you are hereby commanded to be and appear before the committee of the judiciary of the house -- committee on the judiciary of the house of representatives of the united states at the place, date and time specified below. they say the testimony will take place in the rayburn house office building in washington, d.c. on may 21st, 2019. time of testimony 10:00 a.m. now since that subpoena was issued to don mcgahn to come testify about what he told mueller's investigators and what he saw of the president's behavior that was described in such detail in mueller's report, since that subpoena was made public right after mueller's report came out, the white house has been full of bluster about it, right? the president himself saying in an interview on fox news that he would not let don mcgahn testify. he would not let mcgahn respond to that subpoena for his testimony. now it is not up to the president whether or not some third party is allowed to testify in response to a congressional subpoena. but the trump white house is making clear that they're absolutely going to try to block mcgahn from test

he's not on the judiciary committee. i am on the judiciary committee. and i'm continuing to seek additional information, including the mueller report minus the grand jury testimony, so that i can continue to monitor the situation. >> he's a reliable conservative, member of the freedom caucus. are you a member of the freedom caucus? >> i am. >> so you know him well. he's been active as a tea party leader and all of a sudden, he's come to the conclusion that the president of the united states committed impeachable offenses. >> well, as i said, he has a different role to play as a member of, i believe he's on the overnight committee. i'm a member of the judiciary committee and i'm in a different position than he is on those issues. >> are you glad that he's all of a sudden, because of these tweets over the weekend, he's now facing a republican primary challenge? >> i hadn't heard that. i think that, as i said, he is a friend, he's just in a different place with different positions on this shall than i issue than. >> he also said, amash, in his tweets, that

last term i was in numerous judiciary committee meetings where staff counsel questioned members of thetration. >> what do you think of the likelihood of getting barr to testify in front of the committee is at this point? >> so congress has the power to issue subpoenas, and if he is simply not going to show up in the judiciary committee, we will at some point issue a subpoena, and then we can enforce it. he has right now violated a current subpoena for the unredacted mueller report. that we're going to enforce next week with a contempt proceeding if he does not provide the full mueller report in the next couple of days. >> and a contempt proceeding, so if he is held in contempt of congress, what -- does that really result in anything? >> yes, it does. so here's the process. the house judiciary committee will vote in a contempt proceeding. if we hold him in contempt, it goes to the house floor. if the house floor votes in contempt, then it triggers two things. first, it allows our house counsel to litigate in courts to try to enforce it. second, the courts have already upheld congress' i

that's the house judiciary committee meeting today. they will hear from the attorney general tomorrow, beginning at 9:00 oa.m. eastern. he'll have it on c-span radio, c-span.org ahead of that, the washington journal tomorrow morning, all dedicated to the barr hearing today. that's on c-span radio beginning at 7:00 a.m. eastern. next up here on c-span3, we're going to bring the entire hearing from today. it's just over five hours. . >>> the first order of business is to try to cool the roo >> thank you. the first order of business is to cool the room down. the attorney general will be testifying here in a bit. i want

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robert mueller is a former fbi director and as a member of the judiciary committee i've had mr. ore my committee and me as a member of that committee many, many times. he's a former marine and straight arrow and did an outstanding job with his team in volume one and volume two. i applauded his report when it was introduced and announce and i applaud it today. obviously mr. mueller is a key witness for the house judiciary committee. our lawyers and it should be made very clear have been engaging with his lawyers because our intent is to get the facts and the truth. i think what is important is to make mr. mueller comfortable in the opening setting. obviously there should be many options there. may be an option of doing both an open setting and a closed setting. we want not mr. mueller's very attractive presence, but we want the truth and the fact and the basis of volume two which is that he left many of these issues of obstruction of justice to the congress. that means we have to do our job, and to do our job it's important to have him as a witness. >> to be clear you mentioned bo

let's begin with two new subpoenas issued by the house judiciary committee to two more former white house officials. let's go straight to our congressional correspondent, phil mattingly up on capitol hill. ph phil, the committee's request continues is to be stonewalled. what's the strategy with these latest subpoenas? >> reporter: to put it bluntly, wolf, keep the pressure on. make sure according to committee chairman jerry nadler, the judiciary committee, that they are not relenting, even in the face of the white house defiance, related to several subpoenas, blocking all aspects of the investigation they possibly can. and they are going to keep going after white house officials or former white house officials, connected to the president in their sweeping investigation into possible obstruction of justice. now, these two names, annie donaldson, and hope hicks, two of the people who were closest to the president and don mcgahn, who you noted, did not show up today for a scheduled hearing, did not comply with this subpoena, showing kind of an increased broad effort to increase pressure on w

