elijah cummings considering impeachment proceedings. what is the issue there? the issue there is the trump administration to add citizenship questions to the 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 committee voting on a resolution authorizing judiciary chai

>> fair question from elijah cummings there? >> no question. be a political endeavor. if there's really nothing to hide here, if all they're doing is to try to do the best job possible of counting everyone in the united states, why have a big fight over this? the mueller report, it's understandable there would be a fight over that. that involves wrongdoing by the president. this should be fairly routine oversight by the house. so, it certainly raises a lot of questions. and i think that the committee is being smart by taking some time to evaluate what they're going to do in response to this letter because this is going to end up in court. and they want to appear as reasonable as possible and position us the right way for the litigation to follow. >> so, just talk about this in the broader context here, because -- well, we've got about 30 seconds. we've got to leave it there. >> sure. >> renato mariotti, thank you. >> sure. >> it's more stonewalling but supreme court may be the final arbiter on this soon, maybe as soon as monday. >> all presiden

not onlyo the judiciary committee chairman jerrold nadler or oversight committee chairman and elijah cummings or anyone else, to simply use their subpoena power action itly logical has raised some legal concerns basically legal action. it has raised legal concerns in experts. host: give us a quick look at willacy next week starting with committee ones monday and it on this resolution on monday, the resolution you're talking about is formerly sponsored by the rules committee chairman, just mcgovern. he will hold a hearing and meeting in which he will set the rules for the floor debate the next day, on tuesday, for this resolution. i am told he will give one hour of debate, three minutes -- 30 minutes to republicans, 30 minister democrats. it will likely just be limited to c-span. mainly asking those who favor impeachment now, what are we doing? why are we going through all this? why don't we launch impeachment ?roceedings now host: in one of your headlines, it says a top democrat will be held in contempt. talking about wilbur ross, the commerce secretary, oversight committee chair elijah cummi

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talk us through exactly what elijah cummings is accusing bill barr and wilbur ross of?ress has the foresubpoena documents but as we've seen over the last few months that power doesn't mean a whole lot because the executive branch knows it is uniquely situated to oppose these. after all how do you hold bill barr in criminal contempt because the next step is to ask bill barr to present bill barr to indict bill barr for contempt. congress has other contempt powers and can send the sergeant of arms out to arrest people but that's not realist jig. congress has the foresubpoena but only kind of because ultimately it requires another branch to enforce that. in this particular case, the key is, congress wants these documents from the executive branch in order to determine whether or not the proposed change to the sentence question was not to enforce the law but instead motivated to help white and other similarly situated voters. >> holding them in contempt they are building this paper trail, building case to take this up to the supreme court if they want to. >> exactly. . simul

apiece says top democrats would rather be held in contempt, talking about wilbur ross, elijah cummingshat? is the issue there? >> the efforts by the trump administration to add a citizens question to the 2020 synthesis which democrats and other critics say would prompt some to not respond to the census and orrefore skew perhaps undercount populations that could have impacts on electoral divisions, representation in congress, and federal funding. the argument here is that barr says he was asked to add that question by the justice voter rights a mechanism protection. the oversight committee chairman said he has evidence that in fact it was designed as a playful purpose -- political purpose, and for two months now he has been trying to get both the justice department and the congress department to outline how they came to that decision. >> billy house covers congress for bloomberg. he is on twitter at house in session. thanks select. >> washington journal, live every day with news and policy issues that impact you. coming up monday morning, former republican congressman tom davis joins us

beginning with roger shanahan at the naval academy followed by house oversight committee chair elijah cummings from maryland at oregon state university. >> we know we have been called the biggest little city on the map starting in 1910. what that meant was that there was some a to excitement and culture and action happening in reno that it really was the biggest little city around. >> there are not many cities in north america that has what reno has. we are on the edge of a vast wilderness. i think of the environment as a crucial determinant of what life is like in our own city. >> the c-span cities tour is on the road examining the american story. we take you to reno, nevada. >> reno, 100 years ago, was known as a place to get a divorce. then reno became known as a place to go gamble. that has been basically drying up for the last 25 years, but we

