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Reading on the house floor. >> harris: real quickly, about the missing of the deadline in the white house turning over documents. your thoughts on that. >> the documents that i want are the documents that underlie the mueller dossier to read the mueller report. >> harris: so whats next? >> they subpoenaed it, so i guess they could try holding someone in contempt. that would be the next step. we are not in favor of that. remember, the house leadership, the gang of age, and others have access to g...

Investigations they conducted of president bill clinton, i was on the house oversight committee during that period of time when congressman dan burton, a republican did investigations of things like travel gate, file gate, we ended up doing whitewater before it went to the special counsel. there was an investigations of president clintons last-minute pardons of marc rich which this white house counsel has said cannot be investigated by congress. so the history of republican investigations is com...

Judiciary committee, flat out refusing to turn over documents in the committees obstruction of justice investigation. jerry nadler saying this. >> 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 con...

And other countries around the world. we should be taking them seriously when they are trying to do exactly what democrats continue to do, which is pit americans against each other to sow discord within the country. thats exactly with the mueller report says. instead of working on -- i dont know, going to briefings about what russians are planning to do in 2020, coming up with some kind of legislation, bolstering the intelligence community, they are instead spending the entire day reading a repo...

Favorability after that. >> harris: talk to newt gingrich! hell tell you. >> katie: they are playing dirty. instead of moving forward with impeachment, they are acting like theyre going to impeach him and engaging in impeachment-like behavior. >> harris: is making of her democrats mad. >> katie: thats dirty. either do it or not. >> harris: democratic voters say they arent happy with that. either go big or go home. i dont know where that would be. maybe health care is at home. [laughter] we will ...

And by the way, he was found in contempt by united states district court judge. judge susan weber wright for obstruction of justice. not for the perjury that he clearly committed.e and so, if you reread that report, and by the way, i stand by that report. w its factually and it was unhappy for the country but it nonetheless was absolutely accurate. let me just add a footnote. book one of the mueller report, when you read it, and now its going to be dramatically read as you said. book one demonst...

Wilderness. wins in 06, comes back years later. they dont have any other figure to trust on the big picture strategy other than speaker pa low so. >> great point. carol to we return, is that something they can still have and hold and bring out later? >> absolutely, brian. they did even though it was 12 pages of legal arguments, they avoided that assertion which has to be formally made by the preside president. in a way, that is putting down the court the ultimate reckoning and fight. if youre go...

Get those subpoenas enforced, and well pursue that for a while and see where it takes us. >> can you elaborate on what that legal action actually is? i mean, we know that criminal contempt would go right back up to the attorney general. >> theres no criminal contempt. the main one would be a civil contempt procedure. in other words, you vote contempt on the floor of the house. you give that contempt citation to the house counsel. the house counsel goes into federal court and asks for civil enfor...

Obstruction of justice. and by the way he was found in contempt by united states district court judge. judge susan weber wright for obstruction of justice. not for the perjury that he clearly committed. and so, if you reread that report, and by the way i stand by that report. its factually and it was unhappy for the country but it nonetheless was absolutely accurate. let me just add a footnote. book one of the mueller report, when you read it, and now its going to be dramatically read as you sai...

Level of hysteria. its not the extent of the hysteria commits 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 probe. john h term, u.s. attorney in connecticut, has reportedly been on the case for a while. durham also has a ...