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Its symbolic vote. theres some leverage you get from it because no cabinet member wants to be held in contempt. i worked for eric holder who c. the day after he got up and went into work. its meaningless. i think to drop the threat, if they got something in return was a pretty good deal. as you point out thats still a process that will tyke soake so time. that just gets you in a months long process before you see don mcgahn or hope hicks or any of the witnesses show up.

On contempt, which they have not decided to do. or obviously to open impeachment inquiry, flt public is not with them, if those members are not comfortable doing so. the risk as you say, is that the president may be can get ahead of it, the risk, of course, as they engage with these discussions with doj, as they try to bring key witnesses, the president will continue to defy them, at some point there may be an instigatie ining moment whery feel they have no other choice. joe biden said, there ma...

Steph? >> house judiciary chair jerry nadler announced the deal with the department of justice. help us understand this. its about obtaining underlying evidence from the mueller report. how exactly is that going to work and how big a win is this for democrats? >> reporter: its a significant move, because the department of justice had been resisting. thats where the whole notion of critical contempt had been brought up. this is asking for greater access to redacted sections of the 448-page muelle...

Better get ready at home. the first democratic debate is happening june 26 and 27. youll see lester holt across both hours. "today" shows savannah guthrie will moderate the first hour and chuck todd and rachel maddow will moderate the second hour. kelly odonnell is on the hill. kelly, were just a couple hours away from a vote in the house regarding subpoenas. this is not a vote to hold attorney general bill barr nor don mcgahn in contempt. i know there are a lot of votes going on. whats this o...

Swalwell of california. a member of the house intelligence and judiciary committees. tough question, but this is "hardball" and you agreed to come on. whose side of you on? >> we are on the way to impeachment. >> no, whose side are you on? nadlers or pelosis? >> i dont accept that they are in conflict. >> my reporting is wrong? they agree? >> they both recognize its an extraordinary remedy. it was a big day in the house. we voted to hold the attorney general in contempt. >> we will see if the pl...

The weeds and the weeds matter and determine how this is all going to play out. the harshest punishment that congress could hand down would be criminal contempt. and you may have heard yesterday about the judiciary committee making a deal with the department of justice about documents. that was to avert a criminal contempt citation. so, right now that has been put on hold. but the entire time, the house has been planning to vote on these civil contempt resolutions against the attorney general an...

Findings of the special counsel. that work began today. the committee staff was over at the doj, initial show of good faith looking at some initial documents and over the next several days protocols will be established for the members to able to go there and begin our review. so the deal over documents has house democrats postponing a vote which was expected today to hold attorney general bill barr and former white house counsel don mcgahn in contempt for failing to comply with those subpoenas...

White house, starting to comply with the subpoena. in exchange, they are not holding him in contempt. one way to sort of sort through this mystery youve been trying to understand is, in the past, when theres been a recalcitrant executive branch official defying a subpoena, the house has voted to hold that person in contempt, then it is both ask the justice department to prosecute them and filed a civil lawsuit, asking a judge for a order to comply with the subpoena. that second stage has been ca...

What happens when the sort of weight of the conservative world comes down on him. its really remarkable that he is the sole voice out there. >> from michigan, grand rapids, michigan, a district thats always been pretty conservative but reliably republican. traditional republican, not trump republican. matt miller, what about this civil contempt vote. the democrats have gotten an agreement from doj to get some of the underlying material to the judiciary. they are still proceeding with a civil con...

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 all about power. maya, do you thi...