Seems like President Trump is all but daring the House to impeach him.

The lead starts right now.

Breaking today, President Trump responding to a House subpoena with a quid pro quo of his own telling Speaker Pelosi she'll get nothing

until the full house goes on the record with a vote on impeachment. This drama

unfolding as the man who handled the whistleblower complaint that started this all,

the Inspector General, returns to Capitol Hill. I'll speak to a lawmaker coming up.

Someone who was behind close doors with him. Plus, scroll up those damning text messages,

now impeachment evidence and a potential

smoking gun of quid pro quo

that the president held up military aid and a Ukrainian visit to the White House

for political gain.

Welcome to the special edition of the lead White House in Crisis. I'm Jake Tapper and we begin today with another historic day in Washington where norms are being eroded and facts trampled upon President Trump today telling the American people in essence

ignore all the evidence you have been presented with including his own words and those

of his aides when it comes to the president's clear use of his presidency

to push foreign leaders to investigate his political opponent, Joe Biden and his

son Hunter.

Last night, further evidence emerged that such an investigation was part of a quid pro quo with

Ukrainian President Zelinsky.

The President's aides in texts clearly pushing Zelinsky to publicly commit to an investigation into

barrizema, the gas firm that once employed Hunter Biden, before the president would

agree to a White House visit for Zelinskyinsky, one that Zellinsky desperately wanted.

You know, when this came out, it was quid pro quo.

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