Saying. Chairman nunes needs to recuse himself. Its time for him to leave this investigation. This is a what a cover up to a crime looks like. For him to step down. I think it would be best for him to step aside. Let someone else handle this veinvestigation. Its not just the democrats. Late this afternoon, the first republican came out public ly t say chairman nunes should recuse himself. Shafs walter jones of north carolina, who does not serve on the Intelligence Committee, but several republicans on the Intelligence Committee now jumping in, defending chairman nunes and they are not the only ones. So is paul ryan. Should nunes recuse himself from the russian veinvestigatio and do you know the source . No, i dont. Also today, a forceful pushback from the white house on this story. The post reporting that the Trump Administration tried to block sally yates from testifying on capitol hill about russia. The white house did not respond and took no action that present pre vented miss yates from testifying. Thats the story. Thats what the documents show. The view here was great. Go share what you know. So, no and thats why the Washington Post should be ashamed of how it handled this story. It was 100 false. Were taking what youre saying as assurances that chairman nunes decision to call off that hearing did not have anything to do with any pressure from the white house. No. With me, democrat from the great state of california and he is calling for chairman nunes to leave the investigation. Nice to see you, sir. You, too, greta and i was hoping right now id be report ing to you what we heard earlier today from sally yates, directors clapper and brennan. Unfortunately, those hearings and any future hearings on russia interference in our elections have been canceled. Why . What did chairman nunes tell you the reason why . No reason. Thats what is so frustrating and why i believe our committee has lost its independence, credibility and able thety to make progress. For the sake of the committee and his future duties on other non russia matter, i think hed serve us all well if he recused himself from the russia issue. Did you receive a call from him or a staffer . How did you learn these hearings were canceled . We were told by our staff. So could you pick tuiasosopo t up the phone and call him and say whats up . I spoke with him earlier and asked if he would be willing to sit down with democrats and republicans and talk about what he learned who gave it to him so we could let the steam out of the pot. I hope he considers doing that tell us our source, tell us your source, what you know. Because everybody in that committee is security clearance, right . He didnt seem open to it. We all have the same security clearance that he does and our constituents are counting on us to do this. An independent commission is becoming more and more necessary if we cant do our job and our job to conduct this investigation. Have you gone to any republicans in the House Intel Committee and said look, the chairman wont tell us who his source is, what he knows, so will you tell us . I have spoken privately with other republicans on the committee. Mostly just about how u can we Work Together because at the end of the day, we have to get to the bottom of what happened, what u. S. Persons if any were vofld and how can we avoid being in this mess again. If those conversations continues, democrats are going to pursue this investigation. I just dont want it to have an asterisk around it because it lost credibility. If youre supposed to be investigating this together and youre in this room with the chairman, what is your theory as to why he wont give you this basic information about what information he has and who his source is . I cant speak for his motives. I can only say white house is too involved in this by trying to block what sally yates was going to say. By allowing the chairman to go to the white house and receive classified information that wouldnt be shared with democrats. By having michael anyoflynn lie the Vice President b about his prior contacts with russia, by the toernattorney general misle the senate. All of this is a pattern of an attempt to cover up what serious questions we have about russia. What i dont get is when you confront the chairman, he must say something. Whether he shrugs his shoulders or says ill tell you later. He said he sent us a letter. He told me a letter has been sent to the committee. Can you go pick it up . Theres nothing there that a i went there as soon as he said it and again, greta, i like this chairman. Weve worked with him on cybersecurity issues. We reauthorized our intelligence programs. We have other important duties and so that we can Work Together on those other duties, i think he should step aside because its jeopardizing the ability of the committee to function. When he says he sent a letter, i mean, you all work in the same building. Work in the capitol together. I dont know if youre in the same house building, but you can walk to his office and get a copy or has he offered to have it hand delivered . Did he put it in the mail . I havent seen it and this is more important than one person and what we need to do is regain the credibility that were supposed to have as the Intelligence Committee. That is always Work Together in the past. Youre