[Baldwin:] The Trump administration is doubling down on its do nothing defense tactic when it comes to all of those requests for information from the U.S. House of Representatives, as you would well know is controlled by the Democrats. At least half of a dozen House committees have sought documents on everything from Trump's finances to security clearances and the president's plan is to simply not give what is being requested and that is likely to lead to more subpoenas and a drawn out court fight. So CNN's local analyst, Josh Dawsey he's a White House reporter for The Washington Post and he just co-wrote a piece about all this stonewalling, so Josh Dawsey nice to see you back. You tell me your scope. What are you hearing about the administrations strategy regarding all these information requests?
[Josh Dawsey, Cnn Analyst:] Well the administration's strategy is simply to stonewall. There are a number of disparate threats from the president's tax returns to conversations with foreign leaders including Vladimir Putin to Jared Kushner's conversations with Saudi Arabia officials there, security clearances and how some key officials got them and the administration has given none of this information to Congress and doesn't plan to. They plan to evoke presidential privilege to say these are internal deliberations of the President of the United States we're not going to give them. They're planning to fight the subpoenas and still not give in and for some of these issues, particularly the tax returns, the president wants to take it all the way to the Supreme Court and has told advisors around him that by the time the Supreme Court rules the 2020 Election will have happened. So, so far you're seeing a flurry of requests from the Democrats and not much movement form the White House other than to say we won't be cooperating with your investigation.
[Baldwin:] So what can Democrats do about all that?
[Dawsey:] Well that's a good question and that's what they're trying to figure out. Partially they're going to whistle blowers, folks who work inside the government and came give them information, going to form administration officials. In the case of the tax returns they're going to outside accounting firms and banks like Deutsche Bank looking for information from entities the president doesn't control. But the president's lawyer and Trