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sandy, that's correct. first it's the pont himself who orders the hold on military aid to ukraine while it's the president himself simultaneously pressuring ukraine that they need to give him these investigations he wants to help him for 2020. the president himself questioning the aid to ukraine, ordering the aid to ukraine, that's in writing now we now know. second at least two officials at the white house resigned over the president putting this hold on military aid to ukraine. third, multiple officials overtly expressed that the hold might be illegal, including telling the guy -- the guy they were telling to sign the paperwork to implement the hold. he's one of the people who told them, hey, this might be an illegal thing you're asking me to do. i think we should bring this to the lawyers. in response that guy was replaced by a trump appointee who had said this was the president's wish, who had ordered it done, and who had been advised by these career staffers that this might be an illegal thing. he's th

sandy how many times do you follow up with mr. duffy to ask for rationale on why the security was withheld. he said it was open question over the course of late july pretty much all of august. and so they have no idea or insight into what was happening. interesting note as well. sandy testified that early in the first or second week of august, several omb officials signed off on a memo asking or recommending to the administration they release the hold and signing it lined up with the national security strategy or u.s. policies and prerogatives to push back against russia and every reason to release the hold. so not just omb and we've heard testimony, people from state and people from the department of defense across the u.s. government saying the whole needed to be released. however the hold was held on. and that caused a lot of consternation inside of the omb amongst career officials because they were concerned if the money did not go out of the door, they might be running afoul of the law and that is one of the other issues that

a hold on the aid to ukraine, mark sandy says this. quote, so on that day i emphasized that would raise a number of questions that we would need to address. and so i advised we would want to consult with our office of general counsel on those questions first. so we know as of tonight at least two people in the office of management and budget quit over what the president was doing holding up this aid to ukraine. mark sandy himself doesn't quit over him sharing these concerns that this might be an illegal act by the president. but he is concerned that this might be illegal. and he says so to his boss. he says he wants to go to it lawyers on this. well, of course in this scandal that will not do. and so the way this unspools and the way we can now see it in a way we didn't know about before this deposition tonight -- the way this unspools is that the president has ordered this hold up on the aid. the career staff that are supposed to execute an order like that, they all raise red flags. you want us to do what now? isn't that illegal? i th

sandy and it's sandy who executes the order. so, he is a direct witness to what happen because he's the one who had to make it happen. the problem that the trump defense is going to have here is that it wasn't discretionary money. it was the money that had been appropriated, so they're defying a congressional order, essentially. congress said give them the money. so that's a problem they're not dweg to be able to wriggle out of, and he provides direct evidence of that. >> okay. a couple questions for you now, gabby. first of all, who's most at risk of being implicated in mark sandy's testimony? >> that's a good question. i think mick mulvaney is one of the characters that we haven't heard much about lately, in both closed-door testimony and in public testimony as well, and mark sandy is, of course, extremely close to mick mulvaney, having that position at omb. mick mulvaney was involved in the decision-making in terms of halting this aid to ukraine. and while mark sandy wasn't necessarily involved in what went into deciding to w

that's where sandy comes in. he was subpoenaed today, he shows up and they're hoping to get some answers on whether or not there were red flags in the omb during this time. were there any conversations around the release of this budget? was it common knowledge the reasoning that president trump had for withholding this aid from ukraine? that's likely what we're going to end up hearing or seeing in that transcript when we do, if we do get it. i want to mention you talked about david holmes. this is closed-door testimony from yesterday. holmes is a staffer at the u.s. embassy in ukraine. we are hearing from many democrats who really are pointing to this as a critical testimony. they believe it advances them in the impeachment inquiry, and here's why. holmes had direct knowledge. he heard a conversation between the ambassador to the european union, gordon sondland, and president trump talking about those investigations. we read that testimony, holmes saying that he sat down at a meal with sondland and two other staf

but mark sandy is a career official at the omb. that would be the agency that handles disbursing this nearly $400 million in military aid that was supposed to go to ukraine. we know that was delayed until september 11th even though republicans and democrats on capitol hill had agreed o release that money. what democrats want to hear? they want to understand how this process was supposed to work and what might have gone off the rails, what was happening behind the scenes, and why was this money so delayed? remember, republicans and democrats, everyone was asking questions on capitol hill because no one could figure out this

