good evening from new york. i m chris hayes. the trump administration is continuing an assault on e continuing congress s roles. a day after the personal lawyere told a gob smacked judge, congress shouldn t be able to investigate if the president ul engaged in corrupt behavior. a lengthy letter was sent to jerry nadler not only refusing to turn over white house records, but more importantly claiming that congress has no standing to investigate trump at all. he wrote the committee is not a law enforcement agency thus thes committee cannot justify inquiry by searching for possible evidence of false claims of obstruction of justice. more vaguely, it is launching an investigation into nonexistent threats against the rule of is law. this ignores the constitutional role of congress and the congressional oversight manual that lists among the purposes al