Page 19 - Document Requests News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Throughout this process. throughout that opinion, the judge notes that democrats are, in fact, having a legitimate impeachment inquiry. something that the white house, the white house council's office, has said is not the case, given -- using that as their rationale for not complying with witness requests, for document requests. so that is one piece of this. giving validity to the fact that even though they have not held a formal floor vote as to whether or not to launch an impeachment inquiry, they are, in fact, in one. what does that mean going forward? there are a couple of different ways t...

Definitely because as julia just said, undercut the republicans' argument. they're saying that because there is no formal impeachment inquiry vote, then they don't have to comply with the democrats' document requests or they can try to block people from coming in to testify. so the judge said, no, there doesn't need to be a formal vote. and the impeachment inquiry is under way. okay. so does this complicate things for democrats? it actually could because we know the house speaker nancy pelosi and a lot of democrats have really been trying to narrow the focus of this investigation. especially, ...

Case. not only that the president was trying to press ukraine to help him investigate his enemies but now with mick mulvaney's very, very strange press conference and actual con fregz fession to pro quo. again, starts to make some of these document requests, starts to make their decision to stonewall and stall and try to fight the inquiry almost beside the point because mulvaney has basically confessed to a crime. >> glen, putting on your prosecutor hat here, was this week an embarrassment of riches for you if you were going after this impeachment inquiry? >> yeah. there's a whole lot of consp...

Can try to press their case, which i assume that they will do at some point, but i think that what is important to note is even without the documents from the white house, even without information from rick perry, from mick mulvaney, the investigators on the hill are still building a very compelling case. not only that the president was trying to press ukraine to help in investigating the enemies, but now with mick mulvaney's very, very big press conference and confession to a quid pro quo, so problematic because it starts to make some of the document requests, it starts to make their decision...

Now we talked to a spokesman for the former congressman pete sessions. he says that he is cooperating with the u.s. attorney in new york who is handling this investigation. we'll be providing these documents, but jim and poppy, it's clear this investigation is moving full steam ahead. especially as it pertains to rudy giuliani because we reported last week that his financial dealings with these two men who were arrested last week are also under scrutiny. so a lot happening in the southern district of new york right now. guys? >> for sure. jess, thank you for the reporting. lots to talk about. ...