answer many of the questions posed by the democrats? reporter: this was the whole scenario that nadler wanted to avoid and why he said ahead of time, tell me if you plan on exerting executive privilege, if the white house plans on exerting it over any of the communications, confidential, between trump and whitaker. on this issue, congress really only has a couple options. if he doesn t answer questions, they can try to then serve him with a subpoena later. if they want to, to try to pursue that in the house with a context vote in the committee, then in the full house. if that is successful, they only have a few options. they can take him to court. a civil action. they could enforce the subpoena themselves with their powers. they could try to refer the matter to doj for prosecution. in this case, that would be useless as the idea of the u.s. attorney in d.c. going after the u.s. attorney general just seems farfetched. their hands are tied. good report. thank you very much.
called. a member says the justice department is withholding thousands of documents. last week congressman issa accused the attorney general of dodging questions. all have you and your attorneys produced internally the materials responsive to the subpoenas? guest: we believe we have responded to the subpoenas. you are not a good witness. a good witness answers the question asked. shepard: the officials say they cannot release a last the documents because they are open to criminal investigations. aha. the context vote is june 20th. and mike is live from washington. why now, mike emanuel? reporter: they are trying to get at who signed off on the tactics that led to the guns getting it total hands of people who used them against the american border agent and they subpoenaed the documents in october and they believe holder has been withholding that key information. i asked the chairman about the