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To see some of his top aides who have stonewalled the inquiry thus far testify at a later date, possibly in a senate trial where he thinks they might get a fairer hearing. that might have democrats licking their chops. they've wanted mick mulvaney and mike pompeo. but a little news in between the insuts there. >> garrett haake on capitol hill, thank you. let me bring in former republican congressman carlos kubel low, daily beast reporter betsy woodruff swan, both are msnbc contributors. betsy, while we wait for the democrats' report, house republicans have drafted their own counterreport which...

Counter-report that house republicans on the various committees put out last night. what they did, what they offer us really is a top-to-bottom defense of trump that strings together and formalizes republican talking points to make the case that president trump did nothing wrong and that democrats are really intent on overturning the results of the 2020 election. so i'll read part of it for you. it says despite their best efforts, the evidence gathered during the democrats' partisan and one-sided impeachment inquiry does not support that president trump pressured ukraine to investigate his pol...

Witness scholars to point out constitutional issues with ukraine. the white house appears to be closing the door on any participation in this impeachment process in the house. white house officials speculated earlier this evening perhaps they might be enticed to respond and participate if for example the whistleblower were to take part in these impeachment hearings. that is a non-starter for democrats but sounds like the white house is closing the door on any participation in this process. >> it does. jim acosta in london. joining us, a congressman who serves on the armed services committee. t...

Instead, in private conversations and in the documents they are continuing to release this week, their counter report, they are arguing that the process isn't fair to president trump and trying to just move on from the actual discussion about the president's conducting of foreign policy. >> you know, jake, to bob costa's point, i mean, it's what you do when you have no facts. and what's so interesting is that it's sort of described as a fait acompli, how this is all going to end. i hate to use the word smoking gun because it feels like we have 17 of them, smoking guns in the form of witnesses ...

This was sort of a post-hoc effort and as far as i can tell no one has actually produced a concrete explanation at the timo why it was being held. >> absolutely. and it really does get to the heart and adds another layer to this cake of just how fully rudy giuliani working on behalf of president trump, his client, really did subvert and force his will onto an important subset of american foreign policy. to flash back to a year and a half ago when rudy giuliani was talking to us, when he was w defending trump during the u mueller probe, he was talking to us and pretty much any other media outle...