this is elijah cummings.re's a live picture of the hearing room where they're going to meet to tackle this matter. they are supposed to be starting up in less than 10 minutes. you can watch this live at 10:00 a.m. eastern time on c-span three. chairman has announced that he scheduled the committee vote to hold the attorney general and the commerce secretary in contempt over this dispute about documents regarding a potential citizenship question. elijah cummings, the maryland democrats and all members of the committee have proposed to enforce the committee's bipartisan subpoenas. the chairman said last night that if he gets some of these documents today he will call off the boat. we have also read that the attorney general william barr, allows the president to declare executive privilege. you can watch it at 10:00 a.m. on c-span3. here on c-span later today, 10:00 eastern time it's morning hour in the house. and at noon they start debate on a giant package of appropriations bills. roughly $1 trillion in spendi

elijah cummings, the government oversight committee. eliot engel, foreign affairs committee. they're all doing their work very well, and i believe in the committee system, and it will bubble up from there. >> anotheri issue over the weekend was the president backing off his threats of tariffs on mexico. he says he deserves credit for forcing mexico to take a tougher line on the immigration issue. >> if i wanted to talk about the president, i would have more important work to do at home. [ applause ] >> no, everybody knows that those issues were -- if they were agreed to, they were agreed to long before the president made the announcement, a, but they were designed to take your attention away from the mueller report. look at the timing. this all happened a while back. and even now, the foreign minister of mexico is saying that's not really the way the president describes is not really the way what we have agreed to. but the fact is that i come here each year, very complimented to have the invitation of the peterson family. pete peterson to me was a national hero. i loved him v

elijah cummings holds bill barr and wilbur ross in contempt. he wants to suggest to the supreme court there is vital information being withheld so the court will put off ruling in the case. this is not a good way to use contempt. paul: then we have the showdown, so-called, between jerry nadler, two democrats and the speaker of the house, nancy pelosi. nadler wants to start an impeachment inquiry for what i think is actually a sound reason in the sense that if you're going to investigate and ask for documents, impeachment is the firmest constitutional ground that congress can have. on the other hand, nancy pelosi trying to protect her members from what could be a very controversial decision. >> yeah, i think there's two strategies going on here. the nadler impeachment strategy which is to consistent try the american public a that the trump presidency is in no way a normal presidency. it's an abnormal presidency. joe biden is running on that strategy. on the other hand, have you nancy pelosi who is speaker of the house, only because so many democ

the yield to elijah cummings, the chairman of the oversight and investigations committee. mr. cummings: thank you. today marks a pivotal moment for congress and our ability to conduct oversight as an independent branch of government. none of us wanted to be in this position. but the trump administration is challenging the very constitutionality of congressional oversight. and it is happening in broad daylight. this is not just about russia. this is a broad, cooshed nated -- coordinated campaign to stall more investigations across the board, and it is being directed from the very top. this entire year, the white house has not produced not one document to the oversight committee. let me say that again. in all of our investigations, the white house has not turned over once english word of paper in response to any of our requests. the hurricanes in puerto rico, the white house has produced nothing. security clearance abuses, the white house has produced nothing. efforts to transfer nuclear technology to saudi arabia, the white house has produced nothing. hush money payments, the w

so elijah cummings giving them until thursday to hand over these documents and trying to paint this as a picture of overall stonewalling of the trump administration. cummings in statement tonight again, threatening to hold them in contempt, saying that their actions are part of a pattern in the trump administration and he will consider postponing a contempt vote if they hand over what they've been requested by thursday. wolf? >> we'll see what happens, sunlen, thank you very much. sunlen serfaty up on capitol hill. joining me now, raja krishnamoorthi. thanks so much for joining us, congressman. as you know, at least 56 house democrats are now calling for impeachment or beginning at least impeachment proceedings against the president. where do you stand? >> i think that the mueller report laid out impeachable conduct, especially the obstruction of justice parts of the report, volume ii. i think that the concern that i have is we want to begin the impeachment proceedings at a time when we've collected enough evidence to get to a conviction. i think that the concern of folks like myself a

