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Today. and again he didnt show up so today judge held andrew miller in contempt of court for refusing to show up. refusing to testify before the robert mueller grand jury. i am to lawyer but to me this seems like kamikaze mission. why do this? what is the strategy here? where does this end? does he potentially end up going to jail now? joining me, chuck rosenberg, senior fbi official. thank you for sticking around to help me with this. >> my pleasure. >> i understand contempt of court meaning yo...

Trump tower has reason to be as freaked out as he is. >> the pin-striped key to the investigation. blake, i want your perspective on this as well. as michelle mention, you had three people interacting with the grand jury this week. one decided not to testify and he was held in contempt by a judge in washington, d.c. your perspective there, blake, on the role that roger stone is playing now in this investigation? >> well, notice, it is funny. if this kind of thing had happened in private and some...

>> theres civil contempt in which case the judge, judge howell, simply wants miller to comply. as soon as he complies, as soon as he testifies, as soon as he follows her order, the contempt is lift. theres criminal contempt designed to punish. not to enforce compliance. it seems the to me she held him if civil contempt. all you need to do is comply with my order and were square. so he has an easy out. if he doesnt comply, she can continue to hold him in contempt means putting him in jail or fini...

The federal judge threatened to hold jeff sessions and others in contempt if they did not return to asylum seekers to u.s. soil. the woman and her daughter were on the plane to el salvador. government lawyers promised no one in the case he was hearing would be deported until thursday at midnight. he said im not asking. im ordering. by nightfall, the deportees had been returned to texas. investigation under way in texas after allegations surfaced that a child died after released from the i.c.e....

About him and why hes not showing up. >> reporter: yeah. so he refused to go to court today to appear before the grand jury, brooke, so hes got the legal side of this, the legal fight. his lawyers say they plan to continue to fight the special counsels authority. they say its unconstitutional. they did that in court today. andrew miller was found in contempt but whats interesting here the judge put the contempt charge on hold while millers lawyers appeal. thats the legal wrangling here but who i...

Scheduling. thanks so much. appreciate it. lets bring in laura coates. you have the manhattan madames planned testimony today. you have andrew miller, roger stones former associate to testify before the grand jury. skipped it. held in contempt and then randy credico. sure seems like mueller focused on people around roger stone. >> certainly. i mean, up until now, everyone thought that perhaps muellers focus to squeeze people for the target of donald trump and seems with paul manafort, with micha...

Is there anyone in washington who is happy with jeff sessions at this point? i asked because we know president trump is always one step away from firing him over the mueller invesnvestigation. a judge in d.c. threatened to hold sessions in contempt after learning two asylum seekers had been put on plane and sent back to el salvador. the judge demanded the plane be turned around. were following this story for us. shes joining me right now. walk us through how this all went down in court. >> i thi...

To try to fund at least another $380 million. mr. comey said they will be back. the fact of the matter is they never left. the russians are still attacking all our board of elections. i think individual candidates. >> okay. congressman, mike quigley, obviously something to keep our eye on. thanks for joming coming in andg us. a federal judge erupts at the trump administration after it deports a mom and daughter seeking asylum. why the judge ordered the plane they were on to turn around and thr...

Now part of this special counsel probe. again, the manhattan madam is before the grand jury today. we know andrew miller, who is also a confidant of roger stone, he was also subpoenaed. he has not appeared. he will be held in contempt. and now this latest subpoena for randy credico. one last thing, john. rudy giuliani talked about this investigation wrapping up by september 1st. we can see that just by the mere fact that this subpoena for randy credico is for september 7th, that looks very unlik...

Campaign. stone telling cnn, i realize it was a wikileaks lawyer and not assange himself. and while davis appears to be cooperating with mueller, another former aide of stones andrew miller did not appear for a hearing today and was held in contempt. his attorney telling reporters -- >> we supplied the documents they wanted so we had to have one thing that he was refusing to do, namely go before the grand jury. in order for us to get the contempt and to appeal. >> jake, as you know, rudy giulian...