president of ukraine, to investigate an american citizen, joe biden, who is president trump s political opponent. so you are calling, congressman, on ambassador sondland to step down, to resign from the state department altogether? by our nbc news count, only about a dozen other of your colleagues agree with you on this. if in fact sondland s resignation would allow him to be more candid, why hasn t there been a critical mass of your colleagues calling on him to do so? this is just unfolding in the last 35 minutes and i suspect that more and more democrats and i would hope republicans would join the core us of people calling for his resignation. he needs to put the american people above president trump s political agenda. this notion that the white house is going to control the process in the congressional oversight of wrongdoing by this president is absurd. we ve got a process in place. we ve got a house intelligence commit under the leadership of
know, get on the record behind closed doors with these investigators about his role in all of this. we know somebody who is paying attention to this is sitting in the white house right now, and that is president trump. who is tweeting about this new development just in the last couple of minutes here. fill us in on what he s saying? if you listen closely to matt gates at the top of the show, you may hear some overlap? reporter: right. it s clear that everyone is on the same sheet here. what you see from the president is him really owning this decision on twitter, not to have sondland actually go ahead and appear before the house commits. what we don t know is whether or not the president direct his secretary of state to make this decision. we had a preview of this about a week ago when we had those letters from pompeo laying out a long list of grievances on why he didn t think it was appropriate for state department officials to testify without their attorneys. but because we have
tough to hear that question, but he got asked, he walked away. he has political ambitions for himself, he thought that trump would help him get elected to the senate. he was part of the benghazi hearings in which they brought the secretary of state to testify for 11 hours. so it will be very difficult for them to thread this needle of why secretary clinton could do these things but pchl can t. you have this washington post impeachment poll that 58% of people support the impeachment inquiry. 49% say the house should then vote to remove president trump. this is a real flip from what we saw just a few months ago. is all of what we re talking about droiving that? absolutely. this is a part of leadership. as soon as democrats started showing that we were willing to conduct oversight and do their job in congress, people started to understand, ah-ha, there is something very wrong here. i think the mueller report, because it was focused on 2016, seemed to many people of rehashing the p
us. richard, let me start with you, talk through what you re hearing this morning from your sources on the ground there. reporter: so first of all, turkey is pushing back a little bit after president trump put out that tweet yesterday in which he said that in his unmatched wisdom it would be wise for turkey not to go too far because, if turkey launched a military offensive against the kurds beyond what he thought was morally acceptable, that trump would destroy and obliterate the tub oirk economy. i m not quoting it exactly. that was the gist of it. today the turkish vice president pushed back and said when it comes to matters of turkey s security, we set our limits and determine our priorities. so the world now is watching. u.s. troops in syria are watching. we are watching to see what turkey will do next. turkey believed that it got the green light from president trump in that sunday phone call
chairman schiff that are demanding that people and documents come to congress, come before congress so the american people understand why did president trump withhold military aid to a country that is being occupied by russia, one of our chief foes. why did president trump withhold aid? well, we know from a summery of a transcript, we know from a credible and urgent complaint made by a whistle-blower, that it had to do with advancing president trump s political agenda, which was to prevail in the 2020 election. the american people deserve to know, the ambassador sondland has important information. if he needs to resign, he should. i m calling on his resignation and i m certain that more and more members of congress will do the same in the next few in the time to come, the next few hours and days ahead. do you believe then, do you agree with chairman schiff what the administration is doing amounts to obstruction? absolutely. i think it does. if you look at the 1973 articles of imp