instance, ohio doif the doj ref play under this attorney, what happens? so in order for a criminal citation of contempt to be enforced, typically the step would be to pass it on to doj and ask doj to enforce it. but because attorney general barr appears to be involved in some of the events here, there is a question of whether he might be conflicted out, there might be a question of whether they would, you know, a fairly consid consider so congress may not feel that doj is not a very good partner there. i think that the other thing that congress might do is just try to civilly enforce the subpoena. but the risk there of course is they have already tried that in a number of other investigations. and that has taken quite a number of months so far with not a lot of things to show for it.
in order to enforce this, they would first ask doj to enforce it. doj would not do that. so the house can go litigate soul contempt on its own. in the district court. my prediction they would lose. we talking about is very important for viewers to appreciate about imperial congress. congress is pushing beyond that out of boundaries. it is oversight powers and impeachment powers which a letter acknowledging their doing. i think they would lose. i think it would be thrown out this way. paul: they were a couple of other cases of subpoenas with white house challenge them donald trump challenge one about the president s, the trump organization bank with deutsche bank and another by khis accounting records. and the lower courts this week sided with congress on the subpoenas. does congress have a stronger case on those issues than it did with don mcgahn? t out think so. it s a somewhat different case because they are, we really are
panel for his ongoing investigation. this includes more than 1 million documents regarding the 2016 investigation to hillary clinton s use of a private email server while secretary of state. potential fisa abuses and obtaining a warrant to monitor president trump s former campaign advisor carter page. as a recommendation from the fbi s office of professional responsibility to fire former fbi director andrew mccabe. what do you make of this? pete: the chairman is a weave as tonight is for these documents, you ve slow walk them as institutions often times do i know we are forced to subpoenaing you. what are we waiting on to get information on these things? the hillary clinton email server, we don t have information on the abuse of the fisa process and a lot of hope is hinging on the doj and inspector and inspector general horwitz and what he finds that he doesn t have the same power so it makes sense to me that a committee like this which would oversee this. ask doj but will depend on
ban in the works? not that i m aware of. i know again what do you take of that presidential stphaeuplt that the president will continue taking aggressive steps every day to protect the people in this country. ask doj to contemplate a tougher version. i think he s asked the entire administration to look for ways we can defeat isis and to protect the american people. if that s part of that process, it could be. but i don t know specifically if that s part of it. from your vantage point then, based on the questions jonathan and jim asked, why is the origin of this confusion or misunderstanding about what the president said about the mayor of london? is it the mayor of london s fault? i m sorry. i m not following. the mayor of london and many there feel that the president, not only took the comments mayor of london made out of context, but compounded an emotionally difficult experience for londoners. who is to blame for that? are they misinterpreting the president or did