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♪ >> the president is obstructing congress from getting the facts that we need. >> the failure to produce these documents, we consider yet additional strong evidence of obstruction of the constitutional functions of congress. ed: democrats slamming the president for refusing to turn over internal documents related to ukraine as you heard. democrats sang a much different tune in 2012 when g.o.p. lawmakers held then attorney general eric holder in contempt because he withheld documents related to the fast and furious scandal. look at the same players. >> a political exercise all along. the con...

Justice asked to add the citizenship question. according to the contempt resolution, the committee has evidence that the trump administration began a campaign to add the citizenship question immediately after the president's inauguration in january of 2017. the resolution goes on to say the administration's efforts followed efforts to promote a citizenship question by a now deceased republican gerrymandering expert. it's rare for an attorney general to be held in contempt but it's happened before during the obama administration. republicans held attorney general eric holder in contempt for not...

The justice department used the lawyer that wants to use. the reason the judge gave was the defendant provided no reason let alone the satisfactory reasons the substitution of counsel. the justice department has been trying to shake up his legal team after the supreme court blocked its first attempt to add the controversial question to the census. attorneys for the aclu contested the substitution and the judge agreed to. this is another setback for the trump administration as it tries to find a way forward to get this question on the 2020 census. >> i think over the next day or two you will se...

>> tonight multiple sources are telling fox news also likely vote on the contempt resolution for william barr and commerce secretary wilbur ross next week at the earliest for failing to comply with congressional subpoenas. until then democrats in congress and on the campaign trail continue to call it racially and publicly motivated. >> this is about keeping -- you know his hat, make america white again. >> the citizenship question is motivated by racial and partisan reasons. >> republican congressman jim jordan argues it is not racist, it is common sense. >> any small town, any big city, walk ...

>> shannon: one house won't turn over to house democrats documents about the citizens question on next year's census. >> the house oversight committee voted to send a contempt resolution for attorney general william barr and secretary of commerce wilbur ross to the full house after the administration asserted executive privilege over census records. >> this begs the question, what is being hidden? >> when we rush to hold people in contempt, it has a chilling effect on anybody wanted to go the extra mile. >> the administration argues the census question was added to improve compliance with the ...