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Subpoena, which is under power of law. and that has to go through the courts. and the courts have been slow. the administration has slow-walked, continued to appeal, and in certain more powerful contempt efforts to bring somebody and charge them with contempt, the attorney general bill barr would have to be the prosecuting attorney. and he's not going to prosecute. so that kind of puts us in a difficult position. >> how do you get out of that position? what do you do? there's a ding of being stymied here, right, if the white house wins this case? >> well, there's some talks about inherent cont...

The questions and maximize our powers and get this done. how do you feel about that? >> i support. i'm in agreement with the speaker. on this issue. i do think we need to have more -- keep in mind, there is about a quarter of the caucus that favors moving down the road and moving to an impeachment inquiry. three quarters of the caucus don't want to move in that direction but this is not the only area of accountability. we know what he says and what he does and he is provocative, et cetera, we need to be doing business with the con stitch -- constituents that i represent. yes act blt -- we've h...

We know what he says and what he does and he is provocative, et cetera, we need to be doing business with the con stitch yunlts that i yun -- constituents that i represent. we've had some success with the courts on this issue. they're dealing with contempt efforts next week and we're going to have john dean that is going to testify. let's go and ultimately chris, the voters are going to decide this issue. >> they're going to decide the issues about all of you in the next set of elections but now and then how do you show them that you're doing their job? what is the threshold of taking it to th...

Resigning. >>trace: a house panel announced it will vote next week on whether to hold the attorney general in contempt for not cooperating with its investigation. mike emanuel is live on capitol hill. attorney general holder also faced the questions about the contempt efforts. what did he say? >>reporter: that is right. we know a lost republicans on capitol hill feel the attorney general has access to information that reveals who signed off on the tactics used in "fast and furious," that led to the death of the border agent^. here is the top republican on the committee, trying to get at that. ...