucial information about the timeline of the withheld ukraine aid thanks to the latest deposition that was released by the house. this was from mark sandy. he s an official office of budget management. mick mulvaney ahead of the office of management and budget, on july 25th, an important date that s the same day that president trump and ukraine s president discussed security assistance on that now infamous phone call. the omb finalized the withholding of aids to ukraine. the same day. the first letter withholding of
told a story consistent with that fundamental set of facts. the acting assistant secretary says the u.s. ambassador to the eu, sondland, had what he calls a script for the ukrainian president zelensky to use in that phone conversation with the president on july 25th. so why is that revelation significant? because it shows that sondland what was part of the effort to get the investigation open of the bidens, he had to tell zelensky what to say so that the president of the united states would release the, would release the aid. zelensky need ed the money. and he needed to know what to say in order to get the money so that his troops wouldn t die in fight iing the russians. this so sondland had a script for him according to reeker to say the right things so that trump would release the aid. mark sandy, the deputy
a few witnesses have come forward and even trump administration have said i m going to tell the truth to the american people. that s what we have been seeing in these hearings in the last two weeks. now the question is will bolton and other people come and testi testify. a subpoena forces these folks to come forward and testify and it can be challenged in court. what the democrats are saying is look we already have the goods on the president. you just read the transcript on july 25th. you that outlines the entire case. the witnesses of the last two weeks have demonstrated it. ambassador dobolton is kind of gravy. it would be helpful to have but you don t need it. they won t subpoena him because they know it will take some time. as it moves to senate, the democrats and the house will be prosecuting the case will be
have reached out to. other committees have been probing this. the house budget committee have managed to get their hands on some documents inside the omb. it shows the first time a piece of paper was signed as related to this hold on money for ukraine was on the evening of july 25th, just a few hours after president trump got off the phone with president zelensky. that was the first official action taken to put this hold into place. it was the last time that a career official at omb signed any document relating to that hold. it was after that that those documents which had to be renewed and changed were signed over and over again by a political appointee at the budget office. i ll bring that back to my first point. that political appointee has refused to comply with subpoena and testify but who could be affected by this order on the
of management and budget announced the flow of nearly $400 million in security assistance for ukraine was being held up. the order had come from the president and had been conveyed to omb by acting white house chief of staff mick mulvaney without further explanation. holmes, unaware of the hold prior to the call, was shocked. he thought the suspension of aid was extremely significant, undermining what he had understood to be longstanding u.s. national security goals in ukraine. one week later, on july 25th, president trump spoke with president zelensky by phone. when president zelensky brought up u.s. military support and noted ukraine would like to buy more javelin anti-tank missiles from the united states, trump responded by saying, i would like you to do us a favor, though. trump then requested that zelensky investigate the discredited conspiracy theory that ukraine interfered in the 2016 election. even more ominously, trump asked