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And now, 85 years after that, the chairman of the house judiciary committee was asked today about inherent contempt. >> some of your colleagues want to vote for inherent contempt. to fine people who are defying subpoenas. is that something youre seriously considering at this point? >> yes. >> what do you think about terms of dollar amount or fines? >> i dont know. very large amounts. >> would it be for the attorney general? >> it would be for anybody who was held in inherent contempt. >> yesterd...

>> reporter: were also still waiting to see if the justice department is going to comply with a document request from the house intelligence committee adam schiff and he said earlier to my colleague jeremy erb that he is still having tauks with the justice department but obviously not a lot of cooperation from the trump administration on these documents requests. >> one of the most striking conflicts here is over the presidents tax returns because the law seems -- well, the law is clear, it says...

Cover-up and subvert them ability to hold the president accountable. they cannot be above the law. as to whether we will use subpoenas and we will if necessary. we put out a lot of document requests to people. were getting a good response on that and not from the white house, but a lot of other people and will use subpoenas if and when we think we have to. >> you have made it clear that you think your committee will keep investigating regardless of what is in the mueller report. you just sent ou...

But were shocked, to tell you the truth, that white house has been failing to turn over documents requested by elijah cummings, the chair of the oversight committee. thats not true of everybody who received a document request. thousands of documents have come in, but not from the white house. so we hope that the lawyers in the white house will prevail upon the president to comply us with his legal duty to turn over documents that have been h requested by the oversight committee. >> thank you so ...

For the senate judiciary committee. calls like this arent that uncommon where they will get together just to figure out where they stand right now. what are they saying publicly or also what do they know? weve been talking about this throughout the day, but members of congress might not be entirely engaged in it. i dont want to cause too much speculation. one more thing, some of the committee chairs sent document preservation requests to the administration to make sure that all of this informati...

Documents requested by elijah cummings, the chair of the oversight committee. thats not true of everybody who received a document request. thousands of documents have come in, but not from the white house. so we hope that the lawyers in the white house will prevail upon the president to comply with his legal duty to turn over documents that have been requested by the oversight committee. >> thank you so much for taking the time. and joirning me is a democrat from hawaii where she wroted against ...

Speaking to of executive privilege. it is expected not to contain a single page of any of the documents as it pertains to the initial document request. so this is the trump white house and its councils office and president trump himself who privately said he considers the inquiry not legitimate and he pointed to that bluntly. what trump and his white house seems to be doing at this time is setting things up for potential subpoena battle with house judiciary and other lawmakers on capitol hill. >...

A strong man, republican president tells democrats on the hill to go pound salt. doesnt everyone just stay in their bubbles and the base is fine with that? correct? >> i think the base loves the fact that hes defiant and has no intention of giving an inch and is going to characterize this as partisan and overreaching. when we get into subpoenas, its going to be different. i mean its one thing to try to run out the clock and as anita points out, you usually give with one hand so you can take away...

Has rejected nadlers request for documents. roger stone invoking the fifth in response to his document request. and today we learned that the white house is rejecting a request from the intelligence, judiciary, and foreign affairs committees for documents relating to trumps private conversations with russian president vladimir putin. because that would be interesting to see. but as tensions escalate between trump and the administration and congress over crucial pieces of oversight, today is a re...

Jerry nadler, says his request for information from 81 associates and entities connected to the president has yielded tens of thousands of documents so far and thats before any subpoenas have gone out. >> weve gotten substantial response from very large number of people. weve gotten -- who have told us either here are documents or were preparing the documents, youll have them shortly. weve also gotten from a fair number of people saying wed be happy to provide you documents if you give us a subp...