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Investigation. and now, the drafting of articles of impeachment. weve been in court in both financial services and chair woman waters and other committees have been successful. the courts agree, co-equal branch of the judiciary agree that the president in blocking subpoenas, blocking release of financial statements, has abused hir o h his power. >> is this gonna happen before you guys leave? you know, are you gonna get the government funded and these articles voted on and be home for christmas? ...

Protection. >> that is right, this is a strategy that the president has employed. they have ignored subpoenas for documents, they have nothing to do with ukraine for the past few months, but democrats are saying that the president not only ignoring these subpoenas and telling people they cannot appear, he is em bploying anoth tactic. he did it for republican and democratic presidents and they see it as a form of trying to scare people off from talking to these investigators. this is likely to be...

The speed that richard painter was just cribe describing and what would be the next steps of the subpoenas if the state department were not to answer? >> i think that is the strategy of the white house is, to delay, delay, delay, if they can slow-walk it and get ag past the 2020 election, i think they consider that a victory. i think the only recourse congress has is to go to the courts and enforce these subpoenas. i think they will be successful if they can get a ruling on the substance and of ...

Biden. so i guess the status of the trade negotiations is china can dump anything it wants, any manufactured goods it wants into the united states, so long as they also export some manufactured stories about joe biden. this is very dangerous for the united states, the president behaving this way, and he needs to be impeached. the full house, needs to vote on articles of impeachment and prosecute this case in the senate and keep those subpoenas flying and anything who doesnt comply with the subpo...

Whistle-blower as a partisan person who should not be believed, who has hearsay and second-hand information, having someone else come out and corroborate that information i think undermines some of those arguments. >> hans, as we know, the state department, mike pompeo, did not meet the deadline, for the subpoenas that were issued to him. whats next? what are the ramifications? >> we dont know what ramifications are for missing these subpoenas. it basically gets down to standoff between separati...

Articles of impeachment, one of them might be for blocking subpoenas and that, this subpoena, for this stuff, will be something that ties the ukraine scandal directly into that larger pattern. >> mary, quickly, plain view. this president, saying things in plain view. maybe hoping that therefore, it inoculates what is actually happens. >> it seems strategic, doesnt it? where you come out and say what youre doing and it allows you to come back to the other end and said yes were open about this. >>...

Messaging should be that the president is engaged in a cover-up. thats the argument that they believe that the white house is doing in terms of invoking executive privilege, blocking subpoenas, not complying with their demands. that is one area where the democrats are largely united. theyre not united about impeaching this president. the speaker herself very clear in her caucus this morning that she wants to pursue the route of investigations, take time to play out, not open up a formal impeachm...