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Holding him in inherent contempt, which means being detained by the sergeant at arms. your thoughts about that? >> any and all options are on the table. yes, it is possible to put him in jail, but i would think that that is not likely going to happen. nonetheless, holding someone in contempt is an option. still, doing a legal action on the tax law itself, 6103, which is the basis upon which chairman neil can ask for those tax returns, that is an important thing to recognize as inherent in the la...

Allow for discretion as to whether to comply with a request for tax returns. earlier this afternoon, the chairman offered a hint about his own thinking on the matter. >> chairman neil, i wanted to see if i could ask you about the deadly for the tax returns today. are you planning to take action against mnuchin? >> he has until 5:00 obviously, that was the deadly, but i anticipate they wont meet that deadly and the result will be that we will likely proceed to court as quickly as next week. >> do...

Indeed for house counsel to ask the speaker to have a vote on going to court. and we could be in court as soon as next week. as we saw with the subpoena issued by congress member elijah cummings for the oversight and government reform committee, they have already had a court hearing, and there is some possibility that those documents that they requested will come forth, and that is the same result i hope we can see here. >> we played it as chairman neil was coming down the stairs, a report asked...

I cant even believe we are in this state because for four decades, presidents have voluntarily revealed their tax returns. both democrats and republicans. why we have to go to this level is something that the american people should be asking. nonetheless, we are taking a step forward if we do indeed go to court. >> congressman himes, chairman adam schiff said hell hold a meeting next week to discuss whether to hold attorney general parr in contempt for not complying with his subpoena to give the...

You made a reference to inherent contempt. we may not even need to go to the court to compel people coming before us. knowing they will lose in court is wanting to drag this out as long as they can and set a new standard for eliminating the very notion that there is a balance of power, that there are checks and balances in our government. >> i want to ask you about another important issue developing, and that is having to do with iran. i want to ask you both about a letter that you signed tonigh...

Years. now we are looking in the other direction. >> the white house talking point is this investigation is done. no obstruction and no collusion. nadler has said that. >> i have a point about that. first lets hear the attorney general about the idea of destroying the documents and contempt. >> its part of the usual political circus being played out. it doesnt surprise me. >> the house speaker nancy pelosi believes you lied under oath. what do you think of that charge? >> its a laughable charge....

Chief chiefs, with then president-elect donald trump. >> between election day and inauguration, did anyone in government or in intelligence, did they take action to justify their decisions? >> i think there were some very strange developments in that period. 245s one of the thing -- thats one of the things we want to look into. >> such as. >> such as the handling of the meeting on january 26 between the intelligence chiefs, the president, the leaking of information subsequent to that information...

Procedure on capitol hill. and the question is will they be able to find a way short of going the route of impeachment to actually get the information that they want and to paint that picture that i think they had hoped they would be able to paint. >> and when the polls showed not huge appetite among democratic voters for impeachment proceedings. we have news in to cnn. this is a comment from the chairman of the house ways and means committee, chairman neal. thats the committee with the legal po...

To how im to conduct this committee. >> all right. so that was then, he said he wasnt going to come back if you kept him there. he is coming back. >> he is coming back. >> have you had discussions with him since then? >> no, we have not talked since then. he is coming back. we have about 18 members on our committee that did not get an opportunity to ask the questions and so we expect him to be back and we expect our members to have the opportunity to ask the questions. but you know the elephant ...

9:00 a.m., "americas newsroom," thanks for sharing that with us as always, thank you. while the attorney general barr searches for truth and justice, the democrats on capitol hill busy wasting your time, other peoples money, still advancing a hoax, still advancing lies and conspiracy theories. jerry nadler is demanding the attorney general reveal grand jury information in the mueller report. nadler actually wants themu attorney general of the united states to commit a crime or hes going to be ha...