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Easy as donald trump makes it look. here is congressman peter welch on this program three weeks ago when we first discovered the contradictions between ambassador taylor's testimony and gordon sondland's testimony. is gordon sondland in danger of perjury charges for his testimony to your committee? >> i think he is. >> he keeps it simple. joining us now is democratic republican congressman peter welch. he took part in today's hearing. and neal kattyal is with us. what does it add to what could be a perjury case against gordon sondland? >> he's already had one do over, but you have this person ...

Of limitations, and i know the trump administration has gotten used to a fake attorney general who doesn't look at and investigate when there's wrongdoing by members of the executive branch. but this is five-year statute of limitations. and i'll tell you, lawrence, any attorney general -- i don't care if they're republican or democrat -- will look at this and be, deeply, deeply concerned. they'd look into this and look into it even if the president told them not to. that's what holder did for example into the cia investigation of abuse. so sondland has to come forward next week and say either ...

Possibility of there being a democratic attorney general in not so long down the road and that these cases are all live cases going into the next administration, possible criminal cases. so if gordon sondland is going to be making phone calls to tru donald trump, he might want to be talking about a pardon. >> absolutely. i think if you're gordon sondland right now you have a lot to worry about. and by the way, lawrence, i think it's true even if it's another attorney general who comes in. i think any fair minded attorney general will look at this and say oh, really, you forgot a conversation y...

President thought. the real problem with that is democrats say, look, we want all those people to come in, trump to come in, bolton to come in, documents and e-mails. and what are you doing, mr. president, you've issued an e-mail that says no executive branch employee can come in and testify to congress and tell the truth. you've said no documents can be turned over. that's the way king george iii behaved when we fought the revolution. >> and congressman peter welch, thank you for joining us tonight. very important for us to have you here tonight where i know for a fact you are a here amongst ...

Because jim jordan has been getting away with his stunts in hearings for as long as people have been watching him in his hearings without the suit coat on. so we've shown it once already, but with you here i want to show it once again. let's just take a look at this. >> there is one witness, one witness they won't bring in front of us. they won't bring in front of the american people, and that's the guy who started it all whe, the whistle-blower. >> i'd say to my colleague i'd be glad to have the person who started it all come in and testify. president trump is welcome to come in and take a se...