transparency. and for accountability but a really bad day for the president seemingly endless attempts to cover up his own misconduct. congressman himes to the two points glen made, one an opinion issued with remarkable speed especially when you read it and you see the depths of the scholarship, is the legal scholarship going back to 1860, this is the kind of opinion that even though it s written by a district court judge, you can tell this judge is hoping that other judges are going to read this opinion before they have to rule on what will be other trump subpoena blocking attempts. yeah, no, and that s right. and look, i guess account speed can probably be attributed to at least two things. number one, a consciousness of the fact that process is being used here to block the constitutional prerogatives and authorities of the congress. i would like to believe that most members of the judiciary would be opposed to that, but
would be very interested in. that was something i brought up on your show some months ago possibility that there are backers or guarantors and other transactions in the background that we don t see directly. the bank should have records of those. deutsche bank, of course, is a privilege. corporations don t have a right to live as you and i do. they say they are cooperating with investigators both from the state of new york and from the federal government. and we should hope that there is a thorough inquiry into this. and exactly what was going on with trump s relationship with deutsche bank which by the way has paid over $600 million in fines just for laundering money for russian oligarchs in cyprus, germany and america. david, thank you very much for joining us tonight. really appreciate it. thank you. when we come back, history was made this weekend when a member of congress became the very first republican to support the impeachment will have president trump.
the trump administration, trump will appeal the judge s decision. two things are coming out tonight. number one, congress is the article 1 authority in this country with the power to investigate whatever it chooses. and you know, that stems from something as basic as the notion that congress is the one part of our government of the three parts of our government that is actually elected by the people. and that s why it s article 1 and that s why no matter who you are, whether you re don mcgahn or mazar s or the justice department, you don t get to say no to congress except under fifth amendment privileges in the constitution. and you know, that is the underlying theory under which the decision came down. the other thing ma nush chin producing tax returns. the law could not be more clear those returns must be produced.
and even when we went to the supreme court on the tapes themselves, it only took three months. so it can happen in a very speedy way when there is a need and there is definitely a need here. and i don t think you need to declare impeachment. it certainly strengthens the case but as you were pointing out, for example, on the tax returns, there doesn t even have to be a legislative purpose. that law was kroeted so the congress would look at conflicts of interest without any legislative purpose without seeing whether this was such a conflict. we need to get acting on this and i think representative nadler has taken a very strong stance against the mcgahn subpoena denial. and i think it s time for congress to really do it. yes. as we go to a quick break here, i just want to thank glen kirschner for joining us. invaluable to have you after having been in the courtroom.
alternatives, including impeachment, and we ll have to consider that and all other alternatives. trump has personally announced the white house will fight all congressional subpoenas but he s distancing himself from the move to block mcgahn s testimony. the attorneys say they are not doing that for me. they are doing that for the office of the president. we re talking about the future. nadler is warning mcgahn the judiciary committee will use all enforcement mechanisms at his disposal to compel the testimony. as for the kroucourt order, it turn over accounting records from before he was president to the democratic controlled house oversight committee. in his opinion, the d.c. district court judge said it is simply not fathomable that a constitution that grants congress the power to remove a president would deny congress the power to investigate him. here s the president s reaction. i think it s the wrong