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Mark: ken starr, i want to ask you abt congressional oversight. the democrats have multiple committees, starting multiple investigations on anything you can think of related to trump and trump world. [laughter] now, you know, i look at the constitution, i look at the history of hearings, the history of what congress does and maybe what it should do. it has legitimate oversight function. there's no question about that. its job is to legislate, so so it kind of needs to know what's going on. but that's not what's going on. if you want ten years of the president's past tax returns or you want acc...

Disqualify it, this makes you a liar, it makes you a criminal. but if you listen to aoc and how she set it up, this is exactly what the sdny is looking at for trump. >> and since we have a lawyer at the table here, what did consider tez oig o alexandria ocasio-cortez got out of michael cohen, is that legal problem for the president and if so why and the bank documents where the president inflated his net worth, is that legal problem? >> are the legal problems really don't come from congress, they come from the prosecutors. so really none of what happened yesterday is a legal problem because th...

For them to be made available to congress. congress established today in this hearing with representative gomez, with aoc later on in the hearing that they needed to look at the taxes in order to engage in their oversight function. and frankly, i think we all have a common sense understanding of that at this point, that the president lied about being under audit as an excuse for not releasing his taxes, though, as you say is a huge red flag that there is something deeply wrong in there. >> you mentioned the questioning by congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez. she elicited something about all...

Gomez, with aoc later on in the hearing that they needed to look at the taxes in order to engage in their oversight function. and, frankly, i think we all have a common sense understanding of that at this point, that the president lied about being under audit as an excuse for not releasing his taxes, though, as you say is a huge red flag that there is something deeply wrong in there. >> you mentioned the questioning by congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez. she elicited something about alleged criminal behavior by the president's business that was blunt and stark today. i want to get your tak...

Diplomacy, now it's social media whining, the other way do it and effective and the way i used most often was control over reprogramming dollars. so if congress gives up this ability to control that, they will lose an important oversight function. and i'm a big believer in that separate but equal branch of government. not every administration gets it right. republican or democrat. this is a huge federal government. it needs a functioning congress. i argue that they ought to be as angry as anything about the process here. there's another bite at this apple the president will get in the fall and...