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Today we record the tempt at the house. there is still time for a contempt of the house to be avoided if in fact the documents we have asked for are delivered by the time that the house is scheduled for contempt vote. >> sean: that was the chairman of the house oversight committee congressman daryl issa moments after his committee voted to recommend that the attorney general be held in contempt of congress. here to explain what that means is congressman steve king. let's start with the simple question. don't they have to go through a privilege log and identify on each item why they are justif ...

Want you to immediately drop all charges and any investigation whatsoever and cease this. >> sean: the question i have is when they invoke executive privilege they have to go through and give an explanation what is called a privilege log and every single item that they are invoking privilege on. is this as we look that the through a political prism, david, is this an attempt and has this been an attempt to stone wall now put this in the court system to get this beyond election day? is this a political strategy. in. >> i have no doubt about it. >> sean: why is or why not? >> there is nothing ev...

Today we record the tempt at the house. there is still time for a contempt of the house to be avoided if in fact the documents we have asked for are delivered by the time that the house is scheduled for contempt vote. >> sean: that was the chairman of the house oversight committee congressman daryl issa moments after his committee voted to recommend that the attorney general be held in contempt of congress. here to explain what that means is congressman steve king. let's start with the simple question. don't they have to go through a privilege log and identify on each item why they are justif ...

Want you to immediately drop all charges and any investigation whatsoever and cease this. >> sean: the question i have is when they invoke executive privilege they have to go through and give an explanation what is called a privilege log and every single item that they are invoking privilege on. is this as we look that the through a political prism, david, is this an attempt and has this been an attempt to stone wall now put this in the court system to get this beyond election day? is this a political strategy. in. >> i have no doubt about it. >> sean: why is or why not? >> there is nothing ev...

The president. >> sean: before we make that leap, i want to make sure everybody understands fully the process that you in congress will go through. what you are going to do is bring a civil suit to a federal district court. and from that point you get to enforce this contempt you are going to ask the court to have the justice department list all documents what they call a privilege log which will require them to go through each document and explain how executive privilege applies. if we are talking about 1300 documents out of 140,000 they will have to explain each and every one how executive p...