elijah cummings is accusing the administration of a cover-up. court could rule any day now whether to allow the citizenship question to the census. the aclu notified the court of this evidence last week. this was evidence they didn't have when they first argued this case. that it is not clear whether the high court will consider the evidence before making its decision. i want to bring in the director of the aclu voting project and he voted against adding the question before the supreme court in april. he joins me now. a simple question. you got new evidence. you had your opportunity to say your peace. you don't have it. what happens if the supreme court agrees the justice department today which said hey, this is just trying to, they shouldn't need it. this evidence is frivolous, et cetera. if the court won't view this evidence in deciding this decision. what do you do next? >> well, right now this evidence is not in the formal record before the supreme court. i think it would be a mistake for courts to, for the supreme court to pass judgment on

baltimore sun" reports that at baltimore state university's commencement in baltimore, congressman elijah cummings, who represents most of the city, urged their graduates to use their degrees and talents to defend and promote democracy in its hour of peril. the newspaper also reports congressman cummings, who chairs the house oversight committee, did not mention president trump by name but did say the president has created "a fight for the very soul of democracy." this commencement speech is just over half an hour.

slamming william barr and commerce secretary wilbur ross you house oversight committee chairman elijah cummingsthe two would rather be held in contempt of congress man turn documents to documents about efforts to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census. critics of the question say it inld decrease participation areas with large immigrant populations, which could reduce representational -- proportional reputation and access to federal dollars. a united nations official say

. >>2 committee chairman elijah cummings their refusal to testify was not surprising. >>this is a coordinated campaign to more investigations. the board. and it is directed from the very top and issue the final question to be added to the end of next year's census questionnaire asking. >>quote is this person a citizen of the united states. the census bureau reportedly included it as a result of pressure from the justice department i want to know why it was why this question was magically added after we have seen that a political operate is new and detail intent to intimidate racial and immigrant communities. >>for a partisan purpose, new york representative alexandria ocasio cortez and other democrats charge that the new question. >>is politically motivated that it's designed to intimidate non citizens regardless of their legal status and that it would give republicans an edge in the population estimates used to draw congressional districts to shield his cabinet members president trump issued an order invoking executive privilege i think when you have a sense is and. >

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 documents identified by the committee. in addition the president has made a protective assertion of executive privilege over the remainder of the subpoenaed documents. so that was the fireworks that begun this hearing. and a few minutes into it, elijah cummings basically argued you had months to make this assertion of executive privilege. instead, you wait until just a couple of minutes before my hearing begins and then you assert it. so, he advised members to go ahead, read through the letters, then he would come back later this afternoon for the actual vote to hold these officials in contempt. he wants to give members of congress a bit of time to look over the materials, specifically to lack ove

that has vote is happening any minute and that committee's chairman, elijah cummings has had always he can take of the white house coverups. >> in all of of our investigations, the white house has not turned over one single shred of paper in response to any of our requests. . the hurricanes in puerto rico, the white house has produced nothing. security clearance abuses, the white house has produced nothing. efforts to transfer nuclear technology to saudi array bee ya, nothing. hush money payments, nothing. it doesn't matter what the matter is, the tactics are the same. this begs the question, what are they hiding. >> as the president's poll numbers show him behind joe biden and half a dozen over democrats his thoughts are increasingly on impeachment. "the washington post" out with tremendous new reporting on the president's post mueller obsession, his own removal from office by congress. the post's ashley parker reports he has peppered confidants and advisers with questions of how an impeachment inquiry might unfold. and he has coined his own cheeky term, the i-word, that threatens to

