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Well, it does need to be a vehicle. but - i need this out of my house. (vo) with fair, transparent value for every trade-in... enterprise makes it easy. >> neil: we could be hearing from the president very soon. he's at a white house event. he might take questions or volunteer something. the inspector general michael atkinson before congress as we speak on this whole whistle-blower event. chad pergram outside while that is happening. what is the latest? >> a couple minutes ago, i saw peter welsh from vermont come back in. there's a lot of back and forth in the meeting with atkinson about the w...

Happened with -- with ukraine. >> to that nebraska senator ben sass a republican told an omaha newspaper hold up. americans don't look to chinese communists for the truth. the president is expected to board marine one for a trip to the walter reed medical hospital to visit wounded warriors. >> bill: back with you in a moment. >> sandra: now to capitol hill awaiting the intelligence community inspector general michael atkinson to arrive for a closed door meeting for the house intel committee. we have more on that. >> good morning. the landscape has entirely changed since atkinson was on the hil...

Democrats want more information from atkinson about the evidence he used to determine that the whistleblower's complaint was credible. republicans want more information about the procedure, whether it was followed. whether the whistleblower had direct or indirect knowledge of the phone call, and more specifically, they want information about the timeline. now that we have confirmation the whistleblower first reached out to the house-controlled intelligence committee prior to officially filing the complaint. and what we understand from our reporting is that we're now looking at a time frame of ...

Alerting the intelligence community and intelligence committee about what is a criminal act. >> the repaired marks with thursday's session with kurt volker shows he drew a distinct and between rudy giuliani's investigation and u.s. government policy stating, "mayor giuliani continues to have a negative view of ukraine based on assertions of acting as that in 2016 and this viewpoint is likely making its way to the president. i clear that mayor giuliani does not speak for the u.s. government." text messages indicate the discussion over the president's july 25th phone call reached a fevered pitch...

Than that. the fact of the matter is, whistle-blowers do come to committee. it's not out of the realm of protocol. it's not inappropriate, per se. however, the path forward becomes a little bit problematic, particularly in the context of impeachment. is that the committee that should be pursuing impeachment inquiry? i don't think it is, i think it's entirely inappropriate. if you're actually going to do impeachment, why don't we put this on the floor into it properly? i think the reason is because it's a political exercise. it's not about trying to get justice. it's about trying to remove the ...