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Returns because of newly discovered interest in legislating on the presidential audit process." they -- steve engle goes on to mention that comments made by neal as well as speaker pelosi seems to indicate that what they really want to do is release the president's taxes publicly and that's the reason why they're asking for it. >> elie, democrats will no doubt take this to court. will they win is the question? >> they absolutely should. this analysis by doj is just garbage. it doesn't even stand up to the base -- most basic scrutiny because you have a statute. we have a law that says very spec...

The president clearly did not commit a crime we would have said so. >> and there is news tonight from the justice department as well to tell you about, the doj to absolutely no one's surprise releasing a legal opinion supporting treasury's refusal to hand over the president's tax returns to the chairman of the house ways and means committee, even though the tax code makes it very clear that chairman richard neal has the authority to request them. like i said, no surprise since the attorney general william barr has been giving the president pretty much everything he wants. you've got to wonder ...

They could say may furnish. in their discretion. >> it says shall. >> it says shall furnish. doj is twisting itself into a legal and logical pretzel, and shocker, guess how they come out, exactly where donald trump would the want them to come out, it's william barr's doj in action. >> how has chairman neal approached this? so far he hasn't gone the route as similar fights. in this case he hasn't held steve mnuchin in contempt of congress. we don't know whether he's going to go that route. but, you know, obviously there's a court fight ahead but as elie was pointing out the word shall there is ...