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Lawyers. or initiating contempt 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 a federal court to resolve conflicting orders from congress and the executive. either because the democrats didnt want to wait for the court to rule, or they didnt like the presiding judge, judge leon. democrats made their demands and refused to bu...

A 300-page black and white report does not. >> congressman, thus far the american public has been witness to a sprawl of evidence that you heard on the intelligence committee in addition to the mueller report. but putting it altogether and thinking about it, how many counts would you like to see in any impeachment proceeding brought against the president? >> well, my guess is that youre going to see at least two. youre going to see abuse of power, which of course is using that white house meetin...

>> i read that note from pat cipollone, i call it a note because it is just two paragraphs. i wonder what the republicans are going to do. we have seen them over the last many weelks focusing on procedue or process. is that being tell grafregraphet the white house. what are republicans going to do as a result? >> they want a wall of utter contempt and utter stone walling. they want republicans on the committee to do nothing that conceives the inquiry is proper. there is a factual me for, there i...

Alternative is less palatable for the respondent. you issue a subpoena and youre trying to get documents, one technique you can use is try to talk to the -- a document custodian or somebody in the function about whatom documents exist. chairman chaffetzs during his eraur used to have document production status hearings where you bring in officials and get the lay of the land. officials nomly are supposed to be directly responsible serving the interests. you can saber rattle, legal to saber rattl...

Witnesses to a peer with agency lawyers or initiating contempt proceedings. sometimes the threat of a contempt proceeding gets you a different tsresult, sometimes t witnesses choose to appear when contempt is on the table. democrats even withdrew a subpoena to one witness who asked a federal court to resolve conflicting orders from congress and thein executive, either because the democrats did not want to waite for the court to rule, or they didnt like the presiding judge, judge leon. instead, d...

Even produced and like you said you hadan to go down there and review it in camera and then going backer even further to fa and furious, the investigation of the death of a border patrol agent. >> yeah. fast and furious we issued subpoenas, mr. issa, sent subpoenas i think s in februaryf 2011 and 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 and thean production was largely publ...

Bloomberg news is handling it. gayle king asked about the coverage of this. he was dismissive of the concerns reporters have about theyre not going to investigate bloomberg or other democrats. >> even your own news reporters complained. think they its unfair theyre not able to investigate other democratic candidates. >> you have to learn to live with some things. they get a paycheck, but with your paycheck comes some restrictions and responsibilities. >> now the bloomberg reporters are not going...

Ukraine. i traveled to yeah crane, went to the maiden square in kiev, and they needed lethal aid, but the obama administration sent teddy bears and mres. they wouldnt give weapons. at the end of the day, chairman nadler doesnt want to talk about any of that. he doesnt want to talk about the substance. >> senator -- >> at one point, he said theres no crime, and you know, hes right. there is no crime. >> no, he was talking about the presidents lawyer, not about the president. but go ahead. >> all ...

United states. >> its not about haley. its bigger than she is. standing idly by as supporters chant sending back a member of congress. remember this? >> send her back! send her back! send her back! >> born here by the way, the person they were talking about. look, demonizing practically anyone who crosses the southern border. its all part of the same idea, this. >> theyre bringing drugs. theyre bringing crime. theyre rapists. >> is this what nikki haley wants to be? talk like bigotry is benign, ...

Person they were talking about. look, demonizing practically anyone who crosses the southern border. its all part of the same idea, this. >> theyre bringing drugs. theyre bringing crime. theyre rapists. >> is this what nikki haley wants to be? talk like bigotry is benign, nationalism is patriotism, xenophobia is just common sense suspicion of an entire faith? it is not okay. and we know where trump got it. he went out early in this process to visit steve king, as in the king of contempt for lati...