The committees of the House of Representatives of the United States (USA) on Friday requested the vice president of the nation, Mike Pence, the documents that relate them in the call made by President Donald Trump with his counterpart from Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky.
According to an office of Prensa Latina, the three committees formed by the Lower House - responsible for collecting all the information to initiate the political trial against Trump - asked Pence for documents and calls made before October 15, specifically the 18 of September.
"Recently, public reports have raised questions about any role you may have played in transmitting or reinforcing the president's clear message to your Ukrainian counterpart," the headlines of the three committees wrote in a letter to Pence, quoted by Prensa Latina. .
In this sense, in the letter, the House of Representatives emphasizes that if the vice president refuses to hand over the documents "it will constitute evidence of obstruction of justice in the investigation of political trial."
Last week, the House of Representatives decided to initiate the political trial, after a whistleblower - an unidentified intelligence officer - revealed a dialogue between the two presidents last July, in which Trump demanded that Zelensky investigate the son of his principal Democratic political rival, Joe Biden, for his ties to a Ukrainian natural gas company.
On Thursday night, the House of Representatives investigators published a set of text messages that showed the main US diplomats encouraging the new president-elect of Ukraine to conduct an investigation linked to the Biden family in exchange for granting a high profile visit with Trump in Washington, AP refers.
The launch followed a 10-hour interview with one of the diplomats, Kurt Volker, who resigned as a special envoy to Ukraine after the political trial investigation had begun.
Trump repeated Friday that he was pressuring Ukraine to investigate corruption, not trying to undermine Biden, who could be his opponent of the 2020 presidential elections. He made a request related to China, specifying Biden and his son, on Thursday.
While Republicans seek a response to the investigation, the absence of a procedural vote to begin the investigation has been a main line of attack against the Democrats.
Pelosi rejected the need for such a vote as unnecessary, saying that the Chamber is within its rules to continue the investigation without it.
Pelosi has tried to avoid a vote on the investigation of political trial for the same reason that he resisted, for months, the so-called liberals to try to dismiss the president: he would force moderate Democrats to take a politically risky vote.
Meanwhile, the White House is trying to force the question about the Democrats, as it seeks to increase the political cost of its political trial investigation and encourage the president's supporters before the 2020 elections.
Trump's allies have suggested that without a formal vote, the House is simply conducting standard supervision, entitling lawmakers to a lower level of disclosure by the administration. The Justice Department raised similar arguments last month, although that was before Pelosi announced the political trial investigation.
Two days after telling reporters: "Well, I always cooperate," Trump issued a different note about cooperating with the House investigation. "I don't know," he said. "That depends on the lawyers."