sandy's testimony relates that the administration placed on security assistance to ukraine. i will not go into what he testified to. this investigation is most importantly about $391 million in taxpayer money that was leveraged to ask the ukraine's to look into the president's political opponent. this was authorized by congress, signed into law by the president by wheny day that went that money was not given to the ukrainians, the ukrainians were dying. by when [indiscernible] >> the question is whether he was reluctant. i will say he cooperated and answered all of our questions. we learn more about this investigation and as a former prosecutor, what is remarkable about this investigation is that it is almost entirely driven by witness accounts. or witness accounts. most investigations today are driven by document production, reviewing emailed communication, electronic communication, the administration has refused to turn over any electronic communication and we have been severely limited. because people have come forward and produced information, we learn more. i can only i

sandy did show up today. essentially you're hearing or looking at once we see this transcript wes about whether or not it raised red flags. and it follows a night of what democrats are calling critical testimony that happened behind closed doors, and the testimony of david homes at the embassy in ukraine is critical because they think it advances the impeachment inquiry. here is why. homes said that he overheard a conversation between the ambassador to the european union gordon sondland and president trump talking about those investigations. according to a transcript, holmes was at lunch with sondland and two other staffers, the president was speaking to loudly that holmes was able to hear his voice and distinctliar what he said. this is what holmes said, he says then i heard president trump ask, so he's going to do the snfgs ambassador sondland relied he's going to do it adding that president zelensky will do anything you ask him to. now the phone conversation ends there, but holmes continued a conversation

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the first letter withholding of funds was signed by mark sandy. by july 30th, five days later, sandy says his boss took over responsibilities for allocating that aid. duffy, his boss is not a career official like sandy. duffy is a political appointee. sandy testified all throughout the month s of july and august, why aid was being withheld. and it was not until the time the hold on aid was lifted in early september that mark sandy heard for the first time, the rational for the home that you are familiar with. the president was concerned about other countries not providing as much aid to ukraine as the u.s. does. finally, two budget staffers at the office of management and budget expressed frustration about the unexplainable on this ukrainian aid. one official told sandy there were legal agency at least in part because of their concerns over the whole. >> joining us now our leig leigh ann caldwell and jill wine-banks. welcome both of you. jill, i want to start with the newest information we have. the reporting that the president was being looked at

what are we going to learn from mark sandy today? >> sandy is interesting. he's a longtime official at omb. it's washington scandal 101 to follow the money. that's the one piece of this that democrats have not been able to do thus far. if you look at the witnesses that have come forth so far, you've had state department officials, a surprising number of officials connected to the national security council, but you have not had people come forward who have had their hands on this money at some point in the process. sandy is the first of those. so he could potentially tell democrat as great deal about where the money was going, why it was held up, and the concerns in the building, whether it was done so illegally or not. we know that from one of the defense department officials there was some concern it was slim illegal to hold up this money in the way the president asked for. sandy could shed light on all of that. notably the attorney said he did not come with an opening statement. but, zbe, it's one more piece of the puzzle for democrats and a critical one w

he is mark sandy, a veteran of the white house budget office. and a source familiar with his testimony says sandy told lawmakers he was confused, didn't know why the 400 million in military funds to ukraine were suddenly frozen, but sandy did provide a possible clue. he said a political appointee, michael duffy, insisted on taking over the ukraine account and signed some documents putting that security assistance on holiday. sandy toughed that duffy's actions were an unusual departure from the normal budget process. here's cnn's lauren fox with details of those deposition transcripts that just dropped. >> reporter: on saturday, we got new details about timors morris who testified last month that he came to understand that eu ambassador gordon sondland was getting direction from trump. morrison testified behind closed doors that he believed that sondland and president trump had spoken approximately five times between july 25th, the date of that phone call between president zelinsky and president trump and september 11th, when nearly $400 million

one of them from omb, mark sandy, a top official and national security. the other, phil reeker, the acting assistant. he barely told lawmakers in the sworn deposition that he was not given any reason why the nearly $400 million in authorized aid to ukraine was frozen until september so how concerning is that lack of transparency? >> it's very concerning. it sadly meets all the evidence we heard in the open hearings. of course of two weeks. what else i saw and i was only able to read some of the top line releases on that deposition. were that once he questioned why this aid was being withheld, he learned number one it was the president directly who upheld the aid. he learned that through mick mulvaney's office but then he was removed from authorization of foreign aid. he was taken off those duties. you know, he also said he was gravely concerned about the legality of withholding that aid. what we know is there was an attempt to extort a foreign democracy, brand-new president, in change for dirt on a political opponent. the president tried to self-deal. tri

