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Agreement with respect to his testimony or a date. but i know all of the members of the committee believe strongly mr. mueller needs to come before the judiciary committee to walk the people through his report to the judgments he made, evidence he discovered, conclusions he came to. after all, this was an investigation that began on behalf of the american because our country was attacked by a foreign adversary, our democracy, and this investigation was done on behalf of the american people. they...

Take such action in that case. and now, 85 years after that, the chairman of the house judiciary committee was asked today about inherent contempt. >> some of your colleagues want to vote for inherent contempt. to fine people who are defying subpoenas. is that something youre seriously considering at this point? >> yes. >> what do you think about terms of dollar amount or fines? >> i dont know. very large amounts. >> would it be for the attorney general? >> it would be for anybody who was held i...

Officials among them the secretary of the treasury steve mnuchin is still refusing to release six years of the presidents tax returns to the house ways and means committee and has until friday to reply. today mnuchin was asked about that deadline. >> how do you plan to respond to chairman? >> we havent had an official response yet. we will compile with the timing of it, i think you can pretty much guess how were going to but i havent made a decision. the democrats are trying weaponize it. >> mnu...

Judiciary committee. so i care very much about process and making sure we get the truth before the american public before we do something as grave and as important and possibly very necessary under this administration. so the president may just be leaving us know other alternative. but something i wanted to make sure i make mention of is the fact that as important as all of this is and as extraordinary as it is that we might be talking about inherent contempt and i too had to brush up on what th...

Less redacted version? >> if they are not as hypocritical as everybody is making them out to be and the attorney general has made it possible for them and engage in actual dialogue with the attorney general to find out how to make accommodations to make more things available instead of sitting back and interfering in the attorney general as the bad guy, there is no difference in what they are doing except to make the attorney general look bad because they dont like what he is saying and what he ...

>> democrats have issued subpoenas to nearly ten current and former trump officials among them the secretary of the treasury steve mnuchin is still refusing to release six years of the presidents tax returns to the house ways and means committee and has until friday to reply. today mnuchin was asked about that deadline. >> how do you plan to respond to chairman neals claims? >> we havent had an official response yet. we will compile with the timing of it, i think you can pretty much guess how we...

Level of hysteria. its not the extent of the hysteria, its everywhere all of a sudden. trace gallagher has been on the story and explains. >> democrats have subpoenaed attorney general bill barr, held him in contempt, asked him to resign and suggested criminal sanctions, none of which stopped the ag from assigning a federal prosecutor to investigate the origins of the trump-russia c probe. john h. durham, u.s. attorney in connecticut, has reportedly been on the case for a while. durham also has ...

Claim. >> chairman nadler and other house democratic leaders are considering whether they should hold administration officials in contempt of congress to highlight the trump administrations unprecedented obstruction of legitimate congressional investigations. today, in what might be the first time since 1934, had the concept of inherent contempt was being discussed on capitol hill. 1934 was the last time we saw inherent contempt used by congress. in 1934, the united states senate issued subpoena...

Not participate in any candidate town hall on fox. but first tonight, tonight is the deadline that house intelligence committee chairman adam schiff set on his subpoena for attorney general william barr to turn over the full unredacted mueller report to the committee and the foreign intelligence and counter intelligence information collected during robert muellers investigation. this morning, chairman schiff said it was too early to say as of this morning whether there had been progress in his t...

Bob mueller should testify. a number of republicans who also feel that way. its the right of congress to do oversight. thats constitutional. so if they want to call people and have them refute their subpoenas theyll go through the process holding people in contempt. this is the same thing that republicans would do if they were in control right now of the house. and i dont understand what the big objection is here. don mcgahn testified for 30 hours. more questions to ask of him. bill barr has giv...