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Shannon: the white house will not turn over documents russell rings placement of a citizenship question. katherine herridge has the specifics from capitol hill. >> 24 yeas and 15 nows. >> reporter: the house oversight committee voted to send contempt resolution to william barr and wilbur ross to the full house after the administration asserted executive privilege over census records. >> this begs the question, what is being hidden? >> when we rush to hold people in contempt it has a chilling eff...

President joe biden because biden is trying to take a middle ground approach. hes betting that most democratic voters are more moderate. there was a poll a couple months ago that said about half hoff the democratic voters consider themselves moderate or conservative. so that -- >> neil: thats a moving target. >> and most voters are independent. so that makes sense. its going to be a tough road for bernie sanders and elizabeth warren because theyre depending on a lot of young folks to come to the...

Constitutional crisis. were right. not because of attorney general barr. the true constitutional crisis is this. when democrats cant win, they change the rules. >> nobody is above the law. everyone will be held accountable, including the president of the united states. >> just to be clear, this resolution is note strictly a contempt resolution. that key word was not in the text, neil. >> neil: katherine, thanks very much. the president is calling for democrats to step up and address the immigrat...

Chair may postpone further proceedings today on the question of approving any measure or matter or adopting an amended vote. now, pursuant to notice, i call up a report containing a contempt resolution. >> mr. chairman, i have a point of order. >> may i finish? may i please finish? thank you. now pursuant to notice, i call a report relating to the 2020 census. clerk will report the report, which has been distributed in advance. >> mr. chairman, i have a point of order. >> the gentleman is not

That president and president trump. cnns lauren fox is live on capitol hill with more. tell us the highlights. >> reporter: well, alisyn, democrats intensifying their push to re-cast the fallout from the mueller report, as theyre getting more documents from the department of justice. republicans and democrats have already begun reviewing new documents related to the mueller reports obstruction of justice probe. multiple sources tell cnn that the access to the documents was brokered between the h...

Hold the attorney general in contempt today. impeachment, if you are going down that path, you dont go to court with your weakest case. as long as you keep getting more information to build your case. >> melissa: also today republican member of the house judiciary committee, john ratcliffe, calling out the democrats. the congressman saying that the vote today is meaningless and saying the democrats are claiming a false victory with the justice department. >> jerry nadler is happy and hes finally...

Alleged obstruction by president trump. >> we have reached an agreement to review the evidence underlying the mueller report. including interview notes, first-hand accounts of misconduct and other cortical evidence. >> democrats want testimony from former white house counsel don mcgahn who was directed by the administration not to cooperate. citing executive privilege which protect presidential committee case. the justice department said it was "please the committee set aside its contempt resolu...

>> mr. mcgahn represents not donald trump by the office of the president. i think he owes the office his testimony before this committee. >> several hours into the testimony, president trump weighed in. >> john has been a loser for a long time. we know that. he was disbarred and he went to prison. other than that, hes doing a great job. >> republicans characterize the hearing about a mock impeachment, witnesses took aim at the administration. >> if anyone other than a president of the united sta...

Better get ready at home. the first democratic debate is happening june 26 and 27. youll see lester holt across both hours. "today" shows savannah guthrie will moderate the first hour and chuck todd and rachel maddow will moderate the second hour. kelly odonnell is on the hill. kelly, were just a couple hours away from a vote in the house regarding subpoenas. this is not a vote to hold attorney general bill barr nor don mcgahn in contempt. i know there are a lot of votes going on. whats this o...

Courts in enforcing the rule that the white house needs to comply with these very subpoenas. joining the conversation, former federal prosecutor glen kirschner, chuck rosenberg, and a focus on national security. glen, what can you tell us about this strategy? >> weve seen the endless battle between the executive branch and the congressional branch over these subpoenas. i think you put it perfectly, the trump administration just ignores them, which frankly, they have no right to do. i think well ...