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while that's going on the senate judiciary committee, the house judiciary committee across the capitol will be carrying on its own debate about what to do for a hearing tomorrow, thursday, bill barr threatening not to appear because of the format of that hearing. expect a lot of criticisms of bill barr there, potential discussions about subpoenas to bring nim this there. that's the chamber that has subpoena power. republicans will take a bit of a different approach. if we look at what lindsey graham told our colleague lauren fox this morning, the senate judiciary committee chairman said that he did have a conversation last night with the justice department in the wake of these reports and he said that what bob mueller was actually saying to have bill barr was not anything about what barr said, it wasn't the concern about what barr said but how the media covered what happened according to lindsey graham he said his complaint was not really anything that barr has done, just the way it was being reported. so expect that to be the argument from republicans here in this wearing. we will see

today the house judiciary committee meets at 10 a.m. eastern on a resolution to hold william barr in contempt of congress for not complying with the subpoena. the democratic-controlled committee is expected to approve the resolution, which then goes through the house rules committee before consideration of the full house. we spoke with molly reynolds from the booking -- the brookings institution on washington journal. molly reynolds from the brookings institution joins us to talk about this idea of contempt of congress, use of contempt by congress. good morning. guest: good morning. host: if no agreement happens today, what is the hurdle if they pull that trigger? guest: if the house judiciary committee approves a contempt citation and the full house also approves it, it goes onto the u.s. attorney of the district of columbia. the u.s. attorney can choose not to take that contempt citation to a grand jury to pursue prosecution. indeed, we have seen in several recent high-profile cases involving congress' contempt power, that is what the

serves onsh hawley the senate judiciary committee. ll be asking ag barr what has been going on at the fbi, who was spying on the president and why? it is time we got answers. 12 republicans and 10 democrats on the committee. when it comes to republicans, those who are lawyers and have law degrees, here is the rundown. senator lindsey graham and his law degree from the university of south carolina. ted cruz went to harvard. mike lee went to brigham young. going on with republicans in the committee, josh hawley got his law degree from yale and senator john kennedy of louisiana got degree from louisiana state. pat lahey and dick durbin and mazie hirono getting law degrees from georgetown. chris coons and richard blumenthal got degrees from yale and continuing on the democrat side, cory booker also got his law degree from yale. sheldon whitehouse from the university of virginia. amy klobuchar got her degree from the university of chicago law school and kamala harris from uc hastings college of law in california. host: mike in spring hill,

he is a member of the house you judiciary committee and house intelligence committee and also a democratic candidate for president. congressman swalwell, your reaction today to don mcgahn not showing up at the judiciary committee, committee issuing more subpoenas while the president continues to fight subpoenas. >> good evening, lawrence. i think it's time empty witness chais result in epty witness pockets and should find the lawless individuals every single day until they show up. i think immediately we should move to impeach attorney general barr and move to impeach secretary mnuchin. they're front door obstructers to the information we need to hold the president accountable. i've certainly not taken off the table impeaching the president. but those two immediately should be impeached so that we can get the information we need. >> what do you see happening within the democrats and the house of representatives? we see more and more members coming out and calling for direct -- going directly to impeachment now in the house judiciary committee. that was something that virtually no one was d

just as the white house and attorney general william barr tried to shut down the judiciary committee's path to access mueller's full findings and evidence. tonight here opened up another path as the intelligence committee sends their subpoena as well. right. so all of these different fights, all of these different subpoena, all of these different confrontations, they are the same thing. it is trump versus mueller's investigation. and the apex concern that the president and the trump white house and his helpers in this fight must have, the prospect that they must feel lurking under the bed ready to reach out and grab their ankles if they let a foot touch the floor, right, the gravest boogieman worry they've got to have right now has to be that robert mueller somehow, some way will be allowed to speak freely and for himself about his own investigation and his own findings in his own terms. because this feels like we are going through this remarkable period in the news, right? it has been a six-week festival of freak-out, trying to stop mueller from speaking in his own terms about his own

