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House 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 speaker ryan...

Efforts to hold rosenstein in contempt. and maybe that leads to the impeachment of rosenstein. from what im hearing, that may happen as early as tomorrow, matt. >> im just sick of the games and sick of the delays. if we were really serious about oversight wed say the documents will be present at 10:00a.m. tomorrow. if theyre not, at 10:01 we start the impeachment proceedings regarding rod rosenstein. look at the facts, sean, the migration of people from the hillary clinton e-mail investigation t...

Like. they took the whole team, many of those people and just threw them in the russian investigation. problematic. >> melissa: yeah. and eventually, i mean, we do know he was removed from muellers team when all of this was revealed. but he was on there at the start. i bet it makes you more interested in seeing the documents how the mueller investigation, how did they get on this track in the first place. right? >> absolutely. that is why myself and colleagues have written series of letters to s...

Documents. or ryan says he will join in the efforts to hold rosenstein in contempt. and maybe that leads to the impeachment of rosenstein. from what im hearing, that may happen as early as tomorrow, matt. >> im just sick of the games and sick of the delays. if we were really serious about oversight wed say the documents will be present at 10:00a.m. tomorrow. if theyre not, at 10:01 we start the impeachment proceedings regarding rod rosenstein. look at the facts, sean, the migration of people fro...

Contempt. then what? >> we have a responsibility to respond to congress. we intend to be responsive to congress. if we are running behind in production, will take efforts to step it up. we have a responsibility to produce the documents that are properly disclosed bull and we intend to do so. thats my direction to the department. >> senator sessions, attorney general sessions, one more question. are you involved at all in discussions about a possible recusal of rod rosenstein of mueller, given th...

Are not insignificant figures. >> sen. dianne feinstein, top democrat on the senate committee had this to say. >> throughout the clinton investigation republicans in congress demanded information from director comey and the justice department under subpoena and threats of contempt. today they are doing the same thing with special counsel robert muellers investigation. it was wrong then and it is wrong now. >> she pointed out how many times republicans were trying to get information with regard t...

>> shannon: despite george was laid out in the ig report, senator dianne feinstein, had this to say. >> throughout the goods and investigation republicans in congress demanded information from director comey, and the justice department, under subpoena and threat of contempt. today, they are doing the same thing with special counsel muellers investigation. it was wrong then and its wrong now. >> shannon: she pointed out how many times republicans were desperately trying to get information with re...

Documents, as you know, from your department. and trey gowdy oversight chair said yesterday officials will be held in contempt if congress of the doj and fbi do not comply with subpoenas. what are your thoughts on that? >> well, weve gone a long way in dealing with that. the fbis worked hard on that i think. an agreement was signed with mr. gowdy and mr. goodlatte. staffers at the department of of justice and fbi looking at the records. i think thats moving along pretty well. >> laura: they are ...

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