he would confound everybody if he actually seriously did his job. we re going to have to take a break here. joy reid s book is the man who sold america. joy and eugene, thank you both very much for starting us off tonight. appreciate it. when we come back, congressman jamie raskin is with us, a member of the house judiciary committee. he s going to join us on this important week when the house subpoenas are finally being enforced in court. and later, it was the secretary of the treasury s turn today to not tell the truth in a congressional hearing we will show you that video. we ll be joined by an expert on the laws that secretary mnuchin was misstating today. y mnuchin was misstating today i can t believe it. that karl brought his karaoke machine? ain t nothing but a heartache. no, i can t believe how easy it was to save hundreds of dollars on my car insurance with geico. i never wanna hear you say.
before they voted for him. all right. i m reclaiming my time. congresswoman adams had to constantly reclaim her time to stop the secretary from filling pup time with empty answers. then she zero in the on mnuchin illegally blocking the irs from handing over the trump tax returns to the chairman of the ways and means committee. are you aware then that by denying this, that you are in direct violation of the law? no. absolutely not. i have been advised i am not violating the law. i never would have done anything that violated the law and quite the contrary, i ve been advised thatly turned them over let me move on, sir. today secretary of the treasury in that hearing refused to answer a very, very simple yes or no question. have you told the irs not to respond to the chairman s request? the irs independently, the
chairman independently wrote a letter concurring can you give may yes or no? have you? can you repeat the question? have you told the irs not to respond to the request? again, i just said the irs independently wrote a letter concurring let me reclaim my time couple of give me a yes or no? i don t understand the question. okay. you won t give me a yes or no. it was a very simple question. did you tell the irs commissioner not to respond to chairman kneel s request for the trump tax returns whfrl the trump cabinet members are afraid of the truth in a yes or no question, they ask to repeat the question. and then they keep running away from the answer. i ve shown that you before. we ve seen with it the attorney general william barr. we ve seen him do that. now we ve seen secretary mnuchin do that. he did not say no. that leaves only one logical possibility. yes. yes, he did. tell the irs commissioner not to