intelligence chair and democratic representative adam schiff of california and house oversight chair woman democratic representative karen maloney of new york, wrote, former president trump s conduct has potentially put our national security at grave risk. this issue demands a full review, in addition to the ongoing law enforcement inquiry. the two also voiced concerns regarding reports that the documents could be related to nuclear weapons. joining us now, staff writer at the new lep rick, grace, i m happy to say is here with us on set. thanks for being here. would he have heard in the weeks since this search a lot of republicans going out of their way, twisting and turning to justify what then former president trump did by having these documents there, and attacking, if you will, even the fbi, some calls to even defund that agency, and they got a little quieter over the weekend once the reports came out this may have been nuclear secrets. talk us to a little bit about the difficult
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volker specifically citing those two instances and the public commitment are significant? well, sure. i mean what we re getting here is a shift in the republican position. before they were saying no quid pro quo. now their position is there was a quid pro quo and it was perfectly valid and legitimate and that s in effect their defense. we know that this was much bigger than a quid pro quo, which implies something kind of consenting yal. it was a shakedown against the ukrainian government. it was totally coercive brought to bear on them in order to make them cough up the two things they wanted from president zelensky. they wanted confirmation of their paranoid discredited conspiracy theory about the 2016 election and then they wanted information about burisma and the bidens. of course no legitimate law enforcement inquiry or investigation had come anywhere near to verifying any of these things. that s why they had to apply
need these financial statements to further our investigation into government ethics laws. the president has long said that rationale was a rouse, there was no legitimate legislative purpose here. but the court today clearly saying otherwise. and here s how they put it in dismissing trump s lawyers arguments. they said uzjust as a congressional committee could not subpoena the transcripts and service into k through 12 education nor subpoena his medical records as part of the investigation into public health, it may not subpoena his financial information except and that s crucial to facilitate an investigation into presidential finances. it continues onto say that we conclude that in issuing the challenged subpoena the committee was engaged in a legitimate legislative investigation rather than an impermissible law enforcement inquiry. so that really slams the president s attorneys arguments here. and kate, you know, the supreme court it could go to them, and
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