had very heated exchange with senator richard blumenthal. blumenthal said barr has become, quote the designated fall guy for the mueller report. and in a searing response, barr responded and accused congress instead using the doj to score political punches against the white house. >> we're not in the business of exoneration. we're not in the business of proving they didn't violate the law. but you -- >> i didn't exonerate. said that we did not believe there was sufficient evidence to establish an obstruction offense which is the job of the justice department. and the job of the justice department is now over. that determines whether or not there is a crime. the report is now in the hands of the american people. everyone can decide for themselves. there is an election in 18 months. that is very democratic process. but we're out of it. we have to stop using the criminal justice process as a political weapon. reporter: attorney general barr also said that he himself was surprised that mueller did not reach a conclusion on

let's watch what happens when is senator blumenthal asks the attorney general fell know flz any other instance where a federal prosecutor sent a letter to his boss, the attorney general, rebuking the attorney general. he's referring of course, to robert mueller's letter to barr and in his question, senator blumenthal refers to robert mueller as a career prosecutor because he's held several prosecutorial jobs in the justice department from assistant units attorney as well as fbi director. >> a career prosecutor rebuking the attorney general of the united states memorializing it in writing. right? i know of no other instance of that happening. do you? >> i don't consider bob at this stage a career prosecutor. he's had a career as a prosecutor. >> well, he's a very eminent prosecutor. >> he was the head of the fbi for 12 years. >> he's a career -- law enforcement professional. >> right. >> repeatedly today, william barr made the mistake of saying he didn't know the answer to certain questions that only robert mueller would know the answer to which will significantly the house judiciary's

senator blumenthal? senator blumenthal: thank you, mr.chairman. barr, i wonderl if you could tell us about the conversation between yourself and bob mueller shortly after your summary. he called you? atty. gen. barr: no, i called him. senator blumenthal: what prompted you to call him? atty. gen. barr: the letter. senator blumenthal: his letter. so you called him, and how long did the conversation last? atty. gen. barr: i don't know, maybe 10, 15 minutes. there were multiple witnesses in the room. it was on a speakerphone. senator blumenthal: who was in the room? among others, the deputy attorney general was in the room and several other people who had been working on the project. senator blumenthal: members of your stuff in the deputy staff -- your staff and the deputy staff. as best as you can recall in the , language that was used, who said what to whom? atty. gen. barr: i said, bob, what is with the letter? why don't you just pick up the phone and call me if there is an issue? and, he said that they were concerned about the way the media was pl

graham: senator blumenthal. sen. blumenthal: thank you. i agree with chairman graham that this needs to be really strong bipartisan alarm about the threat posed by huawei, which is really the threat posed by china. what still mystifies me is, why are our partners and allies around the world, why they seem less alarmed than we are. we have been figuratively pounding the table here. >> i see this through two lenses. there is a risk lens, we talked about that today. we have a clear understanding of the vulnerabilities in their equipment, the intention of the chinese government. we have a unique experience -- >> but they have known about these vulnerabilities for years. you have reported about it, the united kingdom has a powerful report. these sources of information are ours., not >> and that is where the second lens comes through the economic lens,. we need to talk to our partners about the lifecycle costs of maintaining this equipment, it is not about the front, about the financing, it is about over 15 years, the true cost, not just financi

blumenthal said why not. barr said, why should you have them? those are government property, the notes describing a conversation between government officials. one would argue that a coequal branch of government should get them >> we'll talk to senator blumenthal and ask about that. can i say something about the barr criticism about the fact that mueller didn't reach a conclusion here. if you read the report, if push came to shove and mueller was forced to make a ruling on obstruction, you get the sense he thinks there is a lot of evidence for obstruction. what does barr want? did barr want mueller to say, yes, there was obstruction? i have the feeling barr would be saying no, no, no. you have a crisis of a split between the attorney general and the special counsel >> i don't know enough to assess if barr would spin it in another direction if there had been a top line finding of obstruction of justice. mueller made clear there are -- should you read the summaries, the report and the actual documentation there were instances where he considered th

