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This as pelosi and nadler blamed each other for dropping the ball on the russia witch hunt. joining us now with more capitol hill senior producer chad pergram. chad? >> hey, jason. the house is now on the august recess for more than 46 days. and as a former lawmaker, you know the importance of establishing a narrative for the august recess. democrats arent quite sure where they stand on impeachment. democrats on the judiciary committee made things muddier with a puzzling press conference. i trie...

I want to ask this question. they asked me all the time, and i will ask well the same question. devin nunes, will people that have been involved in this abuse of power and corruption, will they be held accountable? hillary getsnt away with a riggd investigation, the dirty dossie dossier, premeditated lying fraud on our fisa court, attempt to undo a presidential election with lies and conspiracy theories, well start with devin. >> remember, sean, weve made some criminal referrals. there are some ...

Committee on information technology, and i actually -- two congresses ago in -- back in 2016 i held the first hearing on election security actually before the 2016 election. and from that time, there has been a lot of updates even after that election. for example, there were some secretaries of states who are reticent from taking supporter help from the federal government and hardying their infrastructure. that has changed since then. the senate report has been done over two years. and some of t...

Subpoenas, and not only on the malfeasance of the administration and of the trump campaign, but also on things like family separation at the border, the rigging of the census, and everything else. now this we have to break that logjam so that we can get the evidence before the american people, and were going to court to do that in fact tomorrow. >> i thought you got a lot of information the first couple of questions. you got him to admit the president lied about being exonerated. there is inform...

Probably hurt the democrats argument. >> matt miller, let me ask you quickly, if this goes before the supreme court of the united states, have don mcgahn testify before congress, you look at past precedent, look at the fact that bill clinton answered a subpoena, and it was a general relief that even the president of the united states had no choice but to answer that subpoena. do you like me find it hard to believe that the supreme court would not require don mcgahn to testify before congress. >>...

One, that i get to talk to someone who loves the stuff as much as i do. having said that, in all seriousness, this is a big, big number. and this is also a congress and this is a city that not that long ago was focused on debt reduction, on deficit reduction. what happened to that? >> reporter: yeah, im sure you still have cold sweats waking up thinking about the 2013 agreement. >> i do. >> reporter: the 2011 agreements when you were walking through these halls every single day. the reality is t...

>> the administration said it would take place on sunday to prompt the protested didnt happen because sources say the i.c.e. agents lossyic element of surprise. this operation targeting roughly 2000 people could continue indefinitely. mike: the silence of most democratic lawmakers are speakingng volumes former us ambassador to united nations has taken notice. there are no words why the democrats are staying silent if this is your way to win the election fire your strategist. this is you disgusti...

Kevin mccarthy taking questions now and the presidents remarks. >> we tried a number of different congresses. last congress we tried. we brought two different bills to the floor. the real challenge was the other side of the aisle made sure no one voted for it. ours believes there is a process in the house and the senate and an act to find compromise on both sides. fortunately there is a belief on the other side of the aisle they wanted to keep the issue out there. now, everybody wants to be able...

Short-sided, do they think that when they do this against president trump the future republican congresses will not do it against future democratic presidents, its very hard for me to believe that they think that this is the proper way to do business. >> now, in terms of oversight activities which you mentioned subpoenas which we talked about, legislative purpose, what would the legislative purpose be of the presidents tax returns? >> i think it differs, 81 subpoenas, some of them are much more ...

>> lets not exaggerate. we do still have a constitution. the skeleton of this government, the bare-bones of the government are elected congresses, elected presidents, limited powers, division of power between the national government and the states, due process of law, independent courts, we stick remarkably to the constitution. it is true there are a number of provisions in the constitution where i think, and perfect trim perhaps you think the courts have strayed and congress has straight, but t...