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The scene. there is a very important new ruling potentially just out. >> reporter: perhaps the most significant part of this ruling is that this federal judge said that the impeachment inquiry conducted by house democrats is legal. this is despite what the white house has been arguing for sometime. that this is not illegal or valley impeachment inquiry in part because the house has not taken a formal vote to authorize that inquiry but in the ruling that said that the justice department must turn over underlying information and grand jury information related to the mueller probe to the house ju...

A clear sign that perhaps this whistle-blower testimony is not going to happen, wolf. >> breaking news developing up on capitol hill. thank you very much. we'll get back to you. let's get to meanwhile on the ruling that just came in. our crime and justice reporter shimon prokupecz is working the story. so from everything you're hearing, what is this potentially mean for house democrats? >> reporter: it is hugely important and hugely a big success. this is a huge success for the house democrats. not only in terms of russia investigation, but you have to think about the ukraine investigation, ...

Term. but they did that and then 30 days later they finally released it but still they had a press conference and put the same line out three hours before they released it, they poisoned the air and i'm sure there is things in the grand jury materials they don't want us to see because they will likely lead to more information that will show illegal conduct and in obstructing the investigation that mr. mueller was engaged in. >> as you know, congressman, the trump administration is argued this entire impeachment inquiry is illegitimate because there hasn't been a formal vote on the house floor....

Inquiry and making a very important ruling saying that it qualify as a judicial proceeding within the meaning of the status and because of a recent d.c. circuit decision called mckeever designed to with stand is that scrutiny but they might win on the merits here. i think this -- the point about having the public integrity, there are key pieces of information and this is a judge saying we can't have this country go through the entire process of an impeachment to later find out critical pieces of information they didn't know. the critical redactions are related to donald trump's foreknowledge o...

President handled efforts to bolster relations with ukraine and pushing for investigations into the president's rivals urging the ukraine government to do that. questions about any potential quid pro quo, what the judge said here is that congress could essentially do what it wants in terms of deciding how to carry out its impeachment inquiry. saying this, impeachment based on anything less than all relevant evidence would compromise the public's faith in the process. wolf, the justice department is reviewing the decision and we'll see if an appeal comes but a significant ruling that could have...