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This was alleged it was a work-around to hide foreign money in american politics, trace. >> trace: team fox coverage continues. let's go to chad purgum. explain where we stand in the fight of holding a formal vote on the impeachment process. >> there were some rumblings. some democrats think it would be a good idea. the administration has been resistant to comply with any document requests or witnesses saying this hasn't been formalized as was the case with appreciate in 1974 and nixon. i posed that question to nancy pelosi. >> you hear from your caucus we are not ready to have a vote. why not...

Department has been very careful about not having current officials not do this. >> it might seem counter-intuitive, but our understanding is she was ready to be cooperative and she was ready to come in. and there is a fear that the white house -- and they've done this in previous house committee depositions, they told officials they cannot comply with document requests, can't comply with subpoenas. that gives her the leverage she needs if they tell her she cannot show up. this happened last week when marie yavonovitch came in. the same thing happened. she was ready to cooperate and the state ...

Happened in the last 24 hours. first off, the upcoming week will be a big one for the investigation, four current or former administration officials set to testify. but there could be another. a fifth former ukraine ambassador bill taylor was asked to appear before congress. his team now negotiating a date for that. here's the impeachment inquiry by the numbers on this saturday. today, as said, it is day 19 of the inquiry. congress has so far secured depositions from five people. they've levied ten subpoenas. and put out two document requests, which include the vice president, but not subpoena...

They are making the document requests. and the idea the white house can refuse to produce all documents, can refuse to produce all witnesses in the entire executive branch, i just can't imagine any court will give that the time of day. although it could succeed in delaying. >> right. >> proceedings for quite a few weeks if not months. >> governor what would you recommend. >> anderson. >> the the question on that. >> i was going to say the question on that is if the full house votes for inquiry, my sense is would provide for weights to the courts. so the courts wouldn't sit on this. maybe that'...

The vicissitudes of political cycles. >> and so now trey gowdy is expected to help the white house in their efforts as we've seen to essentially stonewall congressional requests, anderson. >> jeff, what a difference a couple of years and, you know, going into private practice make. >> well, and who's ox is gored? i mean the core argument made in this letter is that, you know, an impeachment inquiry can only take place if the full house votes for it. there was such a vote regarding the nixon inquiry and the clinton inquiry, but no court that i am aware of has ever held that that's required befo...