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House democrats conducting the impeachment inquiry, last night's speaker nancy pelosi stood by her decision not to hold a full house vote at this time. the speaker will be among the lawmakers visiting the white house to discuss ongoing developments with syria and turkey. >> meanwhile, vice president mike pence and rudy giuliani are those refusing to handle the documents sought by congress in the impeachment inquiry. the vice president's counsel says it's because the inquiry has not been authorized by the house, giuliani's lawyer says his client will cooperate because the inquiry appears to be ...

Had a house authorization. absolutely, we started, we had staff, just nonsense what the administration is saying. it's not historical. secondly, the administration totally stonewalled us. nixon got up and said look at all the documents i'm turning over. he had these three ring binders. he says i've given everything but of course they were doctored transcripts. and when we compare the transcripts against the actual tapes there were not just expletives deleted but things added and you can't trust it. >> right, the transcript we saw recalls, right, infamously the nixon tapes have this section. it...

Richard davis, and former judiciary former democratic congresswoman from new york elizabeth. we got word tonight that they have subpoenaed the white house, mick mulvaney, vice president pence this is big deal constitutionally. what does it mean, where does it go and who resolves it? >> well, we went through that in the nixon impeachment process. by the way, we started the impeachment process before there was a house vote during the nixon impeachment. we started actually reading the constitution and trying to figure out what a high crime and misdemeanor was way before we had a house authorizati...

Representatives. we got that later on. but that's -- that's neither here nor there because the fact of the matter is, what the justice department is saying is, if you don't say that you're going to impeach the president, in other words, if you might do your inquiry and then say well, there's not uf evidence or we think there should be other remedial legislation, that's not good enough. you just have to say you're going to impeach him. well, when we started during the nixon impeachment process, we didn't know even after we had the house authorization whether we were going to have enough votes f...