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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said she agrees with Rep. Jerrold Nadler’s assessment that the US is facing a “constitutional crisis” after the White House defied subpoenas for administration officials to appear before Congress.

“Yes, I do agree with Chairman Nadler because the administration has decided that they’re not going to honor their oath of office,” the California Democrat told reporters during her weekly news conference on Thursday.

“Every day they are advertising their obstruction of justice by ignoring subpoenas and just declaring that people shouldn’t come and speak to Congress,” Pelosi added.

She also said the House will take up a contempt resolution against Attorney General William Barr that cleared the House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday.

“When we’re ready, we’ll come to the floor,” she said. “And we’ll just see because there might be some other contempt of Congress issues we might want to do at the same time.”

Nadler, chairman of the Judiciary Committee, blasted the Trump administration for asserting executive privilege on releasing the full, unredacted version of special counsel Robert Mueller’s report.

“We’ve talked for a long time about approaching a constitutional crisis. We are now in it,” Nadler said Wednesday afternoon.

His remarks came just hours after his panel voted along party lines to hold Barr in contempt for missing a Monday deadline to turn over an unredacted copy of the report to the full Congress. Pelosi said the House committee will continue to conduct investigations into the Trump administration as part of its constitutionally mandated oversight duties.

“We’re asking in the constitutional way for the administration to comply. We still have more opportunities,” she said. “We’ll see if Mueller will testify and that will make a huge difference in where we go from here.”

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