guest: that is what we are seeing the house judiciary committee trying to do. oflays out a whole series negotiations that have already taken place. there is further discussion that is still happening. again, this is what we generally see happen in these cases. table, guys come to the former representative tom davis was quoted last week as saying -- i think it is a good way to capture it. that is just the general way these types of disagreements are perceived and we will have to see what happens in this case or not. host: we saw the justice department turned down a house ways and means committee request for trump plus tax returns. at hand in the case of tax returns is different because it is a specific statute that says the committee can access that information. but we are certainly likely to see that sort of dispute escalate as well. and the possibility of a contempt citation for secretary mnuchin. that is on the table as well. under housets democrats are battling with the administration over questions. the former white house counsel, todd mcgann -- there are a

>> i'm big on the committee system and i expect the judiciary committee and jerry nadler is doing a wonderful job as well as all our chairman, nigel cummings, maxine waters, elliott engel, adam schiff, they mostly have the six committees that are interacting on all of these subjects. and they'll, today, take their action in the committee, and then the next step would be to bring it to the floor and we'll see what their recommendation is about that. >> we'll follow that event with nancy pelosi later in our schedule on the c-span networks. we're looking live here at an empty hearing room in the house judiciary committee. they're in recess until about 2:30 or so. they're votes are on the house floor. here at 2:30 on c-span3 and also c-span radio. we'll take your calls on what you saw this morning and the president claiming executive privilege as recommended by the attorney general william barr over all the material covered under the mueller report. 202-748-8920. republicans call 202-748-8921. for independents and all others, that's 202-748-8922. finleyville, pennsylvania on our democrats line. i

this right now is the house judiciary committee, you see the chairman jerry nadler there. as for the attorney general, bill barr, he is a no show, objecting to the democratic chairman's plans to have committee lawyers do some of the reque questioning. >> he could be hit with a subpoena. first house democrats want to enforce the subpoena barr blew off yesterday. as we are speaking that is bill barr leaving his home today, of course, he is no the going to that hearing at the house judiciary committee. he would have been, he was scheduled to and now democrats are talking about the possibility of a subpoena, though nor the moment they're focused on getting the fully unredacted mueller report without any of the redactions that were made and crucially with all of the underlying evidence, inste spent the day defending how he handled -- this is barr -- released and summarized that report not only against attacks from democrats but also a letter from the special counsel himself saying that he mischaracterized the special counsel's findings. manu raju is outside that house hearing. b

and you're on the judiciary committee. the white house says that don mcgahn, the president's former white house counsel doesn't have the legal right to provide documents subpoenaed by congress. do you believe this is a valid legal argument? >> well, i don't think so. i think don mcgahn -- frankly wing it's the president who has waived executive privilege by allowing don mcgahn to testify pot special counsel and share things to the president's own personal attorneys. that's an issue that may end up being litigated in court. more broadly, it's pretty striking that just a few weeks ago, the president was claiming complete and total exoneration and is now taking steps to prevent don mcgahn, the white house counsel who provided so much information to the special counsel from even appearing in front of congress. i do think this is one of those instances where i'll repeat a line i said a number of times before. if the president's truly innocent, he ought to act like it and allow white house counsel mcgahn to testify to congress.

attorney general william barr says he will not come before the house judiciary committee today one day after he was grilled by senators on the mueller report. >> he's trying to blackmail the committee. >> chairman jerry nadler wanted lawmakers and staff attorneys from both parties to be able to question barr. he refused. >> given how dishonest he's been, i can understand why he's afraid of facing more effective examination. >> president trump defended his attorney general's decision. >> well, i guess they want to treat him differently than they have anybody else. you elect people that are supposed to be able to do their own talking. >> barr did spend five hours in front of a contentious senate judiciary committee yesterday. >> please, mr. attorney general. give us some credit for knowing what the hell's going on here. >> special counsel robert mueller laid out ten possible instances including one where white housnsel d mp ordered then fired. >> there's something very different between firing a special counsel outright, which suggests ending the investigation, and having a special couns