the chairman of the house oversight committee elijah cummings wasting no time tonight moving on this.e says he wants kellyanne conway to appear up here on capitol hill and that he will hold a hearing on this later this month, announced now for june 26th. he says in a statement, quote, complying with the law is not optional. president trump should terminate ms. conway's employment immediately in light of these dozens of violations of federal law. allowing ms. conway to continue her position of trust at the white house couwould demonstrat that the president is not interested in following the law. democrats on capitol hill will no doubt want to keep the spotlight focused on this. the oic can only make recommendations. they do not have enforcement power. so this is just a suggestion to the white house. the white house saying they believe the special counsel recommendations are deeply flawed. >> we're also just learning that some members of the judiciary committee are sitting down and reviewing mueller probe documents. what are you hearing? >> that's right. a significant movement. and we'r

>>be held in contempt. 2 committee chairman elijah cummings their refusal to testify was not surprising. >>this is a broad. coordinated campaign to more investigations. the board. and it is directed from the very top and issue the final question to be added to the end of next year's census questionnaire asking. >>quote is this person a citizen of the united states. the census bureau reportedly included it as a result of pressure from the justice department i want to know why it was why this question was magically added after we have seen that a political operate is new and detail intent to intimidate racial and immigrant communities. >>for a partisan purpose, new york representative alexandria ocasio cortez and other democrats charge that the new question. >>is politically motivated that it's designed to intimidate non citizens regardless of their legal status and that it would give republicans an edge in the population estimates used to draw congressional districts to shield hismembers a stand.we about whe to me. >>the killer the oc is kron 4 news. the so-called baby trump balloon has

baltimore sun" reports that at baltimore state university's commencement in baltimore, congressman elijah cummings, who represents most of the city, urged their graduates to use their degrees and talents to defend and promote democracy in its hour of peril. the newspaper also reports congressman cummings, who chairs the house oversight committee, did not mention president trump by name but did say the president has created "a fight for the very soul of democracy." this commencement speech is just over half an hour. rep. cummings: to dr. wilson, i want to thank you for your very kind introduction. good morning to everyone. i'm honored to be with you on this wonderful occasion. as i was sitting there listening to my good friend and mentor and colleague, i could not help but think about the campus as it was maybe 15 or so years ago, and think about how far we have come and i am so proud to be associated with morgan state university. it is one of the proudest things i do, sitting on this board. give yourselves a hand. we have been great. [applause] cummings: chairman and my distinguished colleagues, o

house oversight committee elijah cummings announcing a hearing on the matter in the coming weeks writing that allowing this trust at the white house would demonstrate the president is not interested in following the law were requiring his closest aides to do so. we also learned today that the press secretary sarah sanders will be stepping down at the end of the month after nearly two years on the job. the president said she did an outstanding job. by the way, the third woman to hold that post following dd myers and her very own dana perino, bret. >> bret: kevin corke and the speaking room, thanks. margaret -- margaret hunter and campaign manager of republican california congressman duncan hunter plead guilty to corruptin charge and agreed to provide substantial assistance to the investigation. nearly a year ago representative hunter suggested his wife was to blame for alleged misuse of $250,000 in campaign funds. margaret hunter could face up to five years in prison when sentenced on september 17th. the democratic national committee just released in the past few minutes the names of the

general william barr and commerce secretary wilbur ross be held in contempt. 2 committee chairman elijah cummings their refusa to testify was not surprising. >>this is a broad. coordinated campaign to seoul more investigations. the board. and it is being directed from the very top and issue the final question to be added to the end of next year's census questionnaire asking. >>quote is this person a citizen of the united states. the census bureau reportedly included it as a result of pressure from the justice department i want to know why it was why this question was magically added after we have seen that a political operative new and detail intent to intimidate racial and immigrant communities. >>for a partisan purpose, new york representative alexandria ocasio cortez and other democrats charge that the new question. >>is politically motivated that it's designed to intimidate non citizens regardless of their legal status and that it would give republicans an edge in the population estimates used to draw congressional districts to shield his cabinet members president trump issued an order invoki

until then some of the questions from this morning beginning with the committee chair elijah cummings.

