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Nbc's hans nichols. >> reporter: this latest request for documents from house democrats is really centered on the vice president and what mike pence's role in the president's relationship with ukraine was and what kind of pressure the administration may have been putting on ukraine, what they may have been asking in return. we know that pence canceled a visit in may for the inauguration. we know that he met with the president zelensky in september in poland when president trump was initially supposed to go, he decided not to go to stay back here and deal with the hurricane. it's unlikely the w...

Documents pertaining to ukraine. the secretary spoke about the matter in front of reporters in athens earlier. take a listen. >> the state department sent a letter last night to congress which is our initial response to the document request. we've all known there's been corruption in ukraine. the united states government's been engaged in trying to push back against corruption in ukraine for quite some time. >> president trump blasted out a series of tweets this morning. he attacked everything from the whistle-blower's account to the media to one of his favorites gop foils, mitt romney. a...

Quit. this would seem like an important witness for the democrats to have before their committees investigating this. >> you'd have to assume that, yes, if they haven't been in touch with him, and i have no reporting to suggest that they will. i understand you need 20. could we name four that are going to vote against the president at this point? it's news when one comes out. mitt romney came out today and spoke out against the president, and it was big news. i don't see at this point -- we don't know what's going to come out next. i don't see any senate republicans more than -- and i'm not ev...

The president clearly defiant and even angry at the end when he was asked a very direct question by my colleague jeff mason what specifically did he want the president of ukraine, president zelensky to do in regards to the bidens. the former vice president and his son hunter biden, the president wouldn't give him a direct answer. instead choosing to lash out at the broader impeachment inquiry. this is the tactic that we have seen by this president, and you really saw it play out throughout the entirety of this press conference taking every chance to attack adam schiff who he has dubbed quote, ...

Secretary's chain of command. because it's coming from the inspector general, what does that say to you? >> what that says to me is this is different than the document request that went forward from the members of the committee earlier to pompeo where they listed out witnesses and said we need to talk to these people about what secretary pompeo heard on the call with the president, with the president of ukraine. now, there are so many things that have been happening inside the statement department. it's sort of hard to predict what exactly this inspector general is bringing forward here. is it...