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Discussions told our colleague jim acosta that the days of playing nice are done. thats a message from the white house. we also saw that in a tweet from the president where hes attacking, continuing to attack the house inquiry, jim. >> jeremy diamond, thank you, very much. our cnn legal analyst jennifer rodgers is still with us, political reporter of bloomberg and the bureau chief from the "chicago sun-times." lynn, let me begin with you, we had congressman mike quigley on, obviously from illi...

Growing about that delay, delay tactic. >> the politics of this going forward. joining now to discuss, security and legal analyst susan hennessy and sunlin kim. i want to start on a basic legal question here because this gets to the fundamental questions about congress and oversight. what is congress play here? can they hold someone like ambassador sondland in contempt? because if this is a template for how the white house is going to deal with this going forward, they have to address this. othe...

The trump administration is blocking eu ambassador sondland from testifying. this happened just minutes before he was to appear on capitol hill. administration officials were in discussions late last night about blocking sondlands testimony. of course, the decision made this morning. >> joining us to talk about this, democratic congressman mike quigley of illinois. he sits on the house intelligence committee thats leading this probe. i know you thought this morning would play a lot differently. ...

Where the government is very opposed to president trump, has really politicized a criminal investigation, but if they can cover it, it is legitimate grand jury investigation or a plausibly legitimate grand jury investigation, it is going to be hard for the federal court to come in and say you dont get that. so the state will probably continue to pursue it and the president will be in a position of either complying or being held in contempt of the state court. >> neil: oh, man, andrew mccarthy, f...

Thats what im asking everyone about. what is your legal snargt argum. if this is a legal argument, and congress does not really have the power to arrest someone or drag them in front of the committee, they could, but it has been a long time since they have done that for contempt. >> why not release the transskitran transcrip transcripts. the two guys on the call, no quid pro quo whatsoever. adam schiff doesnt want that information out there. he is holding up the transcript and he continues to ha...

Know what, you wanted to do an inquiry, you wanted to do an investigation, im saying were not cooperating with the investigation, which leaves them with very few options. they can press this and say were going to wring our hands and pull our hair out, or they can actually move ahead, so they can do things like hold republicans and contempt or witnesses in contempt. also they can move ahead with this impeachment inquiry. so it feels like were moving very rapidly into not just a stalemate but a fa...

Tell the truth. i think thats whats taking place now. >> so thats coming up this week. friday was already a deadline for the secretary of state to comply with requests for documents. that didnt happen. what is the committee going to do now? what are the steps now? >> heres the steps -- either they cooperate or theyre not -- >> you give them more time. >> theyre going to subpoena and once we subpoena, if they dont cooperate, we hold them in contempt. and -- >> thats going to do nothing -- >> if t...

Political rival or to link that to aid in a quid pro quo. the fact that no one, literally no one has reported this just shows you how committed the media are to their empty trump narrative. it is astonishing. these people are deliberately misleading you. they their contempt for trump has destroyed their professional judgment. in a week, when we saw the unemployment rate hit a 50 year low, we were reminded why americans chose donald trump. immigration brought under control. jobs increased. china ...

President left office and whether to bring a criminal case. >> you decided no not correct. >> but he had to do certain things in reaction to that. in other words he was held in contempt, he had a pay fees to paula jones and her counsel and things of that sort and most important before he left office he had to issue a statement saying that he understood the testimony he provided was false. >> in that case the independent counsel statute, it was quite different than whats going on today. it had a ...

Political rival or to link that to aid in a quid pro quo. the fact that no one, literally no one has reported this just shows you how committed the media are to their empty trump narrative. it is astonishing. these people are deliberately misleading you. they their contempt for trump has destroyed their professional judgment. in a week, when we saw the unemployment rate hit a 50 year low, we were reminded why americans chose donald trump. immigration brought under control. jobs increased. china ...