so essentially what we just saw was mark sandy going behind these closed doors. he is a career official with the office of management and budget and they're hoping to get that timeline to see what he knew about withholding that funding from ukraine. i want to talk about that testimony that happened last night behind closed doors because we're hearing from a lot of democrats who are saying that this was really critical testimony, that they believe it advanced the impeachment inquiry. here's why. this is about a man named dave holmes. he is a staffer at the u.s. embassy in ukraine and we learned through public testimony earlier this week that he overheard a conversation between president trump and the ambassador to the european union, gordon sondland. i want to set the scene here just like holmes did in his testimony. he said he was able to share this conversation because they were out to a meal. him, sondland, two other staffers, when sondland placed this call to president trump. president trump speaking so loudly that holmes was able to hear him. at one point son

mark sandy is his name. according to congresswoman jackie speier, he's one of the officials who signed the hold on military assistance to ukraine. and of course it is the withholding of that aid that lies at the center of the case against the president. sandy may be equipped to speak to that. he'll testify behind closed doors on saturday. tomorrow it will be the ousted ambassador to ukraine, marie yovanovitch, who president trump told ukraine's president was, quote, bad news. the most important witness may turn out to be david holmes on the phone call he allegedly overheard. that came to light in surprise testimony yesterday from his boss, bill taylor, the top u.s. diplomat in ukraine. here's what he said. >> a member of my staff could hear president trump on the phone asking ambassador sondland about the investigations. mr. sondland told president trump the ukrainians were ready to move forward. following the call with president trump, the member of my staff asked ambassador sondland what president trump th

it is not from mark sandy, the testimony that was released. the transcript that we have is of tim morrison and jennifer williams and back to you on this, scott. why are these two particular individuals who gave testimony important or not important in the scope of things? morrison and williams. that is the transcript we just got in, jennifer williams and timothy morrison. >> i have not yet seen that testimony. i will say after a bombshell week of testimony in the public setting we saw from the three foreign service officers, dedicated foreign service officers, next week will be a lightning round. because you have eight officials that testified behind closed doors who will be testifying over the course of three days tuesday, wednesday, thursday, including alexander vindman the lieutenant colonel who was on that july 25th phone call and the two individuals you just mentioned including tim morrison. >> okay. so a lot of moving parts here. we'll just take them in and turn them up and spit them out the best way we can here. if we go to the first ful

las actrices quienes iban en la camioneta con sandy cortar una historia de terror que vivieron cerca del volcÁn inactivo ubicado a 50 millas de la capital mexicana que atrae visitantes a su crÁter todos los fines de semana. >> unos sujetos armados nos tronaron el camino, se llevaron la camioneta de vanessa. >> se llevaron mi camioneta, las ollas, los materiales. >> confesÓ que se llevaron al actor de 37 aÑos y que ya realizar una denuncia correspondiente. los comerciantes del parque como margarita pÉrez se enteraron horas despuÉs de lo ocurrido. >> tiene un reportero, pues sÍ, la policÍa, y fue como supimos que habÍa pasado allÁ abajo. pero aquÍ no, nada de eso. >> es que los turistas los interceptaron en la carretera hacia el parque recreativo. el secretario de seguridad pÚblica confirmÓ que los secuestradores piden un rescate, pero no se confirmado si los familiares entregaron el dinero que les pedÍay por eso los liberaron. >> esperamos tener muy buenas noticias. >> extraoficialmente se sabe que los secuestradores pedÍan por liberar a sandy y michelle menos de $10,00

