acknowledge that. i ve had it with this guy. what he did is unacceptable. nobody can defend that, and nobody should defend it. i ve had it with this guy. it s true. what he did was unacceptable. nobody could. i ve had it with this guy. what he did was again, kevin, he lies. he gets caught lying. then he lies again about hiss original lies. again, i take it back to 2017 when it came out that he, in 2016, had told house leaders that donald trump was on the take. he was getting money from vladimir putin. putin was paying trump and dana rohrabacher, in his opinion. he said, swear to god, i think it is happening. he lied about that. he was shown a transcript. he said the transcript was fake news. then they played him the tape. then he said, oh, never mind. despite those words, donald trump told the wall street journal friday his relationship with mccarthy was in tact because mccarthy quickly changed
breach of the rooms. it is bizarre, isn t it, that he is kind of saying he didn t do anything wrong, he was within the rules. he s accepting the fine. a lot of people pointing out he could appeal the fine if he doesn t think he broke any rules. exactly. the prime minister has said he respects the decision. he accepts the understanding that he did break the rules, the laws that he put forward and put in place, but he has maintained that he didn t understand at the time that the actions of he and his colleagues in downing street could amount to that s a defense under the code. if he didn t intentionally do it here, he couldn t be responsible. he didn t knowingly mislead house leaders intentionally.
for president putin. by the way, that call doesn t have to be made today. it could be next week, could be next month. jim sciutto in kyiv, we re going to see you at the top of the hour. thanks so much for your reporting. thank you. and joining us now is the house foreign affairs committee chairman congressman gregory meeks. he led a congressional delegation to ukraine, he met with president zelensky as well. sir, thank you so much for being with us this morning at this critical juncture here. you also you and other house leaders had a briefing from jake sullivan, the president s national security adviser, did you like what you hear, do you feel like you re getting all the information that you need? i think that the administration is doing a tremendous job at threading the needle. they re being accessible to members and letting us know what is going on. and number two, they are serious about plan a and plan b. they re putting their foot forward and trying to let the diplomacy
run by a well-known far right white nationalist and something who the january 6 select committee wants information from and promoting this america first far right policies for sometime with ties to the former trump administration and so that s where gosar and greene were at this weekend. they spoke and they also spoke at the cpac conference and well embedded in the republican party but the only two republicans to attend this far right convention. thank you. let s bring in former republican congressman carlos carvelo. good afternoon. good afternoon. i wonder your reaction. i want to highlight an important point. mitch mcconnell has a long history of staying in his lane and of asking republican house
made it clear we will not be part of subsidizing putin s war. that was president joe biden earlier today, making it clear that today s oil ban will deliver a harsh blow to vladimir putin and the russian economy. house speaker nancy pelosi taking the president s words a step further today, announcing that the house would vote today on a bill to ban russian oil imports in conjunction with the president s executive action. house leaders expect that bill to be passed with bipartisan support. let s bring into our conversation congresswoman barbara lee of california. she serves as the chair of the house appropriations subcommittee on state and foreign operations. she s also the former chair of the congressional black caucus. congresswoman, first, your reaction to the president s announcement. obviously, house moving to take its own action. sure, that was the right decision to make. when you see what putin is doing in terms of this war that he started, these crimes against