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D.c. circuit court of appeals said, nope, that does not fly. it ordered the company to hand over the information that was requested by the subpoena. then mystery company, which is owned by mystery country, a meeld to the supreme court on sunday, chief justice john roberts issued a 7-day stay of the contempt order and daily fines on the company for its noncompliance. the chief justiceish another a seven-day pause. he gave them until december 31st to present briefs on the matter. this is the tantalizing matter what does the court do with a case, argued completely under seal which as far as we kn...

Government owned, we don't have to give you anything. d.c. circuit court of appeals said nope, that does not fly, ordered the company to hand over the information that was requested by the subpoena. then mystery company, which is 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 c...

That's what we're struggling with here. >> so that makes it a little bit harder for you, jessica, because you'll have to pick up the pieces and try to explain to us, two things. justice roberts issued a stay in this case. is that generally a normal move, and can you flesh out what comes next? >> yes, exactly. let's talk about what we do know which pete said is very little. i think we should be careful to read too many tea leaves about chief justice john roberts saying we're going to stay this order, that the company challenging the subpoena doesn't have to pay the fine and isn't held in contem...

This is an appeal from the district court in d.c. these go to chief justice john roberts. the one normal thing he says we'll push pause while we wait for the government to respond. in terms of what happens next, well, the federal government will respond on new year's eve at noon and then it will be up to either chief justice john roberts or he will refer it to the full supreme court to rule on this issue. this isn't a full appeal of was it proper for the grand jury to ask for a subpoena for the judge to say, yes, you need to comply with the subpoena. this is about the anyway ower issue of bein...

He is authorizing his lawyers to take this position and use the new contempt ruling in order to file an appeal in court. they say their goal is to get a different judge who they hope will find mueller's entire probe is illegitimate. >> in order to appeal the judge's decision, challenging the actualizationty the constitutionally of the special counsel, we have to have a contempt order in order to go to the court of appeals. >> that's one thing that happened today. meanwhile, there is action at paul manafort's trial, but it took a turn to the mysterious. today was going to be the day they rested...