Richard neil who subpoenaed the returns, quote, we have determined that the committees request lacks a legitimate legislative purpose and the department is therefore not authorized to disclose the requested returns. Neil responding to that that he is going to talk to his lawyers. In other words, this is headed to the courts and to possible constitutional crisis. I think that if both sides made up their minds better to move it over to the next brafrm of government, the judiciary. This will go to the third branch of government to be resolved. They grow. They are taking it to the courts. And the president argued of course that the documents he released yesterday, his Financial Disclosure statement, this is even better than releasing his taxes. I did do a filing of over 100 pages. You get far for from that than from a tax return thats what he says about the document. Simply not true. This is the document from yesterday. Last years Financial Disclosure form. How can you get more from this,
We believe that no one is above the law, including the president of the united states. And we believe that the pits has engaged in a coverup. I dont do coverups. You people know that probably better than anybody. We went in the spirit of bipartisanship to find Common Ground with the president on this. I came here to do a meeting on infrastructure with democrats. To watch what happened in the white house would make your jaw drop. We democrats believe in infrastructure. Ill tell you, theres a danger here. If some day a dcemocrat becomes president , they can impeach him for any reason, or her. Thomas jefferson, when he was president of the united states, tasked his secretary of the treasury, gallatin, to put forth an infrastructure proposal initiative for the country. A hundred years later, Teddy Roosevelt did his infrastructure Big Initiative and it was called the establishment of the National Parks service. We came with heft with commitment, with knowledge, with hope of shared vision of
Of some of the things that we weeks ago i was standing in this spot and you i and i were just did more than 2,500 talking about infrastructure and the optimism of the meeting. Subpoenas qualified for, i let i said i said this is a complicated issue and when you heard both the speaker and the white House Counsel speak for 30 hours, i have 19 special leader schumer refer to there is something weve heard over the course of the last 48 hours and counsel lawyers, 40 fbi agents, the white house and republicans i said open it all up. Couldnt agree to reach the top line number of 2 trillion and there was no collusion, there they agreed to three weeks ago. Was no obstruction. This whole thing was a takedown in other words infrastructure was falling apart or had fallen attempt at the president of the apart before the meeting. Now when i talked to democrats and sources over the last hour United States. Or so, they made clear kind of and i walked into the room and i what abby said, this is a clear
And john meacham, author of hold on, thats not the tim mcgraw. That is a tennis player. Hes johnspartner. They were the runners up. 80plus tennis tournament. And it is timothy bergeson mcgraw iii. An old tobacco family that did business and moved to nashville. All right. We have a lot to get to this morning. As Michael Beschloss says at what points will books we write go straight to large print, given the age of our people. Good pount. We have a lot going on. Hold on, though. Weve got more sports. Red sox, were number three. Were number three. Our Long National nightmare is over. Weve reached. 500. A moment so important, it will be celebrated at the white house this afternoon by the president because they reached. 500. Oh, no, theyre going to win, theyre going to win. They are not j. B. J. And you ask yourself, a tip of the hat, you ask yourself why you do you keep a guy who bats. 150 in the lineup . That is why you keep a guy who bats. 150 in the lineup. Because he wins games. Wow, th
We dont know when. Nancy pelosi has not made that decision yet or known publicly. And also some democrats are saying, we need to be even tougher than contempt citation and some, brooke, are saying it is time to Start Talking about impeachment. Do i think were entering closer to it every day that the president has a blanket privilege or just saying that hes going to obstruct the congressional investigation . Yeah, for me, were entering towards it. Do you think you should talk about another thing, impeachment . I think we have to talk about it. Reporter but democratic leadership not quite where a number of the members in the rank and file are. They and nancy pelosi say going through the impeachment process is divisive and could lead to the to the to fail in the senate because it is controlled by republicans and you need twothirds majority to convict a president so why go through that process. But nevertheless, the white house is refudsal to refusal to supply documents and comply with sub