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neil: all right. the department of justice has not given house republicans all the documents they wants on the clinton e-mail problem. some department officials could be held in contempt of congress for doing so. ashley, this is beyond the point of having confused me because both sides so angry at each other. what do you think this ultimately ends up? there s really no end in sight. there s so many different options that the house can pursue if the doj and the fbi don t give these documents over. they can try criminal contempt. the doj would have to take it in front of a grand jury and see if they wanted to prosecute. in that case, you ll jail the people and they won t get the documents. the most likely remedy, bringing him up on contempt charges in the house. they would have to bring them in ....
Said as the fbi looked at the clinton e-mails, he couldn t find a link between political bias and decisions in the investigation but he certainly left the door open to that possibility in the trump collusion investigation by the fbi, neil. neil: so what s going on here, whether there was so much ill will toward candidate donald trump that it infected everybody and started a probe that was originally based on just a whole lot of bias. they hated the guy. the federalists molly hemingway on the significance of today. molly? when you read through this report and we re spending more time with it and understand the significance, it s technically about the hillary clinton e-mail problem but totally related to the russia probe as well. one of the things the i.g. look at, you have broad discretion when you re in the fbi. in the clinton e-mail problem, ....
Being leaked out or produced by wikileaks as part of a russian operation stolen by russian hackers, and what that did for three weeks was keep the words clinton and e-mail in the headline. even though she was the victim of that, that operation day in, day out kept reminding voters of clinton and the e-mail problem. right. focus groups that were being done by the clinton group at the time showed them that swing voters could be separate the podesta e-mail tact from the whole issue of her e-mail server. that set up and that s why i think it was so potent at the end that comey intervened that way. so it was a combination of the russian attack which trump covered up for and said wasn t happening and what comey did. yeah. and encouraged by saying, hey, please find her e-mails, right? it s what donald trump called for them to do. to the point that david just made. let s play john podesta. he talked about the 2016 election and letters with andrea mitchell on friday. i actually do think ....
Forward today. a group of conservative lawmakers introduced a resolution to do that. they say americans deserve an independent investigation into how the feds handled three big issues. surveillance warrants, the clinton e-mail problem and the origins of the trump russia investigation. if justice department cannot be expected to investigate itself. as the resolution station, the concerns of the american people are serious and the issues require an unbiassed and thorough investigation are broad. trace: critics say a special counsel will interfere with robert mueller s investigation. remember, he s looking into whether the trump campaign colluded with russian and whether the trump administration conspired with firing james comey. mike emanuel is live on the us on capitol hill. do we know if house members will vote on this? trace, it s not entirely clear this will come up for a vote. it s not clear that it would pass. ....
Democrats, they re looking for anything to make november 18 anything that they can win on. if they feel like they can continue to bash this president and do so with the russian collusion story, this is the kind of thing that we have to separate fact from politics. like i said with the mueller investigation, fine. if there isn t, end it. harris: and two things that stuck with me, sandbox and james comey. people will be talking about that. congressman collins, thank you for being here. thank you. bye-bye. harris: congress is expected to release a plan for government funding tonight. but there are concerns that lawmakers won t be able to reach an agreement ahead of a friday deadline. write it down, to avoid another government shut down. what is at stake? i think we get it. and if the fbi does not turn over more than one million missing documents related to the hillary clinton e-mail problem, republicans say they will subpoena the agency. ....