draft. i ran a government. it s a draft it s a draft but this is a memo i mean. we had a lot of lawyers who a lot of process that went through the legal memos and john understands this very i don t think whether you are finding someone to say what you want them to to say it goes through levels of analysis and up the chain in this case you re talking about a you knowier lawyer and never made to the actual treasury lawyers and the chief council of the treasury department sfl zbron let me raise the point because jim is talking about things before he was in office. in the case of this president when he is currently accessing a trust, right which has money coming into it it from all sorts of from his properties. and we don t don t nope who pays the money or bying those things. knowing who those people are, where the money is coming in knowing the past trails of the money could be hugely important to determining whether hisless policy is influenced by his pocket. isn t that an argume
the 1924 law. i just think this is another twist in the story. and it s not going to hold up in court anywhere. en and they re going to proceed ultimatery the ways and means committee is going to get the tax returns. jim, let me ask you obviously the memo, draft memo seems to say executive primeval in this case would be the only way for the president to not do that but it s untested. it would probably go to the supreme court as josh was saying. is there any question in your 19 that the president would exert executive privilege in in case or are you not sure? i think, look, john makes good points. but one thing we can grow on, john a lot of times two lawyers don t agree that s why we have courts to sort it out. but what i think is interesting, though, is the argument that this was law was passed in 1924 following the teapot dome scandal and that involved broib are you happening during the administration. and the intent as a result of that, the intent of the law was