in reporting this as the biden camp pushes to silence rudy giuliani asking networks to not book him on the shows writing in part, quote, giving rudy giuliani time on the air to push lies is disservice to audience and disservice to journalism but the president s order was on full force yesterday. if i change the names of joe biden and hunter biden to donald trump and donald trump, jr., 8 approximately from ukraine, 1.5 billion from china while negotiating from china, would i be sitting here? the 1.5 billion is simply not true. griff: president trump says he deserves to meet accuser tweeting in addition i want to only meet my accuser who sent information but legally gave information which is largely
request. lucas tomlinson is live from washington with the latest. lucas. reporter: arthel, in addition to the subpoena, the house committees have scheduled five depositions beginning next week with state department officials who have knowledge of the president s call with ukraine. as house democrats build their case for impeachment. the letter says in part, it has become clear that multiple state department officials have direct knowledge of the subject matters of the house s impeachment inquiry. the subpoena was signed by the chairman of three powerful house committees. many republicans say they don t see the president s july 25t 25h call to his ukrainian counter part as an impeachable offense or a quid pro quo. democrats say the opposite. for me, it s the appearance. whether it s guilty of something, what we have in front of us is a transcript of something that i think is very damning. and that s for me, that s what we need to focus on. these other things will be part
former national security official to get an idea of what kind of goes into the process and the official says at least the last couple years since early in the trump administration the white house has tried to limit the details of calls from leaking out to the media. here s what he had to say. when i handled transcripts of presidential phone calls last year, we put the transcripts into a very secure, top secret code word system. i don t see any difference from what this alleged whistleblower is claiming. i don t think there was any change. reporter: now, the white house is denying any sort of a coverup here. president trump again active on twitter. we don t expect to see the president over the weekend on camera but crazier things have happened. we ll be watching to see what happens next. eric: mark, thanks. arthel: three house committees issued subpoenas for secretary of state mike pompeo for documents as part of the impeachment inquiry. the material had been demanded earlier and th
sigh commit policy committee. lots of criticism now aimed at the attorney general. why did the doj apparently deep six the complaint, why did they not pass it to congress, as required by law, why did the doj decide not to investigate poll campaign finance violations in the call. do you think the attorney general has done anything wrong. it s hard to know here. i don t think there s any offed to suggest the ag did anything wrong here. the question, whether he has to recuse, that s the question of how involved he was in the underlying matter, whether he was materially participating in it. all we know is the president s had a phone call to date we haven t heard anything that barr did anything, that he called or did any actions at all. it s not clear what the ag would have done in terms of asking the ukrainian president to investigate joe biden or his son. so obviously an odd thing raised by the president, with the president of the ukraine, but
legal debates and there sable discussions about it, not necessarily a coverup where a judgment is made. once the ag made the decision, it was the folks in the office of lee l ga legal counsel, so ie idea that the ag runs the justice department but it may go too far to say there was a coverup and to say there was a coverup of a coverup. we don t have evidence of that. there s an investigation to be done. it s concerning that we rush to judgment ahead of time. if there was a coverup, it should be gone after. eric: how about the non-referral of a possible campaign violation? clearly in the president s words he s asking zalinski to investigate joe biden. his spouter supporters would sas because he was concerned about corruption. critics would say, no, he wanted it to affect the political campaign. obviously, a very concerning situation about what the president was asking the president of ukraine to do, obviously very troubling.