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Am offended personally by your calling the attorney general a liar. it shouldn't be a political witch hunt against the attorney general of our country and our president in an election year. >> nbc news justice correspondent pete williams is here with me and chris cillizza is an msnbc contributor and managing editor of postpolitics.com. pete, this showdown on the hill, chris and i can talk about the politics, but what about the law here? the executive privilege assertion, that's not a first by any means, but this is really heating up for eric holder. >> it is, although i don't know what the end...

Tell us what this development means as far as the contempt of court vote. >> well, what's happening now is there are really a couple things happening simultaneously. darrell issa, chairman of this committee, says his people are taking a look at this assertion of executive privilege and trying to find out what exactly the president is saying he has this privilege for, which would provide him the ability to have internal discussions. that's the use of that kind of thing to keep the branches, the two branches of government, able to function independently. so what they're doing, there's a front st...