why they're holding the vote in the first place. quoting, she said we are taking this step to eliminate any doubt as to whether the trump administration may withhold documents, prevent witness testimony, disregard duly authorized subpoenas, or continue obstructing the house of representatives. nobody is above the law. tomorrow will mark five weeks since speaker pelosi publicly announced the inquiry. in that time, the president's top lawyer said administration officials cannot participate in your partisan and unconstitutional inquiry. secretary of state mike pompeo has said his employees cannot testify. rudy giuliani has refused as well. today democrats threatened attempt after a witness refused to appear. one reason the president's allies have given for a lack of cooperation has to do with process, that there needed to be a single house vote to establish the inquiry. but that is not actually true. a federal judge on friday called those arguments, quote, cherry-picked and incomplete with, quote, no textual support in the u.s. constitution. then today in a bit of a surprise, the president seemed to agree.