host: we have more on the back and forth and the makeup of the house judiciary committee. >> we've talkedo you about two leaders that you have heard from several times this morning. jerry nadler was the chair of the committee and doug collins out of georgia, the republican ranking member. a little more about their background. nadler is a representative of new york, and has been a member of congress since 1992. he served as a former new york state assembly man and got his agree from florida state university. the republican representative there, he has been a member of congress since 2014 and he has his law degree from john marshall law school. host: back to calls. robert in greenville, texas. independent. what do you think of the attorney general not testifying this morning? caller: i think what we are witnessing right now is a self-destruction of the rule of law in the united states. these people are just shameful. down one way come or the other, republican or democrat. i come down -- this constitution, we elect officials that should be pillars of our society to represent us. the thing th

joining us now a member of the judiciary committee, mucarsel-powell. your critics are already saying the republicans insisting this is simply a democratic political stunt. your reaction? >> well, it's far from a stunt. it's far from a game. i really think is one of the most serious constitutional moments we have faced and looking specifically at the foundations of our democracy our founders were smart enough, wolf, to have three branches of government that are supposed to be co-equal. so that there would be oversight of each branch on the other. if he is going to now ignore every request for a witness to come and testify, if he is going to exert blanket executive privilege which legally he can't do. he already waived executive privilege around the mueller report. now he's trying to assert it over everything and hide what is in the mueller report. we are at a deeply disturbing moment. the difference between a dictator shship and democracy i democracy has checks and balances. if you take away the entire authority and say one branch is not going to respec

i mean, look at the clown show that went on in the judiciary committee today.u put nancy pelosi back if in charge. -- back in charge. you get all these kinds of comments with no accountability, nobody pushing back when they go way over the edge. lou: she's pretty radical. she and the radical dems for 2 1/2 years have been lying about this president, conspiring against him, lying about their lies, lying about their conspiracy, and now we're starting to see the truth, jason. but to see them accusing william barr of lying? they are lying about their lies again. >> i have a theory about this. and it's just a prediction. it's just a prediction. but i really think those that were in the positions of power who are misusing that power are scared to death of the inspector general and attorney general barr, and they are going to do anything and everything to try to disparage this person because they know that they are on to them, that they are on their tail, and they're going to expose the truth of how they misused that power during the obama administration on donald tru

and doug gave statements at this 15 minute hearing and we will show you a news briefing with judiciary committee members. objection, the chair is authorized to declare recesses of the committee at any time. we welcome everyone to today's hearing of oversight department of justice into russian interference in the 2016 presidential election and related matters. i will now recognize myself for an opening statement. attorney general barr has informed us he will not appear today. although he worked to accommodate his concerns, he objects to the prospect of answering questions by staff counsel and to the possibility that we may go into executive session to discuss certain sensitive topics. given the attorney general's lack of candor before other congressional committees, i believe my colleagues and i were right to insist on the extended questioning. to my knowledge, not even the ranking member was opposed to the idea of moving into closed session if necessary. but even if democrats and republicans disagree on the format of this hearing, we must come together to protect the integrity of this chamber. t

senate judiciary committee is giving special counsel robert mueller an opportunity to refute william barr's testimony this week. >> reporter: senator graham writing to robert mueller today asking him if he wants to provide testimony to his committee, but testimony only on one singular issue, an issue that came up during attorney general barr's testimony up here on capitol hill on wednesday. barr told the committee on wednesday that he talked about this phone call that he had with robert mueller, and barr says during that phone call, that mueller said he did not think the four-page summary was inaccurate, and barr said that mueller said he was unhappy with the media coverage of the barr summary. that, of course is a quite different tone and different substance than what we've heard of mueller's complaints, of course, that were documented in that letter he, himself, sent to barr. so senator graham today basically giving mueller an opportunity to go ahead, refute what barr says. he says, quote, in this letter, attorney general barr testified that you believe media coverage of your invest

president trump invoked executive privilege to shield the full unredacted mueller report from the judiciary committee. the house intelligence committee issued a subpoena to the justice department for the full mueller report including counter intelligence materials and the republican led senate intelligence committee subpoenaed donald trump trump jr. to testify about his knowledge of the trump tower moscow project. we're going to get to all of it but first, it was a party line vote, 24-16 the final margin in the house judiciary committee earlier today to advance a measure that would hold attorney general barr in contempt of congress for failing to comply with a subpoena to hand over the unredacted mueller report. that contempt resolution that passed the committee heads to the full house for a potential vote. it is not clear, though, when that might be. this marks a major escalation, it's a fight that now seems all but certain to land in court. after today's vote the chairman of the house judiciary committee jerry nadler of new york claimed that the country is now in a constitutional crisis. >> we toda

