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>> we are not going to have a fisa court in this country any longer if the fbi and doj are going to continue to obfuscate like that. >> reporter: nunes confirmed he is moving forward in his own investigation of funding for the dossier. >> we have to make sure that people are held accountable so that everyone knows it's never going to be okay to take dirt from a foreign actor. >> reporter: the house intelligence committee will have another high-profile witness tomorrow, white house communications director hope hicks. the question of course, wolf, is what questions she answers, does she answer a...

>> not necessarily. >> it was a contempt order. he violated it. he then said through his lawyer that he unintentionally violated the law. it was an unclear order. i know this is his lawyers, but joe arpaio had a chance to do it the right way and he didn't and he boasted about it. now you're defending his flouting of the law. why? >> i'm saying this, i don't agree with him for defying the judge's order. but we also should remember judge snow issued an order that was judge-made law, and it wasn't consistent with federal statute. and there is nobody that can quote a federal statute, a law against...

That last part is key. it's also the key to the controversy because arpaio was accused of rounding people up that looked like undocumented immigrants. and this goes back, again, many years. context matters. this was not an isolated incident. arpaio forced incarcerated inmates to live in an outdoor tent city he likened to a concentration camp. he was cited for segregating latinos within the population. he had an unusually high suicide rate of inmates, problems with his officers assaulting people. the contempt order and the instant controversy stems, again, from a 2011 justice department investi...

Continue, i don't care what the judges say. that's called contempt by definiti definition, by the way. and this is supposed to be a law and order presidency. >> i don't agree. >> hold on, congressman. if you don't agree with him, then you agree with him being convicted of the crime because that's what he was convicted of. >> not necessarily. >> it was a contempt order. he then said through his lawyer that he unintentionally violated the law. it was an unclear order. i know this is his lawyers, but joe arpaio had a chance to do it the right way and he didn't and he boasted about it. now you're ...

Decided to ignore. the law allows the president to pardon anyone he wants. this isn't about his ability to do it. it's whether he made the right call. what the law says about what sheriff joe was doing police can ask for documentation of immigration status while in the course of enforcing other laws. that last part is key. it's also the key to the controversy because arpaio was accused of rounding people up that looked like undocumented immigrants. and this goes back, again, many years. context matters. this was not an isolated incident. arpaio forced incarcerated inmates to live in an outdoor...