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Clearly the house is in charge of how they should do it. but legally they are in a better position if they do the vote. and so i would hope that they would go forward and do that. and then when the white house doesnt comply with the subpoena, they need to move to hold them in contempt, need to move forward and fine people, send it over to criminal prosecution at doj even if we know doj wont do anything because barr has become so corrupted, it still needs to go there so they are following through...

Public or held behind closed doors. all of this happening while giuliani signals with congress that hes not willing to cooperate without a fight. in fact, he told nbc news everything there falls within the attorney/client and work product privileges. adding, if they hold me in contempt, they are in contempt of the right to counsel. the answer is to get a judge to rule on the subpoena. >> all right, lets clear all of this up. >> with somebody who knows a little bit about attorney/client privilege...

Efforts to hide the truth of the presidents abuse of power from the american people will be regarded as further evidence of obstruction. mr. president, you are not above the law. you will be held accountable. so again, there she is signaling that more stonewalling from this white house could potentially be met with a separate article of impeachment, obstruction of congress. one of the reasons why democrats are going that route is because the other avenues just arent practical. its not as if the ...

Side the with the president on getting rid of jeff sessions and he led benghazi and you can see from a resume perspective and hes been on fox news a lot, as well, recently kim, but trey gowdy is not the kind of person who was always just a sycophant. not at all. here he is in 2012 they were talking about whether to hold a.g. holder in contempt on fast and furious. the justice department refused to hand over some documents and heres what trey gowdy said. >> the notion that you can withhold inform...

Subpoena, which is under power of law. and that has to go through the courts. and the courts have been slow. the administration has slow-walked, continued to appeal, and in certain more powerful contempt efforts to bring somebody and charge them with contempt, the attorney general bill barr would have to be the prosecuting attorney. and hes not going to prosecute. so that kind of puts us in a difficult position. >> how do you get out of that position? what do you do? theres a ding of being stymi...

Department. so they dont have a lot of recourse here but they should issue the subpoena because he then is doing something. >> it struck me we didnt hear adam schiff say that. that he didnt say well subpoena, if not, you know, that they will hold them in contempt. why do you think that is? >> i am not sure. it doesnt take them any time at all to throw that subpoena out there and theyre on stronger ground to say weve done what we can here. were trying to move forward with our legal process and th...

And seung lin. adam schiff met with the whistle-blower prior, thats not true. he didnt meet with him. the whistle-blower reached out to the office and was guided the complaint via the process. what is the law here? is the state department, is the white house breaking the law by not letting him testify? >> as i understand it, this was a voluntary request. sondland agreed to appear voluntarily. so far they arent breaking the law or anything because theres no actual subpoena thats been issued. if t...

Following white house discussions late into the night. just moments ago the state department has told gordon sondland, the ambassador, not -- not to testify this morning. just over an hour before the u.s. ambassador to the european union was set to appear before three house committees in closed door deposition. >> he flew in from europe for this. his lawyer said sondland wanted to testify, traveling to washington from belgium, but he will follow that order because it is coming from his employer....

Recognized their power and in the end, hes going to be impacted by all of this. but if anyone is surprised by the white house actions, they have not been paying attention. the house russian investigation was obstructed by this white house. the special counsels report details just how the president obstructed this investigation. its gone on. today is just another step in the presidents efforts. >> you issue a subpoena later today. if the white house blocks sondland or sondland himself refuses to ...

What the democrats dont have now is the game plan to back up what we should now realize that no one of note is going to come testify or cooperate with the democratic-led impeachment inquiry. if theres any doubt there that president trump is calling this -- calling the shot, just look at the tweet he center out a few minutes ago, where he said id love to send sondland, but unfortunately, its a kangaroo court. now, when you take stonewalling to this agrdegree, youre deali with something that is un...