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[silence]. Now, turning attention to the ron johnson letter, if i may. Yes. On august 31st, Senator Johnson is getting ready to travel to the ukraine in september with murphy. Johnson called the president and sought permission to be the bearer of good news. Right. The president said i am not ready to lift the aid. Senator johnson, he writes a 10 page letter. Very detailed. He gives some remarkable details. I would like to read it. Its on page 6. This is Senator Johnson speak. I asked him whether...

Documents and correspondence. i dont need a history lesson. >> well, i will say again we do not control those officers. they make their own decisions. >> did you communicate with them? do you communicate with them and will you provide those communications? >> you make a request and well refer it to our office of legislative affairs and respond appropriately. >> you say there is conspiracy theory, when we say fine, give us the documents, give us the correspondence and then if its a conspiracy the...

Between the department and alvin braggs office and fani willis also office and letitia james the offices youre referring to are independent offices of state. >> i get that. i get that day. the question is, why not? you will provide all of your documents in correspondence. thats the question. its i dont need a history lesson well im gonna say again, we do not control those offices. they make their the questions indicate with them not whether you control them. do you communicate with them and we p...

Refusing to comply with a lawful subpoena. i just want to note for the record there are five republican representatives who rejected, ignored, refused to cooperate with subpoenas from the january 6th committee because they didnt like that committee. >> you have to go through an accommodation process and thats what the fbi has been doing. they have been talking with comers staff. theyre saying were going to give you this information in some way. it may not mean were printing off copies and handin...

Litigious, but they also argue they want to continue to defend these important questions about executive privilege. theres lots of reasons why they do this. also just some bad blood between the special counsels office and the former presidents attorneys. they dont speak. theres no accommodation process here. even publicly the former presidents lawyers have attacked them even though their client is under investigation. some of this is just sport for them. they would argue, also, theyre trying to ...

Utrning. before went to the break he talks aboutot what youre goingh do about theou stonewalling. i should point out tennessee senator marsha blackburn asked merrick garland why he is stonewalling. and he denied it. i what is going to do if you w continue to get stonewalled?el l >> waie think we laid a lot of e groundwork pretty obvious accommodation process and send lots of letters before you evenr go to thoue compulsory of the subpoena process. seve been laying out there more subpoenas are try...

First, are you worried about the president -- precedent this sets? should those subpoenas be honored? >> well, its ironic, isnt it? the individual like jim jordan who ignored a subpoena from congress itself when they were subpoenaing him is now up in flames and hair on fire about the justice department and other federal agencies honoring his subpoena. of course, there was no timeframe. and not only not just to negotiate with us as democrats. there was no discussion with the justice department ab...

Plaskett saying lets slow down, lets pump the brakes here, watch. >> i have never seen anything like this. dozens and dozens of whistle blowers, fbi agents coming to us, talking about whats going on at the justice department. >> a rush to accusations and subpoenas without a factual basis and without any effort to engage with agencies through the accommodation process flies in the face of due process. >> i want to bring in nbc news congressional correspondent and jake sherman, punch bowl and msnb...

I know mrs. smith had a visit from the f.b.i. last week. first amendment free speech is what we care about. this committee is about protecting the constitution and in particular the first amendment. >> the white house is signaling cooperation. counsel to the president wrote to jordan last week looking forward to engaging with you and your staff in good faith in the constitutionally mandated accommodation process. adding president biden is committed to insuring that teachers and other public serv...

A response saying, sure, mr. jordan, come on over and bring your friends and lets start looking under merrick garlands rug, short of that, youre going to get that kind of tweet from jim jordan and the republicans on the committee because thats just part of the political process playing out. this isnt really remarkable. >> other congresses have held attorney general barr in contempt, holder in contempt of congress for not cooperating with committees. can you put this refusal from garland doj into...