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In the air, for those investigators. as a question of the missing call records, and the documents turnovers to investigators, first reported by the new york times, yesterday. the questions about whether trump is still keeping classified material belonging to the federal government at his home in mar-a-lago, or somewhere else. today, cnn reports at the national archives only received documents from mar-a-lago, after threatening to alert congress and the justice department, if the records were not...

Instituted on december 2nd. this is february 17th now and the two sides have met exactly five times in that period of time to negotiate a new settlement. thats not serious negotiating and everybody knows it. both sides know it. but every time they do sit down together and well find out what happens today and the rest of the week, the anger seems to go up on both sides. so the prospect of major league baseball starting on time, opening day, march 31st, the trigger date im told is march 1st, the e...

These billionaires and these millionaires have such contempt for these baseball fans that they only meet five times in their off-season? >> you know, the easy answer, joe -- and it is probably too simplistic an answer, but it is all about money. i mean major league baseball, while quality professional sports are swimming in an ocean of money, both sides, both the players and the team owners. the team owners are obviously billionaires, youre not going to own a team unless you have a lot of money....

Question but, again, the fact that he is at least engaging, that he is not completely stonewalling, that will help him if the committee is unsatisfied with his level of cooperation and tries to proceed with contempt even if they cannot come to an agreement on a way for him to co-op perfect rate. paula reid, cnn, washington. ♪ ♪ just a few hours to go until controversial russian figure skater kamila valiyeva is set to compete in the womens single skating program at the beijing olympics. the...

About the justice department is its silence. we never know exactly what is going on in that building and so it leaves us to speculate and i think sometimes it causes us to feel frustration or even lack of confidence theyre doing anything at all. one reason they may have refrained with charging mark meadows with contempt is because theyre thinking of him not as a witness but as a defendant. it could very well be that theyre looking at him as a bigger fish. if they charge him with contempt, it may...

>> well, you hope not but im telling you, these types of things have gone on in the past where suddenly the power changes and these investigations dry up and they decide we arent going to fund that or pursue it or go after it. it happened to me personally. i was chairman of the oversight committee and we held somebody in contempt. hillary clintons i.t. specialist. this is the guy who worked for four years for hillary clinton at the state department and they claim that he never sent nor received ...

Bread crumbs they have left so far, in releasing some of meadows text messages with people like jim jordan, sean hannity, and as we reported this morning, president and founder of james okeefe, have been fairly juicy and they have needed to release those in order to makene a persuasive argumento hold mark meadows in contempt. a lot of thoseld messages were released in the context report that the committee put out a few months ago. were still waiting on whether or not the d.o.j. isnt going to ult...

He continues his regular life, podcasting, radio show. where does navarro go? >> i think if he doesnt comply with it at all versus complying with it, showing up, raising his arguments, thats one thing. if he doesnt comply with it at all, they should make a referral and the justice department should prosecute him for contempt. its worth remembering the prosecution for contempt isnt really to force someone to talk. its an investigative function. its to enforce the law. thats what the justice depar...

Network numerous times and here we have the former president literally walking out with files, classified files, and bringing them to his florida estate and now being investigated for it. how ironic is all of this? >> well, thanks for that question. it would be ironic if irony had not been beaten to death with hammers about a thousand times over the last six years. i mean, look, this is a man who, you know -- this is a man who has the ethics of a mob boss, who has shown, you know, complete conte...

That being said the trail of bread crumbs theyve left so far in releasing some of meadowss text messages with people like jim jordan, sean hannity, and as we reported this morning james okeefe. have been fairly juicy. and we needed to release those in order to make persuasive markets to hold mark meadows in contempt. a lot of those messages were released in the contempt -- they put out a few months ago were still waiting on whether or not the doj zogg gonna take up that contempt referral. but th...