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>> he absolutely is not within his rights to block this testimony. the house or the senate has the ability to compel testimony from these individuals because of the wrongdoing that they may have been a part of or witnessed. >> so, phil, this gets complicated, but the inspector general is also appearing on the hill today with what may be a response to this pushback from pompeo but also, we understand from reuters at least, some other instances of attempts to intimidate state department officials. >> that's right, andrea, it's getting very complicated. the problem here at its core is you have ho...

Kristen, the white house, fast and furious, striking back today. a lot of developments. we want to talk about the pushback from mike pompeo, the pushback from the president, profanely on twitter. >> that's right, what you are seeing, andrea, is an intensifying standoff between the president trump administration and house democrats. now, just a sort time ago, house democrats threatening to issue a subpoena for documents related to the ukraine matter if they don't get them voluntarily by friday. so i reached out to the white house and said essentially, will you comply, will you turn over these d...

Having to take a vote that may or may not be helpful to some of them in these trump-friendly districts, instead she's said she'll authorize it on her own power. if they get to the point of passing articles of impeachment, the full house would have to vote on that and send it to the senate. >> kristen welker, you're speeding off here because we're so jammed, the president of finland is arriving and there will be a photo opportunity in the oval office, a news conference this afternoon. within this hour we could be hearing from the president on all of this. >> we could be hearing from the preside...

Guard rails. >> enabling is the right word, andrea. mulvaney is tense to his beef in there in the west wing. he said he had no interest in controlling the president. his twitter feed of what john kelly used to do that he feels trump should be trump and he's not going to stand in the way. you are right. pompeo has a loud voice, he's a supportive one of the president. there is no one around donald trump who's going to tell him no, your behavior is more damaging and accelerate the democrats for impeachment. there is a lack of official response team, basically it is a one man show. it is president...

Mitchell, nbc news correspondent geoff bennett, new york times white house correspondent michael crowley, former deputy assistant secretary of state for east asia and pacific affairs michael fuchs and former house intel committee staffer mika o yang. andrea i want to start with you first. the democrats are today making it clear that they want state department employees to testify. how is the state department going to respond? >> well, the state department has already responded with mike pompeo's vigorous vetter and he repeated that today in rome at a news conference saying that the state depar...