House Votes To Let Its Leaders Pursue Contempt Lawsuits In Trump Inquiries

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🗓️ 11 June 2019

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The House has authorized its committee leaders to pursue civil contempt cases to get information for their myriad investigations into President Trump. This episode: White House correspondent Tamara Keith, political reporter Tim Mak, and national security editor Phil Ewing. Email the show at nprpolitics@npr.org. Find and support your local public radio station at npr.org/stations.

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1:01.0	Tamer Keith. I cover the White House. I'm Tim Mack. I cover politics. And I'm
1:04.6	feeling you a national security editor. Right, so Tim, you are over at the the
1:10.5	big capital building. And today, the House of Representatives passed a resolution
1:16.4	that will enforce subpoenas against Attorney General William Barr and former
1:21.0	White House Council, Don McGahn. Leading into today, there was a lot of talk
1:26.6	about the word contempt. Tim, what did House Democrats actually vote to do
1:33.3	today? So basically what they're doing is they're trying to set up a number of
1:37.0	lawsuits in order to enforce subpoenas that are issued as part of their ongoing
1:42.1	investigations into various matters relating to the Trump administration.
1:45.8	Yeah, and Phil, there are a lot of subpoenas outstanding. A lot of requests, a lot
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