The treasury department must turn over the trump tax returns to the committee. The bill barr justice department, the donald trump justice department, blocked trump s returns from being released despite the fact that the law is clear. The treasury department shall turn over a tax document. Today, the committee s request to see the record is lawful, valid and should be fulfilled. Quote, applying the proper degree of deference to the committee, we believe that there is an ample basis to conclude that the june 2021 request would assess the irs s presidential audit program, a plainly legitimate area for inquiry and possible legislation. Richard neal said, as i have maintained for years, the commit s case is very strong and the law is on our side. I m glad that department of justice agree forward. And house speaker nancy pelosi says access to former president trump s tax return is a matter of national security. The american people deserve to know the facts of his troubling conflicts of inter
Tomlinson has the story. People in the nation s capital are on edge following a shooting in an upscale neighborhood while many were dining outside and sent patrons scrambling. The d. C. Police chief visited the crime scene. I m mad as hell about this and i hope you all are, too. We want to help people, yes, we should, but you cannot coddle criminals. You cannot. Chief, are calls to defund the police helping you? i don t think that those calls are helping. D. C. Police released this video showing two suspects wanted in thursday night s shooting getting away in a getaway car. And they called it a war zone. Violent criminals are not staying locked up. I see people doing violent crimes and i see them back in the community. And it breaks my heart. We need police now. We don t see them on bikes, we see them in cars. Just last month, the mayor bowser wanted to cut funding for police and now she says she wants to see the department quote, use any overtime necessary to stop the recent spike in
In order to see whether they want to move it through this process. It s a big test for senator chuck schumer. He s been encouraging this process to move forward. He needs all 50 democrats, some of whom wanted a bigger bill and he has to keep in the mix ten republicans to vote to move this forward. So it s on pretty tiny ground. We ll watch it closely. It will tell us a lot about how strong the majority party is right now with this. There s potential for $6. 6 trillion in new spending in the united states. Both sides see this could be transformative potentially for the united states depending which way this goes. Coming together on what will be the most profound change to help the middle class in america in generations. The scope is rooseveltian. I m for roads and bridges. I m not for the explosion of the size of government. Martha: senator john kennedy is here from the budget committee. This is front and center on his desk. All good to have you with us. I m struck with in that sound bi
System, killing and abusing our people. It s a humanitarian rights issue. Passions and emotions spilling over in miami. Another day of events by the cubanamerica community. What they hope to accomplish inside the communityist island that they or their families led from. Also this people have threatened to remove our hard access, remove access to email, to the entire building at all. They can do anything they want. Texas democrats are here and ready to take any punishment in order to fight with texans freeing the vote. The professional and personal toll. I will talk to representative gene wu, after he and more than 50 of his texas colleagues fled their state to try to stop voter restriction legislation being passed. I ll speak with him. The act of kindness. After rude behavior by customers in their restaurant. We begin this hour in washington where chuck schumer has vowed to force a vote on wednesday, nbc s josh lederman is in washington with the details. Do you think it will happen? re
Capacity. They re storing wheelchairs and other equipment in the hallways because there s no place else to put them. They re planning on bringing someone in from the er any minute now. Our colleague gabe gutierrez there in little rock, arkansas. That scene may look and sound family. Here s why this point in the pandemic is far different than anything we ve seen before. This is becoming a pandemic of the unvaccinated. We are seeing outbreaks of cases in parts of the country that have low vaccination coverage because unvaccinated people are at risk. And communities that are fully vaccinated are generally faring well. If you re fully vaccinated, you are protected against severe covid, hospitalization, and death, and are even protected against the known variants including the delta variant circulating in this country. A pandemic of the unvaccinated. 97% of those hospitalized right now are unvaccinated. And listen to this, because it s so stunning, we had to make sure we heard it right. Jus