The shutdown meeting when he walked out. Exactly, thats according to two democratic sources with knowledge of that meeting. Well hear from Senator Schumer and Speaker Pelosi any moment now. But thats it for me. Andrea mitchell picking things up right now. Ill see you tomorrow morning. What a day. Craig melvin, thank you. Good day. Im Andrea Mitchell in washington. We are awaiting comments at any moment from House Speaker nancy pelosi and Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer. Moments after President Trump suddenly appeared in The Rose Garden to lash out at them, pouncing on Comments Pelosi had made this morning, that the president had engaged in a coverup, comments she made in part to slow her own caucus march to impeachment. The president walking out of that prearranged meeting over infrastructure and trade with pelosi and schumer, and leading democrats on capitol hill. Heres part of it. Instead of walking in happily into a meefg, i walk into look at people that had just said
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States upon written request, the secretary of the treasury shall furnish such committee with any return with any information. The law could not be more clear, the president is talking as if it doesnt apply to him. Big surprise. Heres trump earlier today. Im under audit, but thats up to whoever it is. From what i understand, the law is 100 on my side. Hours after those remarks, the president s lawyers meads it clear that trump will fight to keep his tax returns secret from congress in a detailed letter to the Treasury Department, they wrote chairman neal cannot legally request and the irs cannot divulge the information. The ways and means has no purpose for requestings the president s tax returns and its all about scoring political points against the president. Trumps attorneys are urging the Treasury Department to get a legal opinion before allowing the president to turn over the returns. It comes after he suggested that he intends for the attorney general as if you were his attorney g
Close to call. He has a pretty clear path thats center left. They are not friends. We can see which way the president jumped. Announcer this is new day with Alisyn Camerota and john berman. Good morning. Welcome to your new day. This morning we are preparing for the release of the grease prequel which we are told is imminent. Thats the headline. There is other news as well. William barr will be back on capitol hill after his first day of testimony there. There are several major questions unanswered and several questions that he notably raised with his nonanswers. Namely, what has he told the white house about the contents of the Mueller Report . Barr refused to answer whether the president and his lawyers may already know more than congress and the public about whats inside the report. Barr did tell lawmakers theyll have a redacted version of the report soon, within days. Democrats in Congress Want more. They are vowing to issue a subpoena for the full version. Meanwhile it appears the
Wanted her to do things that she couldnt lawfully do. For example, the two of them were down at the border on friday. We saw the video of it. And we know the president actually told Border Agents down there that he wanted to have them stop these migrants from coming into the United States. But we know that by law these migrants in central america, if theyre claiming asylum, theyre allowed to come into the United States. Because of that clash with the president , we know by early yesterday, nielsen likely knew how the day would unfold and she would be forced to resign. Here is the problem, dhs doesnt just handle immigration. Nielsen is leaving behind a department that has a plethora of issues to deal with, cyber security, infrastructure pro tech shun. Were told Kirstjen Nielsen had a strong grasp on all of this. Now its possible with such a focus of immigration, someone could come into the secretary role who doesnt have the broad base of knowledge. Weve heard from people within dhs that
Get more into what youre into. Get ready to watch with xfinity x1 or the Xfinity Stream app. Xfinity watchathon week. Free starting april 8th. Boop we begin tonight keeping them honest with President Trump retaining Legal Council and willing to fight to the Supreme Court so no one can see his turns which is not what tax he seemed to say he would do. Will you release any of your tax returns . For the public to scrutinize . Were working on that right now. I have very big returns, as you you know. I have big returns, well be working on that over the next period of time, absolutely. That was in january 2016. We know what the president meant how about never . Is never good enough for you. Except candidate trump said he was being audited and that somehow made it impossible to release his returns, which is not true. And weve seen no evidence of an audit. Theres no law saying a candidate has to release his or her tax returns yet every president ial nominee since gerald ford released their form