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Statement by congress the law should apply to him. >> the resolution will be ready for a full house vote tomorrow and contempt resolution, will allow democrats to enforce subpoenas for the attorney general and former white house counsel. >> katherine herridge. the justice department promising a broad multifaceted review into the origins of the russia investigation. the house judiciary committee was holding its mueller report hearing today the doj chairman jerry nadler, quote, attorney generals o...

West des moines. peter, thanks. house democrats have approved a resolution setting the stage for civil action against president trump and his administration over refusals to comply with subpoenas. chief intelligence correspondent catherine herridge has specifics tonight. >> the house resolution that passed along strict party lines allows democrats to sue to enforce subpoenas for attorney general william barr and former white house counsel don mcgahn. the language does not include contempt, democ...

Lawrence tribe on how he says democrats can bypass the senate with impeachment. new reporting on jared kushners financial conflicts of interest. and major movement where democrats will move first. >> were going to change the channel to something completely different. >> what new poll numbers in iowa mean for the 2020 field. >> i am prepared to make the case for america and to prosecute the case against donald trump. >> "all in" starts now. good evening from new york. im ali velshi in for c...

To dick cheney says charles cooper, a former senior justice department official. hes a strong-willed man with a forceful personality and well-informed deeply studied views. katie, i guess we have also learned he is capable of responding to a threat of contempt as the first traunches of evidence are arriving from doj to house democrats. >> absolutely. and when you look at that move today its a great negotiating tactic in many ways because he can now claim hes created goodwill, hes being coopative...

With the threat of contempt? >> i do. and i think what william barr who is savvy, i agree with katie hes a savvy skilled smart attorney understood, one, it doesnt look good to hide what ultimately will become public eventually. and that he has much more control over the narrative if he agrees to a deal and then ends in a negotiation process over time than he does if he keeps stone walling where theres not a strong legal argument. that just doesnt make it -- it makes for bad optics. >> its not a ...

Intelligence committee. were going to vote to hold you in contempt, and that caused william barr to say uncle, uncle, uncle. i know ive been saying no for a couple of months without any basis for saying no, but finally heres some of your stuff. dont hold me in contempt. they say no, you subpoena them for it, they defy the subpoena, they say nener, nener, and they okay were going to vote to hold you untempt, and then they say okay you can have it. thats what we have to do a country to get access ...

Into the investigators. >> reporter: the house judiciary committee democratic chairman said the justice department guaranteed access to more special counsel record. alleged obstruction by donald trump. >> we reached agreement to review the evidence underlying the mueller report including interview notes firsthand account of misconduct and other critical evidence. >> democrats wanted testimony from don mcgann who was directed by the administration not to cooperate citing executive privilege, impl...

Numbers of the republican party making demands upon rod rosenstein and the justice department for document production around peter struck, to lisa page, to fbi agents, about the mueller investigation, to the origins of the investigation. and you saw the justice department and congress go back and forth over time. i think youre going to see the same thing play out, which means a long time consuming debate in negotiation were going to be reporting on for the for seeable future. >> as we said its a...

Committee as of midday today they are finally starting to receive the underlying evidence from muellers report. and the only reason theyre getting it now is because it came within an inch of holding attorney general barr in contempt. it turns out attorney general barr really doesnt want to be held in contempt. that apparently really pushes his buttons. well, now the democrats in the house know which of his buttons to push and where they are. but, again, according to the judiciary committee they ...

Citizenship on the u.s. census. poppy. >> okay, lauren fox, all important reporting. thank you very much. with me to discuss, elie honig, our legal analyst. good to have you, elie. what do you make of this deal? did the democrats contempt threat work or did it allow the white house and department of justice to delay for two and a half months. >> its a smart deal, and to an extent, it did work. its a fair and reasonable deal. both sides get something. barr gets to sort of go against this appearan...