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Because she is the one who has been saying, look, we dont need to do impeachment in order to do investigations. and here you have twol important federal court decisions saying precisely that. that these documents need to be produced to the congressional committees, even though there is no impeachment resolution under way. if the appeals court were to reverse either or both of these decisions, then i think pelosi would be in a more difficult position with her members who want to say, we need to g...

Favor of beginning impeachment procedures in the house judiciary committee, but youre not ready to say you will support impeaching the president? >> that is correct. because we need to badly record in these committees. right now we have interesting things people have said on tv, interesting articles in newspapers. we have is a redacted mueller report. what we need is the full mueller report, the underlying evidence so we can look at all of the obstruction of justice cases that mueller has laid o...

The argument that democrats in congress are overreaching, which has essentially been their response to all of the requests that democrats have made thus far. and this is now the second ruling to say that the presidents finances, as you pointed out, he has red line are not, in fact, off-limits. i think that when you look back at that list in march of the 81 associates or entities connected to trump that house judiciary democrats requested documents from, it was clear that they had every intention...

Impeachment? and odd new ally. president trump has a new campaign surrogate, kim jong-un, as the north korean dictator goes after democratic presidential candidate, joe biden, taking a page right out of the presidents playbook. im wolf blitzer. youre in "the situation room." >> announcer: this is cnn breaking news. >> breaking news. for the second time this week, a federal judge sides with congress against the president in the latest ruling, a judge in new york is upholding subpoenas to deutsc...

Kara, stand by. i want to bring in cnns chief legal analyst, jeffrey toobin. jeffrey, how big of a win is that? this one today for house democrats? >> well, its another very important win, because the legal issue fundamentally is the same as the one yesterday regarding the accounting firm that did the presidents taxes. the issue is, is this a legitimate subject for congressional oversight. does congress have the right to investigate this area? the presidents lawyers have argued in both courts th...

That congress had the right to investigate whether there was foreign leverage, fortunateinan leverage over the president and whether his company was engaged in any money laundering. this is the second major setback, its clear now from two judges in two different districts that congress has the right to access the president, his family members, and his companys financial accounts. wolf? >> how quickly do you think theyll be released? >> well, under an agreement that they had before todays ruling,...

To discourage a push for impeachment. the president then went ahead with his meeting on infrastructure, with pelosi and senator chuck schumer, but ended it after just five minutes or so, saying he cant work with democrats on infrastructure or ntil the end of they will have coverage of the days top stories. first, details of the breaking news on subpoenas seeking more of president trumps financial records. kara scannel is at the courthouse in new york. this is the second major blow in court this ...

Tantrum, stormed off, wouldnt meet with them. and of course, her democrats who are leaning towards impeachment probably looked at this and said, how can we put up with this anythi longer? were just trying to do our job, just trying to do oversight. but shes got a tough job here. dont forget, nancy pelosi was speaker -- i mean, was not speaker, but was in congress when the republicans in 1998 impeached bill clinton. and she knows the history there. and she knows that bill clintons popularity we...

Now sided with democrats in congress, refusing to block subpoenas for president trumps financial records. does this ruling support speaker pelosis argument that the president is engaging in a cover-up? >> absolutely. the trump administration is covering up information and hiding information from congress and the american people and its not just with records related to donald trump. we also want to know why is the trump administration suing to eliminate health care coverage for people with specia...

Hide those documents from congress and congress has the legal right and legal role to oversight. >> you know, sabrina, at least 29 democrats, probably more, at least 29 -- and we have a graphic showing who they are, have already indicated that they are willing to pursue impeachment to start the impeachment procedure in the house of representatives. the latest tantrum from the president, do you think that will encourage more democrats to follow their position? >> well, it certainly reinforces tha...