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good to be with you, i'm alex witt in for katy tur. we're right now following breaking news out of washington where the justice department has just announced it will not prosecute attorney general merrick garland for contempt of congress saying in a letter that garland's refusal to hand over audio of president biden's interview with robert hur to gop lawmakers was not a crime. joining us now from capitol hill is correspondent julie tsirkin. so let's interpret what this all means. i guess the implication being this was a political maneuver by congress. >> reporter: first of all, alex,...

Trying to get insurance or getting taxes reduced. they say his congressional ethics forums, wanted to know if he was accurately filling them out because of that, and secondly, cohen said the president wrote a check to reimburse him for hush money payments, and that that was not reflected on the financial disclosure form. in other words, congress said we need these accounting forms to see whether president trump is accurately filling out his ethics forms. his lawyers said that's not a legislative purpose, and that's your only authority for issuing subpoenas is a legislative purpose. but today t...

Joining me is don beyer, he sits on the commission that oversees noaa. congressman, thank you for being here. >> thank you, very much. >> off have called for wilbur ross to be fired over this. they flat out deny this happened. you are calling for him to resign. do you think that's premature at all? >> i don't think so at all. i think this is the final straw, kate. ross has been a disaster so far. i mean he lied or mislead on his ethics forms. he got all involved in what looks like philadelphiaer trading. he's been held in contempt by the house for denying their subpoenas. he, now this is sort ...

Property has appreciated nicely over time. "the washington post" reports that by 2013, less than 20 years after trump first bought it in 1995, that property had more than doubled in value. it was assessed in 2013 at $18.9 million. nice. right? the local paper, the westchester county journal news said by 2017, the property was assessed even a little higher. it was assessed at $19.6 million. president trump and his federal financial disclosure form for last year, 2018, he didn't have to give a precise valuation for the property and those kinds of federal ethics forms, you have to give a range of...

It in 1995, that property had more than doubled in value. it was assessed in 2013 at $18.9 million. nice, right? the local paper, "the west chester county journal news" says by 2017 the process -- the property was assessed even a little bit higher. it was assessed at $19.6 million. president trump in his federal financial disclosure form for last year, 2018, he didn't have to give a precise valuation for the property on those kinds of federal ethics forms. you just have to give a range of value. when president trump filed his financial disclosure form last year, he said the value of that prope...