>> announcer: this is cnn breaking news. and welcome to "the lead." i'm pamela brown in for jake tapper and we start with breaking news in our politics lead. new cnn reporting right now that house democrats are preparing a flurry of new subpoenas as the trump administration declares war on the impeachment inquiry. sources telling cnn democrats are now threatening subpoenas for associates for president trump's personal lawyer rudy giuliani and debating subpoenas for current state department officials. plus new reporting on a growing fracture in the democratic party of whether they should hold a formal vote on the impeachment inquiry. i'll go straight to correspondent manu raju live on capitol hill. and manu, let's start with the new impeachment push. >> reporter: expect three rudy giuliani associates to be hit with subpoenas very soon after they defied requests for information from these committees that are pushing forward on the impeachment