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Interfering with our elections in massive and sweeping ways that will continue and a senate yesterday that did nothing, in fact blocked attempts to take care of or protect our elections. those are the performances we need to be looking at. those are the behaviors. trump, his campaign, russia and obstruction. thats what we need to be looking at. >> mr. chairman, youve been fighting for these grand jury materials for some time but youve also been engaging in an accommodation process with the depar...

Massive and sweeping ways that will continue and i said it yesterday, it did nothing, in fact lost attempts to take care of or protect our elections. those are performances we need to be looking at, behaviors, trump, his campaign, russia and obstruction. that is what we need to be looking at. >> mr. chairman, you have been fighting for the grand jury materials for sometime, but you have been engage nothing accommodation process with the department of justice, they allowed you to view some docume...

2020 census. that comes just as the chairman of that committee prepares to hold a vote to declare attorney general william barr and commerce secretary wilbur ross in contempt of congress for withholding the subpoenaed documents sometime in the next hour, probably. in a letter to chairman couplings, the justice department wrote, by proceeding with todays vote, you have abandoned the accommodation process with respect to your requests and subpoenas for documents rather than allowing the department...

302s, all the documents really that are referenced in the mueller report that support the findings of the special counsel. >> mike, that is one optimistic rhode islander. listen to him. he seems to be saying its all going to come across town in time. >> yeah, brian. this has been a long what we call in the weeds here the accommodation process. when the mueller report was released remember what the democrats initial demand was. they wanted every line unredacted of the mueller report itself, and t...

Into the investigators. >> reporter: the house judiciary committee democratic chairman said the justice department guaranteed access to more special counsel record. alleged obstruction by donald trump. >> we reached agreement to review the evidence underlying the mueller report including interview notes firsthand account of misconduct and other critical evidence. >> democrats wanted testimony from don mcgann who was directed by the administration not to cooperate citing executive privilege, impl...

With that in mind curious reporters all day have been trying to find out from members of congress and the staff what did you get today? what did they send over first? heres congressman cicilline, democrat of rhode island. well talk about it on the other side. >> well get witness statements, 302s, all the documents really that are referenced in the mueller report that support the findings of the special counsel. >> mike, that is one optimistic rhode islander. listen to him. he seems to be saying ...

Now delayed legal action against barr. knowing that the doj has agreed to provide some of these key documents and information regarding meal or evidence. what do you think changes? what do you think comes from the? >> that key evidence that he talked about, the same evidence that the department of justice has been offering to democrats for some time now. again, this was about jerry nadler trying to save face in the face of the democratic base that wants him to take action. those documents again ...

>> mike, that is one optimistic rhode islander. listen to him. he seems to be saying its all going to come across town in time. >> yeah, brian. this has been a long what we call in the weeds here the accommodation process. when the mueller report was released remember what the democrats initial demand was. they wanted every line unredacted of the mueller report itself, and then they wanted every scrap of paper, every interview log, every document special counsel mueller and his team used to deve...

Way these disputes have been resolved. been resolved by way of compromise and settlement and meeting in the middle. to accept doj offer and reach an agreement. im not optimistic that this will solve all the disputes that will be back but its good start. >> joyce, your take and do democrats need to bring in robert mueller or someone from his team to testify to really push this conversation forward at this point? >> well, yesterdays agreement was a good first step. the accommodation process is ver...

Find a path forward, whether thats contempt or working out through the accommodation process. >> anne gearan, you were on this trip. your pool notes were legendary. thank you for all of us who were reading them from back here. but this really was, i mean, the president sitting on hollow ground, we showed the footage at the beginning, not just criticizing a rival, but laufrmg launching a deeply, deeply personal attack. he is worried about what pelosi is going to do next. >> he is. ive been waitin...