host: how do you think elijah cummings and jerry naylor -- nadler are doing it? guest: to some accent, they are victims of whether president sensors have done. -- of what their predec essors had done. -- as i've said, the president's party tends to under investigate, the opposition party tends to over investigate. under democrats, there was pent up amanda to look at these items. i think most chairman, and other chairman as well, are going after them now. host: how do you try to walk the line from not under investigating, and where do you think the line was in over investigating? wast: my ranking democrat harry wexler, and for two years, he was the chairman. we felt a certain obligation to the leadership that gave us the gavels, but for the most part, we worked things out. i subpoenaed my own secretary of defense, subpoenaed cabinet members for my own party -- host: why did you subpoena the secretary of defense? guest: there were any number of issues on contracting in iraq. we had a situation when a professional football player had died in combat and the kind of c

elijah cummings plans to summon her on wednesday.hey plan to hold her in contempt if she doesn't show up. they ordered she be violated for violating the hatch act. >>> president trump has signed an executive order to make health care prices more trans patients. calls for an estimate. hospitals, insurers can fight this. >>> mitch mcconnell is set to meet with 9/11 first responders today. he'll be discussing an extension for the 9/11 victim's compensation fund. the current funding expires in 2020. there's not enough money to pay off all of the claims. last week jon stewart criticized the majority leader for holding up legislation and schal lenged him to sits down with first responders. the new bill does not call for a specific amount of money, just whatever sums are necessary through 2090. >>> bill gates calling on others to step up regulation on big tech. the company like he created have so much influence on culture, business and life, they must be constantly monitored. >> technology's become so central that government has to think, o

secretary, i'm just reading this elijah cummings statement.ions the word bipartisan like three or four times in terms of the subpoenas how many republicans are they talking about? is this like the justin amash impeachment bipartisan subpoena? i mean, how many republicans is elijah cummings referring to here on the contempt -- or the subpoena >> well, i have no idea, but it really doesn't matter. the fact is, we believe we're on solid legal grounds for the position that we have taken -- >> you expect that there's going to be -- >> we are cooperating -- >> will you be held in contempt tomorrow, mr. secretary? >> i have no idea. the committee will have to vote. and then next, it will potentially go to the full house. >> okay. >> but the important thing is not that the important thing is the supreme court sometime between now and the end of this month will make the definitive decision about whether we put the citizenship question on. they're the ones that are important. and this is just a side show designed to disrupt the supreme court process. >>

. >> in this meeting with pelosi tuesday night word chairman jerrold nadler, adam schiff, elijah cummingsd neal, and eliot engel. a spokeswoman for the speaker telling fox, "they agreed to keep all options on the table and continue to move forward with the hearing and legislative strategy as early as next week to address the president's corruption and abuses of power uncovered in the report, but it has led to awkward questions like this one." >> are you, mr. chairman, feeling any pressure from your members to at least open and impeachment inquiry? >> well, the question -- let me put it this way, it may come to that. >> at least 59 house democrats are now publicly supporting impeachment, but pelosi is worried it could backfire and lead to the president being reelected and potentially democrats losing the house. harris? >> harris: mike emanuel, thank you very much. i want to bring in democratic commerce menorrhagia krishnamoorthi of illinois, member of the oversight committee. good to see you today. i will admit it's awkward to act about impeachment general medieval economic a choice in the

elijah cummings decided to delay voting on a resolution to hold william barr and wilbur ross in contemptfter president trump said he will exert executive privilege. >> now the president is asserting executive privilege over all of these documents. this begs the question what is being hidden. >> joining me now chuck rosenberg and amy seigard. welcome both. chuck, it does seem that the white house is going to use everything they've got to deny the underlying documents and keep those key witnesses don mcgahn and others opinion what does congress do? >> what you're seeing is public bargaining. there is such a thing as executive privilege. it's a real thing. i guess the question is how broadly are they asserting it. are they asserting it properly and will we have to let the courts decide how far to reach in this case. congress wants as much as it can get. white house wants to give as little as it has to. there's a back and forth about whether they will need to go to court to litigate it. >> don junior back on the hill. this was a bipartisan agreement to bring him back after michael cohen's te

