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US House Judiciary Committee to hold impeachment inquiry hearing

The US House Judiciary Committee on Tuesday will hold an impeachment inquiry hearing on Dec 4. Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler sent Trump a letter, inviting him and his counsel to participate in the hearing.

The White House "is currently reviewing Chairman Nadler's letter, but what is obvious to every American is that this letter comes at the end of an illegitimate sham partisan process," White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham said in a statement. "The president has done nothing wrong, and the Democrats know it."

The judiciary panel's announcement came as House Democrats conducting the impeachment inquiry hosted a number of closed-door depositions and public testimonies to try to establish a case of the president abusing his office to solicit foreign interference that would help with his re-election -- a claim that Trump and his administration have repeatedly denied.