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investigations into the current president's family. ted lieu, democrat of california, set to orient facts as they exist on earth one. watch. >> let me ask you a series of basic questions to get facts out to the american people about our system of justice. trump adviser roger stone was convicted in a federal court, correct? >> that's my recollection. >> trump donor elliott brady was convicted in a federal court. correct? >> also my recollection. >> the attorney general at the time for those two convictions was bill barr, which president nominated bill barr for attorney general? >> pre...

Know, in congress historically, but also where does it lead? it leads to chaos, and it leads to a breakdown of the rule of law, breakdown of our institutions, and then, you know, then we lost our democratic system. so you know, be careful -- they need to really be careful about what they're pushing for their own political purposes. >> mary, i want to just follow up with you. i mean, we talked -- you've talked about the language of extremists. what are the extremists here when republican lawmakers are using the lexicon and conspiracy theories peddled by extremists with the optics of something o...

>> there are some limitations. if they get the documents and they're identifiable to a specific individual which these certainly will be, they can be used only when the committee is sitting in closed executive session unless the person c consents to having them disclosed. the house ways and means committee said we don't want the returns to embarrass the president and put them out and make donald trump look bad. we want them because we're thinking about new laws. so if they do put them out, that's going to show some hypocrisy in the position they've taken in front of the courts. >> bottom line,...

Testify? >> it's not a surprise they are calling allen weisselberg. but allen weisselberg is also someone that we've all long known may have even more information about the trump organization than michael cohen simply by virtue of having been at the trump organization so much longer than michael cohen. what we know at this point is that allen weisselberg has immunity, but we don't really know if it's partial immunity or complete immunity and the government isn't really volunteering that information. that may affect a lot of what allen weisselberg says or doesn't say if he comes to testify befo...

>> well, very often, their role is to do exactly what you're seeing. their role is not simply to support the president or to just give a blank check, but to start to raise questions or put pressure on the president to move in a different direction. it's often very hard to do this. often a lot of what they do is symbolic and take votes on amendments and hold hearings about issues and propose legislation that might not pass but the point is to make a statement as they are doing on russia sanctions, for example, that the president is not moving in the right direction. this is a vital role for con...