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Throughout this process. throughout that opinion, the judge notes that democrats are, in fact, having a legitimate impeachment inquiry. something that the white house, the white house councils office, has said is not the case, given -- using that as their rationale for not complying with witness requests, for document requests. so that is one piece of this. giving validity to the fact that even though they have not held a formal floor vote as to whether or not to launch an impeachment inquiry, t...

Definitely because as julia just said, undercut the republicans argument. theyre saying that because there is no formal impeachment inquiry vote, then they dont have to comply with the democrats document requests or they can try to block people from coming in to testify. so the judge said, no, there doesnt need to be a formal vote. and the impeachment inquiry is under way. okay. so does this complicate things for democrats? it actually could because we know the house speaker nancy pelosi and a l...

Case. not only that the president was trying to press ukraine to help him investigate his enemies but now with mick mulvaneys very, very strange press conference and actual con fregz fession to pro quo. again, starts to make some of these document requests, starts to make their decision to stonewall and stall and try to fight the inquiry almost beside the point because mulvaney has basically confessed to a crime. >> glen, putting on your prosecutor hat here, was this week an embarrassment of ric...

Can try to press their case, which i assume that they will do at some point, but i think that what is important to note is even without the documents from the white house, even without information from rick perry, from mick mulvaney, the investigators on the hill are still building a very compelling case. not only that the president was trying to press ukraine to help in investigating the enemies, but now with mick mulvaneys very, very big press conference and confession to a quid pro quo, so pr...

Now we talked to a spokesman for the former congressman pete sessions. he says that he is cooperating with the u.s. attorney in new york who is handling this investigation. well be providing these documents, but jim and poppy, its clear this investigation is moving full steam ahead. especially as it pertains to rudy giuliani because we reported last week that his financial dealings with these two men who were arrested last week are also under scrutiny. so a lot happening in the southern district...

This was alleged it was a work-around to hide foreign money in american politics, trace. >> trace: team fox coverage continues. lets go to chad purgum. explain where we stand in the fight of holding a formal vote on the impeachment process. >> there were some rumblings. some democrats think it would be a good idea. the administration has been resistant to comply with any document requests or witnesses saying this hasnt been formalized as was the case with appreciate in 1974 and nixon. i posed th...

Department has been very careful about not having current officials not do this. >> it might seem counter-intuitive, but our understanding is she was ready to be cooperative and she was ready to come in. and there is a fear that the white house -- and theyve done this in previous house committee depositions, they told officials they cannot comply with document requests, cant comply with subpoenas. that gives her the leverage she needs if they tell her she cannot show up. this happened last week ...

Happened in the last 24 hours. first off, the upcoming week will be a big one for the investigation, four current or former administration officials set to testify. but there could be another. a fifth former ukraine ambassador bill taylor was asked to appear before congress. his team now negotiating a date for that. heres the impeachment inquiry by the numbers on this saturday. today, as said, it is day 19 of the inquiry. congress has so far secured depositions from five people. theyve levied te...

They are making the document requests. and the idea the white house can refuse to produce all documents, can refuse to produce all witnesses in the entire executive branch, i just cant imagine any court will give that the time of day. although it could succeed in delaying. >> right. >> proceedings for quite a few weeks if not months. >> governor what would you recommend. >> anderson. >> the the question on that. >> i was going to say the question on that is if the full house votes for inquiry, m...

The vicissitudes of political cycles. >> and so now trey gowdy is expected to help the white house in their efforts as weve seen to essentially stonewall congressional requests, anderson. >> jeff, what a difference a couple of years and, you know, going into private practice make. >> well, and whos ox is gored? i mean the core argument made in this letter is that, you know, an impeachment inquiry can only take place if the full house votes for it. there was such a vote regarding the nixon inquir...