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From the administration because i kind of feel like once that crack happened with the whistle-blower that there's going to be a lot more people coming forward. but at some point we have to say enough is enough. and so i am certainly anxiously awaiting that report. i imagine we'll see it as soon as we come back from break, and then we'll determine where we go from there. >> and if more facts do develop in the inquiry, if as you say more witnesses decide to come forward either of their own volition their ordered by a court or any other reason or if more important factual documentation comes out,...

Michigan, dan kildee who sits on the house ways and means committee which has the authority to request the president's tax returns. how far along in this process is the committee getting the the president's returns? >> this is unchartered territory for us and we have not' use the authority to get access to a president's tax returns, the authority that the committee clearly has, but it has not been used in this fashion because candidates and presidents have always released their returns, so we are taking our time. we had a hearing to establish the legal authority under which we can request thes...

Defending president trump and the mueller investigation. but that said, they didn't really get much out of him. t you know, asked the direct question had he spoken to the president about the mueller investigation? he said flatly no. he also indicated he had not in other lines of questioning, said he had not discussed other investigations so that would encompass the southern district as well. so i don't know that anybody gained from this hearing. >> now mike, are you feeling me on what i was saying in the introduction that i don't know that there's anything wrong with the president asking the a...

Was not confirmed by the senate. whose main, you know, part of his resume was he had been defending president trump and the mueller investigation. but that said, they didn't really get much out of him. t you know, asked the direct question had he spoken to the president about the mueller investigation? he said flatly no. he also indicated he had not in other lines of questioning, said he had not discussed other investigations so that would encompass the southern district as well. so i don't know that anybody gained from this hearing. >> now mike, are you feeling me on what i was saying in the ...

House, margaret. what are they thinking over there? >> you have seen them sort of dial back the way they're making public statements and public pronouncements as it has become clear with each revelation over the last 48 hours that the fact basis they've been given to go out to the podium and talk about may not be accurate. it is now their own reputations on the line and all of them have some degree of either legal jeopardy or at least being brought into this legal investigation. you're going to see a retrenchment, trying to be careful about what you now say from a podium because it may to the ...