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Ago, really questioning the entire legitimacy of the impeachment inquiry. just to give you an indication of the indifference, when i asked about the document request, i've always been met with blank stares. the president is tweeting about this this, this morning. he's talking about the entire inquiry being illegitimate. there is no transparency. i do think we'll learn something today that is there will be a divergence in the white house and omb. and the state department up to this point complied. we don't know what the defense is going to do. if the pentagon does imply, that's an indication th...

This afternoon, those same chairmen followed up with an extensive document request. there was a brave face, a snarky scoffing at the did demand for materials. i'm sure that played well in the white house, but vice president pence know there's no reason to expect that he will have all of the same nooks and crannies in the law. which a president can use to evade scrutiny and prosecution. vice presidents have a little bit of that immunity, but ask spiro agnew, it doesn't work out the same way when they try to shield themselves essentially with white house immunity. that is part of what is going o...

From the press secretary, essential just saying that the subpoenas don't change anything. and i do want to know one thing. even before the subpoenas were issued, the white house was contemplating sending a note to speaker pelosi saying they didn't have to hand over any documents, citing the fact there hasn't been an actual formal vote in the house. while we haven't heard from the white house on those subpoenas, we did just moments ago hear from secretary of state mike pompeo on that missing deadline. he is over in greece, meeting with the foreign minister there. here's what he had to say abou...

Deadline, making a little bit of news. take a listen. >> the state department sent a letter last night to congress which is our initial response to the document request. we'll obviously do all the things we're required to do by law. i was a member of congress once. article 1 has a certain set of powers and article 2 has an obligation to make sure we protect officials at the state department. >> reporter: so obviously a little bit of news that they say they are going to eventually turn over those documents. now, in terms of the white house subpoena, we have not heard whether or not they are goi...

>> that's right. the state department missed deadline from the house committees leading the impeachment inquiry. they had requested a range of documents surrounding this ukraine matter, and the secretary of state is essentially suggesting they may comply eventually, but he wouldn't give an explanation for why. listen to what he said. >> the state department sent a letter last night to congress, which is our initial response to the document request. we'll obviously do all the things we're required to do by law. i was a member of congress once. article 1 has a certain set of articles. and articl...