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When it comes to actually hiring people to important jobs in the federal government. when it comes to actually filling out senior jobs in the administration. he hasn't bothered, you know, to make sure all the jobs are filled. look at the cabinet right now. it's like half acting secretaries or something. he doesn't care. but he has taken particular care to install his own hand picked leadership at the top of the irs. and incidentally at the treasury. i mean the irs is part of the treasury department. the president installed his chief fund-raiser from his campaign as head of the treasury. that i...

Desmond got there, before he was installed in february at president trump's personal insistence, turns out the previous chief counsel at the irs had put down in black and white, had put down in a legal memo the bad news for the trump white house or for any white house seeking to defy or wriggle out of the legal requirement to hand over a president's tax returns. quote, "a confidential irs legal memo says that tax returns must be given to congress unless the president takes the rare step of asserting executive privilege, according to a copy of the memo obtained by the washington post. the memo ...

Well, the irs's own legal analysis of this law and their responsibilities under the law say it doesn't matter why congress wants the tax returns. they don't even have to state any reason at all. you've just got to hand it over. that's what the law says. now, the one theoretical silver lining here for president trump trying to block his tax returns from being handed over is this. according to the "washington post" tonight, this memo says that the only basis that the agencies could refuse to comply with the committee's subpoena would be to invoke the doctrine of executive privilege. now, you can...

Which has not previously been reported the disclosure of the tax return is mandatory, requiring trequire ing the secretary to disclose the returns and return information requested by the tax writing chairs in congress." the ten-page document says the law does not allow the secretary to exercise discretion in disclosing the information provided the statutory conditions are met. the memo directly rejects the reason steven mnuchin has cited for withholding the information from congress. so this is new. this is something we had no idea of before. it's an internal legal memo at the irs which says t...

You could just imagine the trump administration being like, okay, okay, we'll exert executive privilege here. will that get out of jail here? but even in this irs legal memo itself according to "the washington post" this memo says this law which requires them to hand over the tax returns, quote, might be read to preclude a claim of executive privilege. meaning this law itself could also be interpreted to say, yeah, you might try to invoke executive privilege here, but you can't invoke executive privilege to deny a subpoena. so this is new. according to the irs' own legal reasoning the trump ad...