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I dont expect them to come ply. >> the house voted the hold you in contempt back in 2012 for failing to turn over documents related to the fast and furious scandal. why would this be different for these members? >> well, fast and furious is different. we turned over 7,000 documents. i testified eight or niene occasions. the only thing we had dispute about were things protected by executive privilege were turned over by successor jeff sessions which proved the things we were holding back were onl...

Legislatures that they should appoint alternate slates of electors this. reportedly came after he personally communicated with trump without d.o.j. leadership knowing. trump also reportedly considered installing clark as acting a. g. but decided against it, only when other officials threatened to resign. the january 6th committee voted to hold clark in contempt back in december after he walked out of the meeting with investigators the previous month. former president trump may have suggested par...

After special counsel after new investigation. and, yet, we seem to only get drips and drabs of actual information. what is it about the process that makes it so hard to get to the bottom of it? >> because congress never stands up for itself. i issued a subpoena when the chairman of the oversight committee back in 2016 for all these materials and congress never stood up for itself. the intel committee did it. but it never held them in contempt back in august of last year. now bob goodlatte was i...

But again, ill say that this could turn into, in an election year, a litmus test vote for these republicans, even the ones who are squeamish. with all of the controversy surrounding eric holder and all of the things that hes doing in this election year that have cheesed off these republicans, theres going to be serious pressure on these guys to come out and vote for contempt. megyn: cheesed off. [laughter] thank you, chris. want to leave our viewers with this from speaker boehner. he says today ...