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>> yeah. and look, the committee is insure much aware of this. i know, they ever interviewed hundreds of people. but they have to wait for a lot of things. they have to wait to see, does this justice department, for example, pursue contempt against mark meadows? does the supreme court -- what -- what does the supreme court say about privilege? the archival material they are seeking is in litigation. so they -- they also have a -- a bunch of outside forces that they have to deal with. i think the...

>> well, just one example, but, jonathan, lets stop for a second, the shocking example, a guy who is a member of the united states congress goes over to work for the white house, and he is actively working to overthrow the united states government. to overthrow the duly elected president of the united states. it is absolutely staggering in your reporting how widespread was the contempt that donald trumps staff members had for the united states constitution, for the peaceful transfer of power, fo...

-- former white house counsel chose to litigate these subpoenas. it took over two years, although we won, we only got them two years later. so, we need to make sure that these folks dont run out the clock, which is why we have to pass the inherent contempt bill, which would allow congress to enforce their own subpoenas. >> congressman ted lieu, congresswoman barbara ali, thank you both very much for joining us. >> thank you >> thank you. >> coming up, a turning point on voting rights. president ...

Home on zoom calls and phone calls. and the only way emma can stay in touch with me was to talk to the nurses and the doctors. everybody was doing their best to abide by the government instruction. so this feels like a smack in the face, feels like a smack in the face, feels like a smack in the face, feels like contempt, it feels awful. and what should happen now, do you think was back in terms of a police investigation in particular there is a lot of pressure on the police who havent gotten inv...

Terms of whether or not anyone who planned the overthrow of the government is going to face any reckoning for it in criminal law. so thats wednesday. open question, potentially to be answered by the attorney general on that day. were also right now still waiting on the department of justice to decide whether theyre going to prosecute criminal contempt charges against trumps white house chief of staff mark meadows. mr. meadows, you may recall, in december refused to hand over materials and testif...

The committee on standards in public life. thank you for your messages. doctor nag while says he is a leader facing big challenges. at the time, hes done a reasonably good job and no harm has been done by this. we need to relax about it and give the man a break. william says if boris johnson sticks to his story that he thought it was a work event, doesnt sue gray effectively have to just take his word for it? if she cant prove otherwise, wont she have to end up clearing him? it all seems a bit p...

I just didnt see anybody else having it. >> brian: not only a marine a masters in military science. you knew what happened in vietnam. and they blamed it on the draft era and it happened again. commanders not being accountable. we failed again and embarrassed ourselves on the world stage. the president said this is not going to be like saigon. i believe it was worse. is that your assessment? >> you know, theres a lot of similarities, yeah. i think the president was trying to get people out, but,...

Us to the answers. she holds individuals who even work with the committee in contempt, but what does she do to herself with that information? rodney is oner the right path here, and weve also had the inspector general come in and make 106 recommendations to make the capitol safer. that has not been the case. on the senate side, you had a bipartisan -- republicans, democrats -- two different committees look at this, and is we watched the failure after failure. we continue to do the research and t...

Prosecutor jeffrey toobin. jeff, i mentioned jordan declined to say on fox whether he would comply with the committees request. what do you think hell do? >> well, i think he is obviously going to be torn in two directions. at one level, like -- like congressman perry from pennsylvania, he would like to say to this committee, um, a hand gesture involving one finger that i will not demonstrate. i mean, the -- the contempt that they have for this committee is -- is quite -- is quite intense. on th...

Organization. here we are in america living under the facade that this is a news channel of sorts. >> we need to stop calling it fox news and just call it fox. i think lawrence odonnell made that point a long time ago. we all need to follow in his footsteps. one thing i will say is the fox people that those on cnbc or cnn or the liberal media, we have contempt for red america, for fox viewers. no one has more contempt for fox viewers than fox hosts who say one thing in private, texting the presi...