for the democrats and as i was just saying they believe very strongly this is adding up to nancy pelosi losing her majority in the house come next fall when the elections roll around, wolf. if all of the witnesses come in, that trial in the senate could go on for weeks and weeks. reporter: absolutely. and manu raju is watching all of this from capitol hill. manu, the white house clearly has turned down the invitation to participate in the house judiciary committee hearings so what is the reaction up on capitol hill? i understand you re getting new information? reporter: in athat s right. a witness list has been released, demanding testify before the house judiciary committee and in separate proceedings before the house intelligence committee they asked for witnesses and many of them did not get. here they are asking for witnesses as well if not most or not all of them they will get but doug collins is asking for chairman adam schiff. they want him to testify. they ve asked for
governing, but of course the big question is how much of a distraction is this going to be. it is interesting you say the white house and specifically the president and his attorneys, pat cipollone being one of them, that they have not necessarily ruled out participating in the house judiciary committee hearings. what is the likelihood that you think they will jump into this thing? we will have to wait and see, as they outlined in their letter, they said that they want more specific details about, that some of these hearings would actually look like, of course, their argument, we re not participating in this wednesday, part of that was them saying that the president is away in london at the nato summit. but we ll have to see exactly how they respond. what do you make of this angle that we re hearing a lot from inside of the gop, and i just played some sound obviously from senator kennedy, basically pushing this angle of the fact that ukraine interfered in the