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Attorney saying he accused mcgahn of violating the law and said in part the notion that a former white house counsel is absolutely immune from a congressional subpoena has been foreclosed by the supreme court. second the justice departments own longstanding policy is executive privilege should not be invoked to conceal evidence of wrongdoing or criminality. the head of the house democrats communications committee david cicilline was asked if there will be a contempt of congress vote on the floor...

Enforcing against bar and mcgahn and seek to enforce the subpoenas in court through the contempt citations. thats the next step. >> the worry is if you go the legal route it takes forever. we just saw what happened with eric holder. that case just -- the former attorney general of the obama administration. that case just got settled a coup of weeks ago. went on for many years. are you worried about that? >> of course thats a concern but the fact is the president made the same arguments that hes ...

Report, substantial evidence of misconduct, but we need the rest of the report, unredacted support, all of the supporting materials and hear from witnesses. we approached this in the sober, most serious way, in the face of a president and white house attempting in every way to impede our access to information, to continue to cover up, conceal from american people and congress what the truth is, i think we may be forced into a position to open formal inquiry to facilitate collection of evidence w...

Salaries salary. it shows that democrats are struggling to poke holes in the white houses stonewalling. and i do think that we will see some more contempt citations. but democrats are reluctant to go too far. they dont want to be seen as being too aggressive. there could be backlash with the voters. theyre struggling and weighing just how far to go. with the jailing and fining, congress is ill-equipped to do something like that. there was talk if theres a jail in the capitol. there is no jail. >...

When is the full house going to vote on holding barr in contempt? >> i dont think the attorney general should make a joke of this at all. this is with respect to the attorney general of the united states being in contempt of the congress of the united states, continuing an effort to stonewall the american people, to prevent people from gathering the facts and getting to the truth. its not a laughing matter. i expect that there are a number of other committees that are considering contempt citati...

Look, he is a person that has been very quiet. his work is complete, but i think he wants to be sure, or i hope he wants to be sure that its not misconstrued or misrepresented to the american people. its too important. the work was too serious. so i expect that a person of his integrity would want to be sure this information was communicated accurately and the conclusions he came to were explained carefully. >> yesterday the attorney general apparently greeted speaker pelosi, jokingly asked if s...

Waste the time of the house, probably will put them all together for one day. >> and what is the time line that you expect for the contempt citations? is this something were looking at, for example, before the memorial day recess? >> maybe before, maybe shortly after. i dont know. >> all right. i want to show you what eric holder, the former attorney general had to say to our alley vitaly earlier today about whether or not theres grounds to impeach the president. take a look. >> based on the mue...

Right now they are saying find us a date. >> so right now you dont see any roadblocks. they are not telling you, no, were not going to let him come. the issue is simply timing? >> the issue has been timing for a while, but whether they are being honest that its only timing, i dont know. perhaps the white house is telling them dont let him appear and use any excuse. >> what about don mcgahn? hes been subpoenaed to testify on may 21st. thats coming up pretty fast. do you know whether or not hes go...

Public back and forth playing out to try to persuade them to have this as an open hearing, if he decides to resist the subpoena, then the house would have to vote to find him in contempt of congress, and then it would be referred to the u.s. attorney here in washington, who could decide whether or not to prosecute. the law says he shall, but in the past sometimes members of the u.s. attorneys office have refused to pursue these contempt citations. so who knows how it would play out, and of cours...

Some of the big developments that catherine is reporting on today, you said where we are and taking the fifth and what this means to hear from these people potentially. >> with mr. simpson, invoke the fifth as you know. probably going to step into the process where when to submit our questions that he took the fifth on, give it to the chairman, valid or invalid indications of the fifth. the testify and answer those questions and to failure to do so could possibly lead to contempt citations. that...