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Attorney saying he accused mcgahn of violating the law and said in part the notion that a former white house counsel is absolutely immune from a congressional subpoena has been foreclosed by the supreme court. second the justice department's own longstanding policy is executive privilege should not be invoked to conceal evidence of wrongdoing or criminality. the head of the house democrats communications committee david cicilline was asked if there will be a contempt of congress vote on the floor today. >> i do not. >> you think there should be? >> there are a number of committees considering ...

Enforcing against bar and mcgahn and seek to enforce the subpoenas in court through the contempt citations. that's the next step. >> the worry is if you go the legal route it takes forever. we just saw what happened with eric holder. that case just -- the former attorney general of the obama administration. that case just got settled a coup of weeks ago. went on for many years. are you worried about that? >> of course that's a concern but the fact is the president made the same arguments that he's making which is contemptuous of congress and the american people. they can't and examine fraud or...

Report, substantial evidence of misconduct, but we need the rest of the report, unredacted support, all of the supporting materials and hear from witnesses. we approached this in the sober, most serious way, in the face of a president and white house attempting in every way to impede our access to information, to continue to cover up, conceal from american people and congress what the truth is, i think we may be forced into a position to open formal inquiry to facilitate collection of evidence we need to see. >> you talk about importance of process. two weeks ago, may 8th, your committee voted...

Salaries salary. it shows that democrats are struggling to poke holes in the white house's stonewalling. and i do think that we will see some more contempt citations. but democrats are reluctant to go too far. they don't want to be seen as being too aggressive. there could be backlash with the voters. they're struggling and weighing just how far to go. with the jailing and fining, congress is ill-equipped to do something like that. there was talk if there's a jail in the capitol. there is no jail. >> that's good to know. how long can the white house keep up the stonewalling? >> as long as they...

When is the full house going to vote on holding barr in contempt? >> i don't think the attorney general should make a joke of this at all. this is with respect to the attorney general of the united states being in contempt of the congress of the united states, continuing an effort to stonewall the american people, to prevent people from gathering the facts and getting to the truth. it's not a laughing matter. i expect that there are a number of other committees that are considering contempt citations. i think the sense is those will go to the floor together. but we fully intend to use all the ...