Hello and welcome. The white house has been ordered to hand over documents relating to the impeachment investigation of President Trump. A statement from the heads of the democratic led Inquiry Committee said they sent a letter to the acting white house chief of staff Mick Mulvaney demanding evidence related to allegations that mr trump pressured ukraine for political favors. They accused the president of defiance, obstruction and cover up. Our correspondent Chris Buckler is in washington. Chris, good to see you. Can you give us chris, good to see you. Can you give usa chris, good to see you. Can you give us a sense of the latest on this subpoena . Yeah, there have been a request for information and it has now become a demand and it is intended to put extra pressure on President Trump and the white house. Alongside the subpoena demanding all of these documents has come a letter from the chairman of three congressional committees. Leading democrats who, as you mention there, up democrat
To the acting white house chief of staff, mick mulvaney, demanding evidence related to allegations that mr trump pressured ukraine for political favours. They accused the president of defiance, obstruction, and cover up. I asked our washington correspondent, chris buckler, what more we know about the subpoena. There had been a request for information, that has now become a demand. And it is intended to put extra pressure on President Trump and the white house. And alongside this subpoena demanding all of these documents has come a letter from the chairmen of three congressional committees. Leading democrats who, as you mentioned there, say that up to this point, they believe the white house has refused to engage with or even respond to multiple requests for documents from their committees on a voluntary basis. As a result, they are now issuing these subpoenas. And they say after nearly a month of stonewalling, it appears clear that the president has chosen the path of defiance, obstruc
The white house has been ordered to hand over documents relating to the impeachment investigation of President Trump. A statement from the heads of the democratic led Inquiry Committee said they sent a letter to the acting white house chief of staff, mick mulvaney, demanding evidence related to allegations that mr trump pressured ukraine for political favours. They accused the president of defiance, obstruction, and cover up. Our washington correspondent, chris buckler, reports. What one president asked another is what is at the heart of these enquiries. And how far it donald trump go to press president zelensky to investigate his political rival joe biden and his son. The chairman of the three congressional committees have now issued subpoenas demanding documents that they hope will also reveal what was discussed inside the white house. In an open letter, they said multiple requests have been ignored, and they accused President Trump of choosing a path of defiance, obstruction, and co
The white house has been ordered to hand over documents relating to the impeachment investigation of President Trump. A statement from the heads of the democratic led Inquiry Committee said they sent a letter to the acting white house chief of staff mick mulvaney, demanding evidence related to allegations that mr trump pressured ukraine for political favours. They accused the president of defiance, obstruction and cover up. Our washington correspondent, chris buckler, reports. What one president asked another is at the heart of a Democrat Impeachment enquiry. And they are determined to find out how far donald trump was prepared to go to push the ukrainian leader into investigating his political rival, joe biden, and a business with his son hunter. The chairman of three congressional committees have now issued subpoenas demanding documents that they hope will also reveal what was being discussed the white inside house. In an open letter, they said motor pool request had been ignored and
pete hegseth, and we start tonight out with a fox news alert. the us military has just launched retaliatory attacks against iranian backed militias in iraq and syria. the us central command says over 85 targets were struck. these strikes come just days after three american soldiers were killed in a deadly drone attack on the border in jordan. for the latest, let s bring in international correspondent mike tobin. mike, what do we know? well we know that we ve got the first images coming out of iraq. you just had them up a second ago. al-qa im iraq. this is the very western part of iraq on the border with syria, very near some of the other locations, as you mentioned, some 85 targets were hit in seven different locations, both in iraq and syria. hit by 125 munitions. those seven locations are divided up to four inside of syria. three of them inside of iraq. the us says that the targets were all iranian revolution guard, command and control weapons storage, logistics, support fo