never going to gain credibility if theres so much weirdness swirling around it. It is weird. If he says i sent you a letter, im not going to tell you why the hearing has been canceled, but yoel get it in the mail. Again, this is a departure from the chairman that all of us have worked with over the past few years. That really happened once he joined the Transition Team. You can only wear one uniform at a time. Either hes on our independent search for the truth or hes helping the white house. Cant do both. I hope he steps aside, allows another republican to lead this and we can just get back to work. The fact you want to step aside, cant wear two team jerseys, you think hes on Team White House and not team House Intel Committee. He wont tell us what he learned at the white house. Weve canceled todays hearing. No further hearings this week and no sense of when the next will be. So all the progress we made with last weeks open hearing is now stalled. Congressman, hope you come back. Especially when you get that letter. I hope you get it and come back and share it with us. I do, too. Thank you, sir. Theres so much mystery. What exactly do we know b about former attorney general sally yates and her testimony we were expecting today . Heres a look at what went down leading up to those now canceled hearings. I hope she testifies. I look forward to it. The report in the Washington Post is 100 false. We encouraged them to go ahead, but to suggest that we stood in the way, that is 100 false. The white house denying claims it tried to block former acting attorney general sally yates from testifying on russia. The Washington Post publishing letters between yates lawyer and the Justice Department. On march 24th, doj writing yates would be limited on what she could y. Doj also saying yat needs to consult with the white house. Her lawyer responding that it would be unu tennellable not the talk about information and that same day, this happened. Postpone the previously scheduled march 28th hearing. We strongly object to the cancellation of this hearing. I think this is a serious mistake. Chairman nunes denies he talked to the white house about yates. That Committee Hearing was supposed to be today with a rhered hot spotlight on sally yas. Back in january, she refused to defend the president s travel ban. It led to this. A major breaking news this evening. Attorney general of the United States has been fired. After yates was fired, we learned she had told white house con sell she was concerned about then National Security adviser, Michael Flynns contact with the Russian Ambassador and believed he was vulnerable to blackmail. Today, she would have broken her silence. What does schenn . She know . With me, jeremy bash. Nice to see you. First, theres a reference to this Washington Post article. Looking at the documents underlying the article, it said yates lawyer sent a lert to the white house and said hes going to testify unless you object by the certain date. The white house didnt object. So it sounds like the Washington Post article is dead wrong. Thats incorrect because the nonresponse from the Justice Department from the white house came on monday. Nunes had arranged for the hearing to be canceled last week, so there was nothing for them to cancel. Because the hearing was already canceled, you think this was just the white house playing the yates. If they hadnt canceled, she would have testified today. As that he say in the law, the thing speaks for itself. If she were testifying today, they wouldnt have canceled it. The fact she didnt, means they did. I buy that. Thats persuasive. All right, what is it that they want from sally yates . Its about 17 days, greta. The days between the time that she warned white House Counsel who then turned around and told the president that mike flynn had been talking to the ruggen ambassador about sapgss, the time between that date and february 13th. What happened or was fired i should say. What happened during those 17 days . Doesnt take 17 days for the white house to figure out this guys either off the reservation, hes lying to the Vice President or hes doing something worse under National Security. Whats to stop her tonight coming out of this show and say ing well, nunes canceled me, but heres what i i would have said. Nothing is stopping her, however, shes a public servant. She started her career in Republican Administration as a career prosecutor. Shes not a partisan person. She doesnt want to come off. Heres the point. She wants to be told to testify. Ask question by a dually authorized Congress Congressional committee. Shes not looking for fame or attention. She will answer questions if if asked by a committee thats investigate iing this, but here the point. The chairman has shut down the investigation. He has slammed the brake, not just on this hearing, hes canceled two hearings. Two briefings. Why . Because last mondays hear ing was a huge setback for the white house. The b fbi director confirmed the trump inner circle is under investigation for the kexs to russians and second, they flatly reputeuated the president s claims that Obama Wiretapped him. That hearing last monday was such a setback for the white house, they said what are you guys doing . Stop holding hearings. If thats true, i mean, if hes bought by the white house, he