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
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demanding that more white house officials come to testify. and as you said, that ruling is set to happen on january 3rd. in dc district court. and what is interesting about that date, it is a big date there for that court because that is also when they will also be ruling on whether they will order the release of mueller grand jury testimony as well. interesting. we ve had a lot of conversations surrounding the fact of whether or not this impeachment inquiry will bleed into the first primaries of the 2020 election, ahead, and it seems as if that is exactly where it shedding and we will be talking about 2020 alongside the impeachment inquiry for quite some time. meredith mcgraw, thank you so much. appreciate you being here. thank you. new questions are being raised about president trump s no quid pro quo phone call with ambassador sondland. the washington post is digging into whether the conference ever happened. and the department of homeland security was severely
impeaching and removing president clinton from office back in 1998, only rose to 29%. according to cnn s polling. and the dc circuit court of appeals has had back-to-back impeachment-related hearings, just after the new year, according to the order issued last week on january 3rd, the court is going to hear oral arguments as to why former white house counsel don mcgahn should be completely impugn from having to testify on the ongoing impeachment inquiry against the president. same day, another key impeachment related court fight will also be held. the attempt to obtain grand jury information in special counsel bob mueller s report on the investigation. and the democratic-led house won both cations in front of district court judges and trying to push away efforts by the justice department to overturn those decisions. as nbc s kelly o donnell mentioned earlier, president trump will travel to london this week for a meeting of world leaders marking nato s 70th
committee read the impeachment report, the top republican on the judiciary committee, congressman doug collins of georgia and the judiciary committee member tom mcclintock, the gop congressman from california, yesterday defended president trump in the dealings with ukraine. if you believe that the president had used the power of his office to try to get ukraine to interfere with our elections, if you believe that, would that be an impeachable offense? i do not believe it, so i m not going to answer a hypothetical which is designed to say that the president did something improper. he did nothing improper. there was nothing about a problematic giving aid to another country in which you re talking about corruption which he is required to do by law and it just so happened that a presidential candidate s son, getting a massive amount of money from a company that had been under investigation, and other witnesses that had been favorable quote to the democrats in the investigation have sai