Patrick Philbin has no defense for Trump and can only attack the US House in hopes it sells to his audience. He knows there is additional facts that have come forward since the Impeachment of Donald John Trump and he has no defense except OBSTRUCT the information.

Former White House communications director and Trump campaign aide Hope Hicks (click here) appeared before the House on Wednesday—and, true to the White House's pattern of stonewalling Democrats, lawmakers weren't able to get much out of her. According to a transcript released Thursday of Hicks's testimony, White House lawyers blocked Hicks from answering questions 155 times during her interview, claiming that they were invoking “absolute immunity” that prevented Hicks from “stat[ing] anything about her knowledge of anything during the period of time in which she was employed in the White House.”...

Executive Privilege and/or the Fifth Amendment was never claimed by Trump of his staff. His staff was instructed to claim "absolute immunity" which Trump is hoping will hold water through his impeachment. So, Philbin is lying. He is not even presenting the facts as they exist.

There is no such thing as "absolute immunity" in the USA Constitution. The information must be forthcoming because of all the incompetency by Trump. As a result the House proceedings were being stalled because it was the only action knew to take.

December 17, 2019
By David A. Graham

For most of the impeachment inquiry, (click here) President Donald Trump has passed on opportunities to mount a formal defense of his conduct. Initially, the White House complained that House Democrats were not affording him chances to defend himself. Once they did, he eschewed them, declining to participate in House Judiciary hearings, and refusing to allow testimony from witnesses who (his allies claimed) might vindicate him....

Philbin is lying. Trump was provided opportunity to provide a defense and end the inquiry, then the impeachment itself, but, it never happened until the work was done and the Articles voted on. A six page hissy fit was his defense.