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Attachments filed to that motion. i decided i would print them out, which was a bad move. except turns out tucked in there if you read enough, you get to exhibit qq. you have to use letters twice once you get -- its qq. its a letter from the chairman to steven mnuchin. on july 29, 2019, the committee received an unsolicited communication from a federal employee setting forth credible allegations of evidence of possible misconduct, specifically potential inappropriate efforts to influence the man...

>> thank you so much for having me. >> appreciate it, thank you. we are now joined by a senior member of the house ways and means committee, democratic congressman lloyd dogget of texas. i want to get to a new development. a filing in court yesterday in which your side of the case, the house, brought to the judges attention asking for an expedited ruling in this, that there is a whistle-blower who appears to be, in my reading of it, a whistle-blower from the irs. this is included in a letter t...

The way i would translate that to any viewer is, this would be an irs whistle-blower whos letting the ways and means committee know the mandatory audit program for the president and the vice president is not working in the trump administration. theres something wrong with it. is that your understanding of the situation? >> well, i havent had communications which the committee has carefully protected to preserve the position of this whistle-blower, with the whistle-blower or seeing the informatio...

It, a whistle-blower from the irs. this is included in a letter that was filed with the judge yesterday. im just going to read this one passage of it. it says, on july 29th, 2019, the committee received an unsolicited communication from a federal employee setting forth credible allegations of evidence of possible misconduct, specifically potential inappropriate efforts to influence the mandatory audit program. the way i would translate that to any viewer is, this would be an irs whistle-blower w...

A few reasons the democrats say they need this, in the lawsuit. one of them, they need to understand more about the presidential audit program, back on june 10th, some members of the committee staff went over to the treasury department to learn more about that program. they left and said they still had a lot of questions about exactly how 2 worked. number two, they need to understand whether the president actually personally benefited from the republican tax plan. and then argue they need to kno...

And forth with the trump administration. deadlines were missed, letters were exchanged. and then on may 6th, the treasury secretary formally rejected their request. the house then issued subpoenas to get those returns, which secretary mnuchin also rejected. that brings us to today. lauren fox is attracting developments to this whole tax issue. >> this has been months in the making. the chairman of the house and weighs and means committee -- in the complaint there are a few key items, they say th...

>> lets talk through all of this, lauren fox with the setup. thank you. joe moreno is a federal prosecutor. joe, when you read into this, we know that the democrats on chairman neils committee, have argued they need the access, they want these tax returns in order to understand how the irs administers the presidential audit program, right? >> thats their side. you have treasury arguing its not a legitimate legislative purpose. who has the upper hand? >> congress has the upper hand. and, you know...