White House says it will not comply with impeachment inquiry – live

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Eight-page letter to House Democratic leaders claims investigation is effort to overturn 2016 election
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It’s unclear what, if anything, could convince the White House to cooperate with the House democrats’ investigations.
Senior admin officials just had a conf call with reporters and would not specify what demands Dems would have to meet in order to secure WH cooperation with the inquiry. https://t.co/IyIrA97WTq
After WH says it won’t cooperate with House Dems bc of ‘flaws’ in proceedings, officials refuse to say what it would take for them to comply. “We don’t want to speculate on what would happen in various hypothetical situations” … “Not going to try to provide particular redlines”.
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“The President has done nothing wrong, and the Democrats know it,” the White House press secretary said in a statement, echoing the White House counsel’s letter to House democrats.
The impeachment inquiry “violates the Constitution, the rule of law, and every past precedent”, the statement reads.
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