wouldn t the white house want him to show up and tell possibly the president s side of the story? it is a good question. i think that is not clear yet. clearly it was a last minute decision and calculation of theirs that they potentially don t want to create the precedent of complying at all with there investigation. one thing sondland could do which we re not seeing, a lot of house democrats have called on him to resign. and like kurt stroll kerr who d kurt volker did resign, so he would be free to speak to these congressional hearings.kerr who kurt volker did resign, so he would be free to speak to these congressional hearings. he has not chosen to do that sgln and wh. and this isn t the first example of shadow diplomacy. to the extend that president trump does what he does so it normalizes it, he has in fact created a world both on the defense front and on the diplomatic front where there is sort of the shadow activity
concerned about krupg corruptio other places particularly ukraine. no, there is not and nor are is there significant interest from this president regarding corruption in the government of the united states which is what has frustrated so much of his critics on the right and on the left that make them believe that this was politically motivated, that it really wasn t about getting to the bottom of illicit activity, but it was about interfering in the 2020 election in a way that could benefit him and harm his main opponent. guys, good to talk to you about this. thank you for joining us, peter and eugene. now we ll move from this inquiry to calls for impeachment because they are growing louder and louder in the wake of that phone call from president trump and the ukranian president. overall, 162 house democrats 163 now. the number is moving quickly.
in there as to why the white house didn t express to anyone in congress and remember, it got bipartisan support, this $400 million to be sent to be military aid to ukraine. why wouldn t the white house have expressed to any members of congress we re going to hold off to make sure none of this money is being misused? i can t imagine anyone saying that is a bad idea. reporter: you re right, that was congressionally mandated money. aid that was to be delivered to ukraine. and you talk about the evolving explanations, they have evolved dramatically in the course of just the last 24 hours or so. initially the president s argument here was that the reason that he had been he delayed that money, didn t give in a money to ukraine, is to make sure that they were looking into bureaucratic corruption within the ukranian government and he intersected that with the need for an investigation into joe biden and his son hunter biden.
democratic members. 3:00 today, we ll hear, we re not going to hear from her. she s going to meet with committee chairs. at 3:30, meet with house leadership and at 4:00, she s going to meet with her caucus after which we re expecting a statement from her. also expecting to hear from joe biden sometime in the next hour or so. elizabeth warren, i want to switch to the campaign for a minute has had a breakout summer and her campaign is out with her fall strategy. we ll talk about that ahead, plus new 2020 polling has just come out for new hampshire. the state of the race there in moments. e state of the race then moments. i didn t have to shout out for help. i didn t have to get you a lift. and i didn t have to call your wife to meet you at the doctor. because you didn t have another dvt. not today. we discussed how having one blood clot puts you at risk of having another,. .so we chose xarelto®, to help keep you protected. xarelto®, is proven to treat and reduce the risk of dvt
volatility and risk. instability. all right. reminder, next few hours will be critical to this story concerning president trump and ukraine. next hour, we ll hear joe biden and house speaker nancy pelosi and later today, the house leadership is expected to meet. we should have more clarity then. and we will bring to you as we get it. right now as we just mentioned, as of last count, 165 house democrats out of 235 say they support some form of impeachment action. you are watching velshi and ruhle. shrimp yeah!