sandy is a career guy. and that job was taken away from him. the responsibility over this money. >> that's right. and he also testified that in his entire career as a budget official, he had never seen that kind of authority given to a supervisor of that. it's not the kind of work he would normally have him do. >> thanks for your reporting on this. josh ledderman. as president trump plot their next steps, new information is emerging about the business activities about the president's personal attorney rudy giuliani. "the new york times" and "the washington post" report that giuliani was pursuing business opportunities in ukraine at the same time that he was trying to obtain damaging information on former vice president joe biden and his son hunter biden. according to the papers, giuliani's company, giuliani partners, was drafting agreements with ukrainian government and ukrainian officials. under one draft agreement, his firm would receive $300,000 from the ukrainian justice ministry to help it recover money it believed had been stolen and stas

a career official sandy mark sandy raises concerns with a senior omb official in the middle of july about is this legal, can we do this. july 30th, 12 days after sandy raised some concerns, a political aide michael duffy takes over the process. duffy signs documents holding up the aid. the white house will say nothing wrong here, we just decided to have michael duffy take over. but if you track what happened with ambassador yovanovitch and the career people being shoved aside in the earlier dispute, here's another case where somebody raises his hand, says i think this is wrong and a political person comes in and does what the president wants. >> and this new revelation by the "new york times" that the president was actually aware of the whistleblower complaint, which begs the question would they have released the aid had the president not known? was this something that made them concerned and prompted them to release the aid? this is very important to answer. >> it's the democrats' argument that they got caught. the president has a chance to counter that. he won't let any of these people

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this is mark sandy. he is a senior official at the office of management and budget, the agency that controls the flow of u.s. dollars. he's there now under subpoena, meaning he was required by law to show up. other omb officials have so far refused to answer questions under oath even though they were invited to. but the past 30 hours or so revealed a series of major developments one after another, each one seemingly more damning to president trump than the last. testimony from two highly respected diplomats, one of whoem described how donald trump's personal attorney was operating outside normal channels at the president's direction to dig up dirt on the rivals back home. we heard from an aide who said he heard the president's own voice on a cell phone call talking to another u.s. ambassador about how ukraine's government was going along with the president's desire to investigate joe biden and his son. if that wasn't enough bad news for president trump yesterday, his longtime political adviser was found

mark sandy is saying he's going to testify. and he given his job would appear to be super important to the story because he appears to be the nonpartisan technocrattic expert career official who did noilgsally sign-off on holding up this aid to ukraine on the president's orders and we believe expressing what the president orders was illegal, he appears to be the guy they had to push out, who they had to replace with the former executive director of the wisconsin republican party, the guy who would be happy to sign-off on keeping ukraine from getting its military assistance even if the career expert staff thought that was illegal to do so. now the acareer expert staff guy has agreed to testify. his lawyer telling "the washington post" tonight, quote, if he is subpoenaed he will appear. quote, mr. sandy was among the career staffers who raised questions about the hold up on the aid, and his role gave him responsibility for signing the documents required to hold it up. sandy's signature appears on at least one of these so-called a

sandy was involved in implementing the president's hold back of security aid to ukraine last summer, and he's the only budget official to testify in the house inquiry. he testified he received the order to freeze aid to ukraine by e-mail, noting the e-mail did not mention any other country nor any other aid package. it targeted just ukraine. he testified that throughout all of july and august he could get no explanation for why the hold was put in place. it wasn't until early september that sandy received an e-mail that attributed the hold to the president's concern about other countries not contributing more to ukraine. his testimony appears consistent with the reporting from "the washington post" that the white house had engaged in extensive efforts to generate an after the fact justification for the decision to freeze that money to ukraine. sandy also testified he's aware of the two former staffers who left the omb at least in part from concerns related to that aid freezing in ukraine. i'm joined by josh letterman and barbara mcquade. it seems there was a lot of covering up and fu

sandy received a subpoena overnight. remember, the administration put up a firewall around all members saying no one has to come and testify. we've seen that broken by state department officials. one d.o.d. official broken by folks connected to the national security council. up to now the office of management and budget, three officials subpoenaed. none had shown. at least been invited. be more specific. sandy under subpoena showing up this morning provides him a degree of protection one might thing in retaliation since he is legally obligated to attend but speaks to the difficulty democrats have had getting closer and closer to president trump and the actual decision-making process connected to this entire ukraine issue. >> mark sandy behind closed doors now at least a couple of hours. >>> today's closed-door testimony follows a friday night surprise from the ukrainian embassy official david holmes's in in a closed-door meeting he confirmed president trump asked the ukrainians about the bidens. that after dramatic publi

