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Administration specifically for the decision to go into iraq and go into afghanistan. take a listen. >> the same geniuses that got us into iraq, thats the geniuses of the bush administration, i hold these people in contempt, total and complete contempt. i dont want to hear it. i dont want to hear it. it gets all over me like nothing else. you know why? theyre idiots. and theyve got us in this situation. and they question a good man like donald trump -- i wont name names. >> you have to name name...

Show unity with democrats in wanting to get to the bottom of this. our disunity only sharpens the knives. >> finally, a member of your community, the chair who recused himself in the inquiry, is now threatening contempt for the director of the fbi over any documents not being turned over related to the steele dossier. whal is your reaction to that? >> it slows us down. he has recused himself. he is asking for something he has not been denied of the custom has been that republicans and democrats ...

Meeting will be significant. but what we try to do in these interviews, because we cant always expect the witnesses are going to be fully honest with us, is we try to look for other witnesses that were either present, that were involved in setting up the meetings, that may have relevant documents so we have a way of either corroborating or disproving what were told about the con tents of this meeting or others. those are the kinds of things i would be looking for and will when he come before our...

Thank you. switching gears just for a moment. the fall-out over president trumps plan to end the immigration program known as daca continues with 15 states and the district of columbia filing suit to block that move. the democratic attorneys general who brought on the lawsuit claimed the presidents plan to end protection against deportation for young immigrants was motivated by prejudice against mexicans. the attorney general cited the presidents previous statements referring to some mexican i...

Stepped aside but now he has threatened to hold sessions and wray in contempt for not handing over documents about that much-talked-about russia dossier. this is a dossier that you may recall was an explosive report by a former british spy, christopher steele. it contained unverified claims that russian operatives had compromising personal information on then-candidate trump. joining me now is a democratic member of the house permanent select committee on intelligence, mike quigley, congressman,...

Obviously, what you described, this 15, 20, 25-year plan? >> they need to be discussing what our relationship is going to be with china. right now its unclear. what are we going to do vis-a-vis china. china is a growing power. youve got this imbalance taking place for the existing power being confronted with a rising power history has not been very positive on that. of the 16 studies thavsh dot han done, 12 of those studies looked at past history. 12 of those instances involved war. were trying ...

With their production, which is also something frankly i dont understand, and we raised the issue with the majority when they said they wanted to subpoena the department, and that is we hadnt even sent them a voluntary request for the information, and our practice has been we request voluntary compliance only when they refuse to issue a subpoena. it seems like they want to discredit mr. steele and also discredit the fbis investigation. i dont know whats to be gained by that, honestly. it doesnt ...

Deadly category 5 storm thats battered caribbean islands in its path. well get the latest forecast in just a moment. new information coming in. but first were back with democratic congressman jim himes of connecticut. hes a key member of the house intelligence committee. congressman, the chairman of your committee, chairman devin nunes, hes now threatening to hold the attorney general of the united states, jeff sessions, the fbi director christopher y wray in contempt if they dont provide docume...

Russian lawyer, jessica snyders following all of this for us. first of all, walk us through the very latest. >> this russia investigation is moving full steam ahead on all fronts and for now it seems house intelligence chairman devin nunes is trying to sphere it in a different direction, thiss now threatening to hold thold -- in contempt if they dont turn over -- that contained some salacious details, some unproven about donald trumps dealings with the russians, nunes is demanding they turn over...

Court. trump has nothing but contempt for federal judiciary. youve shown that, questioning the ethnicity of judges. >> they did not follow the normal consultation with us. and this guy, stras, i shouldnt say this guy. good guy, nice guy. his jurisprudence, he was a clarence thomas clerk. he said tomhomas was his mentor. he was chosen as the right wing federal society as part of the short list for the supreme court. we were not consulted on this. thats the normal process. this is different than t...