it s not a complicated process in that sense. it s using your common sense to follow and answer all the questions that you have about what happened. there s also the question yesterday about taxes and the degree to which this has been swirling forever. obviously, your colleagues in the house have the power to subpoena them, get your hands on them. how important is that to you after yesterday s testimony, generally? profoundly important and we are investigating also in the emoluments lawsuit. we hope we get tax returns because the president benefitted by the payments. try to get them through discovery. exactly right. interesting. one more point about donald trump jr. and joyce said it very well. once these threads are established, once the connections are made, donald trump jr., in effect, lying to a congressional committee, donald trump jr., signing those reimbursement checks, donald trump jr. implicated in other criminal activity, you have the connections that are the hall
pattern of illegal self-dealing is the same pattern that we re seeing in the charges with respect to the inaugural committee, for domestic donors, for the inaugural committee for foreign donors. for the emoluments lawsuit of self-dealing. we have a lot of cases against trump and his organization and his family that allege self-dealing. so i think the story here is that this is the first time that a government agency has essentially obtained the admission of the trump organization that it was indeed self-dealing. now we re going to have to see how these self-dealing allegations play out in the other lawsuits because it s the exact same pattern, pamela, that we re seeing. that s what s so troubling to so many people. and again, for our viewers just now joining us, we re learning the trump foundation has agreed to dissolve in this lawsuit with the attorney general in new york. this as we await more details from inside the courtroom behind me, as michael flynn, the
need to have the votes. and republicans won t even consider any hearings and judiciary committee on any of the alleged and i think obvious misdeeds of the trump team involved with the russians and the election in 2016. therefore nothing s come up. that was an issue that the judge had to deal with and whether to give us standing to proceed with our emoluments lawsuit and federal court because the other side said, no, the remedy is in impeachment. well, it is except it when you have both the houses in charge of the same party as the president and have people that are not exercising their oath of office and not looking out for the best interest of the american people but looking out for the interest of the american president. and that s important. we have about 17 or 18 sponsors for impeachment of the president, and one of the bases
it s an incredible and essential lawsuit. but of course the new york attorney general, and new york should be in that lawsuit so we can learn what is happening in new york with new york businesses. the other story from the trump international hotel that we don t know, the other stories about foreign money going through trump s businesses that we don t know. and actually a week after donald trump was elected, even before he took office, i sounded the alarm and said, look, it looks like donald trump is set to violate this essential clause of the constitution, worked with an incredible legal team and three days after donald trump took office we filed the first emoluments lawsuit. but the new york attorney general needs to be a part of this because we know there s unconstitutional behavior, but only from public reports. we don t have the tax returns. we don t know all the financial flows. but we do have now, jonathan, that that this is sort of