lindsey graham is the chairman of the senate judiciary committee, the committee with jurisdiction over our criminal justice system and our civil justice system. that's the committee that writes federal laws about, among other things, how federal subpoenas are enforced, and the chairman of that committee, who is a lawyer, is publicly advising a witness subpoenaed by the united states senate to ignore that subpoena. publicly advising him to commit a crime. psychiatrists studying lindsey graham's attempts to subvert and pervert congressional subpoena power need to begin with 20th century lindsey graham. >> the day richard nixon failed to answer that subpoena is the day that he was subject to impeachment because he took the power from congress over the impeachment process away from congress and he became the judge and jury. >> before donald trump jr. reached an agreement about testifying to the senate intelligence committee late today, last night lindsey graham publicly coached donald trump jr. again, telling "the washington post," "you just show up and plead the fifth and it's over with."

but the republican chairman of the senate judiciary committee is telling cnn he's open to having mueller testify in public. democratic congressman gerald connelly of virginia, a member of the house oversight committee, he's standing by to take our questions. and our correspondents and analysts, they will have full coverage of the day's top stories. let's begin with our congressional correspondent, phil mattingly up on capitol hill. phil, the democrats' threat to hold attorney general william barr in contempt prompted a new offer from the justice department. tell us more. >> that's exactly right. house democrats in the judiciary committee making clear earlier today, they have lost patience and they are moving head long down the track towards a contempt vote. the justice department trying a last-ditch effort to diffuse that action. offering in a letter today, hours after they missed the deadline, the latest deadline, to turn over the unredacted mueller report and all of the underlying evidence that went along with it that they would be willing to hold negotiations at the staff level, at th

mueller testify by the judiciary committee. the barr testimony was just such a defense for the president and so misrepresented the direction of the mueller report. i think it's critically important that mr. mueller be given an opportunity to testify in open session for the judiciary committee to further illuminate with regards to russia's engagement in the 2016 elections, as well as the assessment on obstruction of justice issues that mr. mueller made. >> the president says it's up to the attorney general as to whether robert mueller testifies before congress. barr says he'll allow the special counsel to do so, but are you worried he could reverse course? >> you know, the president has reversed course frequently, but the attorney general barr said quite clearly that he had no problems with mr. mueller testifying before congress. so, i would hope that both in the house and senate, we would hear from mr. mueller. again, there's two major issues here. one is russia's engagement in the 2016 elections and protecting us from further

of course it was only last september that on the senate side the senate judiciary committee brought in its own outside counsel during the testimony of christine blasey ford. and sarah sanders says nat white house long ago lost confidence in nadler. the committee chair. she said if he doesn't have the confidence to lead that committee, to ask the questions on his own behalf, then he should resign. >> amazing, they don't remember the christine bra schltkcasekas. >> we're here frwith congressma collins who laid out why the republicans are unhappy. do you expect democrats to hold william barr in contempt? >> i believe that will be their next step. they want to continue this story because as long as they can believe and let the american people believe that there is still something wrong, that the mueller report didn't actually say there was no collusion, no obstruction, if they can still deflect back to the president, they will keep the circus going. >> what incentives would democrats have it not have the attorney general to show up to be able to ask him questions? you seemed to say that th

he's also a member of the judiciary committee and he joins me now. coressman lieu, we just learned the attorney general will not appear before the house diciary committee. was it worth it for the democrats ton committee to vote to have staff aeys questioning twheant appears to be the reason the attorney general isn't going to come? f >> thank y your question. i'm not surprised bill barr doesn't want to come tomorrow to e house judiciary committee meeting after his disastrous appearance in the see. he admitted he had not read the actual evidence in the mueller report. i'm thinking has more time to read the actual evidence before making stuff up, and it's perfectly acceptable for staff counsel to question bill barr acause that's what stff counsel have done routinely over the years in democratic and republican administration and this is nothing new. s, woodruff: but by insisting staff membtaff attorneys have the chance to question him, the entire committee, all the members of the committee now miss an opportunity to question im. my question that worth it