senator blumenthal? >> thank you, mr. chairman. attorney general barr, i wonder if you could tell us about the conversation between yourself and bob mueller shortly after your summary was issued. he called you? >> no. i called him. >> what prompted you to call him? >> the letter. >> your letter? or his letter? >> his letter. >> so you called him? >> yes. >> and how long did the conversation last? >> i don't know, maybe 10, 15 minutes. there were multiple witnesses in the room. it was on a speaker phone. >> who was in the room? >> among others, the deputy attorney general was in the room. >> anyone else? >> several other people that had been working on the project. >> members of your staff? >> yes. >> and the deputy's staff? and as best you can recall, in the language that was used, who said what to whom? >> i said bob, what's with the letter? you know, why not just pick up the phone and call me if there is an issue? >> and he said that they were concerned about the way the media was playing this and felt that it was important to ge

senator blumenthal. >> thank you, mr. chairman. attorney general barr, i wander to you could tell us about the conversation between yourself and bob mueller shortly after your summary was issued. he called you? >> no, i called him. >> what prompted you to call him? >> the letter. >> your letter? or his letter. >> his letter. >> so you called him? >> yeah. >> and how long did the conversation last? >> i don't know. maybe ten, 15 minutes. there were multiple witnesses in the room. it was on a speaker phone. >> who was in the room? >> among others, the deputy attorney general was in the room. >> anyone else? >> several other people had been working on the project. >> members of your staff? >> yes. and the deputy's staff. >> and as best you can recall, in the language that was used, who said what to whom? >> um, i said, bob, what is with the letter, you know. why don't you just pick up the phone and call me if there's an issue. and he said that they were concerned about the way the media was playing this and felt that it was important

senate judiciary committee member, richard blumenthal, democrat of connecticut. senator, always a pleasure. >> thank you. good to be with you, as always. >> what did mr. mueller mean to you today? >> what he meant to me was, number one, the president of the united states would be in handcuffs, criminally charged but for the fact he is the sitting president. that's what almost 1,000 former prosecutors, including myself, federal attorneys general and assistant attorney generals said in effect, that he would be criminally charged but for that memorandum which articulates department of justice policy, not a rule, that the constitution forbids charging him while he's in office. >> the doj put out a statement today, senator. let's get to the second point in a second. pushback on point one. the doj put out a statement in coordination with the press person from the special counsel's office saying there is no space between the doj and special counsel. that mr. mueller did not refuse to charge simply because of the policy against charging a president. do you buy that? >> t

blumenthal: thank you, madam president. i will be speaking in just a moment, but i understand the majority leader, senator schumer, is on his way to speak before me. so he should be here within moments. ms. klobuchar: madam president, while we await senator schumer, i wanted to mention just a few examples of what we're talking about here with drug prices. a woman named paula. paula has been prescribed a treatment for her multiple sclerosis. it costs over $5,000 a month. she has been getting copay assistance from a grant but does not know how she's going to afford it. and whether she's going to be able to afford her life-saving medication. julie, another example, is covered under her husband's employer plan. she currently has to pay $500 a copay for a drug that she need, the same drug was once offered in a generic form for $50, a fraction of the new cost. the generic drug has been discontinued, creating an impossible choice between paying $500 or not filling her prescription. because of the high cost, she goes without this d

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richard blumenthal called him the designated fall guy for the mueller report. democrats took turns pounding him over the -- but he punched back accusing congress of trying to use a criminal justice system as a political weapon against the president. >> mr. barr, the american people know that you are no different from rudy giuliani or kellyanne conway or any of the other people who sacrifice their once decent reputation for the liar that sits in the oval office. do you think it's okay for the president to ask his white house counsel to lie? >> well, i'm willing to talk about what is criminal. >> do you think it is okay for president to offer pardons to people that do not testify against him, to threaten the family of someone who does? is that okay? >> when did he -- pardon -- >> i think you know what i'm talking about. please, mr. attorney general.

