The House impeachment inquiry into President Trump continues this week.

Here are some news developments to keep you up to speed.

On Monday, a federal judge fast-tracked Charles Co.

Permanence request for the courts to decide whether he has to comply with a White House order

not to testify or Congress's subpoena in the House impeachment inquiry.

Co. Perman, as you may remember, is a former deputy national security advisor in the Trump

administration. A judge has now ordered final arguments to be held at December

10th that judge had previously said he intended not to take up the merits of the lawsuit

until a later date. The judge's shift sets up a potentially landmark legal battle over the White

House's ability to defy Congress's impeachment powers. It's a big case.

In a letter released Tuesday, House impeachment investigators are seeking a deposition of acting

White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney. The request targets the highest-ranking White House

official to date in the impeachment inquiry. Mulvaney, a former Republican congressman,

is unlikely to show. And then on Wednesday, David Hale, the state department's third-ranking

official testified privately before House investigators. Democrats hope Hale can shed more light

on the removal of Maria Vonavitch as U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine after she became the target of false

rumors questioning her loyalty to President Trump. Meanwhile, Wednesday, while Hale was on the hill,

the Democrats announced that public hearings in the inquiry will begin next week,

with William Taylor acting ambassador to Ukraine and George Kent, the deputy assistant secretary

of state, both testifying on Wednesday, November 13th. Then former ambassador to Ukraine,

Yvonnevitch, will testify on Friday, November 15th. And as part of this process of moving this

inquiry into the public, Congress this week released some transcripts. On Monday and Tuesday,

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