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It also won't be the only document request. jerry nadler's staff said another letter would be going out soon and cautioned against reading into why some people didn't receive letters on monday. joining us now ted lieu of california. what can you tell us about the logic of this list? what unifies it, why these names and these entities. >> thank you, chris, for your question. let me first say that i hope our investigation exonerates donald trump. i don't want to think that our president is a crook. but i fear that our investigation will not do that. we're going to take the facts wherever it may ...

Good morning, everybody. it is tuesday, march 5th. i'm yasmin vossoughian alongside ayman mohyeldin and louis burgdorf. we begin with a powerful house judiciary committee sweeping investigation into possible abuse of power by the president. the committee is now demanding documents from more than 80 people, entities and agencies in and around the trump orbit. key people include the president's two adult sons, his son-in-law and allen weisselberg, the chief financial officer of the trump organization who along with don jr. signed off on the check reimbursing michael cohen for paying off stormy d...

On the list, ivanka trump is absent. it also won't be the only document request. jerry nadler's staff said another letter would be going out soon and cautioned against reading into why some people didn't receive letters on monday. joining us now ted lieu of california. what can you tell us about the logic of this list? what unifies it, why these names and these entities. >> thank you, chris, for your question. let me first say that i hope our investigation exonerates donald trump. i don't want to think that our president is a crook. but i fear that our investigation will not do that. we're goi...

He is ready to cooperate. are you confident the white house will honor this request? >> i certainly hope he does. the president always said he wants to get these investigations done quickly. it will facilitate it all the way around? >> absolutely. with ve a responsibility to do that for the american people. they deserve to moe the truth. it is to make sure. >> what if the white house claims executive privilege. >> they will contest it in court and hopefully prevail. it will not be the first time there's been a fight about the exercising executive privilege. a lot of this will claim executive p...

These democrats are really trying to do is presidential harassment, and democrats have to figure out how to play in this new media world that president trump has been playing in the past two years. i'm not sure they're there yet, but they'll have to learn quickly president trump doesn't play by the rules of the old days, he plays by very new rules and he's not really strikcken b the rules of political decorum. >> you're right, the trump organization and trump campaign cannot be shielded from executive privilege. in the document request, in the initial response, sarah sanders releasing a statem...