Washington (CNN) President Donald Trump, facing the prospect of impeachment, met last week with Mark Penn, the former pollster and political strategist to Bill Clinton.

Mark Penn, chief strategist and pollster for Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Hillary Clinton, speaks to reporters in the "spin room" after the Democratic debate at Saint Anselm College January 5, 2008 in Manchester, New Hampshire. Both Republican and Democratic presidential candidates faced off in debates this evening prior to Tuesday's New Hampshire primary. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Trump met with Penn in the Oval Office last Monday alongside Vice President Mike Pence and adviser Kellyanne Conway, two sources familiar with the meeting said. During the meeting, Penn went over polling data and doled out impeachment advice to Trump.

He advised Trump not to respond to every aspect of the impeachment proceedings and counseled him to follow Clinton's political lead by focusing on his day job of governing and traveling the country while impeachment consumes Washington.

Penn went to the White House at the urging of Andrew Stein, a friend of Trump's and a former New York City Council president, who also attended the meeting.

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