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State department and in the united nations, which actually, given the events of the day, may turn out to be a very wise choice. >> harris: good to get some more detail on him, and always good to have you on the program. congressman mike mccaul of texas. thank you very much. >> thanks, harris. >> harris: top house democrat jerry nadler now threatening to hold corey lewandowski in contempt after yesterdays fiery judicial panel hearing. he watched it live during this hour on fox. but didnt move the...

Much sleep. thank you for joining us this morning or this evening wherever your joining us from, you are watching "fox and friends first" this wednesday. thank you for starting or ending your day with us. fireworks 5 flying on capitol hill as democratic led impeachment investigation into donald trump pits the left against corey lewandowski. the presidents former campaign manager going to to toe in a testy hearing. griff jenkins live in washington as some lawmakers are calling on him to be held i...

Today whether the committee will hold you in contempt. that is certainly under consideration. >> melissa: during the hearing, democrats claimed that lewandowski agreed to help the president obstruct justice, but also said he refused to follow through on pushing former attorney general sessions to limit the mueller investigation. >> the president knew what he was doing was wrong. mr. sessions knew what he was doing was wrong. mr. mcgahn knew what he was doing was wrong. but mr. trump was wrong. a...

The procedural rules you cant completely do this, they have to not engage they have to try to shut it down as quickly and as early as possible there seemed to be a lot of debate going on right there in the moment about privilege i mean, this is a bogus privilege thats being asserted. so either they should have said from the beginning that theyre just going to let him make these bogus privilege assertions, or theyre going to hold him in contempt, one or the other there seemed to be a lot of debat...

Barr enforces it >> it doesnt matter, another attorney general can enforce it at any time. the point is also to have consequences for actions. >> the point i would imagine to show there is separation of power. there is congressional oversight over the executive branch. im not sure theyre doing that right now. >> what were seeing is when these hearings begin and the witness says point blank im not going to answer your questions today. >> that is at that moment, the chairman needs to hold that per...

The chairman or not. you specifically said -- you asked them to hold corwin lewandows lewandowski in contempt with the way he was answering questions, and i have to say, with any previous congress, he would have been held in contempt with congress in the first five minutes, based on what we saw. what is going to happen with the attempt to hold contempt for corwin lewandowski it still could happen. empty chairs mean empty pockets, and the other two witnesses need to be fined. i could listen to ba...

Branch power and possibly more lawlessness as well. this is weird story. we dont know what the what is, we dont know what the secret is, but it is another example of the stone walling of congress being applied even the most sensitive national security agencies. >> yes. i think, though, its part of a larger story which doesnt necessarily reflect very well on the democrats in congress. especially after things like the lewandowski hearing yesterday. i mean, there is a sense if not a disarray among ...

Of that hearing of what democrats were doing because lounge do you ski was stonewalling so much -- lewandowski was stonewalling, so much why didnt they hold him in contempt >> they could have easily theld him in on the tempt. i have no doubt that darrell issa would have held him in contempt, listen, the main thing we have to understand here is what is this committee driving towards? if its impeachment, then they didnt really make a case for it in total yesterday they could have, but nancy pelosi...

Bitcoin ba boehner sought to reign in issa. skflly did so i dont think nancy pelosi can do so this issue of impeachment is so charged and nadler has so many people behind him, pelosi, i never doubt pelosi, shes the most talented speaker weve seen, shed have a tougher time. >> 137 members of caucus are calling for impeachment. thats not quite the majority at all so it wouldnt pass if it was taken to a floor vote right now. the presidents sense, we went through that are democrats doing something t...

>> congressman swalwell, before you go, the problem with contempt is prosecution for contempt of congress is conducted by william barr. >> yeah, yeah, it goes nowhere >> and thats what makes, in effect, the behavior in that room unenforceable corey lewandowski knows he can be as much in contempt as he wants, and they will never prosecute him for it >> i think all the guys on the trump team, all they understand is money and for a lot of reasons theyre conduct was about greed. thats why we should ...