today a separate vote in the house oversight committee with elijah cummings, the chairman of the committee moving forward with a resolution to hold the attorney general william barr in contempt of congress and wilbur ross, the commerce secretary, in contempt of congress for failing to turn over enough information related to their investigation into how a question about citizenship ended up on the u.s. census. this all comes as democratic leaders try to quell concerns in the caucus to move forward with an impeachment inquiry. they are trying to argue the investigations they have in committee are moving forward seamlessly. when they are not, chairman go directly to court to enforce their subpoenas. >> thank you very much for that. donald trump, jr., is back on capitol hill today. he'll be interviewed behind closed doors by the senate intelligence committee after a contentious back and forth over his appearance. jessica schneider has more. what do they want to ask him this time? >> donald trump has gone before the committee before. now the stakes are higher because of discrepancies from his t

>> oversight chairman elijah cummings asserting executive privilege asking what the president has the hide. cummings says the contempt vote is not personal. >> nobody is trying to be harmful to our attorney general. it's not about him. nobody is trying to be harmful to the secretary of commerce. it's not about him. it's about our country. >> part of the justice department's defense of declaring executive privilege is it's already turned over many documents in response to the subpoena, but it had to keep certain information confidential to protect attorney client privilege and internal deliberations. a leading conservative suggests the battle is all political theater. >> democrats in the supreme court will rule by the end of the month on this citizenship question. they hope to use the oversight power to create a controversy around this issue, try to impact the court's decision. >> chairman cummings is frustrated by this askertation of executive privilege saying the committee has asked for the documents more than a year and hours before a possible contempt vote, the president exerts exe

chairman elijah cummings said barr and ross are part of the cover-up by the top administration and are complacent in defying president and the constitution. the contempt vote is scheduled for tomorrow. >>> and you detail this morning in the ve making plans for the money collected during the scandal. the university told the federal judge it is working with the state attorney's office on what to do with the money. sanford wants to redirect it to the quote public good. that's about $777,000 donated by families of would-be recruits which includes $610,000 in bribes to coaches. in the meantime former stanford head sailing coach john vander moore is expected to be sentenced this week. he pleaded guilty in march to accepting bribes from the parents of three applicants who wanted to join the team. >>> a bay area train station falling apart. coming up chunks of the station ceiling coming down. why caltrain left a leaky roof unfixed for years. >>> after an extremely hot day yesterday with record-breaking he, it will be another hot day from many locations. we have an excessive heat warning and he

oversight committee chairman elijah cummings is seeking information about the motive for the ministrations inclusion of a citizenship question in next year's census. meanwhile, tonight, george nader, lebanese and american businessman who tried to set up foreign-made viewings the trump transition and ended up cooperating with robert mueller's investigation, has been arrested on charges of transporting child pornography. he was taken into custody upon arrival at jfk airport. stocks were mixed. dow gain 5. s&p 500 dropped 8. nasdaq entered correction territory with a loss of 120. president trump may be the biggest and most obvious punching bag for democrats hoping to earn a shot at replacing him. the front runner in the race also becoming more of a target for those chasing him. correspondent peter doocy has two nights campaign news from dubuque, iowa. >> the question is how could democrats beat president trump? >> socialism is not the answer. >> the porters of socialist policies made themselves heard in california were activists collection of candidates who took advantage of the front runner'

