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Department. it could potentially look like political pressure from a democratic controlled congress to the justice department. and secondly, the department of justice technically doesn't need a referral from the committee to be able to do this. they could do this on their own before or after the committee finishes its investigation because as you know, congress technically cannot convict anymore. these referrals are largely symbolic, yasmin. >> allie raffa for us, thank you for that. >> our coverage of the russian invasion of ukraine continues ahead. but first, what topics are political candid...

Week in south carolina he was given a lot of opportunities to try to explain the analogy that he used and to my thinking having covered him for so many years, i know his record on civil rights, but you could think of other ways of describing working across the aisle, you could think of teddy kennedy and dan quayle, you don't have to talk about jim eastland which is an ancient reference of a virulent he go gags nist, a hater. >> and also somebody who happened to be chairman and colleague of his in the united states senate. if he was going to be able to work on different things in the judiciary ...

2010, it's not elections, it's what the heck, i have to talk to every parent or wife of a guardsman who loses their lives. i have to write letters to two guardsmen from pittsburgh. i think i'm a pretty smart guy. i don't know what to say in those letters. i don't know what to say in those conversations. you know, you can't say, your son died fighting the nazis, and saved the world from oppression. the best you can do is say what ari said, look, your son died in an effort that we're making to try to make sure that 9/11 doesn't happen again. but i'm not sure -- >> i'm not sure if you can believe...

And, there could be a showdown today between a chicago judge and the attorney representing former illinois governor rod blagojevich in his corruption trial. >> blago. >> yeah. >> yesterday the judge threatened to hold blagojevich's lawyer, sam adams jr., in contempt of court. >> doesn't he have to go to a governor's conference? >> i have a great story to tell you. >> forget this. what's the story? >> in '06 we were all together, democratic governors, and there were donors in the room so we went around the room to assess our chances for re-election. this was in the spring of '06. you know, we g...

Salary in lieu of notice amounting to $1.6 million. bp says it also plans on recommending hayward for a nonexecutive board position in the joint venture with russia. is that like being sent to siberia? is it? i don't know, because i have a feeling he's going to get paid quite handsomely on his way out. right, ari? >> i think you're right. >> it's just not right. today's announcement was made at the same time the oil giant reported a $17 billion loss for the second quarter. a sharp reversal from the company's $6 billion earnings in the first quarter. for three straight months, oil spewed into t...