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Think there was a real hope on the part of the white house officials here this week that trump would back down a bit and i know acting chief of staff mick mulvaney on air force one as they were returning from the uk tonight or ireland, excuse me, was trying to, you know, talk to the president about a deal. and this is in part a response to republican lawmakers like majority leader mitch mcconnell. >> hey, elliot, if the democrats in the house find their legal voice, so far it seems they've been limited to writing these letters that say some version of why i ought to, if they find their legal v...

And i think there was a real hope on the part of the white house officials here this week that trump would back down a bit and i know acting chief of staff mick mulvaney on air force one as they were returning from the uk tonight or ireland, excuse me, was trying to, you know, talk to the president about a deal. and this is in part a response to republican lawmakers like majority leader mitch mcconnell. >> hey, elliot, if the democrats in the house find their legal voice, so far it seems they've been limited to writing these letters that say some version of why i ought to, if they find their l...

Privately pushing for a formal impeachment process, an inquiry in part because he believes it would allow lawmakers to combine all the various house probes into one big investigation. does the chairman have the wrong idea or the right idea? >> i understand why jerry nadler is coming at the question the way hose. and a case can be made, a solid case can be made for his argument. i think we are still, though, as your reporting just before this interview pointed out, we're still sort of in the mid-level here in investigations. we've got hearings this week by three major committees. we've got two ...

Investigations. and you see the white house stonewalling every subpoena. we are going to issue next week contempt citations. and so we have several committee chairs who are working with the speaker to determine the best course of action. of course i do support the inquiry into impeachment. and members are really supporting a variety of investigations so that we can hold this president accountable. no one is above the law. and, yes, there has been a cover-up. and i believe that this psa good process because the speaker is bringing everyone together so that we can all be on one page because we h...

Power. there is a process we have to file and we will hold them in contempt that authorizes the civil action brought in court and the court will order them to comply with the subpoena and when they don't, if they don't, the court will enforce it by taking them into custody and imposing fines and taking other action. this is civil contempt. >> i want to stop you there. what would happen if they are people who don't pay traffic tickets. what happens if they say we don't care if you hold us in contempt. we are not coming anyway. >> they have the entire power of the court, they are defying a court...