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Moreover, the more important part here is they actually said congress doesnt need to keep proving to the president of the united states in the course of checking and balancing that they have legislative purposes. if they assert they do if there is legitimate oversight function, so be it. they must be trusted. >> of course the white house will appeal this. now the deutsche bank and the mazars think they have gone that way. they still have tricks up their sleeves. maybe it will take years, but nev...

Judiciary so say lets resolve this chicken game. you dont have to prove a legislative purpose to me initial i, to the president of the united states, you can actually assert it because you have the authority to do so and number two it cant possibly be that congress was not supposed to be able to have oversight over you and they cannot investigate you and there can be a check and balance. you have the president of the united states 0-2 in this case. huge deal. >> what do these rulings tell us abo...

The argument that democrats in congress are overreaching, which has essentially been their response to all of the requests that democrats have made thus far. and this is now the second ruling to say that the presidents finances, as you pointed out, he has red line are not, in fact, off-limits. i think that when you look back at that list in march of the 81 associates or entities connected to trump that house judiciary democrats requested documents from, it was clear that they had every intention...

President of the united states. stonewalling of this we believe that the president of administration but did not call for that inquiry. the united states has engaged in jerry nadler also says he wants a cover-up. bob mueller to testify in in a cover-up. public, after were hearing that the special counsel wants to go >> such significant words that in private. thats another thing he weighed the house speaker, nancy pelosi in on and declined to weigh in repeated them, saying publicly on yesterday. ...

Congressional democrats? >> yeah, no, look, congress needs to fulfill its investigatory and its oversight function. and the executive branch actually has an obligation to respond to that. so i think that more or less saying, im going to take my ball and go home, i wont do anything if congress is going to continue to fulfill its obligations, that wont play well anywhere. because people expect washington, d.c. to work. expect things like the base issues like infrastructure, roads, bridges. we need...

Difference. what she is saying is congress needs to do its oversight function. we need to have the committees investigate where there has been misconduct. everybody agrees there was interference in the election. we need to find out why foreign countries intervened. shes talking about rigorous oversight, not making it about impeachment of this president. presidents not gonna take my advice, but if i were him, i wouldnt make her job harder when he meets with her tomorrow. i would not obstruct thes...

Closed-door testimony from mcgahn tells me that the democrats and nadler may be less interested in the truth seeking function, in other words, actually getting the information that he says congress needs to exercise its oversight function, and more interested in putting on a show on getting mcgahn in before the cameras, peppering him with questions, forcing him to assert executive privilege under oath. i suspect thats the democrats endgame. theyre less interested in getting the information and m...

>> good to see you. kristin: lets bring in the republican side. arizona congressman and house judiciary committee andy biggs, thanks for coming on. your colleague says what is happening is an infringement on the constitution by the president of the united states. im assuming you dont agree. >> what hes talking about, i guess, bill barr refuse today testify or provide documents and theres -- theres a legitimate oversight function that is constitutionally different to the legislative branch. were ...

To the floor for a single action. i think that will depend in part on what -- how quickly the other committees act. but what is very clear is that we are committed to making sure that we use all of the tools that are at our disposal, including inherent contempt if we must, to ensure we get the documents we need to do our work, witnesses are compelled to come before us to testify under oath. because if we leave it to the executive branch and they get to decide who will be a witness and what docum...

Have lied to investigators around this. simply because the special counsel could not connect the dots does not mean that the dots dont matter and that the dots arent troubling. we know here that both the russians and the trumps, while they may not have an express or tacit agreement they shared the same goal. which was to subvert our democracy and so in that sense, this is no vindication. more broadly, congress has an oversight function. i spent eight years as the deputy chief counsel of the hous...