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Sondland tried to explain to me that president trump is a businessman, when a businessman is about to sign a check do someone who owes him something, he said, the businessman asks that person to pay up before signing the check." congressman welch, as you know, ambassador taylor then said, of course, ukraine owes donald trump nothing. is gordon sondland in danger of perjury charges for his testimony to your committee? >> i think he is. you know, when he presented himself, he was kind of a rich gu...

Also included an effort to prompt ukrainians to investigate vice president biden or his son. congressman, i saw one of your colleagues on your network a short while ago, peter welsh from vermont say it was his impression that sondland had been duped by rudy giuliani and the president. do you agree with that assessment? >> so i cant get into specific testimony, but based on his opening statement we dont know if he was duped or otherwise, but its true that he basically was directed to go to giulia...

Well, it does need to be a vehicle. but - i need this out of my house. (vo) with fair, transparent value for every trade-in... enterprise makes it easy. >> neil: we could be hearing from the president very soon. hes at a white house event. he might take questions or volunteer something. the inspector general michael atkinson before congress as we speak on this whole whistle-blower event. chad pergram outside while that is happening. what is the latest? >> a couple minutes ago, i saw peter welsh ...

Thank you for watching all the details there. joining us democratic congressman peter welsh of vermont. he is the democratic chief deputy whip. representative, thank you for being here with us on this evening. you heard what mike viqueira was saying. he said do not expect that the democratic side will be budging in general is what he was reporting. would you agree with that statement? >> well, i do. but i think the real issue here is the president hasnt indicated what his position is. when you l...

Did you see that editorial in the "new york times" today? they took out a full page to say if the president moves on mueller they worry about the democracy. >> well, chris, ive introduced a companion measure to the legislation that senators tillis, coons, graham and booker. i, along with peter welsh of vermont, i believe we need to protect the special prosecutor. it would be a terrible mistake for the president to fire him. it would be bad for the president, bad for republicans and bad for the a...

Votes and can pass this continuing resolution we wont have a shut down. thats good news. but theres bad news here. were four months into the budget here. this is the fourth continuing resoluti resolution. this is a killer for the pentagon trying to make plans, the agriculture department making plans. and a lot of us opposed to this think about be we should be voting on a budget. think if you were in vermont and said 30 days to the fire department, could they buy equipment or could the police dep...

Blinked. >> it does appear that way. i think one thing weve learned in this fan fort versus trump fight is donald trump does have the biggest bat in the republican party so maybe some of these guys are feeling nervous about going against the republican leadership. >> congressman? >> they did blink but they didnt make progress. you know, a shutdown, were all losers on that. the press could assess the blame game but america loses, thats the bottom line. we lose if we dont have a budget. and the re...

Flynn knows something that can put or will put donald trump in a very difficult position and so when comey says that there are things like that that he cant discuss but that flynn was indeed in jeopardy, then i think thats very troubling. but ill tell you, as much as were focused on flynn and focused on some of these ancillary issues that are still important, donald trump fired james comey by his own explanation because he didnt like the way the russia investigation was going. comey focused on t...

Through. i think what donald trump is going to do is start to think this through and realize there a lot of good things can you do. theres some things that tom price, the hhs secretary can do in a regulatory way, there might be individual things he can do that he can get members to agree with, this huge bill jammed through this quickly, it not going to work. and if the votes arent there in the senate, think if youre ahouse memba house member, do you want to cast a political vote that the hospita...

States concerned that president-elect trump may not be fully committed to their defense. this after trump campaigned vowing to consider a nato countrys contributions before coming to its aid. the senators head to latvia tomorrow. russian investigators are poring through the black box data recorder from the plane that crashed into the black sea, covered off the coast of sochi. a dozen remains of the 92 victims on board have been recovered so far. and check out the massive waterfalls flowing a...