let's release all the remaining transcripts including mark sandy, david holmes because mark sandy answered that he gave yesterday to the question made for a very bad day for those who are pushing impeachment. >> the view is that sandy said duffy one to go through the appropriation that's why this was held on. >> that's the difficulty that he outlined, some officials are testifying and they have not seen what other people have said such as gordon sondland, they find themselves having a little bit of trouble, gordon sondland had to go back and amend his testimony reflecting he did recall certain details that he earlier said that he did not have any knowledge of. without those transcripts, people could be getting that the lawmakers already know the answer to that will happen behind closed doors but the person being asked does not kn know. >> witnesses this coming week gordon sondland basic with a big star of the whole week. wilson see what happens. >> be sure to stick around after our newscast, "fox news sunday" will be on, chris wallace has an exclusive interview and will sit down with house

sandy magnus. dr. sandy magnus was selected to the nasa astronaut corps in 1996 and has flown on four shuttle missions including the final shuttle flight in 2011. she flew to the international space station in november 2008 where she spent four and a half months as flight engineer and science officer. following her assignment on station she served at nasa headquarters and as the deputy chief of the astronaut office. during her time at nasa she worked extensively with the international community including europe, japan, brazil and in russia. dr. magnus is now the deputy director for engineering within the office of the secretary of defense, research and engineering. prior to working at nasa dr. magnus was a stealth engineer at mcdonnell douglas. she earned her bachelor's in physics and masters and her ph.d. from georgia tech. help me in welcoming dr. sandy magnus. [ applause ] >> so i want to take a moment to talk about the space station because i think that's why i'm on the panel, and thank you, al, fo

this is mark sandy. he is a senior official at the office of management and budget, the agency that controls the flow of u.s. dollars. he's there now under subpoena, meaning he was required by law to show up. other omb officials have so far refused to answer questions under oath even though they were invited to. but the past 30 hours or so revealed a series of major developments one after another, each one seemingly more damning to president trump than the last. testimony from two highly respected diplomats,

sandy, who sounds like a low level bureaucrat, didn't make this decision on his own. made he even made it in protest. we'll have to see. but this is the money piece of the bribery scheme that you've been talking so much about. and it could be a really important piece. >> well, you referenced bureaucrats. there has been some deriding of different people from where they sit in the chart. mr. limbaugh called some of them, quote, professional nerds. the problem with that is these bureaucrats, these nerds, these individuals, they are the people who make the federal government run. they are the people who get the money out, who get the work done, who back up the pentagon and the diplomats and all that stuff. and so what happens if this person goes into congress and says -- say they confirm the fact the munpy was held up which would go to the executing of the plot but they don't know why. you can't imagine trump or mulvaney would probably brief this bureaucrat on the reasoning. >> he may not know to the top of the food chain, but you can bet he's going to be able to tell con

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, remington, liable for the gun used in the shooting at that school. >> i'm glad that the sandy hook families are going to get their day in court. it's an abomination that in the 2000s at the height of the nra's power they got a law passed through congress that effectively protected the gun industry from liability. today if you make a toy gun, you have more product liability than if you make a real gun. the sandy hook families have found a way to court, the supreme court is allowing the lawsuit to go forward. maybe the makers of these assault weapons are going to be finally held accountable in a court of law. >> if 90% of the american public supports a background check bill and that is not taken up in the senate, do you think that that alone along with the shootings we've seen, will be enough for the voters it to change the balance of power in the senate in 2020? >> i mean, you saw about 30 seats change hands from republicans that were a rated by the nra to democrats who are voting for things like background checks and assault weapons ban. that was a remarkable, very quick change in

then sandy had multiple questions because he wasn't getting answers to those questions. a top political appointee, mike duffy, came in, and he took control of the authority to hold that aid going forward after sandy initially placed that aid. he was asking why that happened. the answers weren't particularly clear until september came along, when duffy, the political appointee, sent him an email and said the reason why the aid had been withheld is because the president wanted more european countries to provide security assistance to ukraine. but the question of the timeline raise a lot of questions because during that duration of those several weeks and months, many people were asking questions about why that aid was being withheld, and of course we know the president was pushing for ukraine to announce those investigations that could help him politically all along at that same time. so it ultimately leads to what was the president thinking and who else could shed more light on that? >> who, what, where, when, why. all of it is important. michael, sandy also testified tha

