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Things that are responsible and consistent with the constitution. >> congressman, will the committee now subpoena the documents? >> look, chairman cummings is very fair. hell give the white house another chance voluntarily to give the documents and if they dont we will subpoena it, but i want to be clear. the president always talks about hillary clintons e-mails. secretary clinton complied with the oversight committee and their request. every previous administration complied with congress reques...

>> laura: wise kamala harris shaking her head, driving the human traffickers out of business, we dont want to do that, what? joining me now to react, congressman brad sherman, democrat from the great state of california, glad hes here tonight. congressman, i really appreciate you spending some time with us and sharing our perspective. on the issue of human trafficking, ive s only democs talk about the scourge of human trafficking and we all as americans -- its just not a partisan issue, so why d...

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Public. impeachment is supposed to be there for serious crimes. if you dont like the way that rod rosenstein is responding to your subpoena, charge him with contempt of court. but do not use impeachment. that just helps the democrats who are trying to impeach president trump. it is a dumb, dumb decision. >> sandra: that was the first. >> you can appreciate this frustration. as jason said, he has obstructed the congressional investigation. congress has not used its oversight tools to the full ext...

I ran for office because i was very critical of president obamas trillion dollar deficits. now we have republicans hand in hand with democrats offering us trillion dollar deficits. i cant in all good honestly, in all good faith just look the other way because my party is now complicit in the deficits. >> welcome back to "hardball." that was of course kentucky senator rand paul last night blasting his own partys flip-flop on deficit spending. its just part of the republican partys evolution away ...

That was kentucky senator rand paul last night blasting his own partys flip-flop on deficit spending. abandoning fiscal responsibility is just part of the republican partys evolution away from what they were once had as its core values. washington "washington post" columnist jennifer ruben writes today the core mission of the gop is now to defend abusers noting that the gop at every turn enabled and encouraged trump by refusing to exercise oversight. joining in the disinformation campaign, decli...

Oversight for the armed services commit tear or for the government oversight committee. yes, we are supposed to exercise oversight, but that oversight is determine facts, to learn what happened, to figure out how to prevent thing like this from happening in the future, but thats not what they are doing. they are desperate to find something to embarrass the president. the only problem there is nothing there, and millions of dollars and thousands of man-hours later, that is abundantly apparent. th...

That we didnt do in the initial intelligence reform bill, and that is provide the director of national intelligence the authority to match his responsibility. hes getting a lot of responsibility and high expectation, but he doesnt have the authority. jenna: sir, why -- >> go ahead. jenna: i apologize for interrupt you. want to get this final point in. why do you think congress can help streamline this area better than the intelligence community thats really working on all of these different oper...

George w. bush was governor before he became president. bill clinton was a governor before he became president. senator obama, before he became president, here is something he said to wolf blitzer, an obama presidency youll see there will be a sufficient respect for law and co-equal branches of government that i hope we wont find ourselves in a situation in which we would be having aides being subpoenaed for what i think everybody acknowledges is some troublesome information this was a question ...