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Here we sit now well into july, and those are the numbers on impeachment. youve got mueller potentially appearing, lets say maybe its the 24th. as soon as he finishes, then congress is supposed to go on a recess, basically until the end of the summer. so youre laying out all these other things you need. between the poll numbers that show the public is not there right now, that looming recess that is going take you to labor day, the clock running out here? >> steve, it possible for me to jump in ...

Air system in prison. more on the former trump fixers life behind bars. we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. im washington blitzer. you are in the situation room. >> breaking news this hour, cnn has learned that the house judiciary chairman jerry nadler does, indeed, want to open an impeachment inquiry putting him at odds with the house speaker nancy pelosis go slow approach. we are told nadler moved forward this week. a source telling cnn he is being careful...

President michael flynn. the call was investigated as a potential attempt to deter flynn from cooperating with muellers team. this hour, ill talk with democratic congressman jimmy gomez, a member of the house oversight committee and our correspondents and analysts are standing by. lets go to manu raju, i understand you have exclusive new reporting on nadlers personal views on whether the house should launch impeachment proceedings. >> reporter: apparently jerry nadler has been cautious, not so f...

Theyre not getting the witnesses they need. if they can get don mcgahn up there. subpoenas are fought things you decide to do or shouldnt do, its optional. theyre subpoenaing people. they need to get people up there. >> jeffrey, nadler does say within weeks, if necessary, he will issue a subpoena to robert mueller to appear before his committee. >> well, you know, time is passing. you know, its june. the mueller report came out in march. you know, i guess hes like trying to be real polite with m...

I think jeff i have right, house democrats need to do more actual investigating. they are frustrated theyre not getting the witnesses and their suspense answered. people like nadler apparently want to move forward so they can get more access to information. on the other hand, i think the pelosi position is, i want to make it clear to the public and to the courts and to other members of congress that we cant get anything through the courts. we cant get anything any other way except to impeach. sh...

Assumed it was impossible somebody like donald trump could be elected president. we see nancy pelosi engaging in thinking, its impossible that someone like donald trump could be re-elected. >> let me make the case for nancy pelosis point of view for one moment which is, i believe, that in order to impeach the president you have to have public opinion on your side, have you as to make the case. and the point, as jeffrey was saying earlier, they havent made the case, because they havent had hearin...

Do you think that he looks into this, the actions that the president was taking? >> no, i dont think hes going to get involved in this. i think he feel like -- and i think, correctly, as maggie pointed out, when you asked her earlier, what makes this story so significant is that its a pattern. its this constant effort to obstruct the mueller investigation. now it appears also to obstruct the southern district investigation. but all of that is under the purview of mueller. mueller is investigatin...

To get involved thin this. i think he feel like -- and i think, correctly, as maggie pointed out, when you asked her earlier, what makes this story so significant is that its a pattern. its this constant effort to obstruct the mueller investigation. now it appears also to obstruct the southern district investigation. but all of that is under the purview of mueller. mueller is investigating obstruction of justice. and i think barr correctly will leave this whole issue to mueller, to reach the con...

You know, youve got mueller, who first needs to submit it obviously to the doj and then there will be a decision there thats made about whether it should be released and how it should be released, a summary from bullet points, what kind of information would then be disclosed to congress and potentially the public. what we also know is that this is an administration, this is a president in his outside legal team who have worked now ceaselessly for the last at this point number of years to try to ...

Big news is it in effect that the president said tonight hes going to follow procedure? >> that was very notable. especially in the interview with the daily caller tonight. we havent seen the full transcript yet but the president does seem to very clearly say that hes not going to interfere with the release of the final report. thats contrary to what weve heard very recently even from his attorney rudy giuliani, who said just in recent days that the legal team would want to correct in his words ...