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Go through. i think it will happen and why forward and testify. youre seeing strength in the lets bring in todays stock market. >> sandra: you look at the business economists asked about the slowdown in hiring falling headliner former independent counsel ken star. to a seven-year low they talked the president said it before and saying it again. about the presidents tariffs, the whistleblower, its time to worsening business conditions testify. and import from china. will it happen? >> it may not....

The question on kupperman. what can you tell us about that? with the ties to john bolton it makes it very interesting. what do we need to know about all this this morning? >> kupperman, the president was asserting presidential privilege. the democrats were insisting that he come anyway because he had been subpoenaed. threatened to hold him in contempt. well see what kupperman does ultimately but today he has decided and through his attorneys that he is not going to come. and i think what this is...

Inquiry asking a court if he has to give a deposition or not. house democrats threaten to hold him in contempt but the white house says he has immunity. live reports from the white house and the hill on that breaking news coming up in a moment. p so many doors. its a lifelong adventure finding all of these new connections all the time. greater details. richer stories. and now with health insights. get your dna kit at ancestry.com.

They dont want to see a green is no impeachment proceeding new deal costing trillions of that the white house can dollars and a wealth tax. obstruct because the house hasnt voted on it. all of that is in the soup of >> those scholars have history uncertainty. >> sandra: a lot out there. and tradition on their side. >> by and large things are what they dont have on their side is the text of the going really well even with that uncertainty. constitution. and the text of the >> sandra: mondays with...

If this witness had something to say that would be helpful to the white house, they would want him to testify. they plainly dont. we are not willing to allow the white house to engage us in a lengthy game of rope-a-dope, so we press forward. >> announcing new strategies to try to prevent donald trumps stonewalling the impeachment probe. not only the full house vote but this new plan to confront witnesses who try to bail, including charles kupperman, trump official who went ahead and skipped a sc...

Mused about hanging his opponents. a handful of articles of impeachment, johnson shows how congress can go big and throw everything, including the kitchen sink, at a president. he was impeached on 11 different articles, really some that sounded like opinions being, like the view that he brought contempt, ridicule and disgrace on his office. johnson actually came closest to setting conviction, within one vote on one of what turned out to be one of the broadest articles against him, which tried to...

Actually have garrett haake on the hill. garrett, ill go to you first. i was struck by listening to adam schiff, the house intel chair. he didnt seem like he was holding out hope that charles kupperman would come back before the committee. he says were going to move forward and draw an adverse inference to this absence. well assume that the underlying claim is true and that they might try to hold kupperman in contempt. >> reporter: thats right. weve heard the democrats talk about this possibilit...

Democrats are gearing up for another busy week of testimony in the impeachment inquiry. house democrats are threatening to hold charles cuperman in contempt after he filed a lawsuit asking a judge whether hes obliged to testify. he is one of the diplomats scheduled to give depositions this week. house intel chairman adam schiff suggests that democrats are making rapid progress in the impeachment inquiry. sources tell cnn that acting secretary of state phillip reeker testified on saturday that he...

Them in the white house for obstructing the investigation. former white house deputy national security scheduled to testify monday but friday asked if he should comply with the subpoena or follow president trumps direction for immunity. in the letter the head of the intelligence committee called it an obvious and desperate tactic by the president to delight and obstruct the lawful constitution to still evidence from the impeachment inquiry. in one government he could be held in contempt if he do...

President trumps direction to assert immunity. in a letter due to his attorneys last night, the heads of the committees called it, quote, ab obvious and desperate tactic by the president to delay and obstruct the lawful, constitutional functions of congress and conceal evidence about his conduct from the impeachment inquiry and warned cupperman that he could be held in contempt if he doesnt appear. on fox news sunday, democratic congressman eric swalwell said any efforts to block testimony only ...