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They invited him to talk on wednesday but the energy secretary said he would consider appearing at a public hearing according to a spokesperson at house democrats call on multiple top trump officials to appear next week. lauren blanchard with who they want to have and who may or may not show up. >> reporter: secretary perry's team says he won't appearance a lawmakers are interested in, quote, conducting a serious proceeding. even so this week is likely to be full of closed-door testimony. here's the tentative schedule. tuesday from the department of energy and from the office of management and...

Its opinion. if they write a very narrow opinion and simply say this is a subpoena to the third party, the president's accounting firm, not even to the president, and we are going to uphold that, it might be something the supreme court isn't all that interested in. and so the 2nd circuit's opinion becomes the final word. and its ruling governs the parties. if they write more broadly and talk about presidential immunity both from investigation and from prosecution, maybe the supreme court is interested and they take the case and it issues the final word. so, i don't know that we'll necessarily ...

Not just by a federal grand jury, but also by congress. and so the department of justice has conceded the point. mr. trump's lawyer has not. >> that, even though you're taking about a footnote there, you're making a very clear point. i was struck also listening to the hearing today that the judges and the attorneys seem to all agree that this is going to end up at the supreme court. if the point of law here is that simple, that the justice department says a president can be investigated, even if justice department policy says he can't be criminally charged, now the president's lawyers are sayi...

President, and that's what i'm most interested in, in hearing what they ne have to say. and the white house, i don't think they can stop them from testifying. i'm real concerned about the former ambassador to ukraine, yovanovitch, someone who i found to be a very credible person. she is still with the state department, i believe. are they going to try to block her testimony? there's some thought after seeing this letter that that could happeni've seen her interact with republican senators during the trump administration it was simply to talk about what was going on. it wasn't one bit partisan....

These folks put themselves in harm's way, they're away from their families, they deserve better treatment. we've got to get to the bottom of that. the other thing i'm interested in, to what links did the white house go to cover this behavior schnupp there up? there's a story about the transcript being moved to this particular server. it's against the law to classify something because it's embarrassing. in those two areas we have a little bit more work to do. but think we're talking weeks not months for to us get to the bottom of that and then look at the big picture and say where do we go from...