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good to be with you, im alex witt in for katy tur. were right now following breaking news out of washington where the justice department has just announced it will not prosecute attorney general merrick garland for contempt of congress saying in a letter that garlands refusal to hand over audio of president bidens interview with robert hur to gop lawmakers was not a crime. joining us now from capitol hill is correspondent julie tsirkin. so lets interpret what this all means. i guess th...

Trying to get insurance or getting taxes reduced. they say his congressional ethics forums, wanted to know if he was accurately filling them out because of that, and secondly, cohen said the president wrote a check to reimburse him for hush money payments, and that that was not reflected on the financial disclosure form. in other words, congress said we need these accounting forms to see whether president trump is accurately filling out his ethics forms. his lawyers said thats not a legislative ...

Joining me is don beyer, he sits on the commission that oversees noaa. congressman, thank you for being here. >> thank you, very much. >> off have called for wilbur ross to be fired over this. they flat out deny this happened. you are calling for him to resign. do you think thats premature at all? >> i dont think so at all. i think this is the final straw, kate. ross has been a disaster so far. i mean he lied or mislead on his ethics forms. he got all involved in what looks like philadelphiaer t...

Property has appreciated nicely over time. "the washington post" reports that by 2013, less than 20 years after trump first bought it in 1995, that property had more than doubled in value. it was assessed in 2013 at $18.9 million. nice. right? the local paper, the westchester county journal news said by 2017, the property was assessed even a little higher. it was assessed at $19.6 million. president trump and his federal financial disclosure form for last year, 2018, he didnt have to give a prec...

It in 1995, that property had more than doubled in value. it was assessed in 2013 at $18.9 million. nice, right? the local paper, "the west chester county journal news" says by 2017 the process -- the property was assessed even a little bit higher. it was assessed at $19.6 million. president trump in his federal financial disclosure form for last year, 2018, he didnt have to give a precise valuation for the property on those kinds of federal ethics forms. you just have to give a range of value. ...

Allies in the white house. the recent departure of the deputy chief of staff and now theres rumors that theres another from the legislative staff thats about to leave who came from the rnc which is sort of again trump bringing in his inner circle and pushing out anyone who somewhat served as objective parties who were part of the republican institution. the doesnt look clean. >> its a good thing that ivanka trump is on the federal payroll. heres why. she now has to use official e-mail. she now h...

Donald trump when he was just inaugurated? especially when they lost all these voters in the middle of america who voted twice for barack obama and now voted for donald trump and the message is were going to obstruct the guy you chose? >> martha: answer that question now. why? >> first of all, the comparison to obamas a little off. there is one big difference, and that was president obama had done everything he needed to do during the transition in terms of filing the paperwork and all the ethic...

And thats, of course, just another irony today. john kerry in a farewell earlier today at the institute of peace across the state saying that he found it very interest iing and not povrp poe for cia or tillerson for state, but the other nominees have not completed their ethics forms. he spent so much time as poof, its all evaporated. >> hit me go back to the hearing itself. >> you bet. walk me through director clappers testimony. >> claeper is absolutely insistent that their fannedings are categ...

Ethics forms. he came out swinging saying he didnt do anything wrong. it is the democratic party justice department his own party he says is wrong here. >> i am angry because prosecutors at the justice department dont know the difference between friendship and corruption and have chosen to twist my duties as a senator and my friendship into something that is improper. >> while some of the voters we talked to say they couldnt get any help. among other favors he did for this doctor going out of hi...

Have failed to file the basic ethics disclosures. this is not a procedural matter as mitch mcconnell said. this is actually a requirement by the nonpartisan office of government ethics. >> and thats why you have senator chuck schumer saying weve got to delay some of these confirmation hearings, because we need all of the paperwork to be in place. you talk about the nominees who havent yet completed those ethics forms. steve mnuchin his pick for treasury secretary, wilbur ross for commerce and an...