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Strategy that we're seeing from this white house, kind of testing the limits of how much they can disobey these requests from congress. a coequal branch of government, of course. one source close to the impeachment sessions saying the days of being nice are done. that appears to be the strategy of the white house. if you look over at the president's twitter feed, that much is also clear. he put out a tweet this morning saying i would love to send ambassador sondland a really great man to testify, unfortunately, he would be testifying before a kangaroo court where republicans have been taken aw...

The failure to produce this witness. the failure to produce documents. we consider yet additional strong evidence of obstruction of the constitutional functions of congress. a coequal branch of government. >> harris: and in just the last little while we learned. this the president's attorney rudy giuliani said he will at some point in some way appear before the senate judiciary committee at the invitation of the senator lindsey graham. chief congressional correspondent mike emanuel is live on capitol hill. how did that play out on the hill? >> well, harris, good afternoon to you. yes, senate j...

Advisers. per miss bable aable and not imab imable. the republicans are taking that view that maybe you don't likept a kangaroo court. here's how schiff and republicans responded. >> the failure to produce this witne witness, these developmeocument consider yet additional strong evidence of obstruction of the constitutional functions of congress. a coequal branch of government. >> what we see in this impeachment is a kangaroo court and chairman schiff is acting like a malicious captain kangaroo. >> if anyone is going to testify behind those closed doors, we're going to make sure we're there to...

About what the state department is doing. the second track, secretary of state mike pompeo. he is in italy but on that second track you've got three congressional committees in the house that want to speak with five current and former state department diplomats. the secretary of state has responded to that request saying that it's not feasible to happen on that timeline and that democrats are bullying department employees into complying with the impeachment investigation. two of those diplomats have said they are going to speak with the committees. earlier today the secretary of state said the...

Branch but going to do so in a way that is consistent with the fundamental values of the american system. we won't tolerate folks on capitol hill, bullying, intimidating state department employees that is unacceptable and not something that i'm going to permit to happen. as for was i on the phone call sniffs on the phone call the phone call in the context now i have been secretary of state for coming on a yearna. i know precisely what the american policy is with respect to ukraine. it's been remarkably consistent and we will continue to try to drive those set of outcomes. it's what our team, i...