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>> im getting there. >> hes getting there. if democrats pass it, the republican led senate is all but guaranteed to reject it. president trumps tax returns must be turned over to congress unless he invokes executive privilege according to an irs memo obtained by "the washington post." steve mnuchin says he is not authorized to fill that. according to this irs draft memo, he has to, regardless of the reason for the request. president trump is refusing to release the taxes. an unexpected visitor...

Sources at the irs the memo in question was a draft background paper. the irs telling fox news it is not the official position of the irs. the article mentions the irs commissioner was not aware of this memo until the article came about have a draft memo was never forwarded to the treasury department. heather: important to dig into those headlines and appreciate you doing that. first developed in the investigation into the investigators, newly released testimony from former attorney general in d...

Cared most, it seems, about getting an irs commissioner and a friendly lawyer, by all accounts, who had done some work for the trump organization. peter, do you have a new statement from the irs in response to all of this? >> yeah, in the course of this conversation, i did receive a statement from the irs. i had reached out to them earlier today. and for all the reasons that you just indicated, it makes sense that they would be distancing themselves from this draft memo. it reads as follow, the ...

The irs shall turn over tax returns to congress does not say whether executive privilege would be a reason to be defied or not. but the executive privilege has proliferated in recent years. for the president and his -- this energies and other dmgss dont give over information. and it would take a higher court ruling, maybe all the way to the supreme court to determine whether executive privilege could be exerted. what the lawyers who analyzed this for the irs steve camp os office said it would be...

Again from mnuchin. there is no legislative purpose. this appears to say there is a legislative purpose they have every right to get it. thats not an issue taufl, right. >> well treasury secretary mnuchin has as i said has denied the returns arguing there is no purpose for demanding them and they had only will give me over documents for legitimate legislative purpose. informs a draft memo was written in so 2018 as it was clear democratss were taking the house and requesting tax returns and other...

The 1924 law. i just think this is another twist in the story. and its not going to hold up in court anywhere. en and theyre going to proceed ultimatery the ways and means committee is going to get the tax returns. >> jim, let me ask you obviously the memo, draft memo seems to say executive primeval in this case would be the only way for the president to not do that but its untested. it would probably go to the supreme court as josh was saying. is there any question in your 19 that the president...

Upon our nation. i hate it. i hate to see situation of parents and children. >> however, a draft memo written by senior dhs officials says the trump administration was considering a policy to separate families as early as december 2017. that is four months before the policy took effect. former white house chief of staff john kelly. also nilssons predecessor had this to say. the big separation of families thing that happened was a decision made by the attorney general. it was his decision to make...

Attorney general jefs chief-of-staff at the time? >> during the zero-tolerance policy being implemented? >> at what point in time? >> at the family separation policy. let me just tell you you were. >> there was no family separation policy. there was a zero-tolerance policy. >> this has been given fourpy noek yoes several times. you were the former attorney generals chief-of-staff. last month senator markey released a leaked draft memo outlining policies to separate children from their families. ...

Circuit. they should try to protect the president do their work quietly in offices like normal lawyers. >> harris: and while the members of the media set themselves on fire, dont hand them a bucket of distraction. because we need to know where the truth is. if thats where we are going, dont distract us from it. democrat senator and possible 2020 presidential candidate jeff merkley once the fbi to open a perjury investigation into homeland security secretary kirstjen nielsen. senator merkley clai...

A newly released draft memo shows that as early as 2017, the trump administration had a plan to separate migrant children from their families at the u.s./mexico border. another watchdog reports that the trump administration has no idea how many kids were separated, but its thousands more than previously admitted. heres cnns nick valencia. >> reporter: the report is stunning. the hhs office of the inspector general found that the trump administration has no idea how many children were separated f...