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Not yet there. >> it does sort of usher in a conversation about how the rule of law dies. not just when bill barr sticks the sizable thumbs on the scales of justice. it dies when theres an expectation that the removal of that thumb restores it. accountability is what restores it. i wonder what you make of the contempt votes for scavino and navarro. >> i think its very important that navarro and scavino be held accountable. they are certainly a huge part of what happened on january 6. and i think...

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Person inflating their own role or after the fact or what their motivations may be. and thats why the evidence matters. interviews, sources, claims. these are all pieces. but when you reconstruct it at the time, you suddenly learn what was going on. donald trump was involved with what navarro was doing. and thats why today we can show you that the committee is demanding that navarro comply with its lawful subpoena, weve heard that before, but theyre citing this very text, saying its time for him...

She has people -- i think i said this to you before, nicolle. it is not as interesting to me who is being subpoenaed and not showing up. >> right. >> what is interesting to me is who is actually participating without getting subpoenaed. and i know -- and some of it has become public, and im sure luke could speak to this more, but there are many white house aides, many of them, from the trump era, who are talking to the committee voluntarily because they dont think they did any wrong and they are...

Hold. let me show you that. >> look, i think there is a real desire on the part of the attorney general for the most part not to look backward. do i disagree with that? i do disagree with that. and i disagree with it most vehemently when it comes to what i consider even more serious offenses. for example, a taped conversation of donald trump on the phone with brad raffensperger, the secretary of state from georgia, trying to coerce him into fraudulently finding 11,780 votes. because i think so i...

Contempt votes if in the end youre just stymied by the department of justice? >> well, i think thats unfortunate. i think that -- my hope is that the department of justice will act objectively in this matter. but what we dont want is for the department of justice to be an extended arm of president trumps tyranny. >> but when you have a contempt vote, the expectation is that this is what the doj is going to do. thats the knowledge that democrats are operating under, thats the practical knowledge....

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Communications. so right now this is about looking tough on the administration. paul: particularly you wrote a column this week about one of the contempt votes, which is concerning the census against comcommerce isntcommerce secre. was this an attempt to influence justices to maybe delay the ruling? >> absolutely it was. again, a misuse of contempt. look, the oversight committee had been working very well with the department of justice, had turned over 1700 pages of documents that they made avai...

Communications. so right now this is about looking tough on the administration. paul: particularly you wrote a column this week about one of the contempt votes, which is concerning the census against comcommerce isntcommerce secre. was this an attempt to influence justices to maybe delay the ruling? >> absolutely it was. again, a misuse of contempt. look, the oversight committee had been working very well with the department of justice, had turned over 1700 pages of documents that they made avai...

Open, he is telling us he would take information from a foreign government which we could suspect tried to influence us. and if the information is passed from one country to the other to sanitize its acceptance, say norway, as he chose, instead when past presidential candidates and others have been very careful not to take such information and not to rely on it and not to move. i think that thats the real problem here. it is astonishing to me that we hear these kinds of things from the white hou...