the white house. it was done to keep barr from being held in contempt on this first motion for the unredacted mueller report. there s still the other one pending about the census case. but the justice department actually played it a little more traditional. there was jockeying on both sides and then they gave up the documents. you know, as i i think john is right as this shows today, there s no substitute for the people in the chair and the house is casting about for some kind of effective presentation for just educating people what the mueller report said. the evidence is going to be great but what what you need the evidence for is to use it to question witnesses, and so far they don t really have the money witnesses to do that with. but this will be evidence about the obstruction itself. so it ll be the underlying documents that mueller referred to, and some of them will be pretty vivid.
continuing that. we ll talk more about this in a minute. breaking news just into cnn. we re carvana, and we want to give you the car buying experience you deserve. the chairman of the house judiciary committee striking a big deal with the justice department over the mueller report. let s get straight manu raju up on capitol hill. what s the deal? reporter: yeah. that s right. this after the house judiciary committee voted to hold bill barr, the attorney general, in contempt over failing to turn over the unredacted portions of the mueller report and the underlying evidence as demanded by a subpoena by the democrats. now there s a deal or this standoff averted for now after a negotiation happened behind the sooefnlts the justice department has agreed to provide more information to members of the committee, the unredacted portions of the report, so as jerry nadler is saying, he s going to hold off on moving forward on contempt for now. this is what he says in his statement. he says the
do our constitutional duties and decide how to respond to the allegations laid out by the special counsel. this is all barreling towards a court fight, a court fight that could have occurred in a matter of days. tomorrow the full house was scheduled to vote and i m told they are still plaque to vote at the moment on a resolution that would authorize the judiciary committee to go to court to enforce the subpoenas for bill barr and for others, including don mcgahn, the former white house counsel, who also defied a subpoena under the instruction from the white house to turn over documents and provide testimony. now also that same resolution will authorize all committees in the house to go to court and we like drip coffee, layovers- tried to enforce their subpoenas -and waiting on hold. if they are not complied with, what we don t like is relying but on this specific subpoena, on fancy technology for help. the demand for the unredacted mueller report and the snail mail! we were invited to
over mounting an inquiry. when that decision has to be made, it will be made not by any one individual. reporter: nadler is feeling growing pressure from members of his own committee and from 2020 candidates amid white house defiance of their subpoenas. there s a growing sentiment that it s an intolerable situation. and i do believe that the judiciary committee in the house should go forward with an impeachment inquiry. and in the coming week the house will take its first real step to try tone force subpoenas that have so far not been complied with. the house will authorize the house judiciary committee to go to court to enforce a subpoena that was issued to bill barr, the attorney general, to turn over the unredacted mueller report and the underlying evidence to that committee. also for don mcgahn to comply and turn over records. the former white house counsel has so far not complied with the subpoena on the instruction of the white house. that same resolution that will be a
defiance of their subpoena. it is an intolerable situation. i do believe that the judiciary committee and the house should go forward with impeachment inquiry. reporter: and the house will take its first real step to try to enforce subpoenas that have as to far not been complied with. the house will authorize the house judiciary committee to go to court to enforce the subpoena to bill barr to turn over the unredacted mueller report and also for don mcgahn to turn over records that they have not complied with. that same resolution that will be approved by the full house will authorize all committees to go to court directly by passing the full house in order to pursue any subpoenas that have not been complied with by this administration, democrats say this is necessary. republicans say it is overreach and it could lead for more court