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Results. we need to know what really happened. we need to know why these investigations started. we need to know whether there was any kind of collusion between the department. congressma n, with all due respect. we need to know it but we need to get answers. for the last year, nothing has happened. and we got to start holding people in contempt. we have to make sure that you guys are respected. we have oversight of the fbi and doj. just keep their feet to the fire. congressman labrador thanks f...

Exists and ensure that we have a roughly law that we can rely on in this country. >> martha: one of the things we have seen a lot is calling for subpoenas and no teeth behind it. it doesnt actually happen. chairman good lath has said he will subpoena these individuals. can you update us on that. is that actually going to happen congressman biggs? >> yes, its my understanding they will be subpoenaed and have to come in. if they fail to come in we can go to federal district court and get them held...

Professor, you look back at this eight-hour grilling session for andrew mccabe yesterday and you wonder, did they learn anything? did they get anything out of him? >> i think they had to learn something in the sense theyve been trying for weeks to get this chance to ask some of these questions to mccabe. the department of justice has largely been uncooperative with some of these inquiries and there was a threat of contempt sanctions if these people did not appear. so you have members chomping at...

Top-line figure, youve had stagnant wage growth. >> yeah. >> and if that continues to be the case, then thats problematic. on the other hand, its the people who have been hardest hit by stagnant wages that have been most emphatic in their support for trump. and i dont see that voting bloc moving. what im trying to make an argument here for is not making the wish, the proverbial father of the thought. democrats need to be a party thats about more than just being opposed to a temperamentally and i...

Patient with government misconduct. i think if the issue is raised with him, the fbi agent who hated donald trump and was doing something to prevents him from being successful in office. is the flynn investigation, is the plea deal clean? i think the judge should make ask inquires there. he may do it on his own. jenna: judge sullivan is the judge who was very hard on the state department. but for you, tom, you are getting stuff through freedom of information and a judge who understands the law a...

Trump addressed the general assembly in december. >> they love to walk out to demonstrate their contempt for the rest of the world. that was a propaganda speech. we are close to a buy nary choice. -- to a binary choice. well have to play using nuclear force. or accept that north korea will be the nuclear arms sales location to the world. there are some in china writing joint chinese-u.s. military action would make sense. the answer to the nuclear threat is to eliminate it and reunify the peninsu...

Patient with government misconduct. i think if the issue is raised with him, the fbi agent who hated donald trump and was doing something to prevents him from being successful in office. is the flynn investigation, is the plea deal clean? i think the judge should make ask inquires there. he may do it on his own. jenna: judge sullivan is the judge who was very hard on the state department. but for you, tom, you are getting stuff through freedom of information and a judge who understands the law a...

Patient with government misconduct. i think if the issue is raised with him, the fbi agent who hated donald trump and was doing something to prevents him from being successful in office. is the flynn investigation, is the plea deal clean? i think the judge should make ask inquires there. he may do it on his own. jenna: judge sullivan is the judge who was very hard on the state department. but for you, tom, you are getting stuff through freedom of information and a judge who understands the law a...

Tie to signal monica lewinsky. its politically if not legally problematic for him. but the big part of that diatribe of trump, the onslaught against the fbi and the doj represented a new low. there was no buffoonery to it. it was just despicable to come after law enforcement like that and the president of the united states to be trying to incite disrespect and contempt for law enforcement, this is the president of the united states completely unhinged. >> and what do you make of jared kushner tr...

Little bit, something about energy independence. and they said that the content of the policy remains the same. they will as people who work in the government arent shifting with the ideological bent of each administration. and the policy and the content stays the same, its some of the language. >> but is it stirring the pot unnecessarily? >> absolutely. and some of this is responding to certain core base, which rejects a lot of these things. the idea of entitlement. the idea of any diversity tr...