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Stuff is, eric holder, when he was attorney general to president obama, was held in contempt, and it ended up meaning exactly nothing. president obama didnt care and president obama essentially protected holder, so there was no volatile consequences from congressional action on that. >> shannon: i want to reference his pc diverted from a very interesting, talking about, if we track the reasoning of the inspector general he went to the fbi and said, yes, there was all kind of bias but he looked a...

Documents related to the russia investigation and clinton email code. jillian: what paul ryan says could happen next. >> this has been an ongoing issue for republicans in congress pushing for the release of these documents. paul ryan is threatening to hold the deputy attorney general in contempt of those documents are not produced. >> im concerned they have been dragging their feet, with a whole bunch of drama. and months ago in the first place. >> is the justice department dragging its feet? th...

About national security, which at this point seem flimsy. they do like highlighting with sharpie. they are -- >> even -- >> very good at redacting and can redact away, if there is political element, no reason to withhold the documents. >> juan, why set the deadline, by friday or sunday, we will give the documents, if there are real reasons they cant get them in time in that amount of time, why not say that, why set that day? >> juan: i think they said, were going to try to compromise here. what ...

We shouldnt forfeit our ability. >> bill: lets talk about department of justice, peter strzok and the whole ball of wax. paul ryan yesterday is issuing the demand to get the department of justice -- if he doesnt get his way he is threatening a subpoena. this is what he said about that. watch. >> you met with rod rosenstein over the dispute you have or over records. some members want to hold him in contempt. are you supportive of holding him in contempt? >> im supportive of making sure we get the...

You are so dismissive and like they pat us on the head and tell us to go play on the swing set and have a popsicle. and you reach a point where contempt is not only appropriate. >> melissa: do you worry about trying to deflect and change the outcome of the mueller probe. >> we have heard that 10000 times. everything in our investigation someone comes back and say you are trying to deflect from mueller. i hope he completes his investigation. and i dont want to interview with that in any way. i ho...

Three days to hand over records about intelligence- activities and the f.b.i.s alleged use of confidential sources prior to july 31st, 2016. that is when the f.b.i. opened the russian collusion investigation. with that deadline missed and looming deadline today. the house speaker did not take contempt off of the table. here is house speaker ryan. >> i support making sure we get the documents that we rightly deserve and requested. we expect compliance. i get dalele reports about the progress on t...

>> last week you met with rod rosenstein over this dispute you had over records. some of your members want to hold him in contempt. one, are you sum portative of holding him in contempt? >> im wants to get the documents we rightly observe. im still getting daily reports about the progress on the compliance. im going to regroup with them today but i expect them to do that. >> some of your colleagues are using this fight and calls for contempt as a pretext for the president to fire rod rosenstein....

Jeff bazos, bill gates and warren buffets. theyve made no secret of their contempt for this president. what does that tell you? are you they going to be putting up money to go against this president? >> i hope they do. this is the first wave of it. >> michael bloomberg is putting all this money, $80 million sounds like a lot to me, but its obviously a small fraction of his fortune. but i think it will make a big difference in getting democrats elected i hope in the fall. if other billionaires wa...

Warren buffets. theyve made no secret of their contempt for this president. what does that tell you? are you they going to be putting up money to go against this president? >> michael bloomberg is putting all this money, but i think it will make a big dir difference in getting democrats elected i hope in the fall. if other billionaires want to join that party, think its great. i think, ceos are beginning to stand up for whats right in this country. its long overdue. we cant allow this person who...

1house floor. >> sean: how soon? >> next week. the speaker has been clear. the house will go on record saying mr.�rosenstein give us what we are entitled too. if he doesnt its contempt. >> sean: you will do all of this, this is not a game? >> [overlapping talking]. >> we have a right to get that. the resolution has been filed by meadows and i several others. >> sean: this was a showdown on capitol hill on the floor today between mark meadows and the chairman of the freedom caucus and speake...