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Mean the official end of the country. former cia station chief dan hoffman believes the trump administration is taking the right approach. >> we have made a very clear move, which is deterrence. we have said to the iranians that if you launch any strikes against us, our people, our installations in the region and beyond, then we are going to respond. jillian: iran has reportedly claimed to have quadrupled production of enriched uranium. don mcgahn will skip a house judiciary hearing today. the f...

Tapes, censoring material, redacted material on a tape recorder then the publics mood changed, it went from being 19%, to being 58% to 60% of getting rid of nixon. if the public knows what trump did, which makes mix son look like a choir boy, we would have the hearings too. >> representative cohen chairman nadler says your committee is going to convene tomorrow as planned, i mean, you know, you took fire earlier this month when the attorney general didnt show up. do you plan to handle this diffe...

In the face of these issues? and he just said, i showed up and testified. now don mcgahn may show up and testify. >> you asked for a subpoena? >> i did ask for a subpoena. >> but -- but the white house couldnt stop you. i mean, they -- they wouldnt -- didnt want you to testify, did they? >> they did not, but we wanted to test -- we wanted a subpoena so that it was required i be there and hopefully set a precedent that if you get a subpoena, youve got to honor it, even if the white house doesnt w...

Trumps other attorneys played a role in shaping cohens 2017 testimony. house judiciary chair jerrold nadler is threatening to hold former white house counsel don mcgahn in contempt if he doesnt testify before congress today. he has been directed by president trump to defy the congressional subpoena. nbc news white house correspondent kristen welker has more. >> reporter: president trump is directing his former white house counsel don mcgahn to defy a congressional subpoena to testify. the whit...

Has already thrown you under the bus, tweeted about not believing what you had to say about things, they werent exactly accurate, and a lot of this is already in the mueller report. it is already out there, you cant say executive privilege and not show up. >> don mcgann will he do what he thinks is the right thing to do. he talked to congress when authorized to about matters he was authorized to talk about and now, executive privilege and don mcgann if hes a good former official will abide by th...

Committee staff over these documents. the justice department had said come over here. look at them in a secure setting. schiff had said no, we want the documents. he had outlined categories of specific documents that schiff wanted, and now the justice department is saying, you can have those documents. were actually already starting to pull them, but it comes with a condition, and the condition is that you take off that unspecified enforcement action that had been on the table against the attorn...

We will not allow the president to prevent the american people from hearing from this witness. we will not allow the president to block subpoenas, putting himself and his allies above the law. >> the white house encouraged mcgahn to defy the subpoena. contempt may not be enough any more. frustrated by repeated stonewalling by the trump white house. more democrats are demanding impeachment. >> over 30 of the presidents associates were indicted by the mueller probe. his campaign chairman is in pre...

Oversight because you cant wait. thats the problem we have right now. and, so, the question is, are we tearing at the fabric of congressional oversight? it was really interesting to hear some of that last week. when you have a committee that has issued subpoenas that asked the attorney general to do something illegal. when you have the subpoenas when no accommodation process in place. contempt issues in place with no process and no time going through? i just submit to you this. whatever your opi...

Themselves in this ruling as the white house keeps trying to limit their oversight. the latest example of stone walling, former white house counsel don mcgahn, expected to defy a subpoena today. mcgahn did waive privilege to speak to robert muellers team but the white house argues mcgahn is exempt because hes a former senior presidential adviser. mcgahns lawyers say with contradictory orders with congress and the white house he owes it to his former client not to attend. >> democrats want to h...

Who was inside that meeting and that is maryland democratic congressman jamie raskin. how did the debate play out? >> well, i wish i could. the meetings are supposed to be off the record. i was pretty amazed that everything seemed to leak out almost simultaneously. obviously were involved in a serious conversation here which is how do you deal with the most lawless and obstructionist administration of our lifetimes? and those of us or many of us on the judiciary committee have been exposed to hi...