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president pences indiana home. the "wall street journal" first reported the news citing people familiar who say the justice department is talking with pences legal team about scheduling. last month, the former vice presidents lawyers admitted they discovered several documents with classified markings at his home and turned them over to authorities. nbc news has reached out to both the fbi and mike pence for comment. havent yet heard back. joining me now is correspondent julia ainsley a...

The letter details how Congress has a clear legislative interest in ensuring that popularly elected local prosecutors do not misuse their law-enforcement authority to target federal officials for political reasons. 

On May 4, the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee held a hearing titled “Hearing to Conduct Oversight of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.” This alert provides a...

Classified documents at the end of an administration. thats when the problem occurs, and we can have representatives from the national archives and the office of the director of national intelligence be involved in the actual removal of documents. >> can you explain whats at issue between the senate intelligence committee and the national archives and dni about getting more information about these documents? marco rubio and senator warner, both senators said they dont need to see the actual subs...

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Fall, to be practiced, for a future successful coup attempt. one way to do, that is to do a trump and bennett have been trying to do since day one, which is to prove that rules dont matter, laws or for losers, that they are above the law, and for a long time, we really got away with that. whether its stonewalling congress or the american people cannot conduct oversight, whether its tied up in courts. or whether its engaging in a treasonous insurrection, getting your allies in congress to acquit ...

Would say stand back, look in the mirror, understand youll look at that face every morning for the rest of your life. you want to be proud of the person youre looking at. look at the facts. look at the constitution and stand fast. >> congressman edwards? >> i totally agree with that. remember the oath of office you took. life goes on. if you lose your election, life goes on. dont be afraid to do the thing that you were elected to do which is to stand up, conduct oversight, do whats right, obey t...

Services committee. i have to ask you first, congressman, the president of the united states just compared the constitutional impeachment inquiry to a lynching. again, learned see graham agreeing with that characterization. whats your response? >> clearly were in a very dangerous time. the president is saying wilder and wilder things, more erratic things. thats a stunning thing to obviously say. theres a part of me that feels like the president doesnt understand our history, but what might be ev...

Elections, the president had contacts with the russians to help him get elected. these are issues very serious and tee we need to do both, conduct oversight. we need to investigate and pass these bills at the same time. >> let me ask you about another issue close to your heart, and that is the issue of climate change. even your republican predecessor in that district also a rarity in the gop stood up and said this is an issue thereat needs to be addressed. youre aware the president goes to the g...

Responsibility, not an investigative responsibility. its very different. when wrongdoing or the suspicion of wrongdoing is brought to us, then indeed we can properly investigate, conduct oversight, and do the like. but yet here we have a fishing expedition where we will say everything that you could have possibly done wrong, we willll investigate, even if it was prior to you becoming the w president of the united states. its just wrong. >> we just got to focus on the truth. focus on getting to t...