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That decision today. congress is now in one more confrontation with them saying whether theyre going to go to court, to push this issue or hold you in contempt to compel you. is executive privilege a blanket thing to protect you from everything. elijah cummings went through the investigations theyve received nothing, its the obstruction of justice, the hush money payments, the security clearance process, foreign influence, communications with putin, tax returns, nuclear ventures with saudi ara...

Government. >> in terms of accountability here, obviously talking about the tone being set from the top and the general standards and expectations that exist for these high-ranking officials in this presidency and this administration specifically, the congress doesnt have to go along with that if they dont want to. presumably these cabinet officials could be impeached on their own terms whether or not the administration was ever going to feel enough shame to force them out or whether or not the ...

Multiple fronts. on tuesday the full house approved a resolution that would allow them to go to court to enforce subpoenas. are you confused yet? in the oversight committee, chairman elijah cummings now threatening a vote that would hold attorney general bill barr and commerce secretary wilbur ross in contempt if they dont hand over census documents by today. congressman cummings saying the administration is simply forcing his happened. >> the white house has not turned over what single shred of...

Going to be negotiated or kick in and they dont want that. brian: so, listen, while they are debating about the underlying documents on the mueller report which has been worked on for two and a half years and you are worried about who is going to be held in contempt, will it be a.g. barr or will it be hope hicks? the real issue is happening at our border. thats what they should be working on. clearly they cant do two things at once. jerry a former san antonio ice agent in charge and says this ab...

High-powered legal team will try to essentially change these cases or see if he can get some of these thrown away. the bigger issue, jim and poppy, is if netanyahu can form a government quickly, he can pass immunity law, which shields him from indictment. that is the much bigger question as he faces charges of bribery and breach of trust. now we know the wife and the case she was facing, sarah netanyahu has pled guilty to a lesser charge but still a blow to the netanyahu family. >> you pass a la...

The democrats part two slayer, spanner , smart trump at every turn. this is all about politics 2020. this is all where theyre focuses. democrats are now attempting to investigate, believe it or not, the russia hoax, for yet a fifth time. today they move forward with a plan. they want to go after the ag and former white house counsel donald mcgahn and contempt and hold him in contempt for refusing to participate in a sham hearings. meanwhile, congressman cummings is planning to hold more sham hea...

We know it did not come from the department of justice. that would be a major scandal in any administration that a cabinet member lied to congress and thats sort of like tier two in terms of scandal right now. but yes, ultimately congress should be holding these folks accountable. congress ought to be and house democrats ought to be holding oversight hearings. as importantly they should be using the power of the purse to try to punish the cabinet members. you can do a lot of things in terms of c...

Government. >> in terms of accountability here, obviously talking about the tone being set from the top and the general standards and expectations that exist for these hi-ranking officials in this presidency and this administration specifically, the congress doesnt have to go along with that if they dont want to. presumably these cabinet officials could be impeached on their own terms whether or not the administration was ever going to feel enough shame to force them out or whether or not the ju...

The battle over to take a vote on whether to hold the commerce secretary and the attorney general in contempt for failing to comply with sub ninas to turn over documents. i want to talk more about this with congressman roe khanna, a democrat that is a member of the oversight committee. congressman, pleasure to have you. the oversight committee put out a statement, a letter tonight, giving barr a 9:00 p.m. deadline to hand over the document in order to postpone the vote. do you know if he met tha...

Get him to the table to hand over some of the documents on the census. >> secretary ross is getting the same offer, to postpone for the documents. do have an update on that request? >> he hasnt met them. and lets be clear about what these documents are. these are emails that secretary ross has said talking about the census that hes not willing to hand over. now, they claim theyve handed over 17,000 pages. the point is, they havent handed over the relative documents about their conversations abou...