All right. Thank you, Anderson. I am Chris Cuomo, and welcome to prime time.

Looks like a subpoena storm is about to head down Pennsylvania Avenue. What do you say? Let's get after it.

The White House is now officially stonewalling the impeachment inquiry. Several Democratic sources tell CNN.

That means it is likely time to stop

asking and start demanding witnesses make their way to the hill. That could include associates

of Rudy Giuliani, State Department officials, including the former Ukraine ambassador who was

forced out. She's still on the State Department's payroll that could get a little tricky.

There could be pressure to stay home just as Ambassador Sondland was ordered not to testify

earlier this week. Meanwhile, for the first time, former VP Joe Biden called for the president's

impeachment, did that today. Yet, we're seeing rumblings from a small but influential group of

Democrats who think it would make sense for Speaker Pelosi to do what some Republicans want and hold a formal vote on the impeachment inquiry to help diffuse GOP claims of unfairness.

And as for the president himself, he danced around how much his people would comply, even if he got the vote.

A vote in the full house and the vote were to authorize. Would you cooperate? Well, we would if they

give us our rights. It depends. Yeah, he also said he was going to testify no matter what,

and he couldn't wait for it, right? So is it the right thing to do or not? It certainly isn't required in the Constitution, and there are no House rules that say that. And the idea of precedent, I don't know that it's there. But let's discuss with a freshman Democratic Congresswoman Elisa Slotkin. Now, she serves in a swing district. She's got a really rich pedigree in the law and

intelligence. She worked at the Pentagon, Syria, and the risks there. We must also address as well.

But let's start with this instant issue of whether or not to have a vote. Do you see it as a

distraction or should it get some traction?

I mean, I think it's a delay tactic, but I don't think the House of Representatives would have a problem passing a vote. I mean, I think some of what happened in the past couple of weeks was a

bunch of folks coming out who hadn't come out before, like myself, saying that they would

support an impeachment inquiry because of that very basic idea

of the president reaching out to a foreigner and asking for information on an American citizen.

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