Contempt Fight News Today

morning, everyone. youre live in judiciary committee will begin girl and is expected to push back against gop attacks on the justice department. >> and gop claims i am that the doj is weaponized against donald trump. also, opening statements are underway in the trial of the presidents son, hunter biden, on three felony gun charges, but there are already some developments in sayyed that courtroom will bring you and president biden is about to announce an executive order on illegal immig...

Investigations. so that is what the contempt fight is over. and right now, merrick garland says, no, remember though, even if the audio tape does get produced publicly at some point, perhaps under a judges order, maybe potentially there is this history of public ins picking these types of battles with cabinet officials including in the biden administration, but also dating back to eric holder as the attorney general, who was held in contempt for the first time in a long time starting that proces...

It flooded that i.t. room at mar-a-lago, not damaging any of the video tape that we know of, but clearly something that was quite suspicious that has happened. at that point in time last year, kaitlan, that was when this was the heart of the obstruction investigation. the justice department was not trusting at that time donald trump and his attorneys that they had turned over all of the classified records in his possession at mar-a-lago. they were headed toward a contempt fight in court in the f...

Thats when the pool was drained by this maintenance worker, and it flooded that he room at mar-a-lago. not damaging any of the videotape that we know of, but clearly something that was quite suspicious that has happened. and at that point in time last year kaitlin that was when this was the heart of the obstruction investigation. the justice department was not trusting at that time, donald trump and his attorneys that they had turned over all of the classified records in his possession at mar-a-...

The committees subpoena, an also made it clear that he had already provided documents that werent even asked for. all he requested in return was that you, as chairman of this committee, give him your good faith commitment that we would move toward resolving this contempt fight. martha: darrell issa responded basically that that didnt answer the question of what he was subpoenaing, and that he was not willing to move beyond this fight, and doug mcelway joins us now live outside the white house wi...

>> what is in those internal documents that the department of justice that is so self-incriminating that the doj will not release them? >> i just dont get the point. it just does not make sense. >> nobody wants to put a conclusion to this more than chairman issa. >> its painful to sit here and watch it turn into a partisan political theater. >> how much did the president know about this? >> the hearing began with a friendly but very terse back and forth between the committees republican chairman...