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And he has invoked this squishy executive privilege saying he's not going to talk about conversations with the president or conversations with white house executive officials without going so far as to have the white house invoke that privilege. democrats will continue to hammer him on those points when we rejoin this hearing after this vote series ends here in the house. >> garrett, just really quickly here, when we do resume the hearing, we'll get questions from committee members and they'll alternate between democrat and republican for five minutes. is that how we expect this process to pla...

House for quite as long as dingell did, accumulating enormous influence here. frankly in a rare way here, without alienating folks on the other side. he was someone who was widely respected by republicans as well, even when they didn't agree with him on many issues. >> medal of freedom in 2005, legislative accomplishments, among them the clean water act, civil rights act. dingell said several years ago, though, that he was proudest of being one of the shepherds of the affordable care act, also known as obamacare. his wife would go on to represent that same district, but john dingell being reme...

D.c., as we continue to watch some staffers stand around. the members are, as i understand it at least, dana, these members are voting, i'm not exactly sure what they're voting on, but there's been some talk that republicans actually scheduled an unnecessary vote as a tactic to interrupt the hearing, to delay this hearing. what more do we know about that? >> well, they may -- there is a vote, it's a five-minute vote that might fit under that category, but there's various other votes that are necessary. the lawmakers all wanting to get out of town. they have already had a moment of silence for ...

Committee on which you serve, the intel committee. president trump going after adam schiff this morning. >> he should fear mr. schiff because mr. schiff through our investigation is going to give him a fairer investigation than he probably deserves. he's a former prosecutor. he's very meticulous. he's going to follow the evidence. and we're not going to jump to any conclusions, but we're going to look in the places that were not looked at before and where the republicans took out the shovels for the last two years, we're going to unearth the evidence that they wanted to bury. >> congressman, s...

>> as you commented about my recent press conference, as it relates to the special conference -- the special counsel's investigation, i have been briefed on it. >> and welcome back. again, that's acting attorney general matt whitaker there facing questions from members of the house judiciary committee. that committee went for a break about an hour ago. we are told that members are voting right now. that vote expected to wrap up shortly. those members will return to the room and continue this hearing this afternoon. five minutes democrats, republicans alternating. they'll be able to ask additio...