At the close of a full day of testimony, House Intelligence Committee Democrats voted down Republican efforts to subpoena the unidentified whistle-blower and Joe Biden’s son Hunter to appear for closed-door depositions.
Also rejected along party lines were GOP subpoena requests for records on Democratic National Committee communications with Ukrainian government officials and for records from a company related to Hunter Biden’s position on the Burisma Holdings board of directors.
Republicans say they’ve been barred from calling witnesses they contend could show that Trump had reason to seek investigations of the Bidens and Ukrainian interference in the 2016 election. They also want to question the whistle-blower about factual issues and the person’s motives for acting.