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This all comes amid this push to bring in more witnesses in front of these house committees. there are questions about whether more witnesses will be blocked from attending after ambassador sondland did not appear yesterday. will others not appear as well, democrats warning they will essentially roll all of that into an articles of impeachment against the president for obstructs congress and abusing power if he does not comply. at the moment, democrats will not get the evidence they're looking for. some democrats say they have all the evidence they need. christine and dave? >> all right, manu....

There were a federal judge who ruled among other things that grand jury testimony had to be turned over to congress. this was part of the so-called road map for impeachment proceedings that came out of the watergate era. in court yesterday there was a department of justice lawyer who argued that he would rule differently. >> i think the preposterous position that the judge indicated by saying wow, you half expect barr to open up an investigation into nixon to see if he can exonerate him at this point. i think that's simply wrong legally. one thing we have to be careful of for the public is a l...

Judiciary democrats during the clinton impeachment. let's listen to what lindsey graham said then in 1998. >> article iii of impeachment against richard nixon, the article was based on the idea that richard nixon as president failed to comply with articles of subpoena from congress. he took the power from congress over the impeachment process away from congress and he became the judge and jury. >> julian, rings a bell. >> yeah. this is alice in wonder land upside down reality. the white house is arguing, i think the text of what they're arguing is that they have a right as a matter of fairness...

>> what tells you that? >> well, the letter from the white house. they want to fight? okay. let's arm ourselves completely and totally with the full power of congress. the votes, i'm sure, are there. >> reporter: it's very unlikely that vote's going to happen within the next week, but what will happen within the next week is a debate in the democratic caucus about the strategy to move forward. nancy pelosi will be on that call. this topic will almost certainly come up next week. there are several meetings they typically have early in the week where they talk about strategy. pelosi will hear fr...

From the attorney general eric holder and the obama administration was resisting that. trey gowdy taking a bold stand for the house. >> the notion that you can withhold information and documents from congress no matter whether you're the party in power or not in power is wrong. respect for the rule of law must mean something irrespective of the vicissitudes of political cycles. >> i agree. >> there's so many great clips. we've seen lindsey graham clips. >> pompeo as secretary of state, gowdy on the legal team. it's the benghazi team back together again. they of course argue there are nuances t...