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sanctions over the war in ukraine are hurting russias economy. the senior correspondent mike tobin is live in kyiv with more. mike? >> trace, another update coming from russian news agencies. gershkovich has a hearing on the books now scheduled a week from tuesday. so far no u.s. representative has been able to get in the yale to see gershkovich. the "wall street journal" said private lawyers got to see him. the u.s. ambassador in moscow had a meeting with the deputy minister. not much...

Anybody learns anything from that. you know, its just, again, you talk about the rank hypocrisy from this crowd. for navarro to have gone on television, on podcasts and talked about all these things so openly and now of course when the congressional committee duly authorized by law to investigate this matter has asked him to come and provide information all of a sudden oh, thats all privileged and cant be discussed. which we know is utter bunk. once again ill take the same position, don. the com...

Not only documentation from rudy giuliani, but text messages that he flauptflaunt flaunted on nat television. >> they want everything. record, email, text messages. and giuliani is saying that he wont wok with adam schiff, he wont answer this demand and this request. and that really ups the stakes because rudy giuliani is a private citizen. he is not protected by executive privilege or so-called testimonial immunity which the white house has invoked for other current and other former officials. ...

Difficult issue to resolve. how far do they want to take this fight? do they want to go the civil contempt route or criminal contempt route? one requires the assistance of one of the branches judiciary or criminal contempt assistance of executive branch. if the executive branch has asked to prosecute the executive branch they usually are not fond of prosecuting themselves. thats not a viable option for congress. thats why we see so much effort at compromise short of going the contempt route. >> ...

And i think for the national audience, thats a risky position. >> martha: i want to get your thoughts on whats going on with chairman nadler and the no show from don mcgahn today, the white house encouraged him not to go today. how does all of this seem to be playing out to you? >> well, it will be interesting to see which route nadler now takes. will he go to the contempt route and attempt to start impeachment proceedings with the, you know, the leadership would have to go along with that? or w...