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>> where it might be an appropriate remedy, if the privilege were asserted. im not willing to say that you could mount an impeachment based on -- privilege. but no privileges have been asserted. theres nothing for the court to review. although the president has said is, he has directed everyone in the executive branch, do not provide a piece of paper. do not testify. theres nothing for the court to review. he is simply asserted that the constitution -- that he doesnt recognize a constitutional p...

The majority would hold themselves in contempt for conducting this one-sided biased impeachment investigation, then attacking the white house for refusing to participate in such a patently unfair process. i think if you look at the record of this president thus far, and hes only been in office to this three years at this point, the accomplishment accomplishments -- its patently absurd. look at the economy right now. and why is the economy doing so well? i think its principally two things come ta...

The majority really should hold themselves in contempt for conducting this one-sided, biased impeachment investigation. and then attacking the white house for refusing to participate in such a patently-unfair process. and i think, if you look at the record of this president thus far and hes only been in office three years at this point, the accomplishments are quite considerable. impeaching a president thats accomplished these types of things is just patently absurd. look at the economy right no...

>> your microphones off. >> sorry. court might be an appropriate remedy if a privilege were asserted. im not willing to say that you couldnt mount a -- an impeachment based on overbroad assertions of privilege. but no privileges have been asserted. theres nothing for a court to review. all that the president said is there will be no -- he has directed everyone in the executive branch. do not provide a piece of paper. do not testify. theres nothing for the court to review. he has simply asserted ...

General bill barr. that compliance with that subpoena would have required him to violate the law. so, like a reasonable, rational, deliberative body we are, what did we do? we held him in contempt. we held the attorney general of the united states in contempt of congress for not violating the law. but it gets better because after that, we held a hearing in judiciary about whether or not we should have held him in contempt. oversight democrats subpoenaed documents from commerce, legal documents, ...

Review it in camera, and going back even further to fast and furious. >> yes. >> the vision of the death of a border patrol agent. >> fast and furious, we issued subpoenas. mr. issa sent subpoenas in february of 2011 and we had a hearing in june with experts about proceeding to contempt. what does it take to go to contempt. that was the first time in june when we got any production. the production was largely publicly available information. and we went -- we spent most of the year trying to get ...

You issue a subpoena and youre trying to get documents. one technique you can use is try to talk to a document customer owed ya -- custodian. they used to have document status hearings, where you would try to get the lay of the land theyre supposed to be directly responsible serving interests. you can saber rattle, about holding somebody in contempt often times witnesses who are reluctant to cooperate and come forward when you attach a contempt proceeding or a perspective contempt proceeding to ...

Proceedings. sometimes the threat of a contempt proceeding gets you a different result. sometimes the witnesses choose to appear when contempt is on the table. democrats even withdrew a subpoena to one witness who asked the federal court to resolve conflicting orders from congress and the executive. either because the democrats did not want to wait for the court to rule or they didnt like the presiding judge, judge leon. instead, democrats made their demands and refused to budge. democrats told ...

You issue a subpoena. you are trying to get documents. one technique you can use it talk to a document custodian about what documents exist. chairman chaff his document production status hearings. you would bring in officials to get the lay of the land. they are supposed to be directly responsible. you can sabre rattle about holding somebody in contempt. oftentimes, witnesses who are reluctant to cooperate and come forward, when you attach a contempt proceeding to their name, a lot of times that...

You had to go down there and review it in cam camera and investigate the death of a border patrol agent. >> yes. they sent subpoenas in february of 2011. we had a hearing in june. with experts about proceedings of contempt. what does it take to go to contempt? that was the first time in june when we got any production. the production was largely publicly available frchltion -- information. we spent most of the year to get information from the justice department. we were also working with whistle...