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Officials not disclosing or forgetting to disclose. with each reveal it's starting to get worse and worse for them. we need to wait for the special prosecutor's report to know definitively what is going on. in the meantime, there exists a vacuum of leadership when it comes to our russia policy. you mentioned the russia sanctions act that was recently passed through the senate. it's now over in the house. so far the house is dragging its heels. but i'm hopeful that it can get some momentum and they will do what they need to do to step into the void left by the president and his team on this. >>...

Seemed eager to have it go away. a few of them, senator rubio, perhaps senator mccain felt like there should be more answers available to the public, especially given the flood of leaked news stories we've seen about the various claims on both sides of this dispute. >> shepard: i don't remember seeing anything quite like it, josh. what we're talking about would be discussing cannot classified. we're not going to talk about it. whether you ask us or not. they could be held in contempt of congress, couldn't they? >> at the end of the day, possibly. you'd probably go through a few more rounds bef...

>> so, jay, i want you to be able to respond but as someone who's not a lawyer, i'm asking you on a legal standpoint, could the white house make the claim it's inappropriate for director comey to be discussing that he and the president talked about privately based on executive privilege? >> where mean it certainly is an executive privilege issue. james comey is going to testify in public but he's not going to testify with a senate committee why? why in the world if we have a senate investigation, a house investigation, and now a special counsel -- why in the world, would the media generally ma...

The oversight committee's top democrat. >> i think that if mr. boehner takes this to the house, he will be seen as one of the most extreme speakers that ever took charge of a house. >> domenico monenaro joins me now. this eric holder fight has become the talk of washington and it's interesting, because on the hill i'm hearing from democrats that say, fine, let this go forward. a lot of folks associated with leadership saying they're concerned this could take the messages the republicans want to have, which is economy, economy, economy, and distract. >> well, it's an issue that fires up the con...