this friday. meantime the house intelligent committee releasing its report to its members a little bit later today, a vote to approve that report set for tomorrow. that will officially pass all of this on to the judiciary committee. democratic leaders want to wrap this thing up by christmas and that's fueling republican attacks leading into this high stakes week. let's begin this hour with our cnn congressional correspondent phil mattingly on the hill. good morning, phil. the white house says no thanks for wednesday. do you have a sense of the president's mindset going into the future hearings and they have to make that decision by friday? >> reporter: yeah, i think there may be a bit of a tell in the five-page letter the white house counsel sent to capitol hill last night where they called the impeachment inquiry partisan and baseless at various points that they may not want to participate. there is an upside for the white house to play ball here to some degree. the rules of the house and based on this impeachment inquiry allow the white house counsel to ask questions of witnesses, to present -- to do a presentation both in the opening and in conclusion of this process and