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Important committee in the investigative process. it is now clear that democrats in congress intend to use michael cohen's testimony this week as the road map for their investigations of the president of the united states. that means michael cohen' testimony is the beginning of the beginning of the first serious congressional investigations of donald trump. and one of the first steps in these real congressional investigations of the president will be to obtain his tax returns. the associated press reports multiple democrat-led house committees are pledging to investigate not only trump's campa...

Lloyd doggett will join us in a moment. top democrats have told axios that the house committees want to call trump family members to testify with subpoenas if necessary before some committees. besides russia, topics include conflicts of interest, money laundering and jared kushner's security clearance and other white house clearances. democratic congressman jamie raskin tells axios that the committees are zeroing on the moscow project, the russia connection and the influence of other foreign actors like saudi arabia. today congressman jerry connelly of the oversight committee said it's all abo...

President trump intervened and ordered a security clearance for his son-in-law, jared kushner, something the president has repeatedly publicly denied that he did. >> there's been a story in the news in the last two weeks about your son-in-law's security clearance. >> yeah. >> did you tell general kelly or anyone else in the white house to overrule security officials, the career veterans? >> no. i don't think i have the authority to do that. i'm not sure i do. >> you do. >> but i wouldn't. i wouldn't do it. jared is a good -- i was never involved with his security. >> donald trump is not the on...

Individual tax returns, is, quote, readying a request for years of president donald trump's personal tax returns that is expected to land at the internal revenue service as early as the next few weeks. nbc news has learned. and democrats are prepared to take all necessary steps, including litigation, in order to obtain them. ways and means committee chairman richard neil has asked the committee's attorneys to prepare the request according to two aides involved in the process. neal has conducted the chairs of several other house investigative committees, including oversight and government refor...

In russia. this week he wrote a piece for "the new york times" titled "putin's one weapon, the intelligence state." he is also a writer for the cipher brief. and malcolm nance is with us, an msnbc counterterrorism and intelligence analyst. malcolm, i want to get your reaction to that last thing i read, which is lawrence tribe writing an article of impeachment. if it is proven that donald trump did override the process and order the security clearance for his son-in-law, is professor tribe's draft of an article of impeachment appropriate or is that an overreaction? >> well, that depends. it rea...