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This? how should she? >> i think she has several options. and again, what the white house is trying to do is to make this all about process, which you were talking about at the top of the show. that's exactly right. and in some cases, the parallel between, you know, clinton and trump is they want to make the argument, like we made it, that this isn't fair. it's very difficult given the underlying facts and what they've released to make that argument. pelosi has a couple options. i think she can go back and write the president today that says if we take a vote will you guarantee that you will c...

Impeachment probe, john. >> manu, thank you for bringing us that breaking news. joining us, cnn politics reporter, chris cillizza and political analyst david gregory. david, what's the state department afraid of? i mean, why now? why at the 11th hour, literally, the 11th hour, why are they stopping this meeting that had been negotiated for weeks? >> well, i think they'll say that this is a process fight that they don't like how democrats are going about it. you heard secretary of state pompeo say at the outset that they weren't going to be intimidated. what suddenly at the last moment broke an...

Executive privilege to cover up wrong doing, he will push back. >> it's fundamental law that executive privilege cannot hide misconduct. you cannot use the executive privilege to hide misconduct by the president. whatever evidence was given to the special prosecutor, any claim of executive privilege is waived by the act of giving it to an investigator. >> reporter: the house democrats to investigate going forward depending on what bob mueller finds, doesn't find will essentially inform all of these house democratic investigation over the next several months. at the moment the next fight they e...

Could see pushback between democrats and republicans in congress. and that's where they have oversight in terms of their investigations. we have seen a number of those in the senate saying they want to see as much of the mueller report as possible. especially if it exonerates the president, why not put it out there and have nothing to hide. i think that's getting that information out there, it might not be something that the white house has a lot of allies on defending what their tactics are. >> i disagree with you about the idea this would be some problem for them keeping this secret. the pol...

Cohen. they wanted to talk to him about all of these things. obviously the mueller probe is foremost on their find, but they wanted to devlve into a lot of issues with him. this is their last chance. if they don't get him on the record today with some of these things, it's not that they can't question him after he's attorney general, but they just don't have the same power over him. and it looks like bill barr the permanent pick for attorney general is going to get confirmed next week. so the likelihood after today that they're going to get whitaker in the hot seat again is unlikely. >> i do t...