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Will not be sending an attorney to that hearing. cipollone spent much of the five-page letter he sent to nadler on sunday night complaining about the house democrats impeachment process so far. for example, complaining that the president and administration witnesses have been denied due process, but specifying that the white house would not be taking this opportunity to have representation at wednesdays hearing. again, the first in the judiciary committee throughout this impeachment process. i w...

So a lot of people would suggest, well, this is sort of a waste of everybodys time and taxpayer money, and there are political consequences of that as well, arent there? >> well, the political consequences are unclear. its certainly animating for a portion of the republican base, but you also have to bear in mind that this impeachment process is considerably more popular according to public polling than either the clinton process or the nixon process if you go back to 1974. so you actually have ...

Keel as. he is an associate of a think tank. good to have you with us. president trump and his lawyers will not participate in wednesdays impeachment hearings, insisting the process at least is unfair. are they right or wrong on that point, and how much of this is about trying to avoid legitim e legitimizing the impeachment process? >> i think its entirely about trying to avoid legitimizing the impeachment process. theres been a calculation throughout while the narrative around the president cer...

Security affairs for the u.s. senate. and we oversee the federal government and we rely on whistle-blowers to come forward, to say something is not right here. then we go in and investigate to determine whether or not it is true. whistle-blowers are absolutely essential to keep the federal government accountable to the american people. its something that has to be protected, has to be safeguarded. whistle-blowers already take a tremendous risk when they come forward. they risk their jobs, their ...

>> reporter: the white house responded sunday evening to house judiciary chairman jerry nadlers offer to let the white house have a lawyer present at wednesdays judiciary committee hearing. white house counsel pat cipollone saying the white house will not be sending an attorney to that hearing. cipollone spent much of the five-page letter he sent to nadler on sunday night complaining about the house democrats impeachment process so far. for example, complaining that the president and administrat...

Judiciary committee begins its impeachment process, four witnesses, eld man, harvard law school, pamela, stanford law school and jonathan turley from the george washington law school. feldman. what do you anticipate we will learn? >> i think this will be less of what we saw -- very unlike what we saw of the 12 witnesses who testified before the house intelligence committee. those are fact witnesses, some had firsthand knowledge and some did not but told a story with respect to what the president...

I never talked to him from a position of quid pro quo. hes now taking that and saying that president zelensky did nothing wrong which is not true. the second part as you read earlier is saying that if your strategic partner, you cant go blocking aid for us. the president is cherry picking parts of the interview that he believes will help him. you have to look at everything that the ukrainian leader said in that interview. >> absolutely. you had david holmes and his testimony whos the political a...

One key judiciary republican told me it might be quite a fight. >> a bunch of brawlers sometime, so it could get pretty hot and under the caller as we go along. i dont think things have been done the way theyve been done in the past, so it causes some rancor and it should be much more feisty i would say than the intel committee. >> some republicans say they might be to president trumps advantage to have his attorneys present, the white house as it does not intend to participate in wednesdays hea...

Can bet theyre going to be asking the president any opportunity about impeachment while he is over in the u.k. >> even impeachment process has begun and the president travels abroad, the international press in the u.s. press are going to be interested, but secretary pompeo has an excellent point. the meeting in london has been scheduled for a long time. why was it essential for jerry nadler, the chairman of the house judiciary committee to call the hearing while the president of the united state...

Distract americas president from his important mission overseas, keeping the american people safe and secure, i regret that theyve chosen to hold these hearings at the same time that the president and our entire national security team will be traveling to europe to london to work on these important matters. is very unfortunate. >> dana: this is the first time weve seen an impeachment process underway while the president was traveling overseas. reminded of this this morning back in 1998. watch. >...