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Would be only the second ag then to be held in contempt. and this isn t even the first committee, this congress to vote to hold him in contempt. then, of course, add the second cabinet official, wilbur ross, on top of that. lauren fox has been following all of this on capitol hill. it has been ongoing. lauren, even before this vote takes place in the house oversight committee, president trump is trying to step in with another assertion of executive privilege. what is going on here? reporter: well, kate, there was quite a bit of drama just minutes before this hearing actually got under way. that s when the department of justice and the commerce department sent letters to elijah cummings, the chairman of this committee, saying that the president planned to assert executive privilege over the documents. i want to read just a little bit of that letter from the department of justice. it said, this letter is to advise you the president has asserted executive privilege over subpoenaed docum ....
Investors really uncomfortable, because it s raising the question, jim, of whether the treasury department sees something brewing in the economy that the market may be missing. jim? alison kosik, interesting days on the market trading floor. thank you very much. back with our panel now. jennis, the president himself has made the dow his favorite barometer of success. and the dow this year is tanking. and you see the president panicking, apparently, at that thought by lashing out at his fed chairman, talking about firing him. this is consequential for this administration. yeah. you live by the dow, you die by the dow. i think what resonates now is something that john kelly said once, that ivanka was playing government. i think the president plays president every day. and i think the lack of stability would always affect the markets. we have never seen stability like this. what are we? the third chief of staff? the third national security adviser? the sixth communications director? t ....