Pence declines to share documents with House impeachment inquiry – counsel

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Vice President Mike Pence declined on Tuesday to submit documents to the House of Representative committees pursuing an impeachment inquiry of President Donald Trump, his office said, calling the probe "self-proclaimed" and the requests for information too broad. Pence's counsel, Matthew Morgan, said in a letter to three Democratic lawmakers that the scope of documents requested included some "which are clearly not vice-presidential records." Morgan said Pence's office was prepared to work with the committees if they "wish to return to the regular order of legitimate legislative oversight requests, and the Committees have appropriate requests for information solely in the custody of the Office of the Vice President." The White House considers the Democratic-led House's impeachment process to be unfair and without due process. Morgan's letter went over many of the same concerns the White House counsel outlined last week in a letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi

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