In transcripts, Pence aide said Trump call 'unusual'
WASHINGTON – The impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump continued Saturday as the House Intelligence, Oversight, and Foreign Affairs Committees held a closed-door deposition with Mark Sandy, a career aide inside the White House budget office.
Congressional investigators also released transcripts from the closed door depositions with National Security Council official Timothy Morrison and Pence aide Jennifer Williams. More: Intimidation among key takeaways from the Trump impeachment hearing with Marie Yovanovitch “He told me that in his—that what he communicated was that he believed the— what could help them move the aid was if the prosecutor general would to go the mike and announce that he was opening the Burisma investigation,” Morrison said.
Morrison: Aid withheld at “the President’s direction”Morrison said he first learned of the hold on aid during a July conversation with Charles Kupperman, the deputy national security adviser who had failed to appear for his scheduled testimony. “Ambassador Sondland believed and at least related to me that the President was giving him instruction,” Morrison explained.
“I said that resumption of the U.S. aid would likely not occur until Ukraine provided the public anticorruption statement that we had been discussing for many weeks,” he said in a supplement released Nov. 5. "I guess for me it shed some light on possible other motivations behind a security assistance hold," she added.
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