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Russian investigation of one of the prosecutors, you know, praising an acting attorney general for defying a legitimate presidential order. an f.b.i. agent exchanging anti-hillary, pro-trump emails. maybe he should have said could you go as easy on general flynn as you did on hillary clinton? it might have made more sense. >> jon: and even the f.b.i. director is -- has been defying congress to some extent. >> yes, that's the big story this week. the house intelligence committee is comparing contempt citations against i believe deputy attorney general rod rosenstein and the f.b.i. director for ...

The north korean regime will be utterly destroyed. >> her last line "we must reverse the course of north korea. we must do our part to make this happen." >> bret: a huge world story. greg palkot, thanks. now to another fox news alert. this one a fox news exclusive. house investigators seek contempt citations against the fbi and the justice department over the probe into the so-called dossier on then-candidate trump. contempt to get the fbi -- against the fbi and doj. james rosen is here with the story. >> in a memo obtained by fox news, senior counsel for the house intelligence committee urged...

Oppose this effort, but we do know democrat jim matheson from utah has said that he will support contempt. he is the only democratic member representing utah, and so he is in favor of contempt. we can expect his vote tomorrow. bottom line, we will be counting heads between now and tomorrow to see where other democrats may fall. a short time ago we got an update from some key democratic leaders. their take on contempt. >> that's where we are, though, and that's what this house of representatives under republican leadership is spending its time on. it's spinning its wheels talking about contempt...

Only within four contempt citations by congress against the executive branch. during the carter administration, janet reno during the clinton administration and most interestingly, they issued one against harriet miers and john bolton during the bush administration over the firing of federal attorneys. so, i'm not sure that the-- this is a serious issue between congress and eric holder, but in the political season right now, there are political liabilities for both of them going down this path. the republicans might not win that con at the point in time vote, on the other hand, the democrats d...