on the jed. >> judiciary committee. >> i hear you.support beginning impeachment hearings against the president at this point? >> i would totally support opening an impeachment inquiry at this point, but, you know, the thing is about being in congress as opposed to being in the presidency, right, the president is one guy so he does whatever he wants obviously. here we -- it's a team sport. we work together and we try to have the conversations we can best -- as best as possible without everything leaking out, but everything leaked out. we had a conversation yesterday, some of the reports are accurate, some are inaccurate, but what i want to stand on here is that we have a responsibility, we took a constitutional oath to uphold and defend the rule of law and the constitution and all of us are trying to do that the best that we can. >> i understand that. and i'm interested in is it accurate that chairman nadler told you and fellow democrats that right now is not the right time to move forward with an impeachment inquiry? >> you know, chai

but it's not correct to say the judiciary committee is not dealing with -- >> i sit on the committee. the full judiciary committee has not met on this issue for one moment. most of its time has been on this kind of nonsense. >> well, you're missing the point that i made, tom. thank you. >> harris: i think it's important for the american people to see that you are willing to talk it out. you may not reach agreement on this very program, but civil discourse. that's what we are hoping for because that's where the answers come from. i just wonder, if everything ends up in the report, have the self america. it doesn't come up with some of the answers you're looking for. walked out to the scif and read what you can. i'm a basic girl. doman, gratis e. fox news alert on this. secretary of state mike pompeo is speaking out today after iran says it will partially pull out of the obama era nuclear deal. also it's threatening to pursue higher uranium enrichment. this is one year after the president of the united states out of that deal. rich adds in his life at the state department with the lates

nbc news is reporting tonight that the house judiciary committee has now begun discussions directory with robert mueller's team about coming to testify to the committee but nothing has been finalized at this point and no date has been set. the judiciary committee has been seeking robert mueller's testimony through the normal justice department process which requires the permission of the attorney general but that permission might never come now. the president told fox news tonight that he will try to block former white house counsel don mcgahn's testimony to the house judiciary committee. the president said i don't think i can let him, especially him because he was a counsel. the president falsely claimed that he has given investigators total transparency and then he said "it's done." >> so is it done? >> i would say it's done. we've been through this. mobe has ever done what i've done. i've given total transparency. it's never happened before like this. >> congress should be. >> they shouldn't be looking anymore. this is all -- it's done. >> the attorney general refused to testify to

simply changes the reference on that page to judiciary committee, to the committee on the judiciary. with this modest change, i urge the committee to support the amendment. i now recognize the ranking member, mr. collins, for any comments he may have on the amendment. ms. collins: on the amendment itself, i thank you, mr. chairman, i don't have any. as far as the nature, i will make one comment that was made in your previous opening statement. the chairman of now the oversight committee was not sued in this personal class, he was asserted in his official capacity in that committee and just a clarification for the record there as we go forward with, that i have no objection to it. mr. nadler: any amendments to the amendment in the nature of a substitute? who seeks recognition? for what purpose does the gentleman from ohio seek recognition? >> i move to strike the last word. mr. nadler: the gentleman is recognized. >> thank you, mr. chairman. our democratic colleagues seem to be on a mission. they're determined to destroy attorney general barr or at least discredit him in the eyes of th

attorney: a day before general william barr was scheduled to testify in front of the house judiciary committee on the mueller report, the committee met to consider several motions to permit an additional hour of questioning. since then, attorney general barr announced he would not appear before the committee citing a disagreement over how he would be questioned. this meeting was one hour and 25 minutes. >> we will come to order. 2j2b, i'mo notice, over the committee adopt the motion and our of questioning -- hour of questioning equally divided between the majority and the minority. the clerk will report the motion. by jerroldon offered nadler, house rule 11 clause 2j2 an additional hour of questioning equally divided between the majority and the minority. >> objection, the motion is considered. i will begin by recognizing myself and an opening statement. my motion a simple and straightforward. additionalrmit an hour of questioning equally divided between the minority and majority members. at the end of the regular round of questioning, we will discuss special counsel mueller's report in russia

