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Have a couple of different steps company raise the prospect. you can schedule a contempt proceeding. you can hold the door open for documents or interviews and then push it off. you can go through at the committee level. these are all sort of milestone events which historically are less palatable for the administration that sometimes starts to move the needle. with these times of disputes, once you get the ball rolling, with the gowdy probe we didn't get a witness. once we got deputy director mccabe in, a couple of weeks later we got comey's chief of staff is. once you get the ball rolling, ag...

Lawyers. or initiating contempt proceedings. sometimes the threat of a contempt proceeding gets you a different result. sometimes the witnesses choose to appear when contempt is on the table. democrats even withdrew a subpoena to one witness who asked a federal court to resolve conflicting orders from congress and the executive. either because the democrats didn't want to wait for the court to rule, or they didn't like the presiding judge, judge leon. democrats made their demands and refused to budge. democrats told witnesses at the outset that their refusal to cooperate in full would be used ...

With a contempt proceeding you have a couple steps along the way. you could raise the prospect of a contempt proceeding, schedule a contempt proceeding, after you schedule a contempt proceeding hold the door open for documents or interview and then you can push it off. you can go through at the committee level. these are all sort of milestone events which historically are unpalatablee or less palatable for the administration that sometimes starts to move the needle and with these types of disputes, once you get the ball rolling, you know, with the goodlatte gowdy probe it was andrew mccabe in ...

Alternative is less palatable for the respondent. you issue a subpoena and you're trying to get documents, one technique you can use is try to talk to the -- a document custodian or somebody in the function about whatom documents exist. chairman chaffetzs during his eraur used to have document production status hearings where you bring in officials and get the lay of the land. officials nomly are supposed to be directly responsible serving the interests. you can saber rattle, legal to saber rattle about holding somebody in contempt. oftentimes witnesses who are reluctant to cooperate and come ...

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