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Inquiry strengthens their case in court. also, nadler told pelosi and others who were present that the impeachment inquiry could essentially centralizing all of the probes that are occurring in the house right now to his committee. freeing up those other panels to actually do their own legislative agenda and leave that part of the investigation to the judiciary committee, but he met pushback not just from pelosi but also adam sheff, the house intelligence chairman who has his own investigation h...

Administration once again defies another congressional subpoena. attorney general william barr and wilbur ross failed to produce documents requested by the house oversight committee as part of its investigation into a 2020 census question on citizenship. cumming said rather than cooperate that you would would rather be held in contempt of congress. they produced none of the documents. they made no counter offers regarding the documents and seem determined to continue the trump administrations co...

He came out with a report, horrible angry democrats totally biased against me. nancy pelosi is a disaster. letter and do what she wants. they are in big trouble. jillian: she stopped short of calling for impeachment, she wants to be -- see the president go to prison. house democrats have officially introduced a resolution to hold attorney general william barr in contempt for refusing to comply with subpoenas. rob: columbine high school could be torn down to keep students safe. the community is c...

Were learning now details about one house democratic chairmans push to open an impeachment inquiry into the president. speaker pelosi remains steadfastly opposed, but new cnn reporting details efforts by the judiciary committee chairman jerry nadler to change her mind and to win other democrats over to his point of view, but nadlers way could take some of the investigative thunder from the other committee chairmen and centralize it into judiciary . d what is he up to here? you have just today th...

Certainly escalating. >> all of this comes, phil, as house democrats are adding yet more hearings on the mueller report and the attorney general, william barr, faces two separate actions from the hill next week. whats the strategy? >> wolf, next week is going to provide a crystal-clear window into speaker pelosi and her top deputys strategy in terms of their non-impeachment investigation proceedings. on monday, the house judiciary committee will hold their first hearings on the mueller report. t...

>> on the impeachment question nadlers argument to pelosi in effect is one it will help us streamline all these investigations under one process here, impeachment proceedings, but also theres the argument that it gives you more investigative powers, et cetera. explain from a lawyers perspective how that would work. >> its a notion that the impeachment power for congress is kind of at the -- its the heart of their powers and once they commence that they believe that the courts will be much more s...

Final say, congressman, on whether or not democrats open an impeachment process? >> no. i believe the speakers voice carries great weight and right now, it certainly does with our caucus, as phil mentioned in the reporting earlier, about 25% of the caucus favors moving immediately to impeachment, but 75% dont. and i think theres a level of patience and caution in heeding the words of the speaker. but this seems to have an almost an inexorable direction. and if we get to a tilting point where a m...

Power that the house wants to give their chairman next week. >> judges will have a lot of power in deciding how this goes forward, manu raju, thanks very much. im joined by cnn legal analyst shan wu. shan, what do you think of nadlers attempt, first of all, does it have a shot in terms of stream rhining this whole process? i can see the argument for it, just give us an answer, where is this all going? >> i think people felt like i thought they were already holding him in contempt. a good idea to...

Possible here. what is nadler trying to accomplish? >> reporter: and to speed things up. the real concern among democrats is that things have been going pretty slow so far in their fights with the white house. theyve been trying to get a move, a vote on the floor to hold bill barr in contempt for weeks but because of all the other legislation, all the priorities that the speaker has instead that has sort of gone by the wayside, but next week were going to see a resolution on the floor of the hou...

Completely flat out apologize for the entire bill, he is going to try to find ways to kind of explain some of the decisions that were made and understand the current contempt -- context of this moment and youve seen his rivals go after him time and time again and it will certainly continue especially closer to that debate. >> and glory, respond to this, the criticism, this is rich lowry tweeting, this is not the move of a confident front-runner and it shows that whatever bidens relative moderati...