Is prepared to roll over and play dead. Congress shouldnt be calling peoples tacks ju taxes just to if they can get dirt on the person. Announcer this is new day wday with Alisyn Camerota and john berman. Could contempt be the work of the week . No certainly seems to be the word of the morning. Steve mnuchin, treasury secretary, is saying no to an official request from the ways and Means Committee to turn over the president s tax returns, saying it lacks a legitimate legislative purpose. For what it is worth, there is a law that says the irs shall furnish the returns on requests from congress. Mnuchins move sets the stage for a legal battle, one that could be a long legal battle over the president s taxes. Justice Department Officials and House Judiciary Committee staff will meet today to try to work out a deal for a congressional access to the Mueller Report. This comes ahead of a planned vote tomorrow on whether to hold attorney general william barr in contempt for defying that subpo
Message one London Restaurant is serving up to its customers as Parliament Prepares to vote once more on the governments plan to leave the e. U. And the comeback story of one car of car racings up and coming talent will meet eighteen year old to sophia loren who could have died when her formula three car went airborne in a race two months ago but shes overcome next fractures and any doubts about her skills she is back on track with every intention of winning. Im sara kelly welcome to the program we begin with breaking news from pakistan where the Supreme Court has upheld its verdict in the case of a christian woman charged with blasphemy that means that aasia bibi will remain a free woman shes been in hiding since october when the court. Overturned her death row conviction and declared her not guilty that decision sparked widespread outrage among religious hardliners who is frightened for life todays verdict lifts the last legal hurdle between her and possible asylum theres been specul
Damaging for trump than barr revealed. One of the reporters on that byline is standing by with details on the times big mueller scoop. Ever plus, Democrats Ask the irs for six years of the president s tax returns with a deadline of next wednesday, setting audiota setting up a battle over President Trumps details. All of this as the 11th hour gets under way on a busy wednesday night. Good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. Im Nicolle Wallace in for brian williams. Day 804 of the Trump Administration, and there is breaking news tonight from the New York Times. Their stunning report, the first window into how some of muellers investigators feel about attorney general barrs description of their 22month endeavor says some of special counsel Robert Muellers investigators are frustrated and claim their results are more damaging to the president than whats been revealed thus far. One of the authors of tonights times piece, mike schmidt joins us in a moment. He
You think matters. Theres zero chance Stephen Miller is putting ideas in this president he doesnt want. He likes the harshness of the message that you come here, youre going to lose your kid. Youre going to have to find them. Were going to send you out of here and youll be telling stories that will be waking you up for weeks. He likes that. He thinks it will be a deterrent, it will keep people away and more and more of Trump Supporters are saying something ive never heard americans say before, not mainstream americans, that lady liberty, thats not a law, thats not a policy, thats just a poem. Ive never heard that in this country before. And everything hes saying is the Asylum Seekers, many people who came as immigrants were seeking asylum, people who were probably saying that, who agree with the president. If were all full up, whats next . Are we going to stop families from having children if were all full up . Weve seen societies do it. Im saying it makes absolutely no sense. Stop hav
Nina lowey will call barrs handling of muellers report unacceptable, saying it seems to cherry pick to draw the most favorable conclusions possible for the president. Of course, many other democrats making it clear that they are also going to bring up and address reports of discrepancies between what the mueller team concluded, what bill barr concluded. Lots to get in here today. Thank you very much. We will be watching very closely. As you said, the sexiest Appropriations Committee hearing ever. Ever. Ever. Lets bring in Jeffrey Toobin and alex burns and cnn political analyst and m. J. Lee cnn political correspondent. Counselor, bill barr, if you were in congress today, if you were one of the lawmakers on the very sexy Appropriations Committee, what is your first question to him . Did Robert Mueller ask you to decide whether the president committed obstruction of justice and on what basis do you conclude that there was no obstruction of justice since he did the investigation and you d