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Knocked down that argument. contrary to the president's arguments, the committee possesses authority under both the house rules and the constitution to issue the subpoena. the committee was engaged in a legitimate legislative investigation. trump will almost certainly appeal the ruling. here to talk about all of it tonight, josh gers steen for politico and barbara mcwade is still around to take more questions. barbara, this is a statute that allows the house to do this. this is going to be tough to fight, but the folks watching tonight i am guessing have two questions. how long would an appeal...

Goes. i think pete laid it out perfectly. we know what we might expect in this. i think we'll have to see what comes up with that. the only other thing we might hear about here today is that the plea agreement and the cooperation agreement involving paul manafort was signed in this court, not in judge ellis's court. although all the information, the lying to the grand jury and the lies to prosecutors and the fbi, all that information was presented to the judge in virginia, judge ellis, but it was in this court that all of this kind of came together. we'll have to see here today whether or not ...

Grand jury. there is an escalating concern that the president is vulnerable on the question of witness tampering, and the questions of obstruction of justice. >> he's not the first president who lies. but he's the most prolific liar to ever be president. and when you unpack all of this, the incapacity to be questioned about anything and give truthful answers, either because you just can't help yourself from lying pathologically, which may be the case with trump. but also because what's likely to be the truth is so incriminating here. every single representation that they have made as a white h...

Ashley parker. barbara, take us through some of the more important moments of today's testimony. >> reporter: well, some of the testimony that rick gates gave was very tedious, walking through financial documents. they showed him e-mails, bank records, invoices and other things, which corroborated his testimony. he kind of connected the dots from all the things we've seen that shows paul manafort was using earnings hidden in bank accounts to pay his own expenses. when the money ran out, he started engaging in bank fraud because he needed cash. i thought that went very well. some of the things ...

Should push sanctions against russia for investigating -- for influencing our elections and now i'm going to ignore our own department of justice which says, hey, this has something to do with that prohe is is. this speaks to a president who is absolutely dead set against following anything that has to do with the safety of the country. that's what's dangerous about this. >> i would also say that as the people in the media, we have to remember we run -- i was on a campaign last year where the irresponsible use of classified information was a central tenet why we shouldn't elect hillary clinton...