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Investigation. and now, the drafting of articles of impeachment. we've been in court in both financial services and chair woman waters and other committees have been successful. the courts agree, co-equal branch of the judiciary agree that the president in blocking subpoenas, blocking release of financial statements, has abused hir o h his power. >> is this gonna happen before you guys leave? you know, are you gonna get the government funded and these articles voted on and be home for christmas? >> i think we have to do it all. but i will tell you, the calendar is above my duties and above my ...

Protection. >> that is right, this is a strategy that the president has employed. they have ignored subpoenas for documents, they have nothing to do with ukraine for the past few months, but democrats are saying that the president not only ignoring these subpoenas and telling people they cannot appear, he is em bploying anoth tactic. he did it for republican and democratic presidents and they see it as a form of trying to scare people off from talking to these investigators. this is likely to be part of the articles of impeachment. >> we're talking about blocking subpoenas and document that's ...

The speed that richard painter was just cribe describing and what would be the next steps of the subpoenas if the state department were not to answer? >> i think that is the strategy of the white house is, to delay, delay, delay, if they can slow-walk it and get ag past the 2020 election, i think they consider that a victory. i think the only recourse congress has is to go to the courts and enforce these subpoenas. i think they will be successful if they can get a ruling on the substance and of the merits of the subpoenas and what president trump though has done is delay asserting things like ...

Biden. so i guess the status of the trade negotiations is china can dump anything it wants, any manufactured goods it wants into the united states, so long as they also export some manufactured stories about joe biden. this is very dangerous for the united states, the president behaving this way, and he needs to be impeached. the full house, needs to vote on articles of impeachment and prosecute this case in the senate and keep those subpoenas flying and anything who doesn't comply with the subpoenas ought to be health held in contempt of congress. >> and the c.i.a.'s top lawyer is saying that...

Whistle-blower as a partisan person who should not be believed, who has hearsay and second-hand information, having someone else come out and corroborate that information i think undermines some of those arguments. >> hans, as we know, the state department, mike pompeo, did not meet the deadline, for the subpoenas that were issued to him. what's next? what are the ramifications? >> we don't know what ramifications are for missing these subpoenas. it basically gets down to standoff between separations of powers and we know that the white house is going to slow walk any effort to get additional ...