The Trump administration is hiding something (opinion)
CNNEditor’s Note: In this weekly column “Cross Exam,” Elie Honig, a CNN legal analyst and former federal and state prosecutor, gives his take on the latest legal news. Watch Honig answer reader questions on “CNN Newsroom with Ana Cabrera” at 5:40 p.m. CNN — During the House Intelligence Committee’s investigation of President Donald Trump’s effort to pressure Ukraine into announcing an investigation of the Bidens, the committee issued 71 subpoenas and requests for information. And just one of those documents – an e-mail from Michael Duffey, a Trump appointee who served in the Office of Management and Budget, to other OMB and Pentagon officials – gives us a tantalizing look at the administration’s efforts to withhold foreign aid to Ukraine, and to cover up its own conduct. Elie Honig Jeremy Freeman Duffey – one of four witnesses requested by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer in Trump’s upcoming Senate impeachment trial – sent the e-mail roughly 90 minutes after Trump’s July 25 phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. Clearly, somebody in the White House who was senior to Duffey told him to make sure to hold back foreign aid to Ukraine – and did it right after Trump’s call with Zelensky.