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And now, 85 years after that, the chairman of the house judiciary committee was asked today about inherent contempt. >> some of your colleagues want to vote for inherent contempt. to fine people who are defying subpoenas. is that something you're seriously considering at this point? >> yes. >> what do you think about terms of dollar amount or fines? >> i don't know. very large amounts. >> would it be for the attorney general? >> it would be for anybody who was held in inherent contempt. >> yesterday, in federal court, a private attorney representing donald trump in a lawsuit trying to block a ...

>> reporter: we're also still waiting to see if the justice department is going to comply with a document request from the house intelligence committee adam schiff and he said earlier to my colleague jeremy erb that he is still having tauks with the justice department but obviously not a lot of cooperation from the trump administration on these documents requests. >> one of the most striking conflicts here is over the president's tax returns because the law seems -- well, the law is clear, it says the ways and means committee has the right to call for any return, but the treasury secretary ste...

Cover-up and subvert them ability to hold the president accountable. they cannot be above the law. as to whether we will use subpoenas and we will if necessary. we put out a lot of document requests to people. we're getting a good response on that and not from the white house, but a lot of other people and will use subpoenas if and when we think we have to. >> you have made it clear that you think your committee will keep investigating regardless of what is in the mueller report. you just sent out a document request of 81 people and entities for information. but at the special counsel and i un...

But we're shocked, to tell you the truth, that white house has been failing to turn over documents requested by elijah cummings, the chair of the oversight committee. that's not true of everybody who received a document request. thousands of documents have come in, but not from the white house. so we hope that the lawyers in the white house will prevail upon the president to comply us with his legal duty to turn over documents that have been h requested by the oversight committee. >> thank you so much for taking the time. and joirning me is a democrat from hawaii where she wroted against the n...

For the senate judiciary committee. calls like this aren't that uncommon where they will get together just to figure out where they stand right now. what are they saying publicly or also what do they know? we've been talking about this throughout the day, but members of congress might not be entirely engaged in it. i don't want to cause too much speculation. one more thing, some of the committee chairs sent document preservation requests to the administration to make sure that all of this information that mueller might have pulled together in the context of this investigation gets saved and no...