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Scrutiny. nbc news has learned that most of the witnesses scheduled for closed-door testimony, the remainder of this week are not expected to appear as requested. house democrats have already insisted they won't go to court to compel those witnesses to testify. instead they will consider their efforts to stonewall lawmakers as part of a separate obstruction article of impeachment. that is, it seems, republicans are starting to circle the wagons around a new defense of the president in a development equal part stunning and predictable, "the washington post" reports trump's allies are ready to a...

About this morning, including some new important reporting from bloomberg. jeff mason is here. jackie kucinich and shan wu. let me begin with the wave of subpoenas that is coming. should the american people expect that to actually result in something different? meaning, increased cooperation, or, say, if democrats vote overwhelmingly to move forward officially on this impeachment inquiry, does that mean the white house will all of a sudden cooperate? >> i don't think it's going to make a difference in terms of the white house's strategy on this. but legally it's an important step which is, by ...

The house of representatives now appears to be moving quickly towards drawing up the details of all of this obstruction from the white house and from the president specifically into an initial article of impeachment against president trump. just as the first article of impeachment against richard nixon in 1974 was about obstruction and appears the house is moving to make the first article against trump an obstruction article, as well. it appears to be the first one they are working on in detail. in the course of drawing up that article, the house is going to start getting all the obstruction m...

Inquiry, it will be much more than that. the house of representatives now appears to be moving quickly towards drawing up the details of all of this obstruction from the white house and from the president specifically into an initial article of impeachment against president trump. just as the first article of impeachment against richard nixon in 1974 was about obstruction and appears the house is moving to make the first article against trump an obstruction article, as well. it appears to be the first one they are working on in detail. in the course of drawing up that article, the house is goi...

Documents to the state department. the state department from the outset had control over the documents we see this morning that they're having control over the testimony. and you'll see that frustration from house democrats boiling over. my colleague rachel who has been doing great reporting on this, and i reported over the weekend just how democrats are going to move, at this point, going to rapidly move toward an obstruction of congress article because they know that, for example, if they defer to the courts, they had been winning in the courts over the last several months but it just takes ...