she also told house investigators that state department officials were hesitant to issue a statement supporting her because they were concerned that the rug would be pulled out from under them by president trump. so one of the reasons why this testimony is so important is because it speaks to a coordinated campaign at the behest of president trump, house democrats allege, as he called into service rudy giuliani, ambassador sondland, rick perry and others to lean on ukrainian officials to dig up dirt manufacturing damaging information about the bidens. the reason this testimony is significant is because president trump always talks about the call. you heard him say that on the south lawn yesterday. he said the call was perfect. house democrats say it s what happened before the call and what happened after the call that is so important to the public case they are building against president trump. marie yovanovitch was one of those people who in the beginning she said she had no
to divide the country this way. i say he may not be, but our constitution is worth it. [applause] our democracy is worth it. reporter: fox news is told the state department is in touch with the committees which are trying to work something out. they have officials testify. the deputy secretary of state is slated to testify on monday, but we are told that hearing likely won t happen as scheduled. leland? leland: all right. and we ll see if the secretary has anything to say while he s overseas on this as well. garrett tenney, thank you. jillian? ellison barber is at the white house. what s the latest? reporter: yeah, so the white house press secretary says the request coming from democrats at this point are a waste of taxpayers money and also time. for now it seems like the white house is not going to move, and they are not going to cooperate with those requests. on the south lawn yesterday, president trump told appropriators whether or not he cooperate reporters whether or not
respond. leland: we have already seen secretary of state not comply with at lot the requests. one of the important part of having a vote or not is the courts treat subpoenas after the inquiry vote very different than they would at the current time. jillian: for how the president is reacting to all of this. let s go ellison barber joining us live. on the south lawn yesterday president trump told reporters whether or not he cooperates with the house s investigation is up to the lawyers. sources tell fox news that the president is planning to send a letter to house speaker pelosi next week, likely on monday telling her the white house will not hand over any documents until a full house vote is held on the impeachment inquiry. the subpoena democrats sent to the white house yesterday seems to address that possibility. it says that a vote is not necessary to conduct the investigation and that that sort of demand is outside of modern precedent. president trump has repeatedly disparaged the
stop at nothing before they impeach the president, is it harder for you guys as republicans in congress to oppose it when the president makes the call to ukraine, then goes out on the south lawn and talks about china, needing to investigate joe biden as well? is it tougher for you guys? no, absolutely not. this is what a president should be doing. a president should investigate corruption. and if leland: hold on, stop, if you want to talk about corruption, this is a president who has cozied up to egypt who has a dubious record on corruption, the philippines, to one thinks he s a saint exactly either and putin who runs russia as his own private bank. how is this about corruption? it s about the fact that joe biden s son, hunter biden was being paid $50,000 a month, not $50,000 a year, $50,000 a month by an oil and gas company in ukraine and he knew nothing about oil and gas. leland: come on, congressman,
time. that s what i said in a tweet which i guess some people think is controversial. a lot of people love it. if you re complaining all the time, very simply you can leave. you can leave right now. bill: that from the south lawn yesterday. house democrats getting ready to debate this resolution which would condemn the president s tweets saying the four members of congress should go back to where they came from. wyoming senator john barrasso is on the foreign relations committee. we brought him on to talk about this an the ongoing matter with iran. how are you? good morning in washington, d.c. you had a private meeting yesterday with senators. what did you talk about with regard to the tweets and what did you come away from that? so many of us said we aren t going to comment on every tweet. for me this doesn t fit the sentiments that i have. i would much rather be focused on the policies rather than the people. the policies are terrible. they are left wing policies, radical policie