why they re holding the vote. 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 this. they said they cannot participate in your partisan and unconstitutional inquiry. mike pompeo has said his employees cannot testify. rudy giuliani has refused as well. today democrats threatened contempt after a witness refused to appear. one of the reasons the president s allies have refused is with process. there needs to be a single house vote to establish the inquiry. that is not true. a federal judge called those arguments cheri picked and incomplete with no textual support in the u.s.