listen to what democratic house oversight chairman elijah cummings had to say about that testimony. >> the president and the doj seems to want to hold back a lot of information, but this has been the pattern, making it almost impossible for committees to do their jobs. >> well, that's generous. they seem to be holding back with information? what also seems to be apparent is maybe it's not just the white house making it impossible for congress to do i job. maybe congress has relinquished too much power by not demanding more. i repeat, a witness overslept and missed a hearing today. hope hicks couldn't tell you where her office was in the white house or wouldn't tell you. all bark and no bite, and they're going to need to do a whole lot more if they actually want to make their case to the american people in the court of public opinion. >>> i want to talk about all of this with my guest, elie honig. >> we're singing from the same sheet. >> i'm over here leaning back, thinking to myself how would you grade the democrats in this? you've heard my take about it. are they actually doing the r

chairman congressman elijah cummings announced plans to vote on wednesday to hold attorney general williamry wilbur ross in contempt of congress. the maryland democrat sent committee members a resolution to proceed with both criminal and civil actions in an attempt to get subpoenaed documents. congressman cummings says that bart ross a part of a cover up trump administration and our complaint complacent and define precedent and the us constitution. the department of justice has not responded to coming statement. the house oversight committee wants to know how a question about citizenship ended up on next year's census, whether that question can the added to the official census is still being debated by the us supreme court. >>other news tonight, mexican authorities are patrolling the country's southern border with guatemala in a bid to try to cut off the flow of central american migrants. president trump said tariffs on mexican goods were indefinitely suspended after negotiators from the us and mexico. we're able to reach a deal on immigration enforcement. the number of migrants on their j

congressman jim jordan and two other republicans are making the request in a letter to each chairman elijah cummingsays "given your previous statement about protecting our national security interest, i hope you would agree that the committee should take immediate action on this matter. the wide-ranging fallout from these mishandling incidents should not be minimized or obscured." and the state department review catching the attention of president trump, watch. >> can you imagine? if i got a subpoena -- think of this. if i got a subpoena for emails, if i deleted one email, like a love note to melania, it's the electric chair for trump. >> harris: formerly with the justice department, what do you make of it all? >> ian: well, classification exists for a reason. if you have government employees that are not taking that seriously, that's a big problem. to have someone like hillary clinton that essentially gets off, it sends a message that this stuff really isn't that important. until you enforce that and you do in a very public way, you're going to start to have a situation where people don't pay close

listen to what democratic house oversight chairman elijah cummings had to say about that testimony. >the doj seems to want to hold back a lot of information, but this has been the pattern, making it almost impossible for committees to do their jobs. >> well, that's generous. they seem to be holding back with information? what also seems to be apparent is maybe it's not just the white house making it impossible for congress to do i job. maybe congress has relinquished too much power by not demanding more. i repeat, a witness overslept and missed a hearing today. hope hicks couldn't tell you where her office was in the white house or wouldn't tell you. all bark and no bielt, and they're going to need to do a whole lot more if they actually want to make their case to the american people in the court of public opinion. >>> i want to talk about all of this with my guest, elie honig. >> we're singing from the same sheet. >> i'm over here leaning back, thinking to myself how would you grade the democrats in this? you've heard my take about it. are they actually doing the right thing? are the

house oversight chair elijah cummings said in letters to barr and ross on monday he is giving them until thursday before scheduling the vote. times"ek, "the new york broke a story about a now-dead senior republican strategist who specialized in gerrymandering and was secretly behind the trump administration's efforts to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census. meanwhile, house lawmakers are set to vote next tuesday on whether to hold attorney general barr in contempt over his refusal to provide congress with robert mueller's unredacted report and its underlying materials. they will also hold a contempt vote for former white house counsel don mcgahn after he refused to provide documents and testimony related to the mueller inquiry and d possible obstructn of justice by the president. in an news, the trump administration friday -- in environmental news, the trump administration on lifted a ban friday on the summertime sale of e15, an ethanol-containing gasoline. the ban, in place since 2011, was designed to reduce smog levels in the hotter months. collin o'mara, president and ceo of

