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>> as you said, to force compliance with congressional subpoena justice department, who works for attorney general who works for president biden has to be willing to bring contempt, i am not that confident this justice department would do those fairly and evenly without regard to partisan bias. we've seen the cases in the past for example under president obama contempt citations were not prosecuted again democratic office holders, only thing congress can do is bring it to public, and say, you the voters you decide whether this matters to you and whether the government is acting fairly, when it...

>> as you said, to force compliance with congressional subpoena justice department, who works for attorney general who works for president biden has to be willing to bring contempt, i am not that confident this justice department would do those fairly and evenly without regard to partisan bias. we've seen the cases in the past for example under president obama contempt citations were not prosecuted again democratic office holders, only thing congress can do is bring it to public, and say, you the voters you decide whether this matters to you and whether the government is acting fairly, when it...

>> as you said, to force compliance with congressional subpoena justice department, who works for attorney general who works for president biden has to be willing to bring contempt, i am not that confident this justice department would do those fairly and evenly without regard to partisan bias. we've seen the cases in the past for example under president obama contempt citations were not prosecuted again democratic office holders, only thing congress can do is bring it to public, and say, you the voters you decide whether this matters to you and whether the government is acting fairly, when it...

Prosecutors when they get to the trump organization, unless they negotiate a deal to settle it, will be to get testimony out of weisselberg, certainly testimony showing donald trump knew full well what was going on, and indeed they may have additional evidence we haven't seen yet of tax evasion and other crimes by the trump organization that would come up at trial. >> david, this doesn't preclude weisselberg testifying in the future, but i wonder how likely you see that is happening. >> well, allen weisselberg, brianna, has been with donald trump longer than the 34 years i've been covering him...

Witnesses that you seek? i mean, as far as we know about the issue are you having difficulty trying to nail down the witnesses for these hearings? is there a scheduling issue? i know we had at least one person who had his wife gave birth and congratulations to him, but are there outstanding issues in terms of getting people to be cooperative and forthcoming in front of the cameras? >> well, my rule of thumb is the closer you get to donald trump the more difficult it gets to have them come in and voluntarily cooperate. but the good news is the vast majority of people, more than 1,000 people hav...