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Impea impea impeach rod rosenstein. >> thank you. i want to go straight to carrie cordero. >> first the house would have to actually vote. if the house passes the ruling on contempt, then the house would have to go to court to enforce it. first of all, if they voted that could persuade the justice department into complying, the threat of contempt. the judge could have rod rosenstein fined. he or she could hold him, and threaten jail. so there is potentially harsh consequences. the more likely sc...

Eventually, the just have to get everyone in a room and have the documents either reviewed or reviewed by a smaller group and get it done. i dont think anyone wants to go to contempt case. >> harris: what happens in a contempt of congress case? >> nothing. eric holder was held in contempt and nothing happened because of course the only branch of government that can prosecute under contempt order is the executive branch. which is controlled by the president. >> harris: in that case. because they ...

Or the house of representatives will use the full arsenal of the constitutional weapons to gain compliance. >> kennedy: devin nunes sounding even more fed up yesterday with the documents not being turned over. >> if the documents do not begin to be turned over tomorrow and a clear way and a path forward for everyone else is not clear in the next couple of days. there will be hell to pay wednesday morning. we can no longer -- thi is not just about the committee chairman any longer. >> kennedy: so...

Nation but we -- rignation. we can hold in contempt. we can pass resolutions. we can impeach. look, i think were getting close to there, right. if they dont have good reasons why they havent provided us this information, the american peoples patience have one out, my patience has run out. you had i think the speaker of the house and chairman gowdy gave them every opportunity to try to clear all of this up. theres just no time left anymore. it looks like theyre trying to run out the clock as ive ...

Does he, governor? mike: he never has. when there are people being paid by the taxpayer who have that level of contempt for the people who pay their salaries. these people are talking about their bosses. in any place i have ever worked in my life its a fireable offense. we need to know who these people are and they need to be given their notice and sent out the door. nobody should be getting money from taxpayers who have that level of contempt from the citizens who pay their salaries. >> i would...

Does he, governor? mike: he never has. when there are people being paid by the taxpayer who have that level of contempt for the people who pay their salaries. these people are talking about their bosses. in any place i have ever worked in my life its a fireable offense. we need to know who these people are and they need to be given their notice and sent out the door. nobody should be getting money from taxpayers who have that level of contempt from the citizens who pay their salaries. >> i would...

He doesnt seem to feel loyalty to anybody except himself. >> of course, david frum, the legal challenge for the president to reach out and pardon any of them now, as rudy giuliani is making noises about pardons, possible pardons, is that they then lose their fifth amendment rights. exactly. >> if you pardon manafort tomorrow, for everything hes charged with now, the next day the special prosecutor can put manafort under oath in the grand jury and he has no ability to claim the fifth amendment. >...

Need to get it done? talk to me. >> 218 votes. people who have the courage to stand up against a deep state that is actively working against our president today. why does peter strzok still have a job? why is this guy still in alligators crawling around in the swamp in washington, d.c.? we gotta get rid of him and the fact that we havent yet it shows a lack of leadership on the top done my part of the fbi and department of justice. >> judge jeanine: or with all due respect, the prosecutor in me ...

Constitutional duty and what youre doing gets in the way of that. >> rod rosensteins name was never on the ballot and wasnt elect today anything. but the house of representatives and people in the united states senate were and we are separate branch of government entitled to that information. so instead of fighting us all of the time and instead of threatening excuse me, staff members on the intelligence committee, why dont you just give us the stuff we are entitled to see so we can figure out a...

>> when? >> immediately. >> what do you need? >> 218 votes in the congress of people who have the courage to stand up against the deep state that is working against our president today. what does peter strzok still have a job? still an alligator crawling around in the swamp of washington, d.c.? we have to get rid of him. the fact we have not shows a lock of leadership for the fbi and the department of justice. >> he might be cooperating? but i say to myself, who is he cooperating with? >> exactl...