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He's facing significant jail time. and so i'm not sure that the u.s. government, the justice department gets much more out of sort of an additional count of conviction. i'm not sure it's worth it. you need to tell congress the truth. they have an important oversight function, but i don't think he'll be prosecuted for lying to congress. i would like the congressman noted see michael cohen called babbli back and answer a whole bunch of questions because he has more to tell. >> thank you both for spending some of the hour with us. we're grateful. when we come back, republican leaders give their c...

President trump is unacceptable. he needs to understand that and he has not been brooiefed on wh happened. many of us are needing to find out a setting. >> we have a oversight function in the congress, and we asked for information. we know there is source material through the interpreter. we are not interesting in violating confidences, but we need to know what happened. we should get that information. >> the american public looks forward to hearing what happened in there as well. senate ben cardin, thank you, great to have you on "new day." >> the washington post reporting that president trum...

Important meeting? >> it's really shocking that the director of national intelligence does not know what happened in helsinki in the meeting between the president and president putin. that's absolutely amazing. he need to have that intelligence information in order to do his job. yet he doesn't know what happened in that room. that's why as an oversight function of the united states senate, it's absolutely essential that we have the information about what happened in the meeting between mr. putin and president trump. we have not been briefed as to what happened in that room. when secretary pom...

A founding partner at f3, public affairs press secretary for house republicans with roy blunt, and antoine c wright, a democratic strategist and the founder of ceo blueprint strategy. great to have you. i will start with you on the latest move, contempt of congress over impeachment. >> i think that if you look at this, if you look at how the legislative process, that can be messy. in the united states that process can be messy. the oversight function can be even more messy. so what you are looking at now, a lot of this is a little bit of grandstanding to stay in the news and keep the topic top...

Starting in the legislative branch to hit russia where it hurts which is the oil and gas sector. president trump won't do that by himself. we saw what happened in helsinki. republicans can do that working with the democrats and i think it's a shot of getting through. >> what's also interesting, amanda, what president trump is doing is so at odds with not only what republicans on capitol hill believe and his own national security advisers want. john bolton is one of the strongest russia hawks throughout and surprising that he is now the national security adviser to this president saying and doi...