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The white house is not going to participate in the impeachment hearing process happening now in the house. they rejected an offer from democrats to present any type of defense for president trump during the house process. >> yeah. in a strongly-worded letter. the white house counsel called the proceedings baseless, reckless, and a charade. joining us now is kristin holmes. no one expected the white house to participate. so no big surprise here. >> reporter: that's right. we have to keep two things in mind. while president trump and republicans have been saying this process is unfair because th...

Deadline. >> i don't know why they would want to participate at this stage. the process from their viewpoint has not been fair, why legitimate it right now? why not get back to what they consider be a level playing field where they can punch back with some strength. >> everybody is watching, why not go out and make your case? >> why not make your case in territory that is fair to you, that is familiar to you come over you think you can get a fair shake. they're not going to get that on the house process. all it does is prolong a space that they are in right now that they don't want to be in. f...

Us about it. we want to hear your explanation. >> absolutely. and the president has argued all along that he has done nothing wrong here, that it was totally legitimate. but he and his colleagues have received to participate in this process and they've thrown up all these procedural complaints, closed-door hearings. then we had open hearings. now his lawyers have a chance to participate. every time they have procedural objections, he declines to meet them. >> this is an interesting point. our political team raised this morning there's the substance of what happened in what is being considered ...

That's not fair if we don't from the point of view of the white house. again they feel like this. if you read pat cipollone's letter look back at the president and he and the white house laid out. they are making the argument how this is not how things were done and that's how they are giving themselves a leg up on democrats here and putting themselves in position to make that argument. >> the intelligence committee expected to view chairman schiff's report later today. what does that process going to look like and what happens after it? >> remember most members are still at their district fro...

You can't block anything from us. the president seizing on something a little different than what zelensky has to say. the complaint from the president is that dems are moving forward even while he's out of the country, despite, as jeff points out, these things have been moving on parallel tracks. >> you're exactly right and there's no sense that the president is going to go to congress, to capitol hill. he has lots of aides, he has attorneys. some of those people obviously are not going to nato with him. so there's plenty of people if he wanted to participate. but look, he has been tempted, y...