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Speaker pelosi has said before that the constitution is what should govern. it's very clear that there is a separation of powers and that congress should have oversight ability over the executive branch and essentially what trump is doing is trying to stop that. you have to think through what the issues are and most importantly democrats were elected on overseeing and offering a check to trump. if they're stymied by that, i think people will smell weakness and donald trump, himself, will smell weakness and become more emboldened. >> neera tanden gets the "last word" in our opening segment toni...

Now they're fighting back with an appeal. >> they are. they're fighting back on what could be a particularly important case because in this case, the white house and the president's lawyers lost this battle. a federal judge, d.c. district court judge, said that congress does have an oversight interest. they have a right to demand these documents and this accounting firm does in fact have to turn them over. this appeal could halt that order, which, you know, at the moment, they have six days. this accounting firm has six days to give over the documents. with this appeal, they could get a stay t...

Information, but this is the president's campaign manager sharing the most sensitive campaign data with russian officials, with the aim of getting them to aim the russian intelligence officials and this puts to why this notion that there has been no collusion. there is clearly collusion, that's what we learned in these documents. the question is is anyone really expected to believe that the president didn't know that this collusion was taking place? and the better question is what did he know? how much did he know about it and what role did he play in it? >> does this affect democrats with the...

Ethicss aethi ethi ethics, laws, campaign finance, and laws on guns. they're going to push back on donald trump and exercise their oversight ability but they can't descend into chaos. they have to prove they have an agenda to present to the american people, whether it's about drugs, prescription drugs. >> let's hit pause and watch.

California congressman. jarome corsi something to worry about? >> i don't think so, i think what we have is echo and every time you -- every time the echo you hear the same thing again, the challenge is to stay focused on their agenda even as democrats take over and begin issuing onslaught of subpoenas. leland: fair to say that you have been on both sides of this in the house so you would know more than almost anyone, the house can make robert mueller's investigation look like child play when you have 20 plus committees with oversight ability. >> it can make it more confusing, they want to get...