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Perceived as someone who will misuse the law, but it is a difficult position for the members of congress to be in because it's not like there's a judge who will force a witness to answer the question. the only power they have is essentially the power of suasion. obviously you can threaten to hold a witness in contempt, but i think realistically, that's something that's not going to be on the agenda with robert mueller as a witness. so he's going to have a lot of leeway to decide for himself what questions he wants to answer. >> laura jarrett, what's your read on how far mueller is going to go ...

Better get ready at home. the first democratic debate is happening june 26 and 27. you'll see lester holt across both hours. "today" show's savannah guthrie will moderate the first hour and chuck todd and rachel maddow will moderate the second hour. kelly o'donnell is on the hill. kelly, we're just a couple hours away from a vote in the house regarding subpoenas. this is not a vote to hold attorney general bill barr nor don mcgahn in contempt. i know there are a lot of votes going on. what's this one about? >> reporter: it is important to make this distinction, because contempt is in the lan...

Power. there is a process we have to file and we will hold them in contempt that authorizes the civil action brought in court and the court will order them to comply with the subpoena and when they don't, if they don't, the court will enforce it by taking them into custody and imposing fines and taking other action. this is civil contempt. >> i want to stop you there. what would happen if they are people who don't pay traffic tickets. what happens if they say we don't care if you hold us in contempt. we are not coming anyway. >> they have the entire power of the court, they are defying a court...

For mitch mcconnell. and i can tell you that we don't think you'll see that story anywhere else. we begin with the house democrats on offense hitting hard against the trump team efforts of what they call stonewalling the probes. plus a new release of a voicemail that reveals donald trump's own criminal defense lawyer trying to get a heads up on whether michael flynn had evidence that would implicate the president. democrats pushing ahead on their aggressive plans as they face what they call a stonewalling. they'll hold attorney general barr and don mcgahn in contempt. that's not all. there's t...

Ordering people to do just that. the white house is instructing former administration officials hope hicks and annie donaldson not to turn over any documents to congress to find the house sjudiciary subpoena. the democrats announce the full house will vote to hold bill barr and don mcgahn in contempt. that's just one of the contempt votes pending against barr in the house. we'll have more on the other one later. that has to do with the census story. today texas congressman lloyd dogett became the 58th democrat to call for the opening of an impeachment hearing. they are urging members to stay...