i want to good back to senator richard blumenthal.t trying to distract from a day of very bad news for the president in terms of his own performance? is the memorandum telling agencies to cooperate with the attorney general, is that really necessary? >> as a former united states attorney and a state attorney general for some 20 years, i am baffled by this memorandum. there seems absolutely no reason for it. agencies have a legal obligation to cooperate with the attorney general of the united states, and it seems much more like an effort to distract with, frankly, a dull rusty object, not a bright shiny one, and i think that we already have two investigations ongoing into this area. the mueller report contains graphic detail about how the investigation got started with credible information about russian spying, that the fbi began addressing through a counterintelligence investigation. so the need for this memorandum or whatever it is in fact seems far from apparent. >> senator blumenthal, appreciate your sticking around. thanks to you

we're going to be joined by senator blumenthal and senator hirono. neal katyal will be here with his analysis. but there's something coming up right at the end of this hour which i think we really need because i'm going to be using what robert mueller said today very similarly to the way you did, the stashed way we use in these kinds of shows. we take a piece of it, run it, get a reaction to that piece, we talk about that piece. brian williams at 181:00 p.m. is going to do us all a service at the end of this mueller surprise day and one the whole 9 1/2 minutes uncut. the 9 1/2 minutes because most people were at work. most people weren't there to watch the unfolding of it, the drama, the way it you be folded in that room end to end. brian's going to do that. one of the great things about having these sequences of our hours that we can rely on what each other are doing in these situations. i heard about this from brian a few hours ago. i'm relying on that here that thissed youience can watch the whole thing. >> stick around to the very end because the

i believe it's richard blumenthal. it's a lawsuit under the emoluments clause that the approximately can get foreign payments from foreign states. that yesterday just crossed its second hurdle. the second time they tried to knock it out of court. it was allowed to go forward. here's the judge affirming the premises. here accepting the allegations that is true which the court must because it's preliminary. the president is accepting prohibited foreign emoluments and there by defeating the purpose to guard against the possibility of corruption and foreign influence. how important was this ruling? >> a tremendous victory and stunning vindication for common sense reading of the united states constitution. the emoluments clause is the premier anti-corruption provision of our united states constitution. it was put there by the founders to guard against exactly what donald trump is doing. taking payments and benefits from a foreign government which he is doing through licensing fees. >> hotel bills. >> payments through saudi

senator richard blumenthal and his take, next >> big tech may be is no longer entitled to be as big asis misuse of bigness can be in violation of antitrust laws. >>> there are in checks and balances on facebook mark has no boss and he cannot be fired >> do you think facebook is dangerous? >> i do. i think facebook has become too big, too powerful. >> that was chris hughes calling today for the break up of the very company he helped create. this as tech stocks continue to take it on the chin once again part of the broader market sell off we are seeing today in a scathing "new york times" op-ed, the facebook cofounder called the company a monopoly that must be stopped, saying it should p separateded into multiple companies, that its acquisitions of instagram and what's app should be undone and warning mark zuckerberg's power is unprecedented and un-american. joining us now is former twitter coo. nice to see you. you know this was a long and powerful case made by mr. hughes how did you react to reading it? >> well, honestly, i've been kind of harboring some of the same concerns for a long

today, the president was lashing out at blumenthal and other democrats wanting to lock up donald trump jr. i'll let you watch peered >> i was very surprised to see my son, my son is a very good person, he has not testified for 20 hours or something, a massive amount of time. the mueller report came out. that is the bible, the mueller report came out, and they said he did nothing wrong. >> ed: if the president wants to get all of this behind him, why not let donald trump jr., and one more time and tell the truth? >> i think the latest subpoena shows as they are never getting behind this as far as they democrats are concerned. donald trump jr. has given thousands of hours of testimony to the intelligence communities and the congress, and that doesn't seem to be enough. this is obviously an effort to just try to continue the fiction that was some sort of improper action. i think we all can recognize, donald trump jr. had committed a crime, robert mueller would have charged one. reasons democrats say donald trump wasn't charged is because he was the president. donald trump jr. is not the p

the question senator blumenthal is asking you i think are serious questions.he faa has long been referred to as the gold standard for aviation safety and i believe the events surrounding the certification and crashes have drawn that reputation into serious question. "the wall street journal" article from yesterday contains many dismaying reports. it begins by saying the review is tentatively determined senior agency officials didn't participate in or monitor critical safety assessments of the flight control system for the 737 max check later implicated in two fatal crashes according to industry and government officials and it goes on to say certification process for the 737 boeing didn't flag of the automated stall prevention feature as a system whose malfunction or failure could cause a catastrophic event. and if the article later raises the very simple question also at issue is whether agency officials performed any assessment on their own about the systems initial safety classification that suggests a serious breakdown in the certification process. the depa

