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Ukrainians work with him -- we do know the secretary of state pompeo was on that call. the state department has repeatedly denied that they -- that they set up -- or that they worked with -- they were asked by rudy giuliani to set up meetings there. we do know that kurt volker and sondland were working with the ukrainians to set up the meetings but there is no indication, anderson that mike pompeo was particle of that. pu he was certainly aware of the role that rudy giuliani was playing in essen...

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...

Administration officials was asked what criteria would democrats have to meet to trigger white house cooperation in this matter? and this official responded by saying that theyre not going to get into hypotheticals or a hypothetical situation. thats a clear signal at this point, intersection anderson they are ready to fight this out. the question becomes as it always has been with president trump is who is willing in this nations capital to try to curb his behavior as we saw during the mueller i...

Didnt believe them because he was putting more stock in what his outside attorney rudy giuliani had been telling him and the negative information. and then we know following that, anderson, the decision was made at the direction of the president to withhold ukraine aid and then eventually released. this raises more questions about that connection, keras. >> governor, kasich whats if going to take for other republicans on the hill to actually speak their minds on this? is it -- i mean, assuming t...

During his campaign. he adds, quote i suggest we stop the back and forth by text. tonight a source with knowledge tells cnn that before he sent that text, which sounds a lot like the presidents talking points, sondland in fact spoke with the president who told him exactly that, no quid pro quo. which which ironically the president somehow suggested exonerates. tweeting ambassador sondlands tweet which few reports stated i believe urine correct about the presidents intention no quid pro quo of an...

The oversight committee and raja krish th -- >> the white house clearly refuseding to cooperate, stone calling at the least. what are you and fully democrats doing in response. >> this is not unexpected, anderson. when the white house stone walls, they commit a grievuous error. you notice in an ordinary trial if you subpoena somebody or are called for a trial and you dont appear, then the presumption is against you. and you could be found guilty. it is the presidents prerogative not to appear. b...

Ambassador also involved. >> right. >> and this was very interesting. because it began to look as though there could have been some quid pro quo. thats what unwith of the text messages said. thats why i was interested in the testimony. anderson, what this gets down to it is this process trump made a terrible call. it needs to be investigated. i fully support the impeachment inquiry and all the facts need to come. and delay and ob fuse accusation isnt going to solve this. noticed the "washington ...

President. >> um-hum. >>en a then basically suddenly writes a text that compared to all the other texts he has been sending in the exchange it is as if its been read out to him or he wrote it down and its clearly the -- the same verbiage the white house has been using, the president has been using about no quid pro quo. and lets take the conversation off line. >> yeah, et cetera really an interesting development in the story, anderson that we are learning during those hours -- that five-hour gap...

But there are real things he has to answer for. and the conduct he has been doing, the direction he has been taking from the president is intervention in areas where there are critical national security interests, yeah. there is a lot id like to know from him. and i believe his behavior has been despicable, and the lies and half truths, the deception he has been doing at the direction of this president and beyond is unbecoming. and he should step before congress and answer for it. so, again, i w...

So, i mean, this seems to me an act of complete defines to the house of representatives. and the majority in the house is going to have to decide, are they fighting in court, which could take months or simply add this as another article of impeachment. >> governor, in the letter the white house claims the presidents claims the due process rights are circumvented and he has no choice but to not cooperate. do you buy that taufl. >> anderson, trump started all this with this outrageous call. this t...