existing disclosure and ethic laws. the ruling means they must comply with the subpoena for eight years of trump s financial records. president trump criticized the judge, calling the ruling crazy and said he s going to appeal. we disagree with that ruling. it s crazy. because you look at it, this never happened to any other president. they are trying to get a redo. as far as the financials are concerned we think it s the wrong totally the wrong decision by, obviously, an bap appointed judge. he was a recently obama appointed judge. joining us here on set msnbc legal analyst danny cevallos. how big of a win was this yesterday s decision for the house oversight committee? super big. this is a district court
beyond that. there s reporting from last night that the house freedom caucus of which amash had been or maybe still is a member, it s unclear how often he he actually shows up. wld be conservative members of the house who are probably the most aligned with donald trump and so, you know, he sort of is on an island but long been on an island. there s nothing particularly unusual. if you talked to anybody about who would be the first house republican to say something in favor of impeachment, amash would probably have been on the top of everybody s list. let s go back to don mcgahn. we ve seen what will happen here before when attorney general bill barr was supposed to show up before the house committee and he didn t show and they left an empty seat behind the desk. is that what we should expect today? it sure sounds it will be an empty chair situation again.
an impact on his firm. on the other hand, does mcgahn want to be held in contempt? does that mean anything to his legal practice in washington? could he have his law license taken away or something along those lines? probably not. but he s in a dicy position here, and he s fallen back and said, look, i m going to do what the white house tells me to, and that was his message to congress. and that s why he s not going up tomorrow to testify. and he s asking the committee and the white house to work this out. look, putting all the legalese and law firm stuff aside the most important thing for the narrative of this story is that the democrats can t seem to get a witness. they have a 400-page report that has a bunch of damning allegations against the president. it s all laid outright there. and they can t seem to get any momentum. and now they can t seem to get
white house of stonewalling. let me be clear. if don mcgahn doesn t testify it s time to open up an impeachment inquiry. reporter: michigan congressman justin amash a frequent critic of the president tweeting after reading the mueller report, president trump has engaged in impeachable conduct. the president calling amash a loser and a lightweight. i ve known him and he s been against trump from the beginning. he probably wants to run for some other office. i don t think he ll do very well. he s been a loser for a long time. reporter: back in his michigan district more backlash against amash. i don t support him on that statement. i don t agree with i think that the job that the president is doing is phenomenal. reporter: late monday night a federal judge upheld a subpoena from house democrats for some of the president s financial records from an accounting firm.
and that worries republicans, particularly at the congressional level because they don t really have a coherent plan. they re not that are spending so much time trying to defend what president trump s doing in terms of undoing pieces of obamacare, which leads to people losing health insurance if they had it before, leads to a reduction in coverage of preexisting conditions, things that are hard to talk about for republicans on the campaign trail. it s another reminder of how disconnected we are from the realities of what people care about. what does that do for candidates on the democratic side when you have the elizabeth warrens and those who talk about medicare for all specifically and then you have joe biden running on the obama legacy and the affordable care act but also attacking trump. on the one hand it might cause overreach. a lot of democrats saying medicare for all, medicare for all before they thought through