i think senator blumenthal is dead wrong and is an embarrassment. shannon: i want to touch on this report from the washington post, the headline is confidential draft irs mimosas tax returns must be given to congress on this president invoke executive privilege. you would think first impression that secretary mnuchin is denying the subpoena for the president's accident, decided not to. you have to read this like you should with any report to come to your own conclusion but when you read the headline this was a memo prepared last fall, no reference to donald trump. it was unsigned and marked draft, never went anywhere. neither the irs commissioner norm steve mnuchin reviewed anything about this memo until somehow it got into the hands of the washington post so is it fair headline? >> it is a somewhat fair headline. the civil servant lawyers looked at the law as currently written. it doesn't afford the discretion that treasury secretary has invoked claiming i can refuse to provide this if there is no legislative purpose. the law is precleared. those l

so obsessed that they used clinton's hit man there he is back said vicious blumenthal to corroborate the dossier in their fisa request. the biggest clinton partisan hack to corroborate a clinton op. research to spy on a member of the trump campaign? watch this. >> i have seen each factual assertion listed in that dossier. and then i have seen the fbi's justification. and when you are citing newspaper articles as corroboration for a factual assertion that you have made, you don't need an fbi agent to go do a google search. and when the name sidney blumenthal is included as part of your corroboration, and you are the world's leading law enforcement agency, you have a problem. and you can blame it on the fisa court if you want to, but i hope brennan is smart enough to know judges don't investigate. they have to rely on the honest word of the people presenting it to them and if that honest word is missing, then the judge is going to make the wrong decision. >> sean: remember, we told you the top of the fisa application says verified. it's unverifiable. now, former congressman gowdy has s

. >> senator richard blumenthal on the uproar. >> if he fails to answer he ought to be put in jail. >> 'the leader of democrats agrees we are in a constitutional crisis. >> the president is almost self-impeaching. >> i was a businessman, very successful. >> the trump ghost writer there for all the massive losses joins me live. >> then the growing assault on women's rights in states across america. >> excuse me! you are recognized. >> i don't care what the chair is about. >> the cofounder of facebook is calling for it to be broken up. >> i'm angry at mark and a lot of the leadership. >> chris hughes joins me now. >> i think he has too much power. i don't know if we are going to be friends after this. >> all in starts right now. >> good evening from chicago i'm chris hayes. a day after senate majority leader mitch mcconnell declared the russia investigation was case closed on the floor of the senate, republican senator richard burr, the chair of the senate intelligence committee issued a subpoena for the president's oldest son, don, jr. this comes amid the epic showdown that nancy pelos

blumenthal, richard blumenthal from my home state?-- >> who cares? >> laura: he said it's despicable demogoguery. is this really a 2020 platform for all republicans? >> we would love congress to come to the white house tomorrow and find way to act on, this at least read it. that is dismissive demogoguery doesn't even matter if blumenthal that will isn't going to read it. this is not a 2020 document. we're interested in 2019. in addition to full border security, it modernizes a system that has not been touched since 1965. 54 years. members of congress certainly are not term limited but fresh and limited ideas for immigration was term limited a long time. a lot of people like the status quo. this focuses on the immediate family not just adding. >> laura: can you still sponsor minor children. >> and parents, no question. >> laura: why is e-verify, a lot of us hoped the president talked about that so often, steven miller is a big fan, if you stop the employment for these people they won't come. >> this is two big fronts that we felt comfortable putting f

we're going to have to cue more questions for dick blumenthal or whatever. but hopefully that's it, this is done and we can move on and focus on bigger issues like fixing the border here with mexico and the u.s. >> certainly done for the senate judiciary committee. we'll tell you about the house plans in just a few minutes here. they will meet with the attorney general tomorrow. let's go to knoxville, tennessee, and this is rush on the others line. >> caller: hey, thanks for taking my call. >> sure. >> caller: so i just wanted to -- i'm doing well, thank you. so i just wanted to make a comment, really just on the way that barr behaved throughout this whole hearing. and he was very -- he focused very much on the semantics of what people are saying, especially the democratic senators. and he really -- for someone that split hairs the way he did, he has a horrible memory. i mean, so many times -- i watched the entire hearing. so often he replied with, "i don't know." i would have to see. it depends on the specifics of what you're talking about. dodging the ques

