Tonight, a surprising resignation amid a damning report amid pressure to get trump reelected. A top prosecutor working on attorney general bill barrs investigation has quit. According to the hartford current she is quitting over political concerns, pleasure to deliver a report that President Trump thought would benefit him and to deliver that report before election day. Shes a highly respected career prosecutor. She was working the u. S. Attorney, john durham. An investigation that will go against bob muellers investigation and show a conspiracy among democrats to bring him down. Durham is coming back and i hope its going to be soon. And i would imagine hes got plenty. Trump wants the Durham Report and he wants it out stat. That pressure is loud and clear. In fact he has publicly pushed barr to get that report out. Bill barr can go down as the greatest attorney general in the history of our country, or he can go down as just an average guy. Trump wants the report out because he thinks
Earlier this week. Ellison barber is live from the white house with more. Reporter yeah. Officials are telling fox news that not only does the department of treasury have these subpoenas in their possession, but that their legal team, Legal Counsel there, theyre currently reviewing it. The department of treasury and the irs says that President Trump has one week or they say that, excuse me, the department of treasury and the irs say that there is one week, they have one week to turn over six years of President Trumps personal and business tax returns. That is according to this subpoena from house democrats. The chairman of the house ways and Means Committee initially did try to obtain the returns by using a provision of the federal tax code that dates back to the Harding Administration and the teapot dome scandal, but mnuchin rejected the request, and the secretary says the request lacked a legitimate legislative purpose and violated Supreme Court precedent n. A statement, chairman ric