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Research or analysis by a foreign power against one of my political opponents. that's the very definition of collusion, anderson. >> opposition research might be diss informatio disinformation and damaging information that could be damaging to an opponent. some are calling for impeachment proceedings to begin. do these comments from the president, does that warrant or change your mind in any way? does it affect it? does it warrant it? >> it certainly affects it, and it pushes us further and further in that direction. we have a process that's under way. you mentioned in the intro our committee ...

He is fond of saying no collusion, no collusion and no collusion and today he said i would welcome collusion. i would gladly accept opposition research or analysis by a foreign power against one of my political opponents. that's the very definition of collusion, anderson. >> opposition research might be disinformation and false information that could be damaging information that could be damaging to an opponent. some are calling for impeachment proceedings to begin. do these comments from the president, does that warrant or change your mind in any way? does it affect it? does it warrant it? >>...

Question on the 2020 census. do you want to move forward with a full house vote? >> so what was good about the house vote that we took yesterday is it authorized all committees to have their subpoenas and contempt citations automatically enforced without future house votes. so, in fact, that one house vote has authorized their oversight committee to go forward and litigate this thin court, so that's what we did yesterday. >> the full house was planning to hold the attorney general bill barr in contempt over the mueller report, until your committee reached a deal with the justice department, bu...

Representatives has not authorized our committees to start enforcing contempt citations skpee s and subpoenas. we are not messing around. we expect witnesses to show up and documents to come to us because these are lawful subpoenas. >> where do things stand right now in getting testimony from annie donaldson who served as chief of staff to the former white house counsel, don mcgahn. you also want her to come before the committee. >> we do, and we expect don mcgahn -- in fact, we expect all the witnesses we've asked to come before the committee. and there is really no legal basis to say they ca...

Team, mcgahn and as many of the other witnesses as they can do and the other part of the chairman nadler's work today that is so important is that he will be seeking to petition the court for an order requiring mcgahn and others to appear. and the court can enforce those kinds of orders with contempt citations and decree and severe penalty. is he moving ahead in a very methodical way. and his strategy, i think, is the best one to hold the president accountable. that's the common goal here, to hold the president accountable for obstruction of justice and to protect the american people and our c...