folks. the president sets his sights squarely on joe biden while he s in pennsylvania, the state now the top priority for both parties in 2020. major flooding in the midwest, evacuations and water rescues in oklahoma a day after a string of tornadoes hit the region. did boeing spend decades concealing design flaws in its planes, a new lawsuit claims it did. welcome back to early start, everybody. on a tuesday, i m dave briggs. it is tuesday, isn t it. i m christine romans, it s 5:32 in the east. let s get you started in the standoff between the executive and legislative branches of government. it s the judicial branch that may have delivered the most consequential blow on monday. a federal judge ruling president trump s long time accounting firm must tender over his financial records. it s not just a win for democrats, it s a sweeping judgment backing congress s right to hold a president accountable. democrats will no doubt wrap
the first thing we re going to do is we re dgoing to have t hold mcgahn in contempt. it s making it more and more difficult to ignore all 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 measures at its disposal. a federal district judge telling mazers it must turn over trump 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
judge in washington, a judge who wrote this court is not prepared to roll back the tide of history. the case is doesn t j. trump versus committee on oversight and reform of the house of representative. the president is suing to block elijah cummings subpoena of trump financial documents from an accounting firm that did several years of work for donald trump and trump businesses. the judge ruled the subpoena must be obeyed and the judge refused to grant a delay in the execution of his order because the judge said that donald trump s lawsuit does not present serious legal questions about the subpoena. the judge said this is not a serious case. president doesn t have a chance of prevailing. the president s private attorney arguing the case told the court last week that congress did not have a legitimate investigative reason for obtaining the trump financial documents, the judge traced the committee s interest in those documentses in detail
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. congressman himes, jill wine-banks, stay with us. we have to talk about the breaking news at this hour. this is nadler s letter about don mcgahn s testimony. this is new at this hour. jerry nadler s letter to don mcgahn saying even if the president is telling you you don t have to testify to our committee tomorrow, you most certainly do. chairman nadler is citing law that the justice department ignored today in their memo about exepting don mcgahn declaring that don mcgahn had an absolute immunity from the congressional subpoenas. that s next. immunity from the congressional subpoenas. that s next. allergies with sinus congestion and pressure?
they are saying that the guy who came and testified to mueller, which is in a report, which is public, cannot come to congress and repeat that same testimony to congress. and you know what, my executive producer put it this way and i thought it was a very good line. they have the book but don t want it to be made into a movie. i think that s right, kurt. yeah, there s this 500-page report sitting there. that s not the way the thing will be communicated. people getting up and saying it in 20-second sound bites in the evening news is probably what they fear. well, there s no question about that. again, look at the impact that michael cohen s testimony before congress had, both in driving the president apoplectic but also the ruling today in district court where the court held and ruled that the oversight committee has a right to subpoenas the tax documents, michael cohen s testimony, the fact that he testified and said these things in front of congress is cited multiple times in the