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Now, big picture these witnesses, this evidence, it s also giving these impeachment committees brand-new leads to follow as congress returns to session. lawmakers now considering whether to call in, of course, mr. bolton as a witness. so they can get his own words that have been memorialized and that are so damning about the hand grenade and the drug deal. then there is, of course, mr. sondland. he s slated to testify on thursday. and there are reports already that he s planning to say to say to the congress under penalty of perjury that trump told him directly there was no quid pro quo with ukraine, exchanging say military aid for dirt on biden, but sondland quick to emphasize he doesn t know whether that s true. he doesn t know whether the president was lying. he s distancing himself from that one written defense. and while the pentagon and the office of management budget are refusing to comply with some of these subpoenas, the house committees expanding their witness lists deep in ....
Note the nsc. jon? jon: thank you. the president and allies continue to question the legitimacy of the probe, after house speaker pelosi insisted a full house vote is not necessary to move forward. technically it s not in the law anywhere that you have to do it, but the last two times with president clinton and president nixon, they did a full house vote, and they set certain procedures of how it was going to go, and there was due process so that their president s counsel at those times could cross-examine witnesses, sit in on the hearings and have witness lists. none of that is happening here. jon: garrett tenney joins us from washington with more. right now it looks like the fight over documents is likely going to end up in the courts. so far the white house is refusing to cooperate with impeachment inquiry and last night a trio of top democrats responded by issuing a new subpoena in that effort. ....
Over any documents until a full house vote is held on impeachment. neil? neil: ellison thank you very much. all right, well house speaker nancy pelosi says that a full house vote is really not required to proceed with an impeachment inquiry. republican house judiciary committee member debbie leskow here, i think you disagree with that congresswoman is that correct? i would disagree. it s not technically, it s not in the law anywhere that you have to do it, but the last two times with president clinton and president nixon, they did a full house vote and they set certain procedures of how it was going to go and there was due process, so that their president s counselors at both times could cross-examine witnesses, sit in on these hearings, and have witness lists. none of that is happening here. this is a total partisan hit job , total unacceptable, i hope the american people see it for what it is. ....
Note the nsc. jon? jon: thank you. the president and allies continue to question the legitimacy of the probe, after house speaker pelosi insisted a full house vote is not necessary to move forward. technically it s not in the law anywhere that you have to do it, but the last two times with president clinton and president nixon, they did a full house vote, and they set certain procedures of how it was going to go, and there was due process so that their president s counsel at those times could cross-examine witnesses, sit in on the hearings and have witness lists. none of that is happening here. jon: garrett tenney joins us from washington with more. right now it looks like the fight over documents is likely going to end up in the courts. so far the white house is refusing to cooperate with impeachment inquiry and last night a trio of top democrats responded by issuing a new subpoena in that effort. ....
was a who were day, ben. if you re chief counsel for elijah cummings, what did you learn yesterday and what witness lists are you now developing for a series of hearings that not only democrats are going to want to say but americans are going to want o see. i think the single most important thing that you said was a witness list. whenever you re doing a major investigative hearing, it s whether that hearing gives you an agenda for the next case. they quite effectively got michael cohen and i think he was very cooperative in this to identify a name an additional name associated with a great many of the lines of inquiry that he described, a great many of the allegations that he made, he would tell sort of who else was in the room, who else was involved. and the result is that they come ....