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To impeachment than you were months ago. why is that? whats the difference for you? >> the president is using every tool he can to keep from complying with legitimate requests, subpoenas. the fact that he is willing to essentially cover up everything that he does not want anyone to know and will refuse to allow his own members of his administration testify before committees of congress with legitimate questions, denying subpoenas and, you know, as a member of the ways and means committee im conc...

Because we like to. we think its... fun. introducing the all-new 2019 ford ranger built for the strangest of all creatures. this week has not been a good one for president trumps legal theories. its only tuesday. on monday a federal court rejected his lawyers argument that congress has no oversight powers and therefore could not subpoena his financial records. tonight theres breaking news on another suspect theory, this involving president trumps actual tax returns. "the washington post" has n...

The tax returns. it backs up pretty much what every legal expert has been saying about this? >> i think thats an easy assignment for that lawyer. the plain reading of the statute says, as they put it, theres no wiggle room for the treasury secretary. i dont think the treasury secretary or his staff wants to see that memo. now that its out, they dont have any good legal arguments there. i dont think a judge is going to buy that argument. i think theyll presume theres a legitimate legislative purp...

Violating the law. ive been add vised had i turned them over i would be violating the law. >> reporter: the treasury secretary trying to down play the significance of what that memo says and what the irs attorneys were arguing in that draft memo. all of this as he faces a likely long court battle with house democrats ahead. >> thank you. just ahead, the former lawyer for stormy daniels is charged with stealing $300,000 from the porn star who claimed an affair with president trump. anyone can s...

Later this morning the speaker will have a chance to confront the president directly, she goes to the white house for talks on infrastructure. there is also growing uncertainty about whether special counsel robert mueller will, in fact, testify in public. this as lawmakers we know will be getting the chance just about an hour from now to grill treasury secretary steve mnuchin today about the irss refusal to hand over president trumps tax returns. and this comes as the "washington post" has now...

Or would not comply with congresss request for the presidents taxes. the treasury secretary put it on you. he said this is about overreach and not oversite and thats why you cant have it. we have to litigate. the draft memo says something different. it says we must comply unless the theyre operating under a very old and specific law and they can request the tax returns of the president of the united states of america. i think the irs just said we needed to abide by the law unless theres an excep...

Subordinates or people who work at the irs. it does for the first time speak to an extraordinary disagreement on the executive becky anderson branch over a critical issue. >> the law is pretty clear. it says the irs shall turn over to the limited number of people who are authorized to receive. it doesnt give any qualifications of, well, they wont turn it over if they dont think theres a really good purpose for it. just to be clear, this was a draft memo. it was never actually signed, right? >> t...

Are prone to infections, or have flu-like symptoms or sores. dont start humira if you have an infection. be there for you, and them. ask your gastroenterologist about humira. with humira, remission is possible. >> trace: treasury secretary steve mnuchin telling lawmakers that he has no idea who wrote a draft irs memo that leaked to the press. the agency was told to turn over the presidents tax returns to congress unless the president cites executive privilege. mnuchin refuses to give the documen...

And this is "cnn newsroom." a new report in "the washington post," is sure to embolden democrats who wants to see donald trumps tax returns. it cites a draft memo, that says the internal revenue service must hand over tax returns unless the president cites executive privilege. house democrats have subpoenaed the presidents excommunications director, hope hicks, in their obstruction probe of mr. trump. they want to ask her about a misleading statement about donald trump jr.s meeting with a lawyer...

Deserve to open that. those types of proceedings because theyre afraid of political backlash. i think the fact that, you know, you were afraid of drowning out everything else that the democrats wanted to talk about. the president just kind of did that for you. so, in a way, you cant do it immediately because then that would seem like youre just tit-for-tating with the president. if this stale mate continues for a few weeks, theyre getting nothing done, what do they have to lose? as those democra...