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argued that is pretext to get their hands on the former president's financial documents but lower courts have said that the committee could obtain these documents until the supreme court intervened here and put a temporary pause on this. now, erica, if the supreme court affirms this lower court ruling, if this is allowed to stand, it is significant because if the house ways and means committee is allowed to obtain these tax returns from the former president, that really would represent a significant chipping away at some of the protections that are afforded to sitting presidents and ...

The court is in a recess. later today, the father of gina montalto is expected to speak in court. i have a chance to talk to him earlier this morning. >> joining me now is tony montalto, the father of gina and the president of stand with parkland. it is good to have you back with us this morning. this has to be a highly emotional day for you. how are you feeling? >> well, every day without gina is -- is tough. today we hope to begin wrapping up the sentencing of the mass murderer who took her life. and getting him out of the public eye will be helpful to all of our families. >> i can only imag...

>> absolutely. and i want to point out the interview with her was riveting as was of course and heartbreaking her victim pact statement earlier today where she pointed out aspects of the trial, the idea of the horrible statements that were made by at least one defense counsel by the appearance and the comment of look, they were fully committed to their crimes, they should be fully committed to the consequence, as well. the judge put that out there to talk about the lack of remorse to talk about wishing or thinking the worst in your neighbors and the worst in yourself and having pauses througho...

Pleasures, big and small. he will never be able to fulfill his professional dreams, nor will he be able to start a family or even be a part of my daughter's life. the loss of a maude has devastated me and my family. these men deserve the maximum sentence for the crimes. ahmaud arbery never said a word to them. he never threatened them, he just wanted to be left alone. >> a jury convicted the men just before thanksgiving for chasing down and shooting arbery who was jogging in the neighborhood. we are in brunswick, georgia. in the victim pact statement, his mother gave a rebuttal of sorts to com...

That there will be parole? >> well, yes, although really given the way that this particular case was structured, several of those underlying felony counts were merged into the murder counts. and the additional ones would be for the most part con current to both each other and the murder sentence. so at the end of the day the question is really life, you're going to serve 30 years and be considered for parole or serve the rest of your life in prison. >> areva, we heard from ahmaud arbery's brother and sister offering the rebuttal to the st statement from one of the defense attorneys from the tr...