connecticut senator richard blumenthal says there is technology available that could alert parents if they accidentally leave a child inside the car. senator blumenthal is legislation the hot cars act would require new vehicles to include technology that alerts the driver if ba seat congresswoman jan schakowsky believes the warning should be easy to implement think of all the bells and whistles that we have in our car. you have to have a warning the perfect example. >>of something that congress can act on to actually save lives. congressman tim ryan says as the weather starts to heat up. >>congress must act to save lives. in washington. morgan right. california could soon have stricter laws when it comes to vaccinations today the state senate. >>passed a bill that would give state public health officials instead of local doctors, the power to decide which children can skip their shots before attending school. opponents say the bill interferes with the doctor patient relationship. this move comes after 880 cases of the measles have been reported and reported across 24 states including

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take senator blumenthal.went after attorney general barr saying you are defending the president lying to the american people. wait a minute wasn't it richard blumenthal the senator who lied for years about being a vietnam veteran? cory booker went after the attorney general saying you are attempting to normalize a contact between american campaigns in russian operatives who provide material support to that campaign. well, what did christopher steele do with the money he was paid by the democratic national committee and the hillary clinton campaign? he goes in context kgb and fsb agents in moscow to say the do you have anything dirty to say about donald trump? >> sean: i think the evidence is overwhelming. hillary clinton violated espionage act. she had the intent when she deleted bleach bid my beat up devices with hammers and pulled sim cards. the intent for underlying espionage act. i believe the dossier, "new york times" might be onto something that russian disinformation. that was the bulk of information f

he's interviewed by senator richard blumenthal of connecticut. "after words" is a weekly interview program with relevant guest host interviewing top nonfiction authors about their latest work. >> host: hello. i'm richard blumenthal, united states senator from connecticut and i'm really pleased and honored to be here with preet bharara, former united states attorney for the southern district of new york and the author of a wonderful book, "doing justice." and i may say in the interest of full disclosure that i found this book to be really remarkable in its inside, it's readability and its profound ideas for not appreciating but also improving our public discourse. i want to ask you right off

connecticut senator richard blumenthal says there is technology available that could alert parents if they accidentally leave a child inside the car. senator blumenthal is legislation the hot cars act would require new vehicles to include technology that alerts the driver if a child is left alone in the back seat congresswoman jan schakowsky believes the warning should be easy to implement think of all the bells and whistles. >>that we have in our car you have to have a warning a perfect example of something that congress can act on to actually save lives congressman tim ryan says as the weather starts to heat up. >>congress must act to save lives. in washington. morgan right. >>still ahead on the cross for morning news here from a man who escaped this deadly warehouse fire in oakland. but not without some serious injuries. nothing says summer like a beach trip, so let's promote our summer travel deal on choicehotels.com like this: surf's up. earn a fifty-dollar gift card when you stay just twice this summer. or.. badda book. badda boom. book now at choicehotels.com >>to the copper on

senator blumenthal, i promise you, mr.ueller will have a chance to make sure the conversation relayed by attorney general barr is accurate. i will give him a chance to correct anything you said that he finds misleading or inaccurate and that will be it. judiciary chairman lindsey graham saying he will give robert mueller a chance to correct the record if needed about this conversation the attorney general had with mr. mr.ler about the letter tor received after his memo congress. what do you think? that attorneyk general barr handled himself real well yesterday. --s whole russia fiasco first of all, i have not seen anything to show that russia actually interfered in the 2016 election. i did not vote for clinton, i did not vote for trump. it had nothing to do with russia. i did not want to vote for clinton because she has a long history and i have never voted for a republican president. i have been a lifelong democrat. watching the democrats and some a these democrats go back long ways. most of african-americans are indoctri

i'll speak with senator richard blumenthal of the judiciary and armed services committee. and our correspondents and analysts, they will have full coverage of the day's top stories. let's go straight to our chief white house correspondent, jim acosta. jim, stock markets are way down. prices are about to go way up for a lot of americans, but the president seems satisfied with the trade war. >> that's right, wolf. even after the steep losses on wall street, president trump said he's happy with how his trade war is playing out with china. the president shrugged off china's retaliatory tariffs, even some of his aides acknowledge that there could be big pain for american consumers, as the president praised hungary's far-right leader over here at the white house. earlier today, he predicted better relations with russia and he lashed out at the mueller investigation. with his trade war with china escalating, president trump downplayed the impact of beijing's decision to impose retaliatory prices on u.s. goods that triggered big losses on wall street. >> this is a very positive st

