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Former white house counsel in contempt of congress which would set off a criminal process. this is not that. what it is is a way to streamline and fast-track the ability of committee chairs to go to the court system to ask those courts to enforce the subpoenas that they have been issuing. we've seen two dozen subpoenas, individuals and financial institutions as part of the stra sprawling investigations of trump administration and trump industries on capitol hill. this is about the fact that they had not provided all the information the congress wanted, the fact that the former white house coun...

Executive branch or cabinet members to testify before committees of congress, not answering subpoenas, blocking every attempt for us to get information to provide the check on the presidency that the voters asked us to do when they elected a democratic majority in 2018, i have to look to the constitution. the only tool remaining, if we're unable to provide a check in any other fashion, the only tool remaining is the tool much of impeachment. despite the politics, the president may take us in a way that doesn't give you a choice. i'm afraid that's what we may have to do. >> speaker pelosi said ...

Department. in that fall of 1973, he was serving in the justice department. he was one of the closest advisers to the attorney general and j.t. smith was there, was there when richardson asked the head of the olc robert dixon to come up with an official justice department answer to this suddenly very pressing question about whether a sitting vice president could be indicted. and what j.t. smith told us in an interview for "bag man" is that robert dixon, that pressure-packed fall of 1973, robert dixon really wasn't sure what the right answer was to that question. listen. >> he was asked by the ...

Acceptable for the president to be subject to criminal process while in office, but by distinction the vice president, whose duties are nowhere near as important, can be subject to criminal process. and that's one of the memos now cited for the proposition. but when it was written, it was a very close question and the professor in charge of the office of legal counsel wasn't clear how to answer it, but it got answered against the imperative of dealing with the agnew heartbeat away problem. >> got answered against the imperative dealing with the agnew heartbeat away from the presidency problem....

Criminal -- a criminal process. if they do that, you know what their ultimate is, it's called the death penalty. i thanked president chi very much -- president xi very much. this was a meeting that was supposed to last for about 45 minutes and it ended up being almost four hours, some of you were there. it was a great meeting. we'll see what happens. you never know with a deal. but i will tell you, china is not doing well now and it puts us in a very strong position. we are doing very well, but we're taking in billions and billions of dollars and i hope we're going to make a deal with china. a...