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Difference. what she is saying is congress needs to do its oversight function. we need to have the committees investigate where there has been misconduct. everybody agrees there was interference in the election. we need to find out why foreign countries intervened. she's talking about rigorous oversight, not making it about impeachment of this president. president's not gonna take my advice, but if i were him, i wouldn't make her job harder when he meets with her tomorrow. i would not obstruct these hearings, which is putting more pressure on her to go down the road of impeachment. >> dana: yo...

Closed-door testimony from mcgahn tells me that the democrats and nadler may be less interested in the truth seeking function, in other words, actually getting the information that he says congress needs to exercise its oversight function, and more interested in putting on a show on getting mcgahn in before the cameras, peppering him with questions, forcing him to assert executive privilege under oath. i suspect that's the democrats' endgame. they're less interested in getting the information and more interested in doing something to score political points. >> jon: he served as the white house...

>> good to see you. kristin: let's bring in the republican side. arizona congressman and house judiciary committee andy biggs, thanks for coming on. your colleague says what is happening is an infringement on the constitution by the president of the united states. i'm assuming you don't agree. >> what he's talking about, i guess, bill barr refuse today testify or provide documents and there's -- there's a legitimate oversight function that is constitutionally different to the legislative branch. we're on a fishing he expedition. they said this is all about finding evidence so they can impeach ...

To the floor for a single action. i think that will depend in part on what -- how quickly the other committees act. but what is very clear is that we are committed to making sure that we use all of the tools that are at our disposal, including inherent contempt if we must, to ensure we get the documents we need to do our work, witnesses are compelled to come before us to testify under oath. because if we leave it to the executive branch and they get to decide who will be a witness and what documents will be produced, the executive branch will have the ability to extinguish the oversight functi...

Have lied to investigators around this. simply because the special counsel could not connect the dots does not mean that the dots don't matter and that the dots aren't troubling. we know here that both the russians and the trump's, while they may not have an express or tacit agreement they shared the same goal. which was to subvert our democracy and so in that sense, this is no vindication. more broadly, congress has an oversight function. i spent eight years as the deputy chief counsel of the house oversight committee and congress has a role in looking at this and the other things going on in...