has just thrown his career away. His credibility. He could clearly explain if there were another rationale, but hes what could it be. Give me a hypothetical. What could be an innocent explanati explanation . He said he didnt have enough time, but hes been on oreilly, other shows. A staff, hes the one who set the dates to begin with. I cant credit it because it makes no sense can you come up with any hypothetical, any explanation for why canceling those hearings, that there was a reason to. No. Thats the problem. I agree. Because im thinking why in the world would he have canceled those. Its really clear and all you have to do is listen to the concerns raised by other committee members. Theres a, there are three federal investigations. Ones by the fbi. Ones by the Republicanled Senate committee. These are not inventions of democrats. These are republicans investigating ties. You say look, let the Senate Republicans investigate it. Its just overlap. That would probably be the best excuse. That is an abdication of duty. The house selecting on intelligence yes, i adwree grooe. Any port in a storm. But he shouldnt put the committee and congress and peoples representative in that position. They should conduct an impartial investigation. There was one report that before he went to the white house, he spoke with speaker ryan. Speaker ryan today was asked that he did not think that chairman nunes should step down. That was jeremys phone, not mine. Why do you think the speaker is standing by him . I think the speaker is reluctant to get into this. When he answered the two questions from the reporter today, no and in, he answered in about quick a fashion as one can answer a question in a press conference. Usually, he likes to give long answers. He may not want to dwell, but shes speaker of the house and hes got a situation where a very influential committee is having a very difficult problem. This is a crisis of confidence. Not just in this committees oversight, but oversight in general. If theres one thing weve learn its ha in a series of checks and balances, there needs to be oversight. If congress is not going to conduct the oversight, the courts and agencies will have to do that. Nice to see you. More breaking news. Nbc news is now reporting that tom perez has beasked for resignations from all current staffers by next month. It is part of a Major Overhaul after last years loss athat th dnc favored Hillary Clinton over bernie sanders. Well talk u about that tomorrow night at 6 00 p. M. Eastern. Still ahead, intrigue. 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And we are back with breaking news. Moments ago, nbc catching up to house intel chair nunes pressing him on his investigation into russian meddling. Just wondering on camera, so youre not going to tell the committee who your source is. We never talk about sources. I wouldnt expect you to do that either. You guys are so infatuated with sources. And youre waiting to hear back from comey before you schedule yates . Yes. We have a lot of, we have the witnesses that we want. And but we dont know who the democrats want to bring in. Okay. So, you know, were still waiting on them. We spoke to congressman chip a little while ago and he indicated that you trying to bring in comey was a cover to cancel yates. Okay. No reaction. Im not going to react to anything like that. Its not like you remember i said the same thing. This is no new information. And you did not tell the president i think it was pretty obvious after there was 100 questions. That we need to get why not schedule it at the end of the hearing on monday . Look, theres a lot of questions that theyve got. Okay and so you have not hed back from him . We have a lot of concerns. With the questions that were unanswered at that hearing. And that is a consensus amongst our members. And it was our members, republican side, who really wabted to make sure that of those questions were answered before we get to the rest of our witnesses. Can you tell us who signed you in at the white house . Were not going to ever talk about any of that. Thank you, mr. Chairman. Good luck though. Did you tell mr. President i never ask you your sources. Did you tell President Trump your sources . Youre going to drop that, man. Weve answered all the questions many times to you guys. That one specifically. Yes, we have. Thank you. With me, michael isakoff, chief investigator correspondent, a new report focusing on Michael Ellis, a lawyer who worked for chairman nunes. Also, director for president obamas National Security counsel, analyst at the cia. He resigned because of president tru trump. Let me ask you this, michael. Is what chairman nunes says is is that we dont discuss sources and methods, that all the questions have been answered, but theres one sort of gaping hole in this is that he hasnt answered to his own committee to republicans and democrats. We just had a congressman on who knows nothing. Supposed to get a letter in the mail with this. He hasnt told us, but more importantly, hasnt told his own committee. Chairman nunes may or may not have a legitimate point to make about the incident collection. We dont know because nobody has seen the documents hes referring to. But we know that hes clearly compromised the perception of any kind of bipartisanship or independence