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state law passed to help congress get ahold of his tax returns. let s bring in christina learning. what are the president s lawyers arguing here? they re arguing this is nothing more than political retribution, just some background. lawmakers in new york passed a law that would allow them to hand over his state tax returns, trump s state tax returns over to congress. and what the lawyers are saying is essentially this violates his first amendment protection against congressional investigations into trump as a private citizen, and that the state tax returns won t help congress in its stated duty of overseeing the irs which is why congress said it wants his federal tax returns. but let me tell what is really going on here. these are not new legal arguments from the trump camp. this is trump hitting back in a position that he feels that he is strong on, his attorney today