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enforcement, we all benefit. graduates, thank you for your willingness to serve your communities, your commitment to this rigorous training, and your partnership with us at the fbi and department of justice. we all serve on the same team. we stand for justice and public safety. today, wern to work will all press on together. press assured, as attorney general sessions said, we have your back and you have our thanks. thank you very much. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2019] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] >> billy house, congressional correspondent with bloomberg, news joins us. what does the judiciary committee want to get
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out of don maginn, the former white house counsel, and the attorney general, william barr? why the consideration of content resolutions. bill: they've asked for the the rest oferal, the report from special counsel robert mueller. the redacted portions. theydministration has said would talk about that, but they have not given any of that material. with regard to the former house legal counsel, they want to know more about his interactions with the president. some of those kind of described in the mueller report itself. the headline of what you're many stories at bloomberg.com on this >> "democrats refine
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contempt charge against warren mcgann ahead of the house vote in the coming weeks." what are they and what will we see on the house floor? all: the audi launched criminal contempt resolution, which could have led to criminal charges to william barr for not producing documents. instead, they are going to the floor on tuesday, a full house vote, on what is essentially a similar process, to allow the committee and other committees to launch legal proceedings in federal court to get the documents and testimony they are seeking. this is a change in part because they realize that the attorney general they would hold criminally would have to be prosecuted by the justice department. it is unlikely they would take any action against him. they also believe they created a new process in this resolution where the committee chairman would not even have to hold committee votes to try to go and get permission from a
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special committee called the bipartisan legal advisory committee, basically run by speaker pelosi to get permission just to intervene or actually launch legal action without any other authority. so this bipartisan, legal advisory committee, this is an all new structure? billy: no, it's been around since 1992 and has been used by speakers both republican and democrat to get kind of shortcut permission to intervene in lawsuits. what is new now is that this is going to allow not only judiciary committee chairman jerrold nadler or oversight committee chairman elijah cummings or anyone else to just simply use their chairman subpoena power to also basically launch legal actions, not even going to their own members on their own committee. that has raised some legal
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concerns among experts, but at the same time, those who depend on it say that the house will now be burdened by constant votes on contempt and subpoenas on the house floor or a committee. >> give us a quick look at what we will see next week starting with a house rules meeting on monday, and then the floor action on this resolution on tuesday. billy: on monday, the resolution that we are talking about is actually formally now sponsored by james mcgovern. he will hold a hearing meeting in which they will set the rules for the floor debate the next day on tuesday for this resolution. i am told they will give one hour debate, 30 minutes to republicans, 30 minutes to democrats, and that will set up what should be a very interesting floor vote. i am told that the networks have
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asked permission to broadcast this debate, but likely it will be limited to c-span. what we could expect is the same thing for republicans, to team up on this, to even democrats teaming up with speaker pelosi with those who favor impeachment now. why are we going through all this? why don't we launch impeachment proceedings now? >> top democrats say wilbur ross, likely to be held responsible. elijah cummings considering impeachment proceedings. what is the issue there? the issue there is the trump administration to add citizenship questions to the
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2020 census which democrats and other critics say would prompt some to not respond to a census, and therefore skewing and even undercount populations that could have impacts on electoral divisions, representation in congress, and even federal funding. the argument here is that barr says he was asked to add that question by the justice department to help as a voter rights mechanism protection. chairman cummings says he has evidence that in fact it was designed as a political purpose and that -- so he has been for two months now, trying to get documents from both the justice department and the commerce department to outline how they came to the decision. >> billy house covers congress for bloomberg. you can read his report on bloomberg.com, and he is on twitter. billy house, thanks so much. >> we will have live coverage monday of the house and rules
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committee voting on a resolution authorizing judiciary chair jerry nadler to pursue enforcement of subpoenas for attorney general william barr and former white house counsel don mccann. all pressprich -- covers starts c-span three,n on online on c-span.org or on the free c-span radio app area -- at. app. morning, up saturday carl evers hellstrom of open secrets will discuss his new report on former members of congress who end up employed as lobbyists. our spotlight on magazine segment will feature a nature magazine consultant to talk about her investigation peace, gag order, looking at the treatment of prisoners in a super max prison in colorado. and then, the smart approaches
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to marijuana, with some of his group's effort to oppose the commercialization and normalization of marijuana. c-span'so watch washington journal live at 7:00 eastern, saturday morning. join the discussion. sunday, on q and a, blues musician harold davis talks about his book "clandestine relationships," where he talks about the friending ku klux klan members and convinces them to leave the organization. >> he walked into the room first and he was wearing military camouflage fatigues with the blood job and broke right here. drop and look right here with kkk across his chest. he said we are knights of the ku klux klan. on his head, he had a semi-automatic handgun. he came in and was followed by hand in by mr. kelly, the grand dragon. a dark blue suit and tie. nighthawk entered the room and
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turned the corner and saw me. he froze. mr. kelly bumped into his back because the guy stopped short. they stumbled and regained their balance and looked around the room. i knew what they were thinking. is that they got the run route number or this was a setup. i would like this. to display my hands. nothing in them. hi,proached him and said mr. kelly, my name is darrell davis. come in. >> sunday night, at 8:00 eastern on q and day on c-span. >> now, democratic presidential candidate senator bernie sanders of vermont joins the political party live podcast in iowa for another one of their series of interviews with 20 democratic presidential candidates. this is under one hour. [applause]
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