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Wait a few minutes and hear harvard lawyer professor laurence tribe talk about the arguments we've already heard in the case that the president lost and in the case that the president is probably going to lose tomorrow. >> i mean, yeah, it's -- it's so interesting to me that the lawsuits were almost twins. were almost filed like carbon copies of each other but there's different laws -- there's different lawyers arguing the two lawsuits. obviously, there are two different jurisdictions and what does it mean, what does the pressure got to be for the president's lawyers who are going to be arguin...

Today the president filed an appeal of that case in the district of columbia circuit court of appeals where the chief judge is merrick garland who was president obama's last nominee to the united states supreme court. a nomination that senate republicans blocked for a year and held the seat open so that president trump could appoint neil gorsuch to the supreme court. we do not yet know whether macrogarla la merrick garland will hear the case. tomorrow afternoon a federal judge in manhattan will hold a hearing on a similar attempt by the trump legal team to block house subpoenas directing deuts...

This is not a close case. it's not rocket science. so the president's attempt to stonewall congress by preventing those who have the critical financial records from turning them over is going to fail. just as i think the president's attempt to prevent don mcgahn from testifying is going to fail. it's only a matter of time, and th president clearly has a plan running out the clock. but i think that courts are going to speed up these matters. the court has held in previous occasions that it's especially important to move quickly when a whole branch of the united states government is being stonew...

Can legislate, make sure that the executive branch, which is supposed to enforce and not defy the laws of the united states, is doing so honestly and not corruptly. it's all very clear and very simple. the only precedent that the government was able to rely on is an 1880 decision that the supreme court has since said ought not to be taken without a whole barrel and not just a grain of salt. it was a decision that said when congress is investigating just to expose purely personal and private affairs, rather than to carry out its functions, then there's a limit that can't be crossed, but that's ...

This very important case yesterday that seems to possibly be the precedent-setting case, actually, picking up and carrying the precedent that has been with us for many years in into now the enforcement of subpoenas against president trump. >> well, that decision by judge mada, very carefully written 41-page opinion, that was delivered just seven days after the argument, is on a rocket straight up to the supreme court. there's no doubt that that decision that he rendered saying that the subpoena to the president's accounting firm must be obeyed is going to be upheld by the d.c. circuit. there's...