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Facing off with one potential democratic opponent in the coming election, any second now the house is going to vote on a civil contempt resolution that will allow committee chairmen to sue the administration and other witnesses who defy congressnal subpoenas without forced to consult with the justice department first. essentially reaffirms congress pow tore enforce subpoenas without holding any votes in the committees or the floor. its a speedier process thats whats in place now. this is going t...

Mueller, mcgahn and others come testify in front of the house judiciary committee. >> harris: im hearing arguments the two have nothing to do with each other, can you explain to me? >> the word is do-over. the democrats have never accepted the election of 2016, they put all of their hopes that robert mueller would find some collusion between the campaign and the russians. they found absolutely none after 22 months and 25 millions of dollars of investigations. so the democrats have to concoct new...

Scheduled appearance. if he does not immediately correct his mistake, this committee will have no choice, but to enforce the subpoena against him. >> harris: white house correspondent chief white house correspondent john roberts on the north lawn. >> i think the white house would agree with the chairman of the house judiciary committee, subpoenas are not optional. the white house would argue they are invalid and we saw for the second time today an empty chair in front of the committee as they ga...

What crazy thing everybody is doing out there, you dice it up in a fair way. you ladies, as well, good stuff. now here is harris. >> harris: fox news alert, white house former counsel no-show at hearing on capitol hill, setting up potential contempt citation and court battle. "outnumbered overtime," im harris faulkner. don mcgahn defied subpoena for his testimony before house judiciary committee after president trump directed him to ignore the summons. chairman jerry nadler threatening to go to ...

Sureing americans up about locking up the fbi. >> you can see why hes so pleased, because this memo came from the justice department and jerry nadler saying that don mcgahn cannot testify because of executive privilege. lets remind people that don mcgahn, we can say, the star witness of the mueller report. his name was cited more than 150 times. and robert mueller in volume ii made no conclusion on the question of obstruction. but don mcgahn laid out a number of instances where the president of ...

Testimonial immunity, even if it is a former counsel. the committee chairman jerry nadler insisting mcgahn cannot ignore the committee subpoenas. listen here. >> when this committee issues a subpoena, even to senior presidential advisor, the witness must show up. our subpoenas are not optional. mr. mcgahn has a legal obligation to be here for this scheduled appearance. if he does not immediately correct his mistake, this committee will have no choice but to enforce the subpoena against him. >> t...

William barrs no-show a couple weeks ago, instead of william barr sitting at the dias, we saw a bucket of kentucky fried chicken. president trump insisting this is not about him. listen here. pres. trump: as i understand it, that is for the office of presidency for future presidents. i think it is a very important precedent and the attorneys say they are not doing that for me, they are doing it for the office of the president. so were talking about the future. >> dont forget, the opinion about m...

About a presidents duty. for those reasons, the justice department says mcgahn cannot be compelled to testify before congress and he also -- the opinion says if he stiffs congress on the subpoena, he cant be prosecuted or sued civilly. >> you say cannot be compelled. is there any room if mcgahn wanted to appear voluntarily or does this shut down any possibility for the time being that he would appear? >> he could. he could say thank you, i know you dont want me to testify but i want to do it any...

Im erica hill in today for jake. we begin with breaking news in our politics lead. president trump moments ago blocking the testimony of former white house counsel don mcgahn before the house judiciary committee tomorrow. mcgahn is the lawyer who advised trump throughout the mueller probe and he has the notes to prove it. lets get right to cnns pamela brown at the white house. tamel pamela, what is the white house saying? >> reporter: we have learned that president trump is asserting immunity in...