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Last word. >> yesterday when i asked about reparations, senate majority leader mitch mcconnell offered a familiar reply. america should not be held liable for something that happened 150 years ago. since none of us currently alive are responsible. this rebuttal proffers a strange theory of governance, that american accounts are somehow responsible for a lifetime of generations. we honor treaties that date back some 200 years, despite no one being alive who signedthose treaties. many of us would love to be taxed for the things we are solely and individually responsible for. but we are american...

Address which became known for its blunt expression of trump's authoritarian populism and invocations of american carnage. quote, i sat on that stage between bernie and john mccain. john mccain kept reciting to me names of dictators during that speech because he knew more than any of us that we were facing -- what we were facing as a nation amy klobuchar said. he understood it. he knew because he knew this man more than any of us did. speaking tore the mccain family the senator's daughter, meghan mccain asked amy klobuchar to be respectful to all of us and leave my father's memory out of trump...

>> shan, if the president were to invoke executive privilege over tax returns that are from the last six years, could he do that? >> i don't think he could do that very successfully. that would be one of the weaker invocations of it. if you think about executive privilege, a little bit like a lawyer's attorney-client privilege, it's meant to give the president the benefit of recommendations, opinions from his aides to make decisions. >> it doesn't relate to everything that's happened in his past life before he was president. >> exactly. there's nothing opinionated or a recommendation in his ta...

Of all these different calls to testify would have for them. >> it is a fair point. you know, if you are going to work for this administration, you have to be prepared to hire your own lawyer in case you're subpoenaed. that's got to dissuade people from wanting to work for this white house. this is going to continue. it is not going away soon. it looks like the president and the white house are taking the long game to push this out past 2020. that's why you see all the stalling, all these invocations of executive privilege, when the law in the area isn't very clear. i can say this, it is unlik...

That? >> i don't think he could do that very successfully. that would be one of the weaker invocations of it. if you think about executive privilege, a little bit like a lawyer's attorney-client privilege, it's meant to give the president the benefit of recommendations, opinions from his aides to make decisions. >> it doesn't relate to everything that's happened in his past life before he was president. >> exactly. there's nothing opinionated or a recommendation in his tax returns. they're just his tax returns. >> it's fascinating. jeff stein, we'll see how this develops. appreciate your repor...