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Look, he is a person that has been very quiet. his work is complete, but i think he wants to be sure, or i hope he wants to be sure that it's not misconstrued or misrepresented to the american people. it's too important. the work was too serious. so i expect that a person of his integrity would want to be sure this information was communicated accurately and the conclusions he came to were explained carefully. >> yesterday the attorney general apparently greeted speaker pelosi, jokingly asked if she brought her handcuffs, obviously making light of the inherent contempt threats. joking aside, w...

Waste the time of the house, probably will put them all together for one day. >> and what is the time line that you expect for the contempt citations? is this something we're looking at, for example, before the memorial day recess? >> maybe before, maybe shortly after. i don't know. >> all right. i want to show you what eric holder, the former attorney general had to say to our alley vitaly earlier today about whether or not there's grounds to impeach the president. take a look. >> based on the mueller report, is there grounds for impeachment? >> yeah. there are grounds for impeachment. as i s...

Right now they are saying find us a date. >> so right now you don't see any roadblocks. they are not telling you, no, we're not going to let him come. the issue is simply timing? >> the issue has been timing for a while, but whether they are being honest that it's only timing, i don't know. perhaps the white house is telling them don't let him appear and use any excuse. >> what about don mcgahn? he's been subpoenaed to testify on may 21st. that's coming up pretty fast. do you know whether or not he's going to appear? >> we don't know. we expect to hold a hearing. if he doesn't appear, he will ...

Public back and forth playing out to try to persuade them to have this as an open hearing, if he decides to resist the subpoena, then the house would have to vote to find him in contempt of congress, and then it would be referred to the u.s. attorney here in washington, who could decide whether or not to prosecute. the law says he shall, but in the past sometimes members of the u.s. attorney's office have refused to pursue these contempt citations. so who knows how it would play out, and of course the clock might run out anyway. >> pete, we've followed how the comedy on capitol hill has deteri...

Some of the big developments that catherine is reporting on today, you said where we are and taking the fifth and what this means to hear from these people potentially. >> with mr. simpson, invoke the fifth as you know. probably going to step into the process where when to submit our questions that he took the fifth on, give it to the chairman, valid or invalid indications of the fifth. the testify and answer those questions and to failure to do so could possibly lead to contempt citations. that's kind of the process that is going. the others, some have been subpoenaed and some have willingly ...