back. even some on the right say the attack on legal abortion as gone too far. i think alabama has gone too. good evening from new york. i m chris hayes. the trump administration is continuing an assault on continuing congress s roles. a day after the personal lawyer told a gob smacked judge, congress shouldn t be able to investigate if the president engaged in corrupt behavior. a-electee letter was sent to jerry nadler not only refusing to turn over white house records, but more importantly claiming that congress has no standing to investigate trump at all. he wrote the committee is not a law enforcement agency thus the committee cannot justify inquiry by searching for possible evidence of false claims of obstruction of justice. more vaguely, it is launching an investigation into nonexistent threats against the rule of