about this investigation. First of all, by going down there and examining the documents without informing any of the democrats. He could have taken adam schiff down with him to see the material. Briefed him later. You know, i think schiff probably would have wanted to see the material himself, but the fact is that if theyre supposed to be working on this together, cooperative investigation, then you add on that hooer that, hes going to the white house and at least in part, this investigation is what did the white house know and when did it know it, when did, what did it know about mike flynns actions. Were there links between the campaign and the russian government. So, it feeds the perception that nunes is basically working with the white house instead of investigating the white house. Two questions. Ned, first, what do you have to do at the white house. How do get cleared, cant just sort of walk in. Thats the this finckfirst thin. You cannot just walk in. What this boil down to is the fact the white house either was the source or played match maker between nunes and source. We know that because you need access by a white house staff member to gain access to the compound. Its not easy to get into the white house u. Its not. And someones got to clear you. Clear you into the white house compound, then clear him into the secure facility where he viewed these documents then he said he accessed a computer where he saw these electronic records. Clearly, you need login credentials from a staffer to view this. So if the white house was not the direct source of this, the white house was intimately involved in putting this together and playing match maker between nunes and whoever his source is. Theres nothing wrong with him looking at documents. He has made this increde bable mist writery. Hes the chairman of the Intelligence Committee. So why is he creating this cloak and dagger . And i should say, who signed him into the white house and how he came to be there is not revealing sources amethoded. The source is somebody who wanted him to see this. Whos Michael Ellis . Chief counsel for the house Intelligence Committee under nunes and about a month ago, in the white House Counsels office doing National Security matters, so it has led to a lot of speculation. The if swb somebody was going to help facilitate this, he would have been a likely suspect. Ned, whats your sort of thought and i realize its a guess, but whats your thought on these documents. Piecing everything together. What do you think were looking at . Nunes has said a few things and his account has shifted over time, but what he has said is that these documents describe legal surveillance that was court authorized, that may involve incidental collection. He went on to say he wasnt even sure if the documents contain intercepts of people within trumps inner orbit. So what this could boil down to, if this is incidental collection, it could be two foreigners mentioning the name of Donald Trumps orbit. Thats it. If thats it, why do we have this explosive secret stuff and what i consider odd behavior. Ive been here 20 something years. Because this is what they want us to be talking about. They dont want us to talk about the ongoing russia inquiry. Last monday was such an unmitigated disaster for the Trump Administration. They are looking for anything. As their pawn. So young theyre being clever in diverting this. It just makes me more interested. This clearly hasnt like damped down interest in this whole investigation. The thing is, we were talking about this and not russia. Oh, no, now more committees are going to get involved. More American People are going to be calling their members of congress. And its led to calls by the democrats on the committee for nunes to recuse himself and thats not good for the white house. Because you know, it casts a big, gray cloud over him and his conduct of this. Its not good for the white house because right now, they have defender, the chairman of the House Committee investigating. But not a guy, what hes done though is made himself look unusual to be polite and so thats not a great defender. You want someone who looks like you know, mother teresa. He can well be the sacrificial lamb the white house is looking for to distract the attention away. I think its become so unusual and mysterious. I dont know. Any way, gentlemen, thank you. Plot thickens. Remember these photos, they created an uproar. His maralago dining room. The House Oversight committee demanded answers and tonight, Jason Chaffetz will break the news on what he has learned. Thats next. I never miss an Early Morning market. But with my back pain i couldnt sleep or get up in time. Then i found aleve pm. The only one to combine a sleep aid plus the 12 hour pain relieving strength of aleve. And now. Im back aleve pm for a better am. For my constipation, i switch laxatives. 