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Think there was a real hope on the part of the white house officials here this week that trump would back down a bit and i know acting chief of staff mick mulvaney on air force one as they were returning from the uk tonight or ireland, excuse me, was trying to, you know, talk to the president about a deal. and this is in part a response to republican lawmakers like majority leader mitch mcconnell. >> hey, elliot, if the democrats in the house find their legal voice, so far it seems theyve been l...

And i think there was a real hope on the part of the white house officials here this week that trump would back down a bit and i know acting chief of staff mick mulvaney on air force one as they were returning from the uk tonight or ireland, excuse me, was trying to, you know, talk to the president about a deal. and this is in part a response to republican lawmakers like majority leader mitch mcconnell. >> hey, elliot, if the democrats in the house find their legal voice, so far it seems theyve ...

Privately pushing for a formal impeachment process, an inquiry in part because he believes it would allow lawmakers to combine all the various house probes into one big investigation. does the chairman have the wrong idea or the right idea? >> i understand why jerry nadler is coming at the question the way hose. and a case can be made, a solid case can be made for his argument. i think we are still, though, as your reporting just before this interview pointed out, were still sort of in the mid-l...

Investigations. and you see the white house stonewalling every subpoena. we are going to issue next week contempt citations. and so we have several committee chairs who are working with the speaker to determine the best course of action. of course i do support the inquiry into impeachment. and members are really supporting a variety of investigations so that we can hold this president accountable. no one is above the law. and, yes, there has been a cover-up. and i believe that this psa good proc...

Power. there is a process we have to file and we will hold them in contempt that authorizes the civil action brought in court and the court will order them to comply with the subpoena and when they dont, if they dont, the court will enforce it by taking them into custody and imposing fines and taking other action. this is civil contempt. >> i want to stop you there. what would happen if they are people who dont pay traffic tickets. what happens if they say we dont care if you hold us in contempt...

Democrats plan to do next week to try to stop all of the stonewalling from the administration. what is their plan? >> reporter: yeah, significant ratcheting up of powers to congressional committees to go directly to court, to hold people in contempt if they are not complying with their subpoenas. the house will vote in a resolution next week that will hold bill barr in contempt as well as don mcgahn, the former white house counsel. that same resolution will also include a provision allowing this...

Engaged moving forward on contempt citations for two other cabinet secretaries, wolf. >> lots going on, on capitol hill. phil mattingly, thank you very much. democratic congressman john garamendi is a member of the services committee. thank you for joining us. you heard they will hold hearings on what they call lessons learned from the mueller report. could these hearings persuade more of your colleagues, perhaps more americans to actually support opening formal impeachment proceedings? >> well,...

The two court decisions. >> meaning the courts are going your way anyway. >> right. or they seem to be. so thats weaker. but the fact of the matter is we have to pursue whats that we p investigations, we pursue the contempt citations. we pursue the subpoenas. we lay it all out to the american people, the case out to the american people whether we call it impeachment and see where we go from there. whether we call it an impeachment inquiry or not is secondary significance compared to what we have...

More evidence about tax evasion, if theres more evidence about emoluments clause violations if theres more evidence about money laundering which seems to be the thing that gets the president the most terrified, remember when he said that if mueller investigated his finances, that was a red line. it does seem as if mueller carefully gerry mandered the report to exinclude anything about the presidents finances. thats what were going after. were going to get to the bottom of this. this president ha...

These completes to try to obtain the evidence were going after. i think those people especially in the judiciary committee who have been facing all of the evidence of impeachable offenses from the mueller report are happy to say hey, if you can get more evidence about tax evasion, if theres more evidence about emoluments clause violations if theres more evidence about money laundering which seems to be the thing that gets the president the most terrified, remember when he said that if mueller in...