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Even elected as president. you are not required by law to release this. they want to see it. they're convinced he has committed some sort of crime or done something wrong. it is optional for a president to release these. they are demanding this. now, it's called 6103 information. when you're on capitol hill you can't just go and get somebody's tax returns. congresss of past have understood they would be weaponized for political purposes. very few people get their hands on there. but look in the next 10 days the democrats to bring something up on the floor to force this issue and try to get the...

Day. the democrats plan to spend a lot of that time pushing to get donald trump's tax returns finally. they held a hearing last week to talk about section 6103 of the tax code which gives the house ways and means chairman the ability to get tax information from any tax filer. democrats think they have the edge both politically and legally on this, but there are mine fields. legally, the white house is preparing a huge, fierce response legally to challenge the effort in court. and politically, this is one of those areas that has the possibility to really be cast as exactly what donald trump say...

Of foreign interests. that would give you leverage over the president if you knew he had laundered money for you. >> do you think it would be readily apparent looking at that time tax returns? >> well, tax returns are the beginning point for asking questions. anyone who's been audited knows they say how did this number show up on this line of your tax return? under a 1924 law that's used all the time by congress the joint committee and other members of congress have the right to all tax return information. tax return information is what went into preparing your tax return. >> let me read actua...

Agreements? >> i think in the context that we're talking about here tonight, which are federal grand jury investigations, and potentially federal criminal trials, a federal subpoena will trump those ndas. >> okay. and would a person fight that out and have the court decide it? >> likely, yes. >> another very specific question on the president's tax returns. can the special counsel access the president's tax returns if it's germane to his investigation? and who does he have to convince to get them? >> yes, there's a process under the federal rules. there's a statute. we refer to it as an eye or...

Individual. that would seem to include the president. democratic congressman bill pascual is a member of the committee that can make that request. he's launching this former call to request trump's tax returns for the past ten years. thanks for being here. >> within the tax code, section 6103, which was the result of the scandal back in 1993 under president harding, we have the ability in the ways and means committee or the joint committee on taxation or the senate committee on finance to ask for an individual's taxes if we had due cause. certainly have due cause here. >> what is due clause. >...