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of the house of representatives, barr is supposed to, scheduled to testify before the house judiciary committee tomorrow morning, as well. but he's threatening not to show up, because the democrats, including the committee chairman, jerry nadler say, in addition to representatives asking questions, committee staff, lawyers, will ask questions 30 minutes from a republican staffer, 30 minutes from a democratic staffer. and barr, at least until now, says, that's not going to happen. >> and the question is, why? what is he trying to conceal? what does he think he'll be asked through that kind of sustained follow-up questioning, which can be done over 30 minutes, very difficult to do in the seven minutes or five minutes. >> if he does show up tomorrow, what do you want your house colleagues to do? >> i want to know about those notes that were taken and i want sustained questioning about the thought process that went into his decision, despite the overwhelming evidence of obstruction, not to charge the president. and there are a variety of questions that i'm going to be suggesting to my house colleag

segment tonight, walter dellinger, his op-ed piece today in the "washington post" saying the judiciary committee already has more than enough for impeachment. >> yeah, it's like water behind a dam. the pressure is just building every day for impeachment. and you know, we got more evidence today leaked out from the redacted portions of the report which confirm everybody's sense there was presidential obstruction of justice.

over don mcgahn's testimony, rhode island congressman david cicilline, member of the house judiciary committee and member of the house democratic leadership, chairman of the democratic policy and communications committee. congressman, thank you for taking a few minutes. let me start on the news. you had a hearing scheduled tomorrow, you were hoping to hear from don mcgahn. the white house says they're telling him not to show up. what do you do now? >> well, obviously we hope mr. mcgahn will appear tomorrow, the claim of immunity which is a newly created claim, i think the white house recognizes executive privilege doesn't apply since mr. mcgahn testified for 30 hours and you can't apply executive privilege after you disclosed the communications. so now they're making this really broad claim that essentially says the president and his team are immune from congress before congress. that's legally incorrect and certainly a court will have to ultimately decide that. let me be clear, if don mcgahn doesn't testify, it is time to open impeachment inquiry. the president engaged in ongoing effort to im

the judiciary committee rejects that. they now say they'll take every action to enforce the subpoena regardless of what the white house says. the judiciary committee also tonight announcing two new subpoenas, to other important mueller investigation witnesses, former white house communications director hope hicks, also annie donaldson, who was don mcgahn's chief of staff during his time as white house counsel. those subpoenas have gone out to hicks and donaldson tonight. now presumably the white house will try block those subpoenas as well, to block those subpoenas from testifying as well. presumably the judiciary committee will then hold those witnesses in contempt as well. they will pursue legal remedies against hope hicks and mrs. donaldson and just as they have for mr. mcgahn and as they will for all the rest of them. as they continue to is up mueller's witnesses. and they then try to enforce those legally binding subpoenas while the white house orders all those witnesses to not peep. the justice department meanwhile

i expect that's going happen this month, probably before the judiciary committee and the intelligencemittee with regard to volumes one and two of his report, and, of course, we need to see all of the report as well as the underlying documents, and i know that's going to be the subject of potential conseptember proceedings this week in the house judiciary committee. >> that's what the attorney general failed toll submit this morning hand now we know the judiciary committee will hold a vote on contempt on wednesday. let's switch gears, the house speaker nancy pelosi is issuing a warning to you and your fellow democrats that if they don't win by a large enough margin in 2020 that president trump might challenge the election results. this is what she told the "new york times." she told the "new york times" that it's a scenario she worried about during the 2018 mid terms. she said that she remembers thinking, quote, if we win by four seats, by 1,000 votes each, he's not going to respect the election. he would poison the public mind and would challenge each of the races, and he would say yo

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it is much more serious than the house judiciary committee issuing a subpoena. >> sources are tellingt the senate intelligence committee was negotiating this with donald trump jr. and his attorneys before the mueller report even came out. they resisted because they weren't sure what would be in the mueller report. this is rather curious what questions might donald trump jr. answer. it has to do with previous testimony and whether everything he said matched up squarely with the facts in the mueller report. >> there were a lot of references in the mueller report and things as a reader you were not sure what the conclusion was or what happened there. we don't know what happened in september of 2017. >> it was behind closed doors. >> so one would assume there are questions whether there's a consistency there. we don't know this but this could be one direction. is it consistent with how he testified? that could be one line of questioning. it certainly is interesting and burr, if you look back, have started off working quite well together in a very bipartisan time in the road. maybe this is