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Them in contempt should help us in court. thats part of speaker pelosis strategy. 59 democrats who want to launch impeachment inquiry proceedings which the speaker has so far side no to. what theyll try to do this week is address some of those concerns. will it work? well have to wait and see. >> we also know important meeting tomorrow with the white house team, the presidents negotiating team. this one with senate republicans. what are they talking about? >> reporter: one of the big things as w...

>> you can go ahead it on audible. >> you are pushing hard. >> you should listen on audible. america should do that. >> you raise an interesting issue. we will get into it. full disclosure there is a higher bar of them going and testifying under oath. which is different which is the under lying expertise they have. >> yeah. i like them. i think its good for people to be informed. what i need from congress is action. right. the whole part of this hearing we talked about the contempt. >> you want ...

A tragedy in new york but there was real frustration, they were hoping to get cable coverage over what did not happen, but that did not occur because the networks were going around the clock with the incident in manhattan. they feel strongly about this, they feel this is a long time, its going to be tied up, a lengthy process before any of these people appear and if they do, how cooperative they will be. yes, today some documents were turned over from the department of justice, a lot of it was t...

Could unnerve the white house. represents not donald trump but its something theyre preparing the office of the president. for, something they fought for his client is the office of the for a long time, its a step in president. a direction that could be and i think he owes that office concerning to the west wing. >> harry litman, we started with his testimony before this that because as jonathan lemire committee. >> in case there was any doubt suggests this is perhaps the as to what donald trump...

Makes certain no president democrat or republican can ever act in this way again. >> and john dean arguing there are clear parallels to the president that he famously turned on. >> in many ways the mueller report is to president trump who what the so-called watergate road map was to president richard nixon. i certainly hope don mcgahn is a key witness before this committee. >> thats where the other side of the contempt is barr clearly gave up what he didnt want. mcgahn faces one. republicans wer...

On political insight, and i think they might not hold them in contempt. but the second piece of it is to authorize the committees to go to court. that in itself move the needle on public opinion, but it forces them to go to court with or without subpoenas. so what congress is being forced to do, what the house is being forced to do is go to court. what that vote in the house will do tomorrow is give the committees a chance to be able to do that more quickly, not have to go to a full house vote e...

Its a difficult question because they probably would have gone to court to get a judge to force dowd to talk. even if dowd talked its unsure how reliable his statements would have been. but was and still is a central question of the house investigation. did the president try to abuse his power to protect himself and maybe these underlying documents will shed more light on it. >> can you jump in to the point jonathan lemire was making about this concession of the justice department in terms of tu...

Means and to go through aspects of the mueller report and discuss them in a public setting here on capitol hill where it will generate attention and will perhaps bring some voters into this process who have not been paying attention. it also serves a purpose of showing, according to nancy pelosis team, the specific actions that house democrats are taking on a day-by-day basis to hold the president to account, to shine a light on what was found in the mueller report, and to demonstrate that there...

1 oversight function to comply with, the fact that those subpoenas have been essentially ignored is shameful, its a violation of the norms. i know people get tired of hearing us talk about norms being violated, but these are so essential to the functioning of our government, hopefully the american people will begin to see that. >> but heres the issue. its setting a table for those who are already at the table, who believe that there was obstruction of justice, who are going to be watching this, ...

The white house. it was done to keep barr from being held in contempt on this first motion for the unredacted mueller report. theres still the other one pending about the census case. but the justice department actually played it a little more traditional. there was jockeying on both sides and then they gave up the documents. you know, as i -- i think john is right as this shows today, theres no substitute for the people in the chair and the house is casting about for some kind of effective pres...