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federal judge in louisiana. heres his exchange with republican congressman mike johnson on wednesday. >> the fbi made the social media platforms pull that information off the internet if it came from conservative sources. they did this under the guise that it was disinformation. can you, can you define what disinformation is? >> our focus is on malign, foreign disinformation; that is, foreign hostile actors who engage in -- >> mr. wray -- >> -- to use our social media platforms -- >> i...

If smart? >> i dont know, it depends on the outcome. is cutting his salary going to get you the cooperation and oversight that you want? i doubt it. it might make them feel good. i think theres still a lot of -- primarily by getting people on the record and using their contempt powers to do it. paul: all right, thank you, all. when we come back, as president biden wraps up his trip to europe, well talk to alaska senator and armed services committee member dan sullivan about what was accomplished...

Little bit and expand on what sahil was just saying there. legally speaking, once the vote takes place and assuming its going to pass as its expected to, what happens next? what is the u.s. attorneys office in d.c. going to consider? and from your legal perspective, from your expertise, is this the most efficient way to do it? because as you probably saw in my last hour, i was talking to congressman ted lieu who said, no, the congress has inherent contempt powers. they should exercise it because...

Contempt powers. in 1934, the senate senate the sergeant at arms down to get an assistant secretary of commerce and put him in jail, in the willard for ten days, until he agreed to cooperate. thats still good law. theres supreme court rulings back as early as 1821 that the house could do this. i think they should and i think they should do it next week, if you will. >> maybe not the willard. maybe a few steps lower. i wont mention any names. >> not the trump hotel either. >> i was going to say t...

People in and perhaps finding them until theyre willing to cooperate. >> is that a good strategy? >> yeah, look, i adprae with my colleague and good friend mr. raskin. i think he is right. its a sort of a binary choice tore the congress. its either pursuing the criminal contempt referral that i referenced and that jamie referenced or its using the inherent contempt powers of the congress, which are implied under the constitution. there are several of us, including jamie, myself, ted liu, val dem...

Fiona hill was willing to come and answer questions voluntarily. then she was served a subpoena by adam schiff. why do that? it changes the way they can question her or what they can ask? >> i think it gives them additional powers to use the subpoena when you dont need to use a subpoena. the witness says ill show up whenever you tell me to show up, then using a subpoena is a power play. to put you in fear of oh my word, if i dont do this, contempt powers and the like. so i think its again the un...

But im certainry concerned about running out the clock. id like to see us use inherent contempt. it was brought up on the call. it wasnt pursued. theres not been a desire by the leadership to pursue inherntent contempt. there are cases that said it is within our rules, within the constitution for oversight to be able to have contempt powers and subpoena people and inherent contempt is necessary, we need to use it and i think we need to use it. >> congressman, i was reading your twitter feed and ...

With a request of congress. if she were to then be in contempt of court, the court could use its contempt powers to jail her. >> barbara, i have to say, i was a white house intern when i was a very young man a long, long time ago, and they drilled into us the hatch act, how serious it was. you know, among us, we have never heard of it, but we sure knew about it when we were there. >> the same is true of any federal employee. i worked in an attorneys office in detroit for 19 years, and we had tra...

Court order to get her to comply with a request of congress. if she were to then be in contempt of court, the court could use its contempt powers to jail her. >> barbara, i have to say, i was a white house intern when i was a very young man a long, long time ago, and they drilled into us the hatch act, how serious it was. you know, among us, we have never heard of it, but we sure knew about it when we were there. >> the same is true of any federal employee. i worked in an attorneys office in det...

Come in and bring a case. in this instance because theyre aligned with the executive branch and theyve given an office of legal counsel opinion consistent to what kellyanne conway is doing, i dont think we can rely on them. i think what they would have to do is file a lawsuit and get a court order to get her to comply with a request of congress. if she were to then be in contempt of court, the court could use its contempt powers to jail her. >> barbara, i have to say, i was a white house intern ...