Only queries seeking the person's identity won't be answered, he said. "Being a whistleblower is now not a partisan job nor is impeachment an plot". "So we have offered to @DevinNunes, Ranking HPSCI Member, opportunity for Minority to submit through legal team written questions to WBer. We will ensure timely answers".
But while every Republican in the House voted against the inquiry, Trump may be losing support in the broader public.
"You don't get to ignite an impeachment effort and never account for your actions and role in orchestrating it", Jordan said. He denies any impropriety and says the impeachment is politically motivated.
"They have the right to remain anonymous", Schiff said after Vindman's deposition last week.
Zaid's offer came as Trump called on Sunday for the revealing of the whistleblower's identity, while attacking the complaint's credibility.
Trump loyalists have refused to appear before Democratic-led committees in the US House of Representatives, ramping up the tussle between the White House and lawmakers over their power to conduct investigations.
House committees pursuing the impeachment inquiry have heard from a stream of witnesses expressing concern over Trump s request that Ukraine investigate Biden and his son.
"As you know, certain of the media released information about a man that they said was the whistleblower; I don't know if that's true or not", he said. "Disclosure of the name of any person who may be suspected to be the whistleblower places that individual and their family in great physical danger".
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Trump and Republicans have said they want to question the whistle-blower, who gathered the information for his complaint from secondary sources.
"Now, I don't know if it's true or not, but that was reported by some of the media, so you'll have to find out", he concluded. "Some people would call it a fraud; I won't go that far", Trump told reporters at the White House.
Federal law provides legitimate whistle-blowers the right to protect their identities and careers when they bring forward accusations of wrongdoing by government officials. Lawmakers in both major political parties have historically backed those protections.
House Republicans have displayed a sign on an easel in recent weeks, marking how many days it has been since Schiff learned the whistle-blower's identity.
The Senate Intelligence Committee is more than a month into its investigation, including closed-door briefings with acting director of national intelligence Joseph Maguire and Michael Atkinson, the inspector general for the intelligence community.
Ousted U.S. ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch told the impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump that she felt threatened by Trump describing her to the leader of Ukraine as "bad news", according to a transcript of her testimony released on Monday.
But Pelosi called such a vote last week and the inquiry may soon shift into open hearings.
Lawmakers were especially interested in questioning the lawyer, John Eisenberg, who made a decision to take the unusual step of moving a transcript of the call into the White House's most classified computer system, according to a person familiar with last week's testimony by Army Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vindman, who listened in on the call.
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