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Impeachment, which house democrats say they want to get done by christmas day, or they could wait until this moves over, if it does, to a senate trial where there will be more of a structure for the white house to be able to mount that public defense, and they could have more influence over the process because it just takes a simple majority to set the rules for the senate trial. so that'll be really up to senate leader mcconnell. the biggest issue is grappling when to start that offensive push to try to push back on this narrative democrats have spent weeks crafting in public, and that's what...

Their thanksgiving holidays, it has been a real quagmire. and alex, going into tomorrow people in those metropolitan areas, new york, boston, philly are still going to have some problems going into tuesday. >> what a mess. stay safe everyone out there. thank you very much. now some breaking news. next, the white house responding this hour to that request from the house judiciary committee. (vo) the moth without hope, struggles in the spider's web. with every attempt to free itself, it only becomes more entangled. unaware that an exhilarating escape is just within reach. defy the laws of huma...

Different because that's going to be more an academic discussion with legal experts and the like discussing what has been found in the house intelligence committees investigation so far, and they say they don't even know who the witnesses are yet at wednesday's hearing so they can't participate. they have not yet responded to a second request for a later deadline to discuss whether they're participating due to proceedings but they're not eager in large part because they want to continue to make the argument the process has been unfair to them, something the democrats have rejected. a bit about...

He knows he's in trouble and i think he's trying to be the statesman. can he do it, alex, i doubt it. we'll see. >> that's one piece of advice he reportedly got from mark penn, the pollster was to travel more and do things that look more presidential so people aren't focused so much on impeachment. i want to talk about the 2020 race and its most recent entrant, mayor michael bloomberg. and we're seeing a clip from september. before he got in the race but not too long ago that i think is very relevant and going to come up in the campaign and question he is faced with, it is surfacing again onli...

He writes we may consider participating in future judiciary commit proceedings if you afford the administration to do so meaningfully. remember that the white house has another deadline coming up on friday at which they can say whether they want to have administration officials or the president's personal lawyers mount a public defense of the president in future judiciary committee proceedings. so that's something we could see on friday. cipallone leaving the door open for that, alex. >> all right, the white house still entertaining that invitation from jerry nadler. sarah westwood at the whit...