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It s a hoax. reporter: the president says his phone call with ukraine president vladimir zelensky was, quote, perfect. zelensky was in talks to visit the white house late this summer, but it never happened. i asked the president if and when he would invite certificate eleven are sky to the white house given the current circumstances. i would love to have him come to the united states if he d like to come. reporter: on thursday democrats voted to move forward with the impeachment investigation, but a final vote has yet to take place. this is about the constitution and how we go forward with this. and no decision has been made to impeach, that s what the inquiry s about. reporter: house speaker nancy pelosi promised public hearings this month, opening the curtain to a process republicans say has been closed. looking ahead, lawmakers hope to meet with energy secretary rick perry this week, also former national security adviser john bolton. i say hope, because both men say they ....
Objection of the president. the president has every right to exert executive privilege for a number of administration officials, current and former. but we ve seen different people going up there and testifying. what we haven t seen is the fullness of the 8 or 10 hours each of them has spent testifying because i guess adam schiff s growing mushrooms in the dark in a secret process, which is unfortunate because you cannot put that toothpaste back in the tube now. you cannot cure what has been a flawed process from the beginning where the president has not been afford due process rights. chris: i promise, i m going to get to that what i think is unfortunate chris: i promise i m going to get to that, i promise i m going to get to that, i m going to specifically ask congressman jim hines, the number two house who should probably be overseeing the whole process, because schiff has no credibility. chris: will the president tell john bolton, who is scheduled to testify this week, ....
Heard about the whole donald trump giuliani thing, he called it a drug deal that he didn t want to be any part of. so i think it s important for the american people to know what john bolton s concern was with this holding up of aid to ukraine, the holding up of a white house meeting and all of the other stuff that happened. chris: right. let s talk about the rules that the house approved this week. i know house democrats say, well, now the process is going to be very open, very transparent. one of the rules you passed says that once it gets to open hearings in the house intelligence committee that you re a member of, that the republicans will have the opportunity to subpoena any witnesses they want at but subject to the approval of the chair, adam schiff. i asked one of your republican colleagues on the committee about that this week. take a look. do you think that schiff will block gop subpoenas? oh, i m certain he will. i know that there s some witnesses that we want to hear from ....
The next two or three weeks. you can t be precise about this because we need to interview a few more witnesses before we re in a position to do public hearings. my best guess is in the next two or three weeks there will be public, televised hearings. by the way, with all of the protections that republicans have demanded chris: we re going to get to that in a moment. another simple process question. foreign national security former national security adviser john bolton is scheduled to testify this week. has the house, has your committee, have the democrats subpoenaed him, and have you gotten a response from bolton or his lawyer? well, i believe john bolton has been subpoenaed. i m not 100% shire about that, but i believe sure about that. but remember, john bolton is no longer an employee of the white house. so theoretically, the white house telling people that under their employ you can t show up doesn t apply to john bolton. john bolton is very important because, remember, john ....
Heard about the whole donald trump giuliani thing, he called it a drug deal that he didn t want to be any part of. so i think it s important for the american people to know what john bolton s concern was with this holding up of aid to ukraine, the holding up of a white house meeting and all of the other stuff that happened. chris: right. let s talk about the rules that the house approved this week. i know house democrats say, well, now the process is going to be very open, very transparent. one of the rules you passed says that once it gets to open hearings in the house intelligence committee that you re a member of, that the republicans will have the opportunity to subpoena any witnesses they want at but subject to the approval of the chair, adam schiff. i asked one of your republican colleagues on the committee about that this week. take a look. do you think that schiff will block gop subpoenas? oh, i m certain he will. i know that there s some witnesses that we want to hear from ....