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Call now and request your free decision guide. And start gathering the information you need to help you go long™. Back with news about President Trump and maralago. Today, the Government Accountability office announced its reviewing security protocals at the socalled winter white house. The gao will review the costs associate wd the president s trumped to florida. This comes after a month after questions were raised about his handling of a north Korea Missile Launch while in public view at maralago. Jason chaffetz is chairman of the House Oversight committee. Back from the white house he wr he got briefed on this issue. Good to see you. We want to protect our president , our first family, where ever they travel. You went to the white house. What did you learn . Democrats were there. By the way. Make sure thats on the record. Did you invite them . Yes, of course. As a chairman, you invited the democrats. It was a good briefing from secret service to the Communications Team to the military. Very difficult job. They have to at a moments notice, no matter where the president and Vice President are, they have to be able to be in a secure communication facility, they have a mobile one that can do that. And they walk this through. We look at these photos, theyre up on social media, which is a new phenomenon. President having dinner with a world leader a crisis is happening across the globe, but they assureded Us Secret Service and a variety of others, i dont have their titles in front of me, that they had done an investigation and there was no classifieded information they were looking at at that time. That if the president had moved slightly, they could have gone to a classified setting. He could have been in classified communications, but they told us the pictures they were looking at were of the prime ministers father who was golfing at some point and so, they walked us through that. Everyone looking at social pictures . They said there was nothing they were looking at or discussing that was classified. What does that mean . Define that. If there was something, you know, one of the accusations was that there was video of a north Korea Missile Launch and thats what they were discussing and looking at. Now, that would step over the line. I would think and be classified information. But they assure us and told us democrats were asking questions, too, that that simply did not happen. So youre sats fied. I am. Now, how to secure the president , whether hes in new jersey or the white house or in maralago, down in florida, which he tends to go to regularly, they are able to do that. And whether in hawaii or whatever they do, theyre used to doing this and do it on a daily basis. Elijah cummings is calling for an investigation into chairman devin nunes of the house Intelligence Committee. Thats ridiculous. Thats a silly season. Doesnt even pass the basic sniff test. He may not like the way chairman nunes is doing this or that, he may say he made a mistake on this or that, but nunes is a man of high integrity. Hes done a great job chairing a very difficult committee. Has the full confidence of the republican conference, leadership and myself and a host of others. So, you dont have any from the outside, this looks odd. Even the whole thing about sending a letter to inform democrats whats going on. His source of information. I guess its supposed to be classified, too. I dont know why he put it in a letter. You dont find that unusual . No, i dont. Youre dealing with a committee that deals with highly sensitive and classified information. Why put it in the mail . Because they have to deal with t documents there in a secure setting. Theyre not going down to the post office, but to put something in black and white so theyre on the same page, i could see based on what nunes has been through recently, why he would want to do that. Wouldnt you rather go into a closed hearing with your committee and tell them and they have had those and are going to have them in the future. Z so, is he making it up that he hasnt been told . Im shocked democrats want to challenge republicans. Thats not breaking news. Do you believe that nunes has done everything he can to brief the members of the house Intelligence Committee as to what tran pyred . He did apologize for it. But hes moved forward. He said he saw something. And he wont say who showed it to him or what it is. Not yet. I assume that is in that letter, somehow classified so the rest of us cant hear, that gets put in the u. S. Mail or something. I think youre extrapolating and others are extrapolating. He didnt tell us. Theyre in the middle of an investigation. Id love to tell you every conclusion weve come to on certain things weve been investigating, when youre u in an investigation, youre still learning things. Youve asked the fbi for we asked the white house even though haee was a former military officer, he has to get permission, not just ask, he ha. So were asking did they grant that approval because as a former military officer, you cant take that money. That goes for any officer. Apparently, theres a question at least in my mind, whether you got money from russia, in which case, and turkey. Any foreign nation. Any other nations where we think anybody who is a military officer in any branch of government or the military as a former officer, they cannot take direct payment. If the Defense Department says no, we have no record. We have no documents or anything. Thats what were checking. Thats why we sent a letter. To get their side. We need some admission he got that money, right . We believe we understand there was money exchangeded. From russia and turkey. Part where were at and Elijah Cummings and i both signed these