just asking. let s start with that i am etch p impeachment push. doing double duty on capitol hill today. clearly it is vacation season. there s a high likelihood it is not going anywhere. what are republicans hoping to do? mark maude doueadows and othersg this. reporter: this move by the congressional allies at the very least ensures that the first serious talk of i am speechment here on the hill is focused on someone other than president trump. you ve got mark meadows and jim jordan and other members of the fl freedom caucus accused rod rosenstein of obstructing their efforts to get to the bottom of what they see is anti-trump bias affecting the fbi investigation and also the continuing investigation into russia s attack on the 2016 elections. so these articles of impeachment accuse rosenstein of withholding
really just a witch-hunt, as he said over and over, and that with giuliani in charge, he can shut it down really quickly. i don t think that s really going to happen. but that s what the attempt is. right. he is not sure he has achieved that mission. gina rinehardt, thank you for joining us in excess in england. thank you for having me. the u.s. chairman of the house intelligence committee said he plans to hold him in contempt of congress. accused of withholding documents of the russia investigation. two weeks ago, we sent a letter to attorney general jeff sessions, a classified letter. per usual, it was ignored, not acknowledged. just completely ignored. so last week we sent a subpoena, and then on thursday, we discovered that they re not
million document they subpoenaed. first of all they don t have them. and how do you possibly get through them? it it s an amazing process. you word search, you tell them what you want. they identify the number, then they slowly go through them deciding what to redact. it s like trying to ask for the documents from the manhattan project. they do it with human beings and do it slowly. this is a problem congressional oversight has over republicans and democrats. they won t give you the raw documents. eric holder was held in contempt 7 years ago for withholding documents. he said there were 200. we just recently began getting additional documents and discovered he deliberately with hold a whole category of documents they are now going back through and identifying and
million document they subpoenaed. first of all they don t have them. and how do you possibly get through them? it it s an amazing process. you word search, you tell them what you want. they identify the number, then they slowly go through them deciding what to redact. it s like trying to ask for the documents from the manhattan project. they do it with human beings and do it slowly. this is a problem congressional oversight has over republicans and democrats. they won t give you the raw documents. eric holder was held in contempt 7 years ago for withholding documents. he said there were 200. we just recently began getting additional documents and discovered he deliberately with hold a whole category of documents they are now going back through and identifying and
million document they subpoenaed. first of all they don t have them. and how do you possibly get through them? it it s an amazing process. you word search, you tell them what you want. they identify the number, then they slowly go through them deciding what to redact. it s like trying to ask for the documents from the manhattan project. they do it with human beings and do it slowly. this is a problem congressional oversight has over republicans and democrats. they won t give you the raw documents. eric holder was held in contempt 7 years ago for withholding documents. he said there were 200. we just recently began getting additional documents and discovered he deliberately with hold a whole category of documents they are now going back through and identifying and