. >> o'donnell: plus, the supreme court rules the families of sandy hook elementary school shooting victims can now sue a gunmaker. on the eve of televised impeachment hearings, cbs news has the republican playbook for defending the president. jimmy carter-- tonight an update on the former president's surgery to remove blood near his brain. also new tonight, after vaping, a teenager undergoes a rare double-lung transplant. >> we're looking at the tip of the iceberg. >> o'donnell: a cbs news exclusive: a mcdonald's worker tells us why she's suing the fast-food giant over sexual harassment. >> i felt like i was alone and nobody was fighting for me. >> o'donnell: and "profiles in service": turning combat veterans into scholars. >> this is the "cbs evening news" with norah o'donnell. >> o'donnell: good evening, and thank you so much for joining us. we begin with the dangerous deep freeze that's affecting more than 200 million americans. for half of them, it's about to get much worse as it widens and tightens its grip. from the great lakes to new england, millions are digging out from deep snow.

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on july 26th, sandy testified that the omb office, the white house budget office did not know why the money was being withheld. sandy then raised legal concerns that the unexplained hold could violate appropriations laws and explained that to his higher up who was michael duffy. duffy who is a political appointee took the lead on pointing funds on aid. mark sandy testified it was not until around september 9th, and it's days before the money was ultimately released, that he was told that the reason for the initial hold was because of president trump's desire to see other countries contribute more aid to ukraine. during that leadup time, sandy added that two career officials at the white house resigned surrounding, quote, their frustrations of the aid. >>> and a top state department official described a frantic but unsuccessful effort among senior diplomats to save ambassador to ukraine marie yovanovitch in a politically motivated smear campaign. acting assistant secretary of affairs philip reeker appeared last month, testified that the ousted ambassador is, quote, one of the foreign s

>> reporter: early word is sandy's testimony was very technical. a lot of focus on the budget process, what it takes to move money like that $400 million to ukraine, and what it would have taken to stop it. governments don't just venmo this type of money back and forth. there's a lot of technical work that has to be done. the lawmakers wanted to dig into that process to understand what levers essentially the white house used to hold up that aid. >> nbc's garrett haake on capitol hill. thank you so much, garrett, for that report. let's head to the white house now where nbc's mike viqueira has been following today's developments. mike, how has the white house if at all to what has happened today as we get transcripts as well as from the testimony that happened on the hill today? >> reporter: we haven't heard direct reaction to the latest transcripts that have been released, but republicans even before this ukraine scandal broke and even before all the things we've been talking about, even going back before the mueller report, they've always been plag

. >> reporter: when sandy meyers heard about what happened in pleasanton -- >> who are you? >> reporter: she and everyone here today knows that's not who they are. >> you didn't have to do this. >> didn't have to but this is the city that i live in and we help others so i'm happy to do it. >> reporter: on halloween night, john pulled over to spend the night at the doubletree in pleasanton. when he came out the next morning, the u-haul was stolen, with all their life's possessions inside. sofas, tvs, beds, chairs, picture frames, pasta maker, dishes, wine glasses all gone. including the bronze star he received while serving multiple combat tours overseas. >> i think i still have a lot of hate in my heart for that individual right now. >> reporter: for sandy, her own anger, sadness, and disappointment turned to action. she posted on their facebook page, with 3,000 members. u-haul donated the space. >> more donations. thank you so much. >> reporter: and neighbors filled it up. >> the motivation is to show there are good people in the world even though bad things happen to some

. >> a closed door deposition with omb official mark sandy just finishing. new transcripts just coming out at the top of the hour about 20 minutes ago, that of testimony given by timothy morrison, that's one we have, as well as jennifer williams. we are looking at about 20 pages that we are going through right now. >> according to congressman adam schiff, the testimony shows that president trump's july 25th phone call with ukrainian president zelensky immediately set off alarm bells throughout the white house. >> democrats are now gearing up for a busy week of public hearings of what could be pivotal testimony from eight witnesses. >>> so our reporters and analysts they are ready to go through all the new developments in this impeachment inquiry. so the first big headline to address this hour, brand-new transcripts released of closed-door testimony from jennifer williams an aide to vice president mike pence and tim morrison the former national security council's russia and europe director. williams telling investigators that the call was, quote, unusual and