letters. Wee goiwere going back to the administration. Did the general ask for permission and was he granted that. Theyre still under the clock and then well deal with that once they respond. Are you going to ask general flynn to testify . I dont know we necessarily need to do a hearing about this. Good source. Right from the from the horses mouth. Im sure youd love it. Id cover it. Yes, you would. Wouldnt you like to hear from him . Im not cutting that off, but im saying were going to do a full investigation. Weve gone to the next stage where we have sent a letter to the administration, several departments, asking for their feedback and documentation. Takes a little while to gather that. When do you expect to hear from them . In the next two weeks. By the time we get it, digest it and if theres a follow up question. If you find out he got money and didnt get permission, then what . Then youve got to figure out where you might refer that. Doj . Potentially, but it could be another department and agency. 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I mean, you know, ive talked to a number of not only republican operatives, but ethics people who say that the only thing this white house can do to just wash itself clean of this russia cloud is to just shopen the boo and show everything and say hey, look, we have nothing to hide. We did nothing wrong. Well march in and answer every question you give us and so, i think that is the approach theyre taking and the right one. Lynn, provided theres no funny business, that would be expected that a Transition Team member would meet with russian representatives, i dont know if a russian banker, if theres anything there. Its not unusual to be on a Transition Team to be speaking to other nations represe representatives. This is a town full of people who work for other governments. What is unusual is the circumstance and the reticence to tell the whole story, put it in context, to explain, to if theres, if theres more to be said to volunteer the information and thats where were in this situation now because of the chairman new our should have known that he had the conduct himself in a way that would be beyond reproach. Nunes, got a lot of chairmans going on here. If you talk about kushner, youre not just anyone, you are people who have positions of power, official or unofficial as kushner. I guess i give a little latitude to someone as a business man from new york. He has not been involved in politics. Im sure he knows this stuff right now. Hes gotten an intense education, but i know assuming that theres nothing funny about the conversations that you know, have at it. The thing is, we have to assume that and we assume that whole white house spokeswoman coming out saying nothing unusual. Nothing of consequence was discussed in this meeting and the problem i have is this is a white house who, its already eroded its own credibility in the first 60 some odd days. Wed love to believe what the white house has to say, but time and time again, they say things that are not true. I think it is incouple bent on jared to be under oath and show us exactly what was said. During the campaign, there was a celebrated situation where bill clinton went on the plane of lor ta lynch and talked about their grandchildren. Maybe thats what they have have had if they were under oath but the trump team did not give them the benefit of the doubt. This is something thats come up that could be cleared up. For all picks statement, i want to know what they said and let whatever the facts are. As opposed to somebody summarizing dont worry, its okay. We just need the facts. Zblmpb ahead, Paul Manafort, a russian billionaire and following the money. Internet dial up sound hi, im the internet. 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We are back with live pictures of the white house where the president and our first lady will host a reception for senators and their spouses, this will be the first time President Trump has invited all current senators, republicans and democrats to the white house and since the agenda the Supreme Court and maybe health care will come up. Now to an nbc news exclusive investigation. Paul manafort is the focus into possible ties between the Trump Campaign team and russia. Richard engel is following the money. Hes a central figure in the investigations into trumps inner circle and possible ties to russia. It was manafort. Paul manafort. Long before he was President Trumps campaign chairman, he was paid millions by a russian billionaire with close ties to vladimir putin. According to one report, secretly promising to greatly influence the putin government, now, nbc has learned that u. S. Treasury officials are following the money trail manafort left behind. It led them and us to a small island in the mediterranean. To find out more, we came here to cyprus to this city which has a reputation for its beaches an as a hub for Money Laundering. The city has attracted so many russians, its been dubbed this is where some of the money manafort got from the russian tycoon banking sources with direct knowledge of the transactions tell nbc news at least 15 accounts were opened here for more than ten companies, all linked to manafort. The sources say that in one case, a Million Dollars landed in one of these accounts and left it on the same day. Movements of large amounts of money very quickly in and out of an account is very similar to what money launderers do. Reporter and there was a lot money volved, including 18. 