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I want to get back to the legal and political analysts. it looks like its coming in >> it is, wonderful. i think one were going to fine out the answer to soon where at least i hope we do is what chairman schiff means by enforcement action. congress has oversight power and article 2 of the constitution gives impeachment power. we are not there yet. the question is if he is talking about enforcement that could mean anything from a vote in the full house to censure someone to up and to and includin...

This is what the attorney general has made possible for him and then engaged an actual dialogue to find out how they could make accommodations and to make more things available instead of just sitting back and wanting to appear as if the attorney general was the bad guy. i will make it clear, there is no difference in what they are doing except to make the attorney general look bad because i dont like what he is saying and what he has said and what he may say. this is an attack on bill barr. the...

Following between election day of november 2016 and the inauguration, what decisions were made within the obama administration and the intel community that perhaps may have justified the actions they took and the one example he would say, martha, was the trump tower meeting in january he clearly has a lot of questions about that. beyond that, not a lot of specifics. however, he responds to the accusation of lying before congress. the contempt before congress. the obstruction allegation that he d...

>> in effect the president is a tyrant and a dictator with no limit on his power. >> and you dont think those words are too strong at this point, a tyrant and a dictator? >> hes trying to become, the implication of what theyre doing would make the president a tyrant in the sense of not being accountable to the american people, not being answerable to congress and that no one can hold him accountable and that is simply un-american and we cannot abide it. >> that, of course, comes after the presid...

Im a lawyer by training. and im a member of this 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 inher...

Privilege and someone is going to dispute it, we move quickly to contempt. well see where this ends up going but i think that bob is exactly right about pelosis political smarts and avoiding the word impeachment. in a way that 12-page let ser -- letter is baiting the democrats. you can always open an impeachment proceeding because it a lot stronger legally to get them right away in that setting but pelosi is holding them back saying we dont have an american public that is convinced that the way ...

We have a system of checks or balances or not? i think the american people want that. thats what we have to vindicate right now. >> and to be honest, at this point, it is starting to look like the white house is calling your bluff in terms of house democrats. theyre not giving you anything really. do you want to see people starting to be slapped with fines? >> well, i think that they are cooperating with different committees in different ways, but that being said, i stand with mr. nadler and oth...

Right now they are saying find us a date. >> so right now you dont see any roadblocks. they are not telling you, no, were not going to let him come. the issue is simply timing? >> the issue has been timing for a while, but whether they are being honest that its only timing, i dont know. perhaps the white house is telling them dont let him appear and use any excuse. >> what about don mcgahn? hes been subpoenaed to testify on may 21st. thats coming up pretty fast. do you know whether or not hes go...

Which means the president is above the law and that is an un-american frankly un-american 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...

To the floor for a single action. i think that will depend in part on what -- how quickly the other committees act. but what is very clear is that we are committed to making sure that we use all of the tools that are at our disposal, including inherent contempt if we must, to ensure we get the documents we need to do our work, witnesses are compelled to come before us to testify under oath. because if we leave it to the executive branch and they get to decide who will be a witness and what docum...