the world. wolf blitzer is off today. i m brianna keilar. you re the situation room. we re following breaking news on president trump s all-out war against the impeachment investigation. tonight he s hedging about whether he d stop stonewalling and decide to cooperate if the house were to formally vote to approve the impeachment inquiry. cnn has learned the democrats are preparing a flurry of new inquiries. also breaking, president trump is predictably attacking joe biden after the former vice president called for his impeachment for the first time. biden declaring the president has indicted himself by obstructing justice. and this hour i ll talk with a democrat on the house intelligence committee, dennis
little jail rooms that we have and let him sit there and cool off for a while. the president is responding about his old conspiracy theories like barack obama wiretapped him at the trump tower. he tweeted why is someone such a good or great president if they needed to spy on someone else s campaign to win. that didn t work out so well. he s adding one more name, gop congressman trey gowdy who once slammed obama for withholding information. respect for the rule of law must mean something. here s one more flashback. during bill clinton s impeachment in the late 09s, lindsey graham said it s a violation straight out of watergate. it s not your job to tell us what we need. it s your job to provide us what
one republican walk the plank on impeachment, you make them walk the plank on impeachment on a matter of votes, not a procedural vote. it s like have you met president trump? it s not like if you give him some concessions all , all of a sudden tomorrow he s going to say, oh, yeah, here are my tax returns and here s ambassador sondland. he s not going to do it. almost all the democrats you talk to shy away from this. they don t want anything to do with this. sabrina. i think some of the democrats, especially those in more competitive districts are mindful we don t know where the politics of impeachment are going to land, but no one is operating under the illusion that this inquiry is going to culminate in anything other than
heck, and our correspondent also standing by. first we ll go to white house chief correspondent jim acosta. jim, we ve heard a lot from the president including his most recent take on this impeachment fight. that s right. brianna. president trump has wrapped up a long take on impeachment. democrats are talking tough after their demands for impeachment inquiry were rejected by the white house. no change in posture from the president. he s not committing to any kind of cooperation on that front. the president has within other mounting concern and that is the invasion from turkey to syria. the invasion has begun. president trump is sound all too eager to escalate the constitutional conflict. probably ends up being a big supreme court case. maybe it goes a long time. i don t know.
interesting distinction between himself and the president when it comes to calls with the ukrainian president, the vice president telling reporters that he never brought up former vice president joe biden in his conversations with president zelensky and asked whether the white house would cooperate with the impeachment inquiry, the president was hedging earlier this afternoon saying, it dep d depends if they get a fair shake. the president responded by saying he doesn t want spies inside the white house. brianna? jim acosta, thank you. now to capitol hill where the democrats are planning their next strategy. let s go to senior correspondent manu raju. you have some new reporting. tell us. yeah. the democrats are preparing a wave of new subpoenas. expect three rudy giuliani associates could soon be served