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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 with his legal duty to turn over documents that have been 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 nomination of current attorney general bill barr. obviously you had doubts about mr. barr. your...

Speaking to of executive privilege. it is expected not to contain a single page of any of the documents as it pertains to the initial document request. so this is the trump white house and its council's office and president trump himself who privately said he considers the inquiry not legitimate and he pointed to that bluntly. what trump and his white house seems to be doing at this time is setting things up for potential subpoena battle with house judiciary and other lawmakers on capitol hill. >> prolonging it, is that a 2020 strategy to appear if he's constantly fighting with democrats? >> a...

A strong man, republican president tells democrats on the hill to go pound salt. doesn't everyone just stay in their bubbles and the base is fine with that? correct? >> i think the base loves the fact that he's defiant and has no intention of giving an inch and is going to characterize this as partisan and overreaching. when we get into subpoenas, it's going to be different. i mean it's one thing to try to run out the clock and as anita points out, you usually give with one hand so you can take away with the other. and this is just a slammed door. if the democrats continue to get stonewalled b...

Has rejected nadler's request for documents. roger stone invoking the fifth in response to his document request. and today we learned that the white house is rejecting a request from the intelligence, judiciary, and foreign affairs committees for documents relating to trump's private conversations with russian president vladimir putin. because that would be interesting to see. but as tensions escalate between trump and the administration and congress over crucial pieces of oversight, today is a reminder these congressional investigations will go on far longer and will likely cover far more gro...

Jerry nadler, says his request for information from 81 associates and entities connected to the president has yielded tens of thousands of documents so far and that's before any subpoenas have gone out. >> we've gotten substantial response from very large number of people. we've gotten -- who have told us either here are documents or we're preparing the documents, you'll have them shortly. we've also gotten from a fair number of people saying we'd be happy to provide you documents if you give us a subpoena first, which we will do. >> now, of course not everybody's playing nice. wikileaks found...