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>> yes, it would authorize democratic lawyers to go to court to enforce a subpoena against attorney general bill barr, and against former white house counsel, don mcgahn. we will have the vow today, but there is a 0% chance democratic lawyers are ever going to walk into court and argue that the attorney general of the united states should be held in contempt for refusing to comply with the subpoena that requires him to commit a crime. so this is a show vote. this is about trying to save face. th...

Capitol hill democrats are divisioning the knife in russias investigation wound today. today they are prepping a bill on the bill for the house floor authorizes congressional lawyers to sue two trump administration officials attorney general bill barr and former white house counsel don mcgahn. the justice department and house judiciary chairman gerald nadler struck a deal yesterday that compelled barr to release some redacted portions of the mueller report after weeks of contention. nadler, a ne...

Charge of the house. >> he calls it show vote. it is not because you could hold it over bill barrs head and the challenge of going to court at a later date. does that do much for you? >> it doesnt do -- well, i think it is kind of the showboat. i dont think they necessarily have public support to hold him in contempt. i just think that their problem is that they didnt start early enough. they should have started a preliminary inquiry much sooner. people forget that when he sent his report over t...

Do-over on the political side. where is that going to go? i dont know. do they just want to embarrass him and give him a chance to respond? are they actually going to impeach him we dont know where this is l. go. this is the earliest stages of it? >> i watched david bruin on "fox & friends first." he says the attorney general didnt have to do this. >> i agree. the attorney general did not have to do. this given the steadfast defense of his boss that we have seen from the attorney general, im kin...

Held in both civil and criminal -- >> harris: did anything happen and? >> dagen: no, eventually -- i think it was just the fight with department of justice, it was just result. >> andy: my recollection -- >> dagen: by the way, there was somebody who died in relation to the fast and furiou furious. >> andy: it was very different. it was about a 17-month investigation by the time congress finally held him in contempt. my recollection is that it was congress holding him in contempt. the full house....

Steve: housjudiciary committee chairman holding plans to hold attorney general bill barr in contempt after they didnt turn over documents related to robert mueller russia report. ainsley: it gets confusing here to break it down for us is judge napolitano. explain all this. >> this is a potential nightmare for the president but it also proves the president correct potential nightmare what they are release something not just portions of the redacted report but the documents that went into making t...

>> thats a little different. that is saying that if in the future a committee chairman such as eliza cummins or nadler wants to move forward on contempt, he or she does not have to go back to the full house. they can go to a special bipartisan committee that is controlled you stomach through the democrats and get authorization to go to court. it is still a big uphill battle to be successful in court because as you know, most fights between the legislative and executive courts stay out, but its r...

The president can talk about the economy and some things that are working, all that he has done. know youre giving him a reason to show people why they hate politicians. he came in as a nonpolitician. i dont understand it. its like they are doing messaging for him. he begins getting evidence from the doj. now the criminal contempt goes away and what ive been talking about the how do on that couch before we started, which we get now, contempt light? why are we getting this vote? it seems politica...

To move on from it. >> capri: can i jump in a real quick? as the democrats the belongs in the two-thirds you are describing, that im over it, that i have investigation fatigue. im not a huge fan of donald trump. i fed it up to here with all of this back and forth. i will tell you, im from ohio, i was just home all last week. people are necessarily talking about this. >> melissa: what are they talking about? >> capri: anything but this. graduations -- they care about so many more things. this is ...

Every single -- >> dagen: well, they are not doing it with bill barr because essentially, if its about turning over grand jury material, with a hold him in contempt for not committing a crime? which would be a crime. >> harris: and they are the only ones of the room that contains a lot and make that not a crime. >> andy: i dont think its really want to go. >> harris: who in law enforcement or legal wants to be part of a chain that relieves the responsibility on keeping grand jury testimony quiet...