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Of this great country as long as i serve in this position for whatever period of time that may be. i want to make it clear that i have upheld my responsibility to follow the law every step of the way in the matter that is before us today. i want to also state my support for the whistle-blower and the rights and the laws. whistle blowing has a history in our country dating back to the continental congress. this is not surprising, because as a nation, we desire for good government. therefore, we must protect those who demonstrate courage to report alleged wrongdoing whether on the battlefield or...

There were to be a conviction, or a plea, plead guilty, then obviously the ethics committee would follow up after that. but if there's some kind of conviction, typically the member will end up resigning. >> okay. okay. just tell me, as a former member of congress, what sort of seminars orientations would members of congress have to sit through just to know that this is something you don't do? >> well, we do provide ethics training for members but it often talks about things like separating your campaign from your official business. making sure you have strong firewalls. how you treat your empl...

Offices. and believe me, there's all kinds of shenanigans that go on late night unfortunately. in the summers, when interns would come in, they would call it skin-tern season and i've witnessed a couple of congressmen who were younger than some others, that would have a good old time at local spots on capitol hill with women that were not their wives. >> do you think lawmakers are being held to a different standard than anything else accused of behavior like this? >> i think because it's such a good old boys network for so long, that that standard has what's been prevalent for so long. but i t...

His country. the leader says he cannot make any definitive promise to visit the u.s. because he's currently tide up. >> president trump and russian president vladimir putin set to speak by telephone this afternoon. it will be their third conversation since trump took office and the first since putin denounced the u.s. for its missile strike last night. all this amid-questions over ties between the trump campaign and the kremlin. the fbi and several committees in capitol hill are investigating. the white house has turned down multiple offers to receive ethics training for its staff. according...

We are waiting for attorney general jeff sessions to speak amid calls he should resign, others saying he should recuse himself from the investigation. we will bring it to you live, but first we are learning days before trump took office, the administration turned down ethics training, they had ordered that for incoming staff to their administrations. dan, tell us what this training -- i think a lot of people don't even know this is something administrations have access to. so tell us what the training is and why the trump transition