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Top Judiciary Republican Says White House Should Participate In Impeachment Inquiry

The top Republican on the House Judiciary Committee tells NPR the Trump administration should take part in the process, but says Democrats have made cooperation all but impossible.
Democrats have failed to allow for "a robust set of hearings" on impeachment in the House Judiciary Committee, says Rep. Doug Collins, the top Republican on the committee.

With Democrats in the House of Representatives formally moving to draft articles of impeachment against President Trump, the top Republican on the committee that will author those articles is saying the White House should participate in the process. But participation should only happen, he says, "when there is an actual opportunity in which it is a situation in which they can present, do the presentation that they need to."

In a forceful critique of the impeachment inquiry, Rep. Doug Collins of Georgia, the ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee, accused Democrats of making White House participation all but impossible by not allowing for

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