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Connecticut at the coast guard academy graduation. other than that, haven't seen a whole lot in terms of social media today. we heard from the press secretary yesterday off camera. what's going on inside the administration this afternoon? >> reporter: i think you heard publicly from the president in that speech, the commence tent -- commencement to the u.s. coast guard, he said fight, fight, fight, then keep fighting. that's the way the white house views this situation. they fought back at that reporting about the memo from james comey, not questioning whether it existed. they dispute the accu...

Second ago, obviously only more tough language between the two sides, this is pretty much what the holidays look lie in washington. >> mike, let's talk about what really matters here, the dance, as we tick out of 2012 and go into to 13, a week from today on january 3rd, the 113th comes in, your prediction is probably a week after that, by the 10th we'll have something. >> reporter: i'm not alone out on this raft, either. as the days go by, it seems more and more likely. it gets back to the threshold question -- are the votes there in the house of representatives? and specifically would any spe...

House of representatives for that. they're likely not even there in the senate, so we're back at square one, amazing as it is to say at this point, thomas. >> when we talk about what we know about the president, as we expect him to return to washington landing at andrews air force base, but what more do we know about this phone calls or the phone calls that went out to the four congressional leaders? >> reporter: we know they took place before the president left time with his family before flying back to washington. he should be back here within about an hour from now, weather permitting. he'l...

Release of classified information to russian diplomats have made the drumbeat for an independent inquiry even louder in congress. >> so there's plenty of oversight that is being done. >> of course, speaker ryan has shown he has zero, zero, zero appetite for any investigation of president trump. >> the house of representatives has a duty that it can take up, and that is of impeachment. i stand for impeachment of the president. >> it's now accelerated. watergate took a few months. this seems to be taking hours. >> peter alexander is at the white house once again. mike, let me start with you here...