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>> sean: let me ask you, is it going to take a contempt order from -- are they going to be held in contempt of the justice department? i agree with the analysis. it seems trying to push this to 2018, see if democrats get control. >> i think one of the things, chairman nunes has done an unbelievable job, not only investigating this but keeping the pressure on. its not unless that pressure is felt by doj officials that they actually produce anything. ive been on the phone most of the day with them...

Investigation. its why we are investigating the state department for a number of reasons. >> sean: let me ask you, is it going to take a contempt order from -- are they going to be held in contempt of the justice department. i agree with the analysis. it seems trying to push this to 2018, steve democrats get control. >> i think one of the things, chairman nunes has done an unbelievable job, not only investigating this but keeping the pressure on. its not unless that pressure is felt by doj offic...

>> oh, yeah. when i was a prosecutor i had a witness in the grand jury. i asked him one question. do you know frank sinatra? he refused to answer. >> well, that seems like a big red flag. >> sure. i gave him an immunity order. i asked him do you know frank sinatra. he refused to answer. i took him before the judge, and he spent the next 18 months in prison under a contempt order. >> did you ever find fought he knew frank sinatra. >> oh, i knew he knew frank sinatra. >> there you go. >> but he co...

Questions on a whole host of aspects of robert mueller and the house intelligence committees investigation. the key question is what questions is she going to be willing to answer tomorrow because that point, that issue that you raised still has not been settled. it is not clear. we spoke to the ranking democrat on the house intelligence committee today adam schiff and he isnt certain she is going to answer questions. steve bannon refused to answer many questions citing in effect white house cla...

Answer most questions or refuse. the intelligence committee is still intending to issue a contempt order for steve bannon for refusing to answer questions you can imagine they do the same to hope if she does as well. the two essential claims of the republican memo known as the nunes memo is one the fbis investigation was based othentiy on this steele dossier. on that issue, the democratic memo attempts to rebut it by noting the time line. the fbi opened its counterintelligence investigation seve...

>> we are not going to have a fisa court in this country any longer if the fbi and doj are going to continue to obfuscate like that. >> reporter: nunes confirmed he is moving forward in his own investigation of funding for the dossier. >> we have to make sure that people are held accountable so that everyone knows its never going to be okay to take dirt from a foreign actor. >> reporter: the house intelligence committee will have another high-profile witness tomorrow, white house communications ...

>> not necessarily. >> it was a contempt order. he violated it. he then said through his lawyer that he unintentionally violated the law. it was an unclear order. i know this is his lawyers, but joe arpaio had a chance to do it the right way and he didnt and he boasted about it. now youre defending his flouting of the law. why? >> im saying this, i dont agree with him for defying the judges order. but we also should remember judge snow issued an order that was judge-made law, and it wasnt consis...

That last part is key. its also the key to the controversy because arpaio was accused of rounding people up that looked like undocumented immigrants. and this goes back, again, many years. context matters. this was not an isolated incident. arpaio forced incarcerated inmates to live in an outdoor tent city he likened to a concentration camp. he was cited for segregating latinos within the population. he had an unusually high suicide rate of inmates, problems with his officers assaulting people. ...

Continue, i dont care what the judges say. thats called contempt by definiti definition, by the way. and this is supposed to be a law and order presidency. >> i dont agree. >> hold on, congressman. if you dont agree with him, then you agree with him being convicted of the crime because thats what he was convicted of. >> not necessarily. >> it was a contempt order. he then said through his lawyer that he unintentionally violated the law. it was an unclear order. i know this is his lawyers, but jo...

Decided to ignore. the law allows the president to pardon anyone he wants. this isnt about his ability to do it. its whether he made the right call. what the law says about what sheriff joe was doing police can ask for documentation of immigration status while in the course of enforcing other laws. that last part is key. its also the key to the controversy because arpaio was accused of rounding people up that looked like undocumented immigrants. and this goes back, again, many years. context mat...