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Involving -- this is a mystery going on in washington. an unnamed foreign company that mueller wants information from, but this foreign company with connections to some other government, unnamed government, is refusing to cooperate. >> thats right. so the supreme court was actually pretty busy over the holidays on this. and in a rare move, the chief justice sort of weighed in, issuing a temporary pause on that contempt order, so the fees arent continuing to run. its interesting. the company. we ...

Company a reprieve. he issued a temporary pause on that daily fine, and now its up to the full supreme court. they are poised to step in to decide if that contempt order will continue to be put on hold or if the company must start paying up for refusing to comply with the subpoena. so all of this has been done in secret. all of the filings under seal. and so the next step is, brianna, and the question is, will the supreme court actually side with the company in this or will they come down on mue...

The standard talking points are, it has to be kept confidential, its a confidential investigation and there are all kinds of legal principles that kick in, it has to do with national security. in all my years, the dust-ups ive seen in court, you see that kind of thing, its sealed, redacted. >> so its not unusually secretive. >> not at all, morgan. the whole fight in the supreme court, its kind of interesting we dont know as much about it as you would expect. but the chief justice has stayed this...

Welcome back and thanks so much for joining us. im morgan radford. robert mueller is accelerating the pace of his russia investigation as the year comes to an end. the special counsels office responded nearly three days early to a subpoena fight at the supreme court. earlier this week, chief justice john roberts putting a temporary hold on a contempt order against an unidentified foreign-owned company. now, that company is fighting a grand jury subpoena in a mystery case thats believed to be lin...

Owned by mystery country, appealed to the supreme court on sunday, chief justice john roberts issued a seven-day stay of the contempt order and daily fine imposed on the company. the chief justice gave a seven-day pause. briefs are being submitted. this raises the question of what does the supreme court do with a case in a possible hearing and oral arguments, argued completely under seal which as far as we know the supreme court has literally never done before? it may also be the first intersect...

D.c. circuit court of appeals said, nope, that does not fly. it ordered the company to hand over the information that was requested by the subpoena. then mystery company, which is owned by mystery country, a meeld to the supreme court on sunday, chief justice john roberts issued a 7-day stay of the contempt order and daily fines on the company for its noncompliance. the chief justiceish another a seven-day pause. he gave them until december 31st to present briefs on the matter. this is the tanta...

Government owned, we dont have to give you anything. d.c. circuit court of appeals said nope, that does not fly, ordered the company to hand over the information that was requested by the subpoena. then mystery company, which is owned by mystery country, appealed to the supreme court on sunday, chief justice john roberts issued a seven-day stay of the contempt order and daily fine imposed on the company. the chief justice gave a seven-day pause. briefs are being submitted. this raises the questi...

Thats what were struggling with here. >> so that makes it a little bit harder for you, jessica, because youll have to pick up the pieces and try to explain to us, two things. justice roberts issued a stay in this case. is that generally a normal move, and can you flesh out what comes next? >> yes, exactly. lets talk about what we do know which pete said is very little. i think we should be careful to read too many tea leaves about chief justice john roberts saying were going to stay this order, ...

This is an appeal from the district court in d.c. these go to chief justice john roberts. the one normal thing he says well push pause while we wait for the government to respond. in terms of what happens next, well, the federal government will respond on new years eve at noon and then it will be up to either chief justice john roberts or he will refer it to the full supreme court to rule on this issue. this isnt a full appeal of was it proper for the grand jury to ask for a subpoena for the jud...

He is authorizing his lawyers to take this position and use the new contempt ruling in order to file an appeal in court. they say their goal is to get a different judge who they hope will find muellers entire probe is illegitimate. >> in order to appeal the judges decision, challenging the actualizationty the constitutionally of the special counsel, we have to have a contempt order in order to go to the court of appeals. >> thats one thing that happened today. meanwhile, there is action at paul ...