The Reach To Impeach, Con't

It seems House Democratic legal deadlines still mean nothing to the Trump regime, and they mean nothing to House Democrats, either.

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Friday failed to meet a subpoena deadline from the House to produce Ukraine-related documents. 

A House Foreign Affairs Committee aide told CNN that "Secretary Pompeo has failed to meet the deadline to produce documents required by the subpoena. However, the State Department has contacted the Committees on this matter and we hope the Department will cooperate in full promptly. Apart from the outstanding subpoena, we look forward to hearing from Ambassadors Sondland and Yovanovitch next week." 

CNN has reached out to the State Department for comment. 

On Saturday, Pompeo told reporters that the US State Department had sent a letter to Congress Friday night with its "initial response" to the document request. 

"We'll obviously do all the things we are required to do by law," Pompeo said, during a press conference in Athens, without elaborating on what the department's response said. 

The lapse comes after the chairmen of three House committees subpoenaed Pompeo last week over his failure to produce documents related to Ukraine, and following his admission on Wednesday that he had been on the controversial July call when Trump pressured Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden -- Trump's potential Democratic rival -- and Biden's son Hunter. There is no evidence of wrongdoing in Ukraine by Joe or Hunter Biden. 

House Foreign Affairs Chairman Eliot Engel of New York said Friday that despite no indication that the State Department would meet the deadline, the committee is "hopeful that we will get things that we need." 

"Maybe not in the next two hours, but we're hoping we're going to get some answers," Engel told CNN's Chris Cuomo just before the deadline.

Or maybe...nothing.  Pompeo's initial response, as we well know, is that he's already refused depositions, but then again people have come forward anyway, namely Ukraine envoy Kurt Volker this week and EU Ambassador Gordon Sondland is scheduled to testify on Tuesday.

But the documents are a different story.  It's already been a month-long fight to get those, and Pompeo has ignored a subpoena already.  Unless the Dems are willing to put some muscle behind the threat on Monday, Pompeo will continue to refuse, and Trump will laugh at them.