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Adam schiff says they may be held in contempt. >> i think we can infer from the white house opposition to his testimony that they believe his testimony would be incriminating to the president. >> reporter: republicans say he is willing to testify if the court rules he must comply with the subpoena. republicans selling off after house speaker nancy pelosi announces a vote to formalize the impeachment inquiry against donald trump. on thursday lindsey graham defending the president and comparing th...

Richard goodstein is the former advisor to bill and hillary clinton. can we just dispense this sad psychodrama here, do you think its plausible that the former vice president called barack obama and said, please dont endorse me. >> he said that back in april when he announced -- lets keep this in perspective. ronald reagan did not endorse george w. bush may 1998 after it was clear he would become the dominate. when dwight eisenhower was asked to tell about richard nixons accomplishments as he wa...

Couple days. rob: air quality in san francisco and la, they are keeping kids home. >> they have smoke advisories. carley: a national security council expert will testify on the hill in the democrats impeachment inquiry. army lieutenant colonel alexander vinman will express concerns over the call between donald trump and ukraine after deputy national security adviser charles cover men ignored his subpoena to testify. house intelligence chair adam schiff says he may be held in contempt. >> i think...

Approval. so they are in a deeper hole then we started. but our strategy was to portray the prosecutor as a prissy, partisan, pompous prosecutor. >> but history will judge this not well. they judgment not well. this ones self to, lets go to court and have dislocated. went to go to court, you are in contempt. >> harris: the power panel, judy miller, adjunct fellow. fox news contributor and a pulitzer prize winning journalist. dan dan henninger, "wall street journal" editorial page w editor and a ...

Campaign was concerning the newly electricity ukrainian president. in fact it was even before the ukrainian president was sworn in. today, the former deputy security adviser defied a subpoena to appear before the house. house democrats warning he would be held in contempt. last week you might remember, he filed lawsuit asking the judge to decide whether she listen to the subpoena or to the white house orders he not testify. now, kupperman is interesting because he would have been the first perso...

Campaign was concerning the newly elected ukrainian president. in fact it was even before the ukrainian president was sworn in. today, the former deputy national security adviser defied a subpoena to appear before the house. house democrats warning he would be held in contempt. last week you might remember, he filed lawsuit asking the judge to decide whether she listen to the subpoena or to the white house orders he not testify. now, kupperman is interesting because he would have been the first ...

Constitutional claim. a lawful congressional subpoena. just within the last few days it is president trump and every the district court has ruled president before him. that the impeachment inquiry is valid. witnesses like dr. kupperman the real questions v become qu need to do their duty and show the former national security adviser defies a subpoena, what up. i want to compliment the nine actually happens next. other witnesses who met similar lawmakers in a response to chuck opposition from the...

>> we have what are calls the three amigos. >> gordon sondland has referenced perry as one of three officials and kurt volker who were in charge of the policy toward ukraine and he said he asked the president to make the phone call because it was important for the energy needs and had nothing to do with the bidens. meanwhile vice president pence is towing the white house line, denying any quid pro quo that predicated military aid or a white house meeting on ukraines promise to investigate the 20...

There is the legal track. they can hold him in contempt. they can also go the court related to the lawsuit filed by charles kuppermans lawyer on friday saying that the court needed to adjudicate a fight between two branches of government. democrats made clear that will not postpone, stall the inquiry under way. theyve had nine witnesss, most of whom were subpoenaed and asked by the white house not to testify, come in and testify in those closed-door depositions. there will be more this week. i t...

Immunity says that this kupperman can fight this and doesnt need -- and shouldnt go in. h whos right here? >> the answer is this hardly ever happen, so were not sure. the position of community has been taken by white houses and departments of justice going back for quite a while. one federal district court has said that, you know, that immunity doesnt apply. chairman schiff raises what i think will be the first issue that the court will have to decide, can a court even get involved at this point...