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Welcome back to "hardball." tonight the white house is responding to what its called a sham lawsuit by house democrats and their ongoing efforts to try to get ahold of donald trumps tax returns. how ways and means committee chair richard neal filed a lawsuit today accusing the irs and the treasury department of mounting an extraordinary attack on the authority of congress to obtain information needed to conduct oversight of treasury, the irs and the tax laws on behalf of the american people. thi...

To be a legitimate legislative purpose, guess who thats up to? thats up to congress. its not for doj to say we dont believe you. if thats the case doj will take over the legislative function from congress. i think congress is going to prevail if they take this to court. >> elie, another question, the office of legal counsel, their argument is 33 pages, okay, but then you look at the tax code, at least on this, is written, and its very plainly written, upon written request from the chairman of th...

Its not for doj to say we dont believe you. if thats the case doj will take over the legislative function from congress. i think congress is going to prevail if they take this to court. >> elie, another question, the office of legal counsel, their argument is 33 pages, okay, but then you look at the tax code, at least on this, is written, and its very plainly written, upon written request from the chairman of the committee on ways and means of the house of representatives the secretary shall fur...

Irs to give the returns of any individual to the chairman of that committee. neil cited his authority under section 6103 of the federal tax code. that section of the law mandates that, quote, upon written request from the chairman of the committee on ways and means of the house of representatives, the secretary of the treasury, quote, shall furnish such committee with return or return information. the administration twice refused to meet the committees voluntarily deadline to comply with the law...

Individual to the chairman of that committee. neil cited his authority under section 6103 of the federal tax code. that section of the law mandates that, quote, upon written request from the chairman of the committee on ways and means of the house of representatives, the secretary of the treasury, quote, shall furnish such committee with return or return information. the administration twice refused to meet the committees voluntarily deadline to comply with the law, leading chairman neil to issu...

That section of the law mandates that, quote, upon written request from the chairman of the committee on ways and means of the house of representatives, the secretary of the treasury, quote, shall furnish such committee with any return or return information. the administration twice refused to meet the committees voluntarily deadline to comply with the law, leading chairman neil to issue a subpoena last week to force the release of those returns. with less than an hour to go before neils 5:00 p....

Going to be handled appropriately by the department of justice. >> the house intelligence committee reportedly voted to hand over roger stones testimony to the special counsels office. thats according to several reports that say the vote was unanimous. mueller already reportedly has had access to unofficial copy for weeks but obtaining a certified transcript is seen as a key step if they want to use the document to seek indictment. >> as democrats prepare to take over the house in january, there...