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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 evidence related to the obstruction part of muellers investigation. that agreement may stop a vote to hold the attorney general in criminal contempt, however the house is expected to vote tomorrow on a civil contempt resolution that says the committee will go to court to enforce committee subpoenas. the agreement is also not likely to end the tense de...

And im going to read back to you one of your stretches here. in a cabinet stocked with government neophytes and place holders the deeply experienced mr. barr is quickly emerging as the most influential figure in the second half of mr. trumps term. hes the closest thing we have 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...

Theyre going to get or started getting. tomorrow there will still be a vote in the house related by these efforts by congress to get documents and to get these witnesses to testify. because attorney general william barr is now handing over the underlying materials from muellers report to the judiciary committee they apparently are not going to vote to hold him in contempt tomorrow which is what they were otherwise planning, but theyre going to vote to give themselves one interesting avenue to ac...

Congress now have some of robert muellers evidence in their hands. just as of this evening. as william barrs justice department begins to loosen its grip on some of the secret material. the attorney general was one day shy of perhaps being held in contempt. plus john dean returns to capitol hill bringing echoes and parallels of watergate to the era of trump. and new reporting tonight on what trump is telling friends and advisers about a matchup with joe biden. as the two men are both set to appe...

Important information is held back, then we will have no choice but to enforce our subpoena in court and consider other remedies. now, you know, this all comes as theres another vote tomorrow in the house oversight committee to hold barr and wilbur ross, the commerce secretary, in contempt for not giving any information related to an investigation into question about citizenship ended up on the u.s. census. that all coming tomorrow. while one committee seems to be having some success getting inf...

The house is going to authorize going to court to enforce the subpoenas, the subpoenas that don mcgahn and the attorney general have refused to comply with. so, were going to pursue all those avenues. at the same time -- >> what does that mean? how are you going to enforce them? >> were going to go into court and were going to pursue contempt if they dont come in. thats the next step. at the same time, though, were going to continue with this investigation, serious investigation that we started ...

Dont think theres as much of an appetite for this. >> no, because it makes us all dumber. thats what were dealing with right now. >> but he actually has things that he will run on and take credit for that any republican candidate would be idiotic not to take credit for. a real strong economy. >> i think you just answered your own question. >> what im saying is, he has things he will run on beyond the insult comedy were talking about. the economy is very strong. >> will he, though, when he has th...

He tried to fire the special counsel. he wanted to lie about the special counsel. and say he had conflicts of interest. the clock is ticking. >> what problem is there if you continue the current course of action? >> the problem is we may not be able to get the witnesses we want. >> one reason why democrats have called for impeachment is stone walling from the administration. not turning over documents. but there was a development today. they agreed to provide documents related to the mueller pro...

>> well, i think that remains to be seen. look, its true that if there was a blanket stonewalling strategy, we have now seen a crack in it because the democrats were trying to -- they were using this threat of contempt to try to get the attorney general to come to the table and hope that they could negotiate and work things out. but at the end of the day, as i think as jennifer was saying, we still dont know how this is going to end up. the democrats, i think theres some angst about this idea th...

It taken off the table. they wanted to avoid that at all cost. and so far theyve been able to do that because of the deal that was struck yesterday. so as long as contempt is off the table, doj does not have an issue with todays vote, jake. >> and manu, youve also just learned that on the senate side, donald trump jr. is going to testify before the senate intelligence committee tomorrow. of course, he was subpoenaed. yeah, and hes still under subpoena and required to come in and answer questions...