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>> i just don't know how these folks explain that everybody has a right to a lawyer. if you are a lawyer making an argument the president does not have to hand over these documents or warnings and you've made a legal argument seven years ago to the opposite. >> we haven't seen him make that argument to be fair. tray do yougy has not in his private capacity defending the president said we haven't sent you document, we won't comply. he said he will be outside counsel. i don't think he and lindsey graham deserve to be compared. lindsay graham that is utter rank hypocrisy, an elected member of con...

Domestic politics if we could hear. reading the white house response to a democratic house leadership. they're not playing ball. they're not going to give the committee, the relevant committees any of the documents or the testimony that they're asking for in this impeachment inquiry. is it time for congress to use the tool it has not used in a century, inher rent contempt? >> it may come to that. first i think it's time for us to put a vote on the floor, a resolution for the inquiry structured in such a way that it can move forward with full power of the congress behind it. i think that's prob...

It looks like an impasse. sarah westwood is at the white house. sarah it's not a new approach, the white house has stonewalled for weeks and months on other investigations. but for an impeachment inquiry, it's significant. >> reporter: that's right, jim. this is the white house outlining it as an official policy they are taking to this response in that 68thing letter to house democrats yesterday. the white house making clear they are not going to cooperate in anyway, shape or form with the democrats unless they have an official impeachment vote and even in that case, the president's white hous...

Ramifications, the long-term payment we can have as a country as a result of eratic behavior and decisions made by this president is very dangerous. so we do need true patriots to stand up when he is doing these erratic things and say we can't allow that to happen. which i think is interesting in this new book that came out, do you see some of the people with him, a part of the staff behind the scenes, they're the ones, not democrats. they're the ones that are talking about the erratic behavior and the lack of ability of this president to even read and comprehend issues. >> quickly, i want to ...

Bertrand, business insider. let's get to it. the "new york times" report is concluding there is evidence tying the president to a possible crime of obstruction. how about your sources, what are they saying? is this a nothing burger? >> absolutely not t. "new york times" report was anything but a nothing burger. it seems to confirm everything we have been hearing over the past couples how mueller's obstruction case seems to be stronger than his collusion case as of right now collusion is a very complicated thing, it involves a conspiracy charge, obstruction is fairly straight forward. now we ha...