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Involving -- this is a mystery going on in washington. an unnamed foreign company that mueller wants information from, but this foreign company with connections to some other government, unnamed government, is refusing to cooperate. >> that's right. so the supreme court was actually pretty busy over the holidays on this. and in a rare move, the chief justice sort of weighed in, issuing a temporary pause on that contempt order, so the fees aren't continuing to run. it's interesting. the company. we still don't know who it is, who the foreign government -- the fact they appealed, at all. this is...

Company a reprieve. he issued a temporary pause on that daily fine, and now it's up to the full supreme court. they are poised to step in to decide if that contempt order will continue to be put on hold or if the company must start paying up for refusing to comply with the subpoena. so all of this has been done in secret. all of the filings under seal. and so the next step is, brianna, and the question is, will the supreme court actually side with the company in this or will they come down on mueller's side? it's up to five justices to decide what happens next, because this initial decision by...

The standard talking points are, it has to be kept confidential, it's a confidential investigation and there are all kinds of legal principles that kick in, it has to do with national security. in all my years, the dust-ups i've seen in court, you see that kind of thing, it's sealed, redacted. >> so it's not unusually secretive. >> not at all, morgan. the whole fight in the supreme court, it's kind of interesting we don't know as much about it as you would expect. but the chief justice has stayed this contempt order and probably down the road you'll learn more about it. >> why come in three da...

Welcome back and thanks so much for joining us. i'm morgan radford. robert mueller is accelerating the pace of his russia investigation as the year comes to an end. the special counsel's office responded nearly three days early to a subpoena fight at the supreme court. earlier this week, chief justice john roberts putting a temporary hold on a contempt order against an unidentified foreign-owned company. now, that company is fighting a grand jury subpoena in a mystery case that's believed to be linked to the special counsel's investigation. joining me now, doug byrnes, a former federal prosecu...

Owned by mystery country, appealed to the supreme court on sunday, chief justice john roberts issued a seven-day stay of the contempt order and daily fine imposed on the company. the chief justice gave a seven-day pause. briefs are being submitted. this raises the question of what does the supreme court do with a case in a possible hearing and oral arguments, argued completely under seal which as far as we know the supreme court has literally never done before? it may also be the first intersection of the mueller probe and the supreme court, but it almost certainly will not be the last. even m...