demands that donald trump released a statement fighting back against that mazars letter. when he does, that when donald trump does that, he contradicts everything that his lawyers have been telling the judge in that case. then, tonight, in the braking s of the night, the attorney general of the state of new york uses donald trump s exact, profoundly stupid words, in his statement against him. that is where that case is tonight. mazars has flipped. mazars has flipped and is working with new york prosecutors in their investigations of donald trump. that is the judgment of our first guest tonight, attorney philip who has studied the letter that mazars accounting firms sent to don trump s company. donald trump and the company has plans last week. philip writes, this is a big
even more emphatically. the president cannot be liable to arrest, prison, or detention while he is in the dirs charsch his office nor can he be investigated, indicted or otherwise subjected to criminal process. nor can he be investigate ? wait a second. now, d ? wait a second. now, again, the case, they re making this claim specifically in the context of this subpoena to the mazars accounting official to get president trump s tax returns and tie this argument specifically to that one subpoena. because the mazars subpoena attempts to criminally investigate a sitting president, it is unconstitutional, but, again, the basic and broader point they re making here, you can t investigate a president. ma no doubt about it, there s a reason this is on the front page of the nooim foo the new york t now. the president is now claiming you can t investigate a sitting president.
process. nor can he be investigated ? wait a second. now, again, the case, they re making this claim specifically in the context of this subpoena to the mazars accounting official to get president trump s tax returns and tie this argument specifically to that one subpoena. because the mazars subpoena attempts to criminally investigate a sitting president, it is unconstitutional, but, again, the basic and broader point they re making here, you can t investigate a president. no doubt about it, there s a reason this is on the front page of the new york times right now. the president is now claiming you can t investigate a sitting president. you might be remember that the president was quite recently the subject of a very high-profile criminal investigation. one conducted by special counsel robert mueller. right? mueller s report, public defense of his report, said despite the fact justice department policy says you can t indict a president, that same justice department policy, expli
mean there s anything untoward, but what is the next step for the commit on the ongoing kind of subpoena battle that s out there? well, i think we have to fight the president s delaying tactics with regard to trying to prevent deutsche bank from turning over the records to us. to their credit deutsche bank is actually cooperating with the investigation. i think that chairman schiff will have full support from folks like myself and others in trying to enforce our subpoena, but i think that just as we saw in the oversight committee ease case with regard to the mazars accounting firm and turning over financial records, the trump administration has to realize they may try to delay the turning over of these records, but the courts have something to say about this as well, and the mazars situation, the court expedited the process by which the records might eventually be turned over to being could.