that official is named mark sandy, and he spoke with impeachment investigators. why? all right. we'll get into that in just a bit. but the time line is what matters. tonight the "times" is reporting that in late august, before it was known to the public -- that's key -- white house lawyers told the president about the whistle-blower complaint. now, we had heard that there had been communication interagency about the whistle-blower and what to do and what they had, but not this far, that the president himself knew. they didn't yet know what the information would come to, whether it would go to congress or not. it wasn't until september 9th when congress launched the investigation. that same day, trump's million dollar donor turned eu pa ambassador called the president. reeve this? >> i believe i just asked him an open ended question. what do you want from ukraine? i keep hearing all these different ideas and theories and this and that. what do you want? it was a very short, abrupt conversation. he was not in a good mood. he said, i want nothing. i want nothing. i want no quid pro

. >>> olivia newton-john's iconic bad sandy outfit from "grease" scores big at auction. >> sandy? >> tell me about it, stud. >> the black leather jacket and the skin-tight pants worn by the actress and singer in the movie, sold for $405,700, more than double the auction estimate. the ensemble made famous for the final musical number, "you're the one that i want," sold to separate anonymous bidders in an auction. newton-john said she had to be sewn into those pants. other items from her career was sold raising $2.4 million for her cancer wellness center in australia. a very good cause. but the movie -- the movie -- >> it holds up well today. >> the biggest question of, basically, my generation, is why did they fly away in the car? what is the point of the flying car? >> i've been thinking about this my entire life, for 40 years. do you have an answer for me? >> i don't have an answer. it's a metaphor for i don't know what. and why does she have to change to be what he wanted to see in her to be happy? why couldn't she just be herself? >> yeah. >> the flying car in jfk, life's great

a lawyer for mark sandy, he's a career omb official says sandy will testify behind closed doors saturday if subpoenas which, of course, is almost certain to happen. sandy will be the first omb official to testify in the probe. three others from that agency have defied subpoenas. this comes as russia and numerous other countries likely intercepted the ambassador gordon sondland's reported phone call from a restaurant in ukraine. that's the phone call where bill taylor testified that an aide overheard trump discussing a potential probe of the bidens with sondland and you may remember trump says he does not remember that call. out front now, cnn political correspondent, abby philip and republican state senator in nevada, greg brower, joe lockhart who was president clinton's secretary during the impeachment investigation and laura coates. laura, let me start with you with the news omb. three others from the omb designed to do so, it's that the order according to the testimony that we have from transcripts to withhold the aid came from the omb and they said it came from mick mulvaney and dire

ame what does mark sandy bring to the investigation, bring to the conversation? remind us the omb role in this story. >> yeah, so markb sandy, brian is a career official at the office of management and budget, which means he's not a political appointee of presidentol trump' and therefore, he's decided to defy the order, or the wishes, rather, from the white house counsel and the president himself, trying to prevent all of these executive branch employees from testifying. he could provide important information to congress because the omb that was involved in stopping that aid, that $400 million in aid from flowing into ukraine. the aid eventually went to ukraine, but theretu was a dela. it was ordered, according to reporting by the president, set forth by mick mulvaney, the acting white house chief of staff and the omb director, and mr. sandy, the omb staffer, could shed much more light and detailmo on the process inside that office for how that aid was stopped, what concerns were raised by w himself and other career employees at the time and what the system was f

sandy then raised legal concerns that the unexplained hold could violate from his higher up. michael duffy took the lead on approving omb funds for foreign aid. sandy testified that it was not until around september 9th, days before the money was released that he was told the reason for the initial halt was because of president trump's desire to see other countries contribute more aid to ukraine. during that leadup time, sandy added two career officials in the omb office resigned over their, quote, frustrations surrounding the unknown reason for the aid holdup. steve, this is more testimony, this is more evidence that adam schiff has to work with. we didn't know about this specifically that mr. sandy said officials were resigning in protest of this holdup, unexplained holdup for a long time with aid to ukraine. >> well, we were talking this before the show. i think everything that comes out is of a piece. there are very few facts that contradict other facts. everything simply builds on what we already know and it's like building a house brick by brick. and at this point, i do