former president donald trump lost another battle to blockhouse democrats from getting his tax returns. a federal judge rejected his latest lawsuit. trump s lawyers now have 14 days to appeal. joining me now is nbc news justice correspondent pete williams and former u.s. attorney barbara mcquade, she s also an msnbc legal analyst. tell me about this ruling, pete. well, the trump lawyers have already filed notice that they will appeal. their next stop is the federal appeals court here in washington. if they lose there, they can try the supreme court. but this involved a request from richard neal, chairman of the house ways and means committee. he wanted copies of mr. trump s tax returns for all four years he was in the white house plus the year before and the year after. the committee said it wanted to see how the irs was carrying out a policy that requires automatic audits of a president s taxes. neal invoked a federal law that requires the treasury and the irs to turn over any perso