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>> as you said, to force compliance with congressional subpoena justice department, who works for attorney general who works for president biden has to be willing to bring contempt, i am not that confident this justice department would do those fairly and evenly without regard to partisan bias. weve seen the cases in the past for example under president obama contempt citations were not prosecuted again democratic office holders, only thing congress can do is bring it to public, and say, you the...

>> as you said, to force compliance with congressional subpoena justice department, who works for attorney general who works for president biden has to be willing to bring contempt, i am not that confident this justice department would do those fairly and evenly without regard to partisan bias. weve seen the cases in the past for example under president obama contempt citations were not prosecuted again democratic office holders, only thing congress can do is bring it to public, and say, you the...

>> as you said, to force compliance with congressional subpoena justice department, who works for attorney general who works for president biden has to be willing to bring contempt, i am not that confident this justice department would do those fairly and evenly without regard to partisan bias. weve seen the cases in the past for example under president obama contempt citations were not prosecuted again democratic office holders, only thing congress can do is bring it to public, and say, you the...

Prosecutors when they get to the trump organization, unless they negotiate a deal to settle it, will be to get testimony out of weisselberg, certainly testimony showing donald trump knew full well what was going on, and indeed they may have additional evidence we havent seen yet of tax evasion and other crimes by the trump organization that would come up at trial. >> david, this doesnt preclude weisselberg testifying in the future, but i wonder how likely you see that is happening. >> well, alle...

Witnesses that you seek? i mean, as far as we know about the issue are you having difficulty trying to nail down the witnesses for these hearings? is there a scheduling issue? i know we had at least one person who had his wife gave birth and congratulations to him, but are there outstanding issues in terms of getting people to be cooperative and forthcoming in front of the cameras? >> well, my rule of thumb is the closer you get to donald trump the more difficult it gets to have them come in and...

Seek? there are some we know have thumbed their nose as far as we know about the issue. are you having difficulty trying to nail down the witnesses for these hearings? is there a scheduling issue? i know we have one person whose wife gave birth this week, and congratulations to him. are there outstanding issues getting people to be cooperative in front of the cameras? >> my rule of thumb is the closer you get to donald trump, the more difficult it gets to have them come in and voluntarily cooper...

But it is a coup organized by the president against the constitutional framework itself. the two contempt citations we vote on tonight will go to persons who have critical information about both components of this assault on america and the coordination between them. peter navarro worked to overthrow the election by nullifying 79 electoral college votes, cast by tens of millions of americans, who live in arizona, georgia, pennsylvania, michigan, new mexico, and wisconsin. how does so-called gree...

A long time. so that it has sort of taken that power away from itself. that means it can kind of issue these contempt citations for free. doesnt have to really worry about being held accountable. whereas i think that merrick garland, the attorney general, he cant just do this for show. he would have to really enforce. i think hes making the argument for why he should but it also would be a dramatic move to go after former presidential advisers in this way. and he doesnt -- so far we havent seen ...

Today why the justice department has taken no action on mark meadows found in contempt of crisis. the contempt citations are going to the doj and i think the public is seeing very little action. the doj expanded some invest gages and they say they will look as low or high, they dont care the position people are in. is there frustration about the speed of this investigation given we have another election, presidential election around the corner? >> i will tell you maybe as a point of distinction ...

Its time for politicians of all stripes to remember there is more that unites us than divides us and start acting like it. what youre saying it starts with us individually. >> right. we get for the most part the government we deserve. when you reward fame as the political virtue you get people who have no interest to legislate or doing their job, they just simply want to be famous. and you know, dana, i dont like relativism and duplicity. there are republicans who have voted both for and against...