fast-moving impeachment inquiry and while we've learned there is not expected to be a war room, we have also learned that the president's aides are expected to present him with a response plan as soon as this week. >> thank you, abby. let's chew over this with our experts. dana, let plea start with you. can secretary of state pompeo just ignore the demands from house democrats and what recourse do the house democrats have? >> the courts, which as we know from experience with the democrats and this white house that could take some time. can he do it? i think a lot of it depends on what legally -- and you could answer this -- the administration exerts, whether they say, no, there is executive privilege and whether or not that could past muster and the question is the lower level employees, the most interesting thing, is going to be former ambassador volker. because he resigned. he's not an employee.