so he added that impeachment is a long way down the road and that lawmakers don t have the facts yet but are going to initiate the proper investigations. chairman of the ways and means committee asked his committee attorneys to prepare a request for years of president trump s personal tax returns. i want to bring in heidi przybyla for more on her new reporting. reporter: thanks. nbc has learned that the request could arrive at the irs as soon as within the next few weeks. house democrats say they are prepared to quote take all necessary steps, including litigation to obtain trump s past tax returns. ways and means is the only house committee that has the authority to make a direct request for the president s tax returns. congressman neil has reached out to the chairman of other house investigative committees asking them to provide detailed
he would like to question matt whitaker. acting attorney general. the questions we will ask him will be about his expressed hostility to the investigation. how he can possibly supervise it, when he s come out and said that the investigation is invalid. nadler s committee plans to take the lead on trump s immigration policy. focusing on the forced family separation, and the deaths of immigrant children in u.s. custody. chairman richard neil of the house weighs and means committee has one key target. the president s tax returns. under irs rules, congressman neil is one of only three people who can ask the treasury department for his tax returns. he s the only democrat. the president has an opportunity to diffuse this. and just release the forms as every other candidate for president has done. finally, the committee on oversight and government reform has the broadest jurisdiction to investigate the president.
hostility to the investigation. how he can possibly supervise it, when he s come out and said that the investigation is invalid. nadler s committee plans to take the lead on trump s immigration policy. focusing on the forced family separation, and the deaths of immigrant children in u.s. custody. chairman richard neil of the house weighs and means committee has one key target. the president s tax returns. under irs rules, congressman neil is one of only three people who can ask the treasury department for his tax returns. the president has an opportunity to diffuse this. and just release the forms as every other candidate for president has done. finally, the committee on oversight and government reform has the broadest jurisdiction to investigate the president. it s top democrat is eager to investigate everything from white house security clearances to private aircraft travel by
tight but congressman neil recently acknowledged that both president trump and the treasury department are expected to fight back. sources tell nbc news neil and the democrats plan to make the returns public if and when they do get them. joining us, republican strategist and msnbc political analyst susan del percio. thanks for coming on. i feel like investigation is the word of the month are right now. everything that we re reading about is about some sort of investigation into trump, president trump, surrounding president trump. you have the democrats taking power in the house come january. what investigation do you think is going to be the most important to lawmakers come the new year? well, i think the mueller investigation will dictate a lot of what lawmakers do going down the road. i think they want to see what happens they may do a two-track thing as far as investigating the russia connection in the house, but at the same time, they don t want to interfere with the mueller
going to be handled appropriately by the department of justice. the house intelligence committee reportedly voted to hand over roger stone s testimony to the special counsel s office. that s according to several reports that say the vote was unanimous. mueller already reportedly has had access to unofficial copy for weeks but obtaining a certified transcript is seen as a key step if they want to use the document to seek indictment. as democrats prepare to take over the house in january, there s a rekindled effort to obtain the president s tax returns. congressman richard neil of massachusetts is poised to become the chairman of the house ways and means committee. he s planning on invoking a 1924 federal law to obtain president trump s tax returns through treasury secretary steve mnuchin. the law states, quote, upon written request from the chairman of the committee on ways and means of the house of representatives, the secretary shall furnish such committee with any return or retur