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Across the finish line and make 40 members walk the plank knowing she was sending them to their doom. it is very clear from the outside observing congressional behavior the speaker of the house does not want to impeach the president and you guys can do whatever you want to do but shes not going to pick a fight over it. >> first of all, we have moved contempt citations against william barr, the attorney general of the united states. i have a resolution to specifically disapprove and to reject eve...

Yet, vowing to push ahead with more investigations. >> my position has always been, whatever decision we make in that regard would have to be done with our strongest possible hand, and we still have some outstanding matters in the courts. its about congress, the constitution and the courts. and we are fighting the president in the courts. >> julie: chris wallace joins me now, anchor of fox news sunday. yesterday, wow. that was quite a show. what comes next after the mueller testimony? investigat...

>> sure. hes certainly relishing it. its dividing the opposition, is always good for the incumbent, but nancy pelosi is in a dilemma here. she has moderates in her caucus and they dont want to be back home and panning on this next year. she doesnt think it will help democrats next year in election so shes trying to hold off but she has this progressive wing that wants to go there. and thats her dilemma right now. but all of these subpoenas and contempt citations, this is ankle biting on the part...

Using russian disinformation to get an fbi investigation on your opponent? its a fa fake outrage. i think well move on. paul: lets move on to contempt citations in congress. what do you make of all of this? is this something that is serious and going to blot some into a major showdown? >> well, i mean, its a very serious tool that theyre using. unfortunately, theyre using it for very unserious purposes, which is politics. you want to reserve contempt for those moments when officials are refusing...

Using russian disinformation to get an fbi investigation on your opponent? its a fa fake outrage. i think well move on. paul: lets move on to contempt citations in congress. what do you make of all of this? is this something that is serious and going to blot some into a major showdown? >> well, i mean, its a very serious tool that theyre using. unfortunately, theyre using it for very unserious purposes, which is politics. you want to reserve contempt for those moments when officials are refusing...

Research or analysis by a foreign power against one of my political opponents. thats the very definition of collusion, anderson. >> opposition research might be diss informatio disinformation and damaging information that could be damaging to an opponent. some are calling for impeachment proceedings to begin. do these comments from the president, does that warrant or change your mind in any way? does it affect it? does it warrant it? >> it certainly affects it, and it pushes us further and furth...

He is fond of saying no collusion, no collusion and no collusion and today he said i would welcome collusion. i would gladly accept opposition research or analysis by a foreign power against one of my political opponents. thats the very definition of collusion, anderson. >> opposition research might be disinformation and false information that could be damaging information that could be damaging to an opponent. some are calling for impeachment proceedings to begin. do these comments from the pre...

Question on the 2020 census. do you want to move forward with a full house vote? >> so what was good about the house vote that we took yesterday is it authorized all committees to have their subpoenas and contempt citations automatically enforced without future house votes. so, in fact, that one house vote has authorized their oversight committee to go forward and litigate this thin court, so thats what we did yesterday. >> the full house was planning to hold the attorney general bill barr in co...

Representatives has not authorized our committees to start enforcing contempt citations skpee s and subpoenas. we are not messing around. we expect witnesses to show up and documents to come to us because these are lawful subpoenas. >> where do things stand right now in getting testimony from annie donaldson who served as chief of staff to the former white house counsel, don mcgahn. you also want her to come before the committee. >> we do, and we expect don mcgahn -- in fact, we expect all the w...

Team, mcgahn and as many of the other witnesses as they can do and the other part of the chairman nadlers work today that is so important is that he will be seeking to petition the court for an order requiring mcgahn and others to appear. and the court can enforce those kinds of orders with contempt citations and decree and severe penalty. is he moving ahead in a very methodical way. and his strategy, i think, is the best one to hold the president accountable. thats the common goal here, to hold...