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Spanish? >> i did. raised on a farm, predominately indians and the hispanic and mexican people in order to communicate, and some of the folks that came to the country earlier married hispanic or mexican women for the opportunity to acquire land. >> yeah. >> marrying mexican women to acquire land, what kind of turn of the century reality game show is this? even though the sikhs worked in land.nted them from owning their and americas jim crle ow sty immigration laws kept them from bringing wives f...

In the past, when nunes has pushed for documents, he usually ends up getting what he wants. now, in this particular case, we know that he is after documents involving a specific individual who has gone unnamed at least publicly, it is classified, but the justice department has been clear with him, telling him essentially youre not going to get it, this could pose a risk to lives, sources and even an on going criminal investigation. but as we also reported on friday, kate, in many cases nunes pre...

Im told by conservatives they want to push for the house to have a vote to hold sessions in contempt soon, as soon as next week. but speaker paul ryan is not yet committing to that. his spokesperson told me today that he has -- the speaker has not discussed this with nunez and would not say whether or not ryan would support this effort. so open question about whether or not there is enough support to hold sessions in contempt and with the white house comes down given the presidents long time fur...

Going to comply with our subpoena. >> so what are going to to be it. >> about very important information we need. >> so what are you going to do? >> the only thing left we can do is we have to move quickly to hold the attorney general of the united states in contempt. thats what im going press for this week. >> and in response, if justice department explained why the documents were held back. and im quoting here, disclosure of responsive information to such requests can risk severe consequences,...

For joining us and briggs your analysis. well always appreciate it. >> thank you, rosemary. well, the chairman of the u.s. house intelligence committee says he plans to urge lawmakers to hold the u.s. attorney general in contempt of congress. republican devin nunes accuses jeff sessions of withholding documents related to the russia investigation and the committees probe of alleged government surveillance abuses. >> two weeks ago, we sent a letter to attorney general jeff sessions, a classifie...

Familiarity breeds contempt or marriage and babies. luckily the babies grow up as american citizens who can own the land that their parents couldnt. god bless america. what is this coming it towards us. >> thats the shaker that will go through and clamp the stump of the try, high rpm will shake the tree and knock the a almonds off. >> looks like something from "mad max." i would like one of those for my person seven so i could drive up to people i dont like just like -- >> the next part of the p...

>> i would love to see that. u.s. intelligence community assessment on the ramifications of all of this. but quickly, let me turn to the effort by the chairman of youre committee, devin nunes, the intelligence committee, to hold the attorney general of the united states jeff sessions in contempt. do you think hell succeed in that effort? >> my sense is that it wont succeed and go anywhere. of course you made the point early which is important, this probab probably wouldnt be happening unless the...

Defendants in a court of law, and in legal proceedings. it does not protect anyone in the court of pbs opinion. if he were to plead the fifth, it would cause the majority of americans to wonder what hes hiding and what is he afraid of? >> he has said on several occasions, we played the clips many times, that the mob pleads the fifth. if you have nothing to high, why plead the fifth? if youre not guilty, why are you pleading the fifth? what do you make of the efforts by the house intelligence c...

Investigation. what devin nunes is doing is meddling in an active investigation, and it could po templeal pull sources lives at risk. >> would he do this, threatening him with contempt without some sort of green light from the white house? >> i dont think he would do that. as you know last year he ms. led the american people saying he had all this secret information that he had to brief the white house on, and it turned out the white house had given it to him to do a press conference. so at the ...

Out a stark warning that he will hold sessions in contempt of congress in an escalating battle over documents he wants to see about the russia investigation. listen. >> two weeks ago we sent a letter to attorney general jeff sessions, classified letter, per usual it was ignored, not acknowledged, just completely ignored, so last week we sent a subpoena and on thursday we discovered that they are not going to comply with our subpoena. >> so what are you going to do about it? >> very important inf...