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Letter from Cipollone to Nadler Declining White House Participation in Impeachment Hearing Whistleblower Complaint on Ukraine (Kelly Smith, comp.) 1 (12/1/2019)

handle is hein.presidents/usgvtwht0208 and id is 1 raw text is: THE WHITE HOUSE WASHINGTON December 1, 2019 The Honorable Jerrold Nadler Chairman Committee on the Judiciary United States House of Representatives Washington, D.C. 20515 Dear Chairman Nadler: I write in response to your letter of November 26, 2019, to President Trump regarding the purported impeachment inquiry currently being conducted by Democrats in the House of Representatives (House). As you know, this baseless and highly partisan inquiry violates all past historical precedent, basic due process rights, and fundamental fairness. Your letter asked that the President notify the House Comnittee on the Judiciary (Judiciary Conunittee or Committee) by December 1, 2019, whether the Administration intends to participate in a hearing scheduled for December 4, 2019. You scheduled this initial hearing-no doubt purposely-during the time that you know the President will be out of the country attending the NATO Leaders Meeting in London. Your letter provides little information about the upcoming hearing. It vaguely indicates that you intend to hold a hearing to discuss the historical and constitutional basis of impeachment. We understand from rumors and press reports (though not from any notice provided in your letter or in the official notice of the hearing) that the hearing will consist of an academic discussion by law professors. We understand this to mean that your initial hearing will include no fact witnesses at all. You also sent another letter on November 29, 2019, setting a different deadline of December 6 for the President to provide notice as to whether the Administration intends to participate in additional, unspecified hearings that apparently will occur after that date and to specify the rights the President wishes to exercise at these additional hearings. Again, your letter provided no information whatsoever as to the dates these hearings will occur, what witnesses will be called, what the schedule will be, what the procedures will be, or what rights, if any, the Connittee intends to afford the President. In other words, you have given no information regarding your plans, set arbitrary deadlines, and then demanded a response, all to create the false appearance of providing the President some rudimentary process. In any event, this letter responds only to your letter of November 26 and frilly reserves the right to respond firther when and if you release more information about the December 4 hearing. We will respond separately to your letter of November 29 by your requested deadline of Friday, December 6.

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