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Welcome back to "hardball." tonight the white house is responding to what it's called a sham lawsuit by house democrats and their ongoing efforts to try to get ahold of donald trump's tax returns. how ways and means committee chair richard neal filed a lawsuit today accusing the irs and the treasury department of mounting an extraordinary attack on the authority of congress to obtain information needed to conduct oversight of treasury, the irs and the tax laws on behalf of the american people. this follows repeated attempts by democrats starting in april to obtain six years of the president's ...

To be a legitimate legislative purpose, guess who that's up to? that's up to congress. it's not for doj to say we don't believe you. if that's the case doj will take over the legislative function from congress. i think congress is going to prevail if they take this to court. >> elie, another question, the office of legal counsel, their argument is 33 pages, okay, but then you look at the tax code, at least on this, is written, and it's very plainly written, upon written request from the chairman of the committee on ways and means of the house of representatives the secretary shall furnish such...

It's not for doj to say we don't believe you. if that's the case doj will take over the legislative function from congress. i think congress is going to prevail if they take this to court. >> elie, another question, the office of legal counsel, their argument is 33 pages, okay, but then you look at the tax code, at least on this, is written, and it's very plainly written, upon written request from the chairman of the committee on ways and means of the house of representatives the secretary shall furnish such committee with any return or return information specified in such request. i mean, i'm...

Irs to give the returns of any individual to the chairman of that committee. neil cited his authority under section 6103 of the federal tax code. that section of the law mandates that, quote, upon written request from the chairman of the committee on ways and means of the house of representatives, the secretary of the treasury, quote, shall furnish such committee with return or return information. the administration twice refused to meet the committee's voluntarily deadline to comply with the law, leading chairman neil to issue a subpoena last week to force the release of those returns. with l...

Individual to the chairman of that committee. neil cited his authority under section 6103 of the federal tax code. that section of the law mandates that, quote, upon written request from the chairman of the committee on ways and means of the house of representatives, the secretary of the treasury, quote, shall furnish such committee with return or return information. the administration twice refused to meet the committee's voluntarily deadline to comply with the law, leading chairman neil to issue a subpoena last week to force the release of those returns. with less than an hour to go before n...