we were with senator blumenthal yesterday on capitol hill.had a rally to commemorate the 65th anniversaries anniversary of brown. and he confirmed there was no strategy. the question he thought was a simple one, a kind of softball, giving a nominee an opportunity to kind of talk extemporaneously about racial inequality. he was stunned with these nominees, wendy vitter gave the answer she gave. he has continued asking the question because of what wendy vitter responded. and andrew hold am you showed in the clip. this is not an accident. this is orchestrated. what is critical for viewers to know is this is not the norm. this is not a conservative/liberal thing. conservative justices have been asked this question in the past, particularly justices nominated to the united states supreme court, and they have answered the question. they have chosen not to answer, for example, questions about roe v. wade, but they've always answered questions about brown. chief justice roberts talked extensively about brown at his confirmation hearing. justice ali t

blumenthal versus trump seeks the story and evidence of his payments and benefits from foreign governments to him which he continues to refuse to disclose to the american people or to congress as is required by the emoluments clause and donald trump is defying the constitution and breaking the law by failing to disclose those details of his ongoing dealings with foreign governments and so it is a stunning picture of spectacular collapse during those years which is the term the report uses. but it also indicates very clearly why the american people deserve more truth from the white house, from this president about his business dealings. >> i want to ask you about the white house clearly continuing to stonewall the latest example obstructing don mcgahn to defy the subpoena for documents. so what are the democrats options at this point other than chairman nadler saying they could move to hold mcgahn in contempt? >> holding don mcgahn in contempt means holding the president accountable. along with others who may have participated in obstruction of justice. and that accountability means airing

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chairman grassley: senator blumenthal. sen. blumenthal: thank you, senator grassley. welcome to everyone on this supremely important topic. attendance by this committee i think a test to the importance of the american -- i attests to the importance the american people give this topic. four years ago, i began a lawsuit because of pay for delay and other tactics that other ,imes seemed obtuse and they are now so prevalent that they have brought, as you have heard, calls and clamoring for reform. the reason is quite simple. the american people are fed up system thatof this give new meaning to the term unintended consequences. these laws may have good intentions in encouraging innovation and rewarding companies that take the risk, very real risk involved in the invention and innovation. but unfortunately, the laws have been abused. and consumers know firsthand that is the reason why every lled this topic is po it is at the very top of consumer concerns. is also the reason why have so many proposals that are bipartisan. this topic truly is bipartisan. senator cornyn and i

take a listen to this exchange between barr and democratic senator richard blumenthal of connecticut.hether you have discussed those cases with anyone in the white house, including the president of the united states? >> my recollection is i have not discussed those -- >> but you don't recall for sure? >> i j -- >> let me move on -- >> i can say very surely, i did not discuss the substance of any -- >> will you recruiuse yourself m those investigations? >> no. >> what did you make of that exchange and do you think he should recuse himself? >> i don't know. he's not going to. he didn't recuse himself from the mueller investigation as a whole, even though he wrote a memo unsolicited that pre-judged the whole obstruction issue. i think that's something that congress needs to pay very close attention to. and i think it's of a piece with other exchanges he had, including one with senator kamala harris where he said, i struggle with the word "suggest," on the question of whether the president or anyone else in the white house suggest that he launch an investigation into some of donald trump'

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jeffrey toobin, senator richard blumenthal says if donald trump jr.efies and ignores the subpoena he's received from the senate intelligence committee, says he should be jailed. that's what senator blumenthal is saying. is that a realistic outcome? >> no, it's not. it's just not going to happen. he is -- he is going to figure out a way to talk to the lawyers. his lawyers will talk to the committee. there hasn't been someone jailed for defying a congressional subpoena, certainly in decades. and it's just not going to happen. but i think this comment by senator blumenthal who is a former u.s. attorney, someone who is very familiar with the legal system, it's indicative of the level of frustration that democrats feel as person after person refuses to testify. documents are not produced. and they are frustrated. but don junior is not going to jail. >> the house speaker nancy pelosi, chris cillizza is now joining the judiciary chairman jerry nadler in declaring a constitutional crisis. has nancy pelosi, the speaker's political strategy, evolved in the face