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Especially not being in washington for a day. you sit here and go, all right. bill barr has been held in contempt. what does this have 22nd the mueller report? this is the census? im not trying to mock it. i think theyre serious allegations but theres a pr problem. >> no question. nancy pelosi has a hard job. shes going to have to be a better traffic cop on the timing of hearings. i thought the announcement was very powerful that cummings made about zero cooperation on anything. that should have...

Its the law. and the president and the department of justice has every right to do that, because theyre asking for documents that are privileged. >> house oversight is now postponing a vote to hold attorney general william barr and commerce secretary reconcile burr ross in contempt until this afternoon, so that members can read through that letter from the doj. joining me now to discuss this, ashley parker, white house reporter for "the washington post." and msnbc political analyst, cynthia oxne...

Attorney general, is a part of this along with the commerce secretary, a question about the census, a citizenship question that was asked, and so the administration is refusing to provide information like emails that would reveal some conversations behind the scenes when the decision to add that question was put in place so thats what this is about. you were doing a geography quiz with hans. i can do one for you here in the hallway. this is the oversight committee and right here is the judiciary...

Happiest place on earth. they dont want the top comes person being charged with contempt. thats what she was facing. she knows donald trump know ands he will be there for her to a point and then he will cut and run and hurt her if he had to. she has to protect herself because she cant expect loyalty from him. >> the same happened to larry speaks. you dont want to be part of the story. you are in charge of pr and not to be the pr problem. we have her coming up to testify. the first question, the ...

What we are doing is winning in court and we wanted to get the documents from the justice department today for fear of going to court although we are still going to hold the attorney general in contempt today with the path we are on is a path they think -- look, im going to tell you, nothing as divicive in our country on my view than impeachment. >> joining me now, one of the lawmakers calling for impeachment is congresswoman maxine waters of california, the chair of the financial services commi...

Court and we wanted to get the documents from the justice department today for fear of going to court although we are still going to hold the attorney general in contempt today with the path we are on is a path they think -- look, im going to tell you, nothing as divicive in our country on my view than impeachment. >> joining me now, one of the lawmakers calling for impeachment is congresswoman maxine waters of california, the chair of the financial services committee. congresswom congresswoman,...

Socialism and attacking the president to boot as, get this, a socialist. and the house oversight committee just voted to hold bill barr and wilbur ross in contempt amid another move to stonewall another investigation. this one doesnt have to do with trump personally. well speak with a top democrat on that committee about what comes next in the census fight. whoo-hoo. if its wednesday, its "meet the press daily" so welcome to hump day. im chuck todd here in chicago. we begin tonight with a presid...

Time as of today to get the underlying information from muellers report because they pushed william barr up against a wall and he felt like he finally had to do it to avoid being held in contempt. tomorrow theyre going to vote on the first thing they need to do in order to get that category of information, the grand jury stuff. theyre finally putting the thing in motion to get that stuff released. and the day after tomorrow the intelligence committee is going to hold their own hearing on mueller...

The denial of that request led to a subpoena. that subpoena led to a defiance of the subpoena. that became a threat to hold the attorney general in contempt. that then became a vote on the judiciary committee to hold the attorney general in contempt for defying that subpoena. and that tomorrow was about to be a vote in the full house to hold attorney general barr in contempt. at which point the attorney general went uncle, uncle, uncle, no, no, no i give in. dont hold me in contempt. whatever yo...

Even though there was no ultimate finding of a crime of conspiracy, the facts contained in that report would be sufficient to prove all of the elements necessary to charge multiple counts of obstruction of justice. i would be willing to personally indict the case and to try the case. i would have confidence that the evidence would be sufficient to obtain a guilty verdict and to win on appeal. >> also today the house judiciary committee reached a deal with the justice department to obtain key evi...