Read the White House’s Letter Responding to Judiciary Committee Impeachment Hearing

'This baseless and highly partisan inquiry violates all past historical precedent'

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) presides over a mark-up hearing to determine whether to hold Attorney General William Barr in contempt of Congress on May 8, 2019. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

The White House will not attend the House Judiciary Committee’s impeachment hearing starting Dec. 4.

Counsel Pat Cipollone wrote a letter to the committee, headed by Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.), about a week after it was announced his panel would take over the current impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump.