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The house. the republican party -- of the senate did not convict. so to trump that's what he is looking at. okay, the house will impeach me and my people will get all riled up, they will be all upset. the senate won't convict so i won't be removed from office. and so it will be a grassroots organizing mechanism for him. all that said, i don't think the president wants a impeachment on his record. he looks at a model and, this is all right, we are going to make it. but our reporting has not found the president's etching to be impeached. >> shepard: jean cummings, for "the wall street journal," ...

Interview with the house intelligence committee or maybe even the senate select committee on intelligence. we don't know yet but notification has been given to the dni that whistle-blower that he or she wants to come before congress. >> shepard: there is breaking news from "the wall street journal," quoting now the house speaker nancy pelosi to announce formal impeachment inquiry of president trump. that announcement is expected at 5:00 this afternoon. "the wall street journal"'s parent company and fox news parent company share, like a common ownership. the president's pressure on the ukrainia...

Noise. that's an advantage and a disadvantage for democrats. it's an advantage in the sense that they say okay, we are doing something serious about impeachment and we think that there are major transgressions with this and we are speaking to that. the disadvantage is that the public thinks they were already there. once you cross that rubicon into an impeachment inquiry, and this is where democrats have this both ways, it's all impeachment. look what happened in 1998. there are only so many cubic centimeters of news oxygen that can come out of capitol hill. they want to talk about guns, the us...

Not to seek an indictment. >> that's on the obstruction of justice, whether or not there was a conspiracy theory. he said there's some evidence but not enough to indict. and it's the same crime, an agreement or solicitation for assistance for an american campaign regulated by the federal election commission. >> shepard: at rudy giuliani's that he too pressed her ukrainian officials to investigate biden at the suggestion of the administration. >> if it was done as part of the reelection, if the president wanted -- said i want you to

You ultimately have to act, that's the key. in february of 1974, and, we are not going to have any sort of bill like this in congress because republicans heretofore continue to stand behind the president but you don't even have to do that. if our green, the democrat from texas brings forth his articles of impeachment and you have a straight up or down vote than the president is impeached. and they might just interpret that as fuzz and noise. >> shepard: we are trying to include this as part of the whistle-blower's report but there's also more to the