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Welcome back to "hardball." in an interview on "meet the press" yesterday, chuck todd asked president trump about his biggest regret as president. let's listen. >> if you could have one do-over as president, what would it be? >> well, it would be personnel. >> who is it? >> i would say if i had one do-over, i would not have appointed jeff sessions to be attorney general. that would be my one -- >> that's -- in your mind that's your do-over? >> he does it with such cerebral consciousness. we all knew that was coming. i'm joined now by the white house reporter for "the wall street journal." timo...

Expected to sign the bill, and then we suspect when the request is made by the suspecheads of t committees in washington the trump administration, like other things, will try to block it in the courts and we go on and on. it's more pressure on the president and the administration to release these documents. it's a really novel, if you think about it, it's a novel political clever way to try to achieve their objective here at the state level that they can't seem to achieve as readily at the federal level. >> yeah, and to that point, tim, you have covered extensively this president's kind of fin...

Treasury secretary steve mnuchin was pressed about a memo that showed his department had no legal stand to go reject a request by democrats. >> so are you aware then that by denying this, that you are in direct violation of the law? >> no, absolutely not. i have been advised i am not violating the law. i never would have duffer anything th -- i never would have done anything that violated the law. >> ron allen is at the statehouse in albany and bloomberg opinion executive editor timothy o'brien has covered this extensively. ron, this bill is expected or has passed. what happens next? what happ...

Department. how thin is the ice that mnuchin is standing on right now? >> well, legally, i think he is on very thin ice. the fact of the matter is the law says that the congress has the right, if it deems it legislatively necessary, to request the president's tax returns. mnuchin's interpreting legislative reasons narrowly. i don't think the courts, if it goes to that point, are going to interpret it as narrowly as he does. all of this falls right, i think, in the middle of congress' oversight authority and framers of the constitution didn't want an executive branch that could be populated by ...

Does as a federal official. so i think he's got leverage. i think that will come to haunt him in some of the other investigations that are targeting the trump organization, the trump foundation, the people who work for him in new york and his finances. new york has quite a bit of leverage over him in these situations, and i think the other thing to remember, kasie, is that new york has a long memory and donald trump is a child and a son of new york. new york politicians, the new york media, and a lot of other institutional players here have been observing him for decades. >> tim, the irs did p...