invited today. what trump officials, at least one source said they're not willing to pull punches here, they said part of the reason they weren't invited, twitter wasn't big enough. twitter is a $14 billion company. maybe a little jab there, if you will. >> oh, well. i won't even go there. i've got some new information that i want to ask you about. late tonight, phil, we learned that a judge has ordered president-elect trump to sit for a seven-hour deposition in early january. why is that? >> reporter: well, what's interesting here is this was already arranged in the president-elect's lawyers, his personal lawyers agreed to this deposition. what has changed is those same lawyers requested in the wake of his election that he actually either not have to sit down at all or at least reduce the timetable, reduce the scope of the questions. what happened tonight is a judge rejected that request. so the president-elect just a few days, weeks before he's supposed to be inaugurated, sworn into office will be sitting down subject to lawyers' questions. i can tell you, don, in covering the president-elect throughout the course of this campaign,