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I think if we schedule a vote for contempt he may come to the table. this administration doesn't respond to anything but ha hardball. we need to up the ante. >> attorney general, the assistant attorney general from the justice department wrote a letter to your committee and to the chairman saying we believe that a vote on contempt would be entirely premature. a spokesperson for your committee's ranking member says the department of justice and commerce have produced tens of thousands of pages of documents since receiving the initial request from democrats on february 12th. numerous officials h...

Saying given the ongoing accommodation efforts by democrats we believe that a vote on contempt would be entirely premature. we hope the committee will not take such an abrupt measure but work in good faith to restrict legitimate prerogatives of each of our co-equal branches. d.o.j. maintains they have been forthcoming in producing documents as required under the law. not sitting well with at least one democrat on the judiciary committee. >> the d.o.j. is a reckless band of outlaws. there is no sense of negotiating with them. i think it's still a step forward. as long as we are taking steps for...

House chairman jerry nadler responding today with this statement, quote, the president has no lawful basis for preventing these witnesses from complying with our request. we will continue to seek reasonable com dapgs -- accommodation on these and all discovery requests. the house also announcing its plan to vote next week to hold attorney general william barr and former white house counsel donald mcgahn on contempt and proceed with hearings from the mueller report tuesday. the twin announcements were the party's latest attempts to kick-start stalled investigations into accusations of malfeasan...

The white house. but i think that that's what has, you know you've been talking about it all morning, all week about the election coming up and i think that the country is really desperate need for an individual that has got a long term vision but, yet, the ability to have the willingness to manage that town and to manage the process so we can effect that vision. >> what do we do or can anything be done with the rhetoric of politics? i'm not talking about any current presidential candidates. i'm talking about within the system in the congress where opposition to this president as well as oppos...

Con contempt so he is doing pretty well. you will not get an apology from trump. i don't understand why someone as skilled as donald trump would be fueling the story and fighting with john mccain. why are you fighting with john mccain >> a skilled mccain? >> he said he is going to champion for the message for veterans. >> he is talking about john mccain. get off mccain. he is not running and you are running in a republican primary. to keep this story alive is fighting with the wrong person. >> i feel like there had to be a calculated reason to say such a thing. >> i don't think it was any more...