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transcripts of the interviews it has conducted in its investigation. the request came on april 20th with the doj indicating that some committee interviews may contain information relevant to a criminal investigation we are conducting. nbc news has now confirmed that reporting. the doj did not indicate the number of transcripts they wanted or if there were any specific interviews they were interested in. so far the committee has interviewed more than 1,000 people, including many close t...

Wasnt gonna comply with the demands they were making and that made sense. i mean i, at the time, the were asking for things tha could violate secrecy rules in new york, which is a felony. some of the privileges t protect attorney, and basi federalism but at the end of the day, you cant allow them to pressure him, or try to throw them of track, distract. hes got a case to put together, and you know, the hous republicans know better than theyre trying to intimidate or even get it in an ongoing cri...

Three trump attorneys involved in the whole classified documents dispute. theres been a lot happening. the fact that the former president is continue to go harp on this idea of indictment, maybe something is comen soon. well see. >> he would know more than we would, because of the secrecy rules. up next, former trump campaign chairman striking a multimillion dollar settle went with that same justice department. ers. i just saw something that said you could do it in a year for, like, $11k. hmm....

Meeting, this mock-up is the first that the members can confirm what theyre talking about. even before the supreme court decision a month ago, richie neal, the chairman has to be very cautious what he could say about the tax records only telling me, repeatedly, that he was going to see this through so thats what were seeing today. were seeing the executive session, that the committee will hold a vote to release all or part of the tax returns today. they wouldnt be bothering to meet on the issues...

Exactly right. if i were still a federal prosecutor, i would not rely on anyone else to send out subpoenas for me and to collect evidence for me, i would do it myself, i would do it independently, by that i mean through a federal grand jury process, using the fbi to deliver the subpoenas, to collect the information and to analyze it. i would not rely on congress. i dont mean that derisively. i just wouldnt rely on anyone else. >> congress may forward a criminal complaint to justice. how often wo...

Alisyn. this is a big step towards congress getting those tax returns, not quite all the way but right on the brink. so basically, the administration has now reversed position. under the trump administration, not surprisingly, the position was, we are not turning over these returns to congress unless the courts force us to. today, thats been reversed. now the administrations position is, we are turning these returns over to congress unless the courts step in and force us. if donald trump does no...

Really interesting side debate in federal law enforcement and media about whether law enforcement ought to prosecute leaks. sometimes to prosecute leaks we need to get records from journalists, not journalists who are targets of the investigation but journalists who spoke to the leaker. the leaker is the person who is under investigation. the leaker is the one who either violated grand jury secrecy rules or disclosed classified information. so, i would say this and i would say it kindly and resp...

>> yes, and of course, what about the families who already had the money withdrawn? were going to stay on this with your help, marcus. thank you again tonight. in the meantime, the news from the supreme court today. its now rejected former president trumps last ditch request to shield his tax records from the manhattan district attorney. the former president had tried to keep his taxes secret for years. so lets get right to our chief white house correspondent cecilia vega. cecilia, what have y...

Attorneys office whos involved in this case, they dont want to be in a position where they have to answer to a state judge why documents that were received under grand jury secrecy rules, why those documents came out in public. as chuck rightly put it for folks that somehow this goes to the supreme court, if it does, and it doesnt go in the presidents favor, that, you know, a couple of days later were going to be on tv talking about and looking at the presidents tax returns, thats not going to h...

About iphone design tonight, but not this yet. phil mattingly, thank you very much for being with us. appreciate it. for analysis of a decision that upholds a precedent the judge and others call the watergate roadmap, which helped lead to the downfall of richard nixon, we have former nixon white house counsel and watergate whistle-blower john dean, legal analyst elliot williams and adviser to four former presidents, david gergen, elliot, there are two separate things that happened here, and, yes...