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The house speaker should expect a letter calling for her to hold a vote on the democratic impeachment inquiry. the letter is one big developments on impeachment. three democratic lead house committees expected to subpoena the white house for documents related to the president's dealing with ukraine. chairman from those same committees releasing dozens of texts between diplomats. the diplomats discussing how to respond to the president's demands that ukraine announced an investigation linked to joe biden's family. here's the president talking about the texts a short time ago. >> the text messag...

Congress have signed a letter calling on senate majority leader mitch mcconnell to bring the senate back right now. mo mcconnell has yet to commit to any proposals and trump has wafld on background checks which he said he would previously support. this is one of the democrats that signed the letter to mcconnell. thank you for being here. >> thank you, poppy, for having me back. >> of course. look, the majority leader, mitch mcconnell, has said that this issue, gun control, will be front and center when congress comes back into session, let's wait and see if anything is different this time. you...

We don't have a monarchy, we fought over 200 years ago, to have a democracy that is bound by the constitution, and we need this president to do what he said in his oath to uphold the constitution. >> do you have any concern? a couple questions. trump should go to prison, it shouldn't be impeachment. it sounds like she may be making a case there to democrats that if you go forward with impeachment, you may be complicating any effort to prosecute trump once he leaves office. do you think there is anything to that line of argument? >> i think there's enough evidence of criminal activity that whet...

Branch. i want to make sure that what, in fact, we are voting on when it comes to the senate is what i believe it is. if it's what i have seen right now, i will support the resolution to disapprove. >> 58 former senior government officials have signed onto a joint bipartisan statement saying, quote, in our professional opinion, there is no factual basis for the declaration of a national emergency for the purpose of circumventing the appropriations process and reprogramming billions of dollars in funding to construct a wall at the southern border. the co-signers of that statement include former...

Director of the cia, leon panetta, samantha power, undersecretary of state, wendy sherman. 26 former republican members of congress signed a letter calling on the current republican members of congress to, quote, honor your oath and protect the constitution. the letter says, it has always been a republican fundamental principle that no matter how strong our policy preferences, no matter how deep our loyalties to presidents or party leaders in order to remain a constitutional republic, we must act within the borders of the constitution. the republican co-signers of this letter include former re...