presidential hopeful eric swalwell, house majority whip jim clyburn, and house oversight chair elijah cummingsm steyer plans to spend $360,000 on billboards, digital ads and events he hopes will stir the impeachment pot. >> shannon: he has been stirring it. thank you. great to see you. the fight for the solo democratic party heating up as the front runner skips the major campaign event in iowa for good reason. his rivals sharpen their knives and stepped up their attacks on the former vice president. let's talk about the new democratic drama with political consultant and fox news contributor. let's put up the poll numbers. the newest one from "the des moines register" very accurate with polling and looking at the democratic caucus scores and people who show up. biden still with the healthy lead but the rings are closing. you have the second-tier. taking up a lot of oxygen from other candidates. what do you think it says that the lead with biden is closing? >> we should always have the caveat that it's still very early. i think the reason biden is avoiding getting into the fray with these candid

elijah cummings. at the time of the republican contempt vote seven years ago, attorney general holder had already produced more than 7,000 pages of documents to our committee. to my knowledge, attorney general barr has refused to turn over any document. he went on to say the night before the contempt vote in 2012, i remember this well, attorney general holder was really trying not to get a contempt vote. he found this particularly sensitive. for his integrity. so he was working with the committee. attorney general holder personally came to meet with chairman issa and me and offered to provide copies of additional internal deliberative documents. here attorney general barr is blocking the production of the very documents that general holder came forward to produce. he was like that in the judiciary committee as well. then attorney general holder made a fair and reasonable offer, to resolve the impasse, by providing thousands of pages of documents and numerous interviews. here, attorney general barr ref

the chairman elijah cummings of oversight and mexican waters and financial services. lot of this and that is why nancy pelosi has gone from saying we don't want to do it, it's bad politics to saying, if to do more investigations. i think they'll get drawn into this whether they like it or not and it will not be helpful because the people will decide the election. our independent voters, they don't want impeachment. they think it is a list of the country's time. they are supportive of the president and they view he did not conspire with russia and they also expect the decision of the attorney general and deputy attorney general, the actions in the aftermath of the 2016 elections did not constitute obstruction. >> dana: joe biden himself is saying that he is very against impeachment. he knows how much time it would waste. we are about three weeks out from the first debate. does joe biden have the most to lose? >> yes in fact there is a column tomorrow on this very subject in "the wall street journal" ." i'm waiting for the edits back to the editor. >> dana: i can't wait

it's with elijah cummings, congressman from maryland. we have over 100 cosponsors right now between the house and the senate. here's how this plan works. it starts with exactly what you said. that's how big this problem is. you realize something short of 200 people will die today from an overdose. it's like a plane crash and another one tomorrow and the next day and the next day and the next day. here's the deal. the problem keeps getting bigger and right now the federal government is nibbling behind it. we spend more, but the problem gets bigger. if someone came to you who loves you and said i know i got a problem, they have a less than one in six chance of getting the medical help they need. why? not because we don't know what to do, but we won't make the investment to help them. not enough beds or doctors or enough rehab centers. my plan with congressman cummings is over the next 10 years, we will put $100 billion, i have got this paid for already, $100 billion to hit this opioid crisis head on and bring it to its knees. we have to sa

the department of justice informed house oversight chairman elijah cummings it will not imply for thet for more documents about the decision to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census. in response, cummings says he and his committee will vote next week on whether to hold attorney general bill barr and commerce secretary wilbur ross in contempt of congress. now we know that chairman cummings has interviewed former kansas secretary of state, chrisco vac and has the white house interfered aggressively to try to prevent coback from answering questions. back with me, sirius xm radio host, danielle moodie-mills, republican strategist, noelle nikpour, and joining us, former federal prosecutor and msnbc analyst paul butler. paul, the facts that they are refusing to hand over further documents about this and that the house oversight committee is to vote on whether or not to hold the attorney general in contempt as well as secretary ross. they can't s what is the legal meaning of this? >> this is about the trump administration deny people the right to vote. this citizenship question they'