I morning joe starts now. The lower 25 cant afford private. Universal health care . Im going to take care of everybody. I dont care if it costs me votes or not. Are you going to make sure people with preconditions are covered. Theres going to be a period when you repeal it before you replace it were going to do it simultaneously. Its just fine. It an unbelievably complex subject. Nobody knew health care could be so complicated. The Republican Party will soon be northeasteknown as the health care. I mean it, 100 . I understand health care now. A lot of people dont understand it. So four years of promises and donald trump says he understands health care now, but you wont see a plan for another 19 months. After boldly announcing the impending overhaul of health care hes tweeting that the big vote will be taken right after the 2020 election. Believe him good morning and welcome to morning joe. It is tuesday, april 2nd. With us we have former treasury official and morning joe economic analy
Neal is setting a 1924 law that states upon written request, the secretary of the treasury shall furnish such committee with any return with any information. While 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 made it clear that trump will fight to keep his tax returns secret from agreements in a detailed fourpage letter to the Treasury Department, trumps lawyers wrote the chairman neil cannot legally request and the irs cannot divulge the information. The ways and means has no legitimate Committee Purpose for requesting the president s tax returns and its all about just scoring political points against the president. Trumps attorneys are urging the Treasury Department to get a legal opinion from the department of justice before allowing is irs to turn over
Soninlaw Jared Kushner and daughter ivanka trump. Now, the chair of the Oversight Committee calls this issue here a million times more serious than questions about Hillary Clintons emails. Joining us now is jeffrey toobin, former federal prosecutor. Abby phillips and van jones, cnn political commentator. Abby, you cover the white house, the president has been telling us he wanted republicans to be the part of healthcare, mark short told us there would be a Healthcare Plan this year and then overnight the president with an announcement that cuts mark shorts legs out from under him, said that there there not be a plan that will be voted on until after the 2020 election. Explain. Well, hes being maybe brutally honest here about what this is all about which is that the president and some people close to him believe that having healthcare as an issue basically promising voters that they are going to solve this issue the day after the election is something that is advantageous to him. There
And maybe Hillary Clintons emails. Weve got Jeff Sessions having already appointed a u. S. Attorney named huber in utah to look at the origins of the russia investigation. Weve got the Inspector General at the Justice Department looking at the origins of that investigation. And now attorney general barr fresh off of pounding his chest in congress and saying we need to stop using oat Justice Department for political purposes. He too has appointed somebody else yet another u. S. Attorney to look into the origins of that investigation. Meanwhile, we have no idea what the results were of that investigation. We have the no idea what the findings were of the Counter Intelligence investigation noose russia and its potential links with the trump campaign. None of that ended in the Mueller Report. This whole idea the president is going to demand investigations of the investigators, of his political enemies its not the dystopic future anymore. Were living through it. We got lucky in our booking
Broken way i read things be now, im thinking gee, rachel deserves another half hour. I should just let her take a half an hour of this real estate just to react to the story since you were leading theyre basically referring to what james baker told you friday night in na New York Times article. This is really moving now. And remember, weve got the Judiciary Committee in the senate led by Lindsey Graham who now says what hes going to investigate is the start of the russia investigation. And maybe Hillary Clintons emails. Weve got Jeff Sessions having already appointed a u. S. Attorney named huber in utah to look at the origins of the russia investigation. Weve got the Inspector General at the Justice Department looking at the origins of that investigation. And now attorney general barr fresh off of pounding his chest in congress and saying we need to stop using oat Justice Department for political purposes. He too has appointed somebody else yet another u. S. Attorney to look into the o