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Democrats plan to do next week to try to stop all of the stonewalling from the administration. what is their plan? >> reporter: yeah, significant ratcheting up of powers to congressional committees to go directly to court, to hold people in contempt if they are not complying with their subpoenas. the house will vote in a resolution next week that will hold bill barr in contempt as well as don mcgahn, the former white house counsel. that same resolution will also include a provision allowing this committee to go directly to court to enforce their subpoenas. essentially avoid the full house from...

Engaged moving forward on contempt citations for two other cabinet secretaries, wolf. >> lots going on, on capitol hill. phil mattingly, thank you very much. democratic congressman john garamendi is a member of the services committee. thank you for joining us. you heard they will hold hearings on what they call lessons learned from the mueller report. could these hearings persuade more of your colleagues, perhaps more americans to actually support opening formal impeachment proceedings? >> well, i don't know about the persuasion but i do know about the necessity. it's absolutely necessary that...

The two court decisions. >> meaning the courts are going your way anyway. >> right. or they seem to be. so that's weaker. but the fact of the matter is we have to pursue what's that we p investigations, we pursue the contempt citations. we pursue the subpoenas. we lay it all out to the american people, the case out to the american people whether we call it impeachment and see where we go from there. whether we call it an impeachment inquiry or not is secondary significance compared to what we have to do. >> is it clear to you there isn't much legal advantage to calling something an impeachment...

More evidence about tax evasion, if there's more evidence about emoluments clause violations if there's more evidence about money laundering which seems to be the thing that gets the president the most terrified, remember when he said that if mueller investigated his finances, that was a red line. it does seem as if mueller carefully gerry mandered the report to exinclude anything about the president's finances. that's what we're going after. we're going to get to the bottom of this. this president has turned the executive branch of government and the presidency into a money making operation f...

These completes to try to obtain the evidence we're going after. i think those people especially in the judiciary committee who have been facing all of the evidence of impeachable offenses from the mueller report are happy to say hey, if you can get more evidence about tax evasion, if there's more evidence about emoluments clause violations if there's more evidence about money laundering which seems to be the thing that gets the president the most terrified, remember when he said that if mueller investigated his finances, that was a red line. it does seem as if mueller carefully gerry mandered...