the shutdown meeting when he walked out. exactly, that s according to two democratic sources with knowledge of that meeting. we ll hear from senator schumer and speaker pelosi any moment now. but that s it for me. andrea mitchell picking things up right now. i ll see you tomorrow morning. what a day. craig melvin, thank you. good day. i m andrea mitchell in washington. we are awaiting comments at any moment from house speaker nancy pelosi and senate democratic leader chuck schumer. moments after president trump suddenly appeared in the rose garden to lash out at them, pouncing on comments pelosi had made this morning, that the president had engaged in a cover-up, comments she made in part to slow her own caucus march to impeachment. the president walking out of that pre-arranged meeting over infrastructure and trade with pelosi and schumer, and leading democrats on capitol hill. here s part of it. instead of walking in happily into a meefg, i walk into look at people that had ju
jaundiced. a lot of people do things for the right reasons. if you go there tomorrow you show the kids, say i care about them, i just happen to care about the drug dealers also, that s why i wanted the fencing. i m going to do this, too. i ve got the emergency declaration, i m going to make it happen. congress should do this too. by the way there happens to be a legit argument, i don t know why congress is sitting on its ass about this problem. i don t get it. i m totally befuddled. i can tell you why they re doing it. it may not be the right reasons. but they re doing it because this president divides people. they don t democrats don t want to seem like they re helping him in any way. that s the truth of it. help the people. help the customs and border patrol people. i get it. i m not saying it s right. i m telling you, explaining to you the strategy or what is behind it. what strategy is that? i guess, you know let s hurt the kids? i don t know. let s wa
states upon written request, the secretary of the treasury shall furnish such committee with any return with any information. the law could not be more clear, the president is talking as if it doesn t apply to him. big surprise. here s trump earlier today. i m under audit, but that s up to whoever it is. from what i understand, the law is 100% on my side. hours after those remarks, the president s lawyers meads it clear that trump will fight to keep his tax returns secret from congress in a detailed letter to the treasury department, they wrote chairman neal cannot legally request and the irs cannot divulge the information. the ways and means has no purpose for requestings the president s tax returns and it s all about scoring political points against the president. trump s attorneys are urging the treasury department to get a legal opinion before allowing the president to turn over the returns. it comes after he suggested that he intends for the attorney general as if yo
wanted her to do things that she couldn t lawfully do. for example, the two of them were down at the border on friday. we saw the video of it. and we know the president actually told border agents down there that he wanted to have them stop these migrants from coming into the united states. but we know that by law these migrants in central america, if they re claiming asylum, they re allowed to come into the united states. because of that clash with the president, we know by early yesterday, nielsen likely knew how the day would unfold and she would be forced to resign. here is the problem, dhs doesn t just handle immigration. nielsen is leaving behind a department that has a plethora of issues to deal with, cyber security, infrastructure pro tech shun. we re told kirstjen nielsen had a strong grasp on all of this. now it s possible with such a focus of immigration, someone could come into the secretary role who doesn t have the broad base of knowledge. we ve heard from peopl
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 doesn t apply to him. big surprise. here s trump earlier today. i m under audit, but that s 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 four-page letter to the treasury department, trump s 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 it s all about just scoring political points against the president. trump s attorneys are urging the treasury department to get a legal opinion from the department of justice before allowi