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It leaders are convening in new york city for a global climate summit at the united nations german chancellor angela merkel saying that her country will double its spending to combat climate change u.s. president donald trump meanwhile he made a surprise appearance today after reports that he would skip the climate summit but the in question starve the event so far has been you see right there the swedish teen activist bred to bear she sailed across the atlantic on his 0 carbon emissions trip to reach new york feuds or before the leaders took to the stage to beg gave an impassioned address acc...

This memo. i can see why the secretary of the treasury decided not to follow this and took the advice of his own general counsel to say we are going to take a positive not comply with this until we can see why congress wants tax returns. shannon: final word to you, jason. >> it is politically motivated, secretary of treasury is correct. it's called 6103 material and the reason it is there is so that they won't politicize the use of tax returns which is precisely what democrats are trying to do. they are doing it for pure political reasons, there is no legitimate legislative purpose. shannon: t...

That treasury secretary has invoked claiming i can refuse to provide this if there is no legislative purpose. the law is precleared. those lawyers drafted in the internal memo the way they saw and the way everybody sees. we will see how it plays out in the courts because this is all about political leverage at this point. it is going to take time. shannon: your comments on this is a document of any import? >> let me confess up front the worst grade i got in law school was in tax law. this is not my area of the law but that is everybody's first is worst grade, tax law. i read it closely, is a t...

Shannon: i want to touch on this report from the washington post, the headline is confidential draft irs mimosas tax returns must be given to congress on this president invoke executive privilege. you would think first impression that secretary mnuchin is denying the subpoena for the president's accident, decided not to. you have to read this like you should with any report to come to your own conclusion but when you read the headline this was a memo prepared last fall, no reference to donald trump. it was unsigned and marked draft, never went anywhere. neither the irs commissioner norm steve ...

Sources at the irs the memo in question was a draft background paper. the irs telling fox news it is not the official position of the irs. the article mentions the irs commissioner was not aware of this memo until the article came about have a draft memo was never forwarded to the treasury department. heather: important to dig into those headlines and appreciate you doing that. first developed in the investigation into the investigators, newly released testimony from former attorney general in direct conflict with a story told by james comey centered on the 2016 probe into hillary clinton's pr...