happening on the hill, the intelligence community watch dog that received the whistle-blower complaint meeting behind closed doors with the house intelligence committee. we re also know learning what the former special envoy to ukraine told lawmakers in his meeting yesterday and not to be ignored, ukraine s top prosecutor says his office will review the investigation into the gas company linked to biden s song. we have team fox coverage to help you out. mike emanuel is on the hill. first, let s go to john roberts live on the north lawn. john, walk us through the letter that the white house is sending pelosi. seems strategic to me. yeah, i think it is. i mean, some people might say the president is trying to call nancy pelosi s bluff. first of all, let me tell you, i m told that that letter is to not likely be transmitted today to nancy pelosi. there s still an outside chance. looks more like monday. let s lay out the case for this letter. the white house and other departments have be
let me tell you, i m only interested in corruption. i don t care about politics. i don t care about biden s politics. i never thought biden was going to win. this is about corruption, this is not about politics. this is about corruption. back to this whole idea of the letter and the white house withholding any response to a subpoena to a full vote in the house on impeachment. it s a game of brinksmanship here. one of the things is house is considering an article of impeachment regarding obstruction. so if the white house continues to stonewall, they might lay that on the president. john roberts is at the white house. thank you. thank you. dana: team fox coverage continues. mike emanuel is on the other end of pennsylvania avenue on capitol hill. mike, what s going on up there? good afternoon. fox news has learned that the
damage. he resigned abruptly after the whistleblower complaint remained public. today, he testifies as a private citizen. all of this as the clock ticks for the white house to had all documents related to his contacts with ukraine. if they don t get them, house democrats say tomorrow they will issue a subpoena. they will warn, if the white house doesn t hand them over, that would be considered obstruction of justice. four days, the president and his allies have been suggesting that the whistleblower or their sources got something wrong. that the president didn t really ask ukraine to invest his political rival, that the complaint is total affection. today, the president did exactly what he is accused of doing come at this time on live television. this time, he asked the totalitarian government of china to investigate as well. at the trade talk is scheduled for next week. we have team fox coverage with more on today s hearing.
opinion. shepard: a spy. for his part, president trump insist his conversation with the ukrainian leader was perfect. the white house released a memo of the conversation. the president today called it a word for word transcript. the white house reports officially it is not an exact verbatim transcript. earlier house intelligence committee chairman adam schiff told reporters that president trump s comments about the whistle-blower put that person s safety at risk. this is a blatant effort to intimidate witnesses. it s an incitement of violence. i would hope and we are starting to see members of both parties speaking out against attacking this whistle-blower or others. shepard: all of this as house democrats ramp up their impeachment inquiry, demanding more documents from the white house about president trump s dealings with foreign leaders. we have team fox coverage for the nation s capital. mike emanuel with the latest. rich edson with an update from the state department.
i reported for the house foreign affairs committee subpoenaed secretary pompeo last week for documents related to that exact call. the deadline for those documents to be turned over is friday. secretary pompeo has not yet indicated whether he will cooperate. meantime, the republican senator of iowa, chuck grassley, says the whistle-blower who filed the original complaint deserves to be heard and that the person s identity should be protected, as is required by law. president trump says he should be able to face his accuser. as for the whistle-blower, our senior producer for capitol hill, chad pergram, reporting that house lawmakers are trying to hear from the whistle-blower next week. most likely not on capitol hill but at a secret location in order to protect the accuser safety and identity. we have team fox coverage. john roberts live at the white house, first to rich edson live at the state department. it is still unclear whether any of these five current or former diplomats from