Former Trump DHS officials interviewed in Mayorkas impeachment inquiry

The GOP-led House Homeland Security Committee has conducted two closed-door interviews with two former Trump Homeland Security officials, as the committee prepares to move forward with articles of impeachment against Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas next week, according to two officials briefed on the matter.

The two former Trump officials are Mark Morgan, who served as former commissioner of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection, and Rodney Scott, who served as chief of the Border Patrol briefly under Mayorkas until August 2021.

The previously unreported testimony comes as Democrats and some Republicans, have blasted the process by which the impeachment inquiry has unfolded, saying the effort to remove Mayorkas involves a difference over policy and doesn't meet the constitutional standard for impeachment.

A third closed-door interview with former Trump Acting ICE Director Tom Homan was scheduled for Thursday, but was canceled, according to a source familiar with the situation.

A conservative think tank, The Heritage Foundation, is representing the two men, according to a source familiar with the situation. The foundation did not respond to an ABC News request for comment.

Both Democrats and Republicans were allowed to participate in questioning Morgan and Scott, according to sources familiar with the situation.

Democrats on the House Homeland Security Committee slammed the process.

«It is telling that Chairman [Mark] Green is convening secret, closed-door interviews in collusion with the Heritage Foundation in a last-ditch effort to boost his non-existent argument for impeachment,» the top Democrat on the committee, Rep. Bennie Thompson said in a statement to ABC News. «The fact that they would rather hear from former Trump