9 million to buy a ukrainian Media Company for Oleg Derapaska who state Department Officials described as oan ole gark putin turns to on a regular basis. Documents show that some of that money went to a manafortlinked company in cypress. Today, deripaska took out an ad in National Newspapers denying the Associated Press report that he hired manafort to help the putin government, calling it fake news. But eventually even in cypress, manaforts accounts raised suspicions. In 2012, the internal auditing system at laiki bank flagged some of the accounts for possible Money Laundering according to the banking sources, who also said that when the bank asked for more information, manafort chose to close the accounts without answering the questions. Late today, a spokesman for Paul Manafort sent us a statement saying all manaforts companies were legitimate entities and established for lawful ends, adding mr. Manafort has no specific personal recollection of the shutdown of his cypress accounts, which he says took place during a banking crisis on the island. Hes repeatedly denied working for the russian government. 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Thats why i know its just a political push. Mr. Pescarel has singled out this issue for political reasons. The american citizens request that the president do what he pledged to do in the election. He made that pledge, i would remind the gentle lady from south dakota. The president said he has no business deals in russia. I have no dealings with russia. I have no deals in russia. I have no deals that could happen in russia because weve stayed away. And i have no loans with russia. With me, congressman bill pascrell, democrat from the great state of new jersey, who filed that resolution demanding President Trumps tax returns. Nice to see you, sir. Greta, how are you this evening . Now, tell me, sir, looking at a tax return in general, what would you expect or define in someones tax returns lets take President Trumps that might be helpful to this russia investigation . What are you looking for . Very little. We need the supplementals. We need all the information that goes with tax reforms. Then theres all kinds of schedules, particularly if you have debts, if you have investments in other countries. The rules become very, very interesting. So an ordinary person really could not decide or discern what he would have to do if he owned all of this like mr. Trump has 560 investments in all countries in this world. We have a right to know this, i believe the people to know about their president in order to investigate conflicts of interest. Hes talking about tax reforms. The tax reforms need to be for everybody, not just for him. All right. So thats on the issue of conflicts of interest. What gives you the specific authority to get those tax returns . How do you get around sort of the privacy interests of a citizen . Well, we certainly want to we dont want to violate anyones privacy. But the rule and the law of 1924 right after the teapot dome incident, which was scandalous to say the least, the code was changed. So there are three committees in the congress of the United States that have the right to ask in executive session to get the materials if they feel it merits public consumption. Then they have the right to bring that the publics attention. So is your thats what were asking for. If theres nothing to hide, why dont we have this . As you request and i realize youre a Minority Party in a republicandominated house. But is your request, then, to the Treasury Department who i guess would have sort of custody of the returns, or is your request to President Trump under that law . It goes to the Treasury Department through the chairman of the three committees, either ways and means, the Senate Finance committee, or the joint committee on taxation. Then they would decide in executive session if that if those should be made public. Thats what the law says. The law is on our side. Plus we need to look at article i, section 9 of the constitution of the United States, gifts to the president of the United States or anybody in the executive branch of government. Congressman, thank you very much. Well be watching. Thank you for joining us, sir. This is going to be a long fight. And viewers, thank you for watching. Ill see you back here tomorrow night 6 00 p. M. Eastern. We have a big show tonight. Among my guests, the also fascinating senator lindsey graham. He doesnt take prisoners. And before then, follow me on twitter greta. Be sure to check out my facebook page. Hardball with chris matthews. Starts right now. See you tomorrow night at 6 00 p. M. Eastern right here on msnbc. The president s man. Lets play hardball. Good evening. Im chris math use. In washington, the chairman of the house Intelligence Committee, devin nunes says hes not going anywhere. In spite of growing calls for him to step aside, hell remain at the helm of the investigation into russias interference in our election. Are you going to stay as chairman and run this investigation . Why would i not . You guys need to go ask them why these things are being