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Goes right through kushner and trump jr. so i dont know if 20 hours was enough time to get into all of that. >> yeah, well you mentioned the parallel tracks in the house committee. take a listen on that. >> he did not answer all the questions we would like answered. and so a little frustration among the committee members with respect to that. we have further steps to take and we will be taking those. >> certainly it will be our recommendation to our leadership that we initiate contempt proceedin...

Thats why that information has to be pure and clean. >> sean: the grassily graham memo says that the dossier was the bulk of information evidence and so they hand this over. now, three months later, you got james comey. >> right. >> saying to trump its not verified and salacious. but its only a foote note as we understand it to the fisa court. it may have political origins. they knew hillary bought it. they know she paid for it. they knew it was even probably not verified but they didnt tell the...

Phones, listening to everything they do. that is why that information has to be secure and clean and clean. >> sean: the grassley-graham memo says that the dossier was the bulk of information evidence andno so they had this number, three months later, youve got james comey saying to trump, its not verified and salacious. but its only a footnote as we understand it to the fisa court. itth may have political origins. they knew hillary bought it. they knew she paid for it. they knew it was not veri...

His sort of awkward halting efforts to suppress the probe. trump, by contrast, has been all-in and much more crass and open about trying to tell the director of the fbi to smother things and then trying to fire him after. thats half the point. but the other half that i tried to make is -- and this is another real contrast with nixon -- is the way trump has -- what you could call kind of high crimes. the wanton lying, the trashing of the fbi, the contempt for the judiciary. the sort of thousand p...

Think its straightforward, that nixon, we kind of forget, did his sort of awkward halting efforts to suppress the probe. trump, by contrast, has been all-in and much more crass and open about trying to tell the director of the fbi to smother things and then trying to fire him after. thats half the point. but the other half that i tried to make is -- and this is another real contrast with nixon -- is the way trump has -- what you could call kind of high crimes. the wanton lying, the trashing of t...

Were in solitary confinement in separate prisons in two different states. jim mcdougal had cut a deal with ken starr, a shortened prison sentence on bank fraud charges in exchange for cooperating and implicating the clintons. susan mcdougal had refused to cooperate and was being held in criminal contempt. >> susan has got to get the all-time award for loyalty. >> still refusing to talk, susan was constantly shuttled between prisons. >> one of the things they do to weaken the resolve of people wh...

In separate prisons in two different states. jim mcdougal had cut a deal with ken starr, a shortened prison sentence on bank fraud charges in exchange for cooperating and implicating the clintons. susan mcdougal had refused to cooperate and was being held in criminal contempt. >> susan has got to get the all-time award for loyalty. >> still refusing to talk, susan was constantly shuttled between prisons. >> one of the things they do to weaken the resolve of people who are in for contempt is to m...

Referencing. you and i believe in due process. we would never send somebody to jail without due process, but one thing -- and this is a good segue, i think -- when a lawyer provides something to the court that is not true, and especially to a fisa secret court where there is nobody there for the other side. -- i know you know. i found out as a felony judge. when i put one lawyer in jail for contempt, people get the message. you dont come in and misrepresent. you do what is appropriate in court. ...

Referencing. you and i believe in due process. we would never send somebody to jail without due process, but one thing -- and this is a good segue, i think -- when a lawyer provides something to the court that is not true, and especially to a fisa secret court where there is nobody there for the other side. -- i know you know. i found out as a felony judge. when i put one lawyer in jail for contempt, people get the message. you dont come in and misrepresent. you do what is appropriate in court. ...

Referencing. you and i believe in due process. we would never send somebody to jail without due process, but one thing -- and this is a good segue, i think -- when a lawyer provides something to the court that is not true, and especially to a fisa secret court where there is nobody there for the other side. -- i know you know. i found out as a felony judge. when i put one lawyer in jail for contempt, people get the message. you dont come in and misrepresent. you do what is appropriate in court. ...