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>> sean: let me ask you, is it going to take a contempt order from -- are they going to be held in contempt of the justice department? i agree with the analysis. it seems trying to push this to 2018, see if democrats get control. >> i think one of the things, chairman nunes has done an unbelievable job, not only investigating this but keeping the pressure on. it's not unless that pressure is felt by doj officials that they actually produce anything. i've been on the phone most of the day with them. i don't understand why it's taking such unbelievable herculean efforts to get them to do that. w...

Investigation. it's why we are investigating the state department for a number of reasons. >> sean: let me ask you, is it going to take a contempt order from -- are they going to be held in contempt of the justice department. i agree with the analysis. it seems trying to push this to 2018, steve democrats get control. >> i think one of the things, chairman nunes has done an unbelievable job, not only investigating this but keeping the pressure on. it's not unless that pressure is felt by doj officials that they actually produce anything. i've been on the phone most of the day with them. i don'...

>> oh, yeah. when i was a prosecutor i had a witness in the grand jury. i asked him one question. do you know frank sinatra? he refused to answer. >> well, that seems like a big red flag. >> sure. i gave him an immunity order. i asked him do you know frank sinatra. he refused to answer. i took him before the judge, and he spent the next 18 months in prison under a contempt order. >> did you ever find fought he knew frank sinatra. >> oh, i knew he knew frank sinatra. >> there you go. >> but he could have at any point in time in those 18 months come out and testified, and he would have been out ...

Questions on a whole host of aspects of robert mueller and the house intelligence committee's investigation. the key question is what questions is she going to be willing to answer tomorrow because that point, that issue that you raised still has not been settled. it is not clear. we spoke to the ranking democrat on the house intelligence committee today adam schiff and he isn't certain she is going to answer questions. steve bannon refused to answer many questions citing in effect white house claim of executive privilege of giving leeway from answering questions about that. so we don't know w...

Answer most questions or refuse. the intelligence committee is still intending to issue a contempt order for steve bannon for refusing to answer questions you can imagine they do the same to hope if she does as well. the two essential claims of the republican memo known as the nunes memo is one the fbi's investigation was based othentiy on this steele dossier. on that issue, the democratic memo attempts to rebut it by noting the time line. the fbi opened its counterintelligence investigation seven weeks before the fbi team got access to that steele dossier. so it is a credible rebuttal on that...