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To impeachment than you were months ago. why is that? what's the difference for you? >> the president is using every tool he can to keep from complying with legitimate requests, subpoenas. the fact that he is willing to essentially cover up everything that he does not want anyone to know and will refuse to allow his own members of his administration testify before committees of congress with legitimate questions, denying subpoenas and, you know, as a member of the ways and means committee i'm concerned about their willful ignorance of section 6103 of the tax code that says that the chairman of...

Because we like to. we think it's... fun. introducing the all-new 2019 ford ranger built for the strangest of all creatures. this week has not been a good one for president trump's legal theories. it's only tuesday. on monday a federal court rejected his lawyer's argument that congress has no oversight powers and therefore could not subpoena his financial records. tonight there's breaking news on another suspect theory, this involving president trump's actual tax returns. "the washington post" has new reporting on a draft memo out of the irs' chief counsel's office which directly contradicts...

The tax returns. it backs up pretty much what every legal expert has been saying about this? >> i think that's an easy assignment for that lawyer. the plain reading of the statute says, as they put it, there's no wiggle room for the treasury secretary. i don't think the treasury secretary or his staff wants to see that memo. now that it's out, they don't have any good legal arguments there. i don't think a judge is going to buy that argument. i think they'll presume there's a legitimate legislative purpose behind the law. that's what congress does. they have oversight. they also revealed the w...

Violating the law. i've been add vised had i turned them over i would be violating the law. >> reporter: the treasury secretary trying to down play the significance of what that memo says and what the irs attorneys were arguing in that draft memo. all of this as he faces a likely long court battle with house democrats ahead. >> thank you. just ahead, the former lawyer for stormy daniels is charged with stealing $300,000 from the porn star who claimed an affair with president trump. anyone can stick a lime in a beer.

Later this morning the speaker will have a chance to confront the president directly, she goes to the white house for talks on infrastructure. there is also growing uncertainty about whether special counsel robert mueller will, in fact, testify in public. this as lawmakers we know will be getting the chance just about an hour from now to grill treasury secretary steve mnuchin today about the irs's refusal to hand over president trump's tax returns. and this comes as the "washington post" has now uncovered a confidential irs draft memo that directly contradicts the administration's reasons fo...