census, has been moving to near to the law and to follow the ruling of the court which the president refuses to acknowledge. and this is in keeping, butt by the way way, with his general sort of inability, really, to admit a defeat or show any signs of weakness, even when one is at hand. he wants to project to his supporters that he s going to be defiant and digging in and fighting on. up is down and down is up, some of these days. thank you to the three of you. the upcoming legal battle over donald trump s tax returns. when if ever could we see them? and what could they reveal about the president? and later, if you re a democrat, it s a good week to be on team harris. the senator surges ahead in yet another poll to a virtual tie with joe biden. the 11th hour just getting started on a tuesday night. [ giggling ] let s play dress-up.
has the right to say no or whether this is something that congress has the legal right to it. yeah, look. it s very simple. if i were writing a brief on this to a court i would say, point one, the law is clear, there s no exception here, shall means shall, shall means must, not may, not if. even if we need a good reason to be doing this, we have one here. we have to see if this whole irs mandatory under the regulations review of, audit of presidential tax returns is working. and guess what? the president himself is claiming it s not working. he s complaining about it, saying he s been targeted because of his religion. and congress is saying, okay, let s look at it. so your original question to david was, you know, what more can we learn. we don t know. but trump sure seems to think we re going to learn something because he s still trying to keep them he could voluntarily disclose them as every past president has done. so why isn t he? there s something he still doesn t want
the same day mueller testifies to congress. trump also made sure to get this out, quote, the economy is the best it has ever been. and there was also this. big fourth of july in d.c. salute to america. the pentagon and our freight military leaders are thrilled to be doing this incredible flyovers and biggest ever fireworks. tanks are being moved into position for thursday s events. two defense officials familiar with the planning tell nbc news there will be a variety of military aircraft involved and that air force one may be included. the washington post reports that tickets are being given to republican donors. and to staff and their family and friends. earlier today, nbc news peter alexander asked the administration about the
twitter feed is full of video of tanks being transported through d.c. trying to figure out how to get them in place for this with money that has been diverted in part from national parks entry fees that are meant to maintain our national parks, being transferred to do this. at the same time, you have folks saying they don t have the resources at these border facilities to care for young people. still the president thinks that this is a winning message. he s making this about him, not about the fourth of july. and why not have vip tickets available for his donors? this is in line with what the president has always done. he sees the united states, the celebration of the united states, the white house, and the celebration of himself, as one and the same. jill, the president it s hard to keep track of all the topics we need to cover because they move with such speed. the president has reminded us again about the government s loss at the supreme court with respect to the census question
and that didn t make the front page of the new york times. when it came out. a typical week five or six things like this. the fence to democracy. offenses to the truth. it s all done cynically and remember the word we all used to use? we have to be careful of normalizing donald trump. mission accomplished. the last thing before we go tonight. reminder of the context to what happened today. it s place in the history of a nation about to celebrate its 243rd birthday. the trump presidency creates a daily avalanche of news break lg norm after norm. so before we go tonight. reminder of this past month. the president began june with a state visit to the united kingdom denying he called meghan markle nasty. and calling the mayor terrible. and a stone cold loser. he claimed thousands in london