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It's the broadness of the requests that's going to be a real challenge for this white house. >> hans there at the white house. hans, thank you much. let me bring in now chairman -- excuse me, congressman ted lou of california. thank you for being on the show. >> thank you, hallie. >> let me pick up. you heard him say folks have started giving the committee documents they've had a positive response. who is he talking about? do you know? >> i don't know the specifics, but these document requests should not be burdensome. we're asking for documents that many of the people have already give ton ot...

Requesting documents from the estate of the late peter smith. remember that story. a long time republican donor and activist who said he attempted to make contact with russian government hackers during the 2016 campaign to try to get ahold of hillary clinton's e-mails. is that it? is that all you guys are looking into? is there anything else on the list? that's not even a comprehensive list. that's the 22 points we came up with off the top of our heads when reading through these requests for information that went out through the judiciary committee. here is my question, is this too much for on...

Positive responses from a number of the 81 people today. for two years the american congress did no oversight of the administration. none. they in fact acted as shields for the administration, for whatever they wanted to do. we have to protect the rule of law. and that means we have to investigate and hold hearings for the american people if the administration is involved in abuses of power or obstruction of justice. >> now, chairman nadler says both mueller's office and the southern district of new york are aware that his committee has made these requests. the recipients now have two weeks to...

On access to the oval office and the way he's allowing foreign entities to stay in his hotel across the street from the white house and the way he attacks the free press and attacks the rule of law and as long as we can demonstrate to the american people we're interested in making sure the rule of law stands because if you don't have it, you lose a free press. as long as we can a articulate that, they will be with us and we'll keep looking. >> presumably, these document requests could obviously lead to more document requests and more requests for witness testimony. >> yeah, and certainly, you ...

On access to the oval office and the way he's allowing foreign entities to stay in his hotel across the street from the white house and the way he attacks the free press and attacks the rule of law and as long as we can demonstrate to the american people we're interested in making sure the rule of law stands because if you don't have it, you lose a pfree press. as long as we can a articulate that, they will be with us and we'll keep looking. >> presumably, these document requests could obviously lead to more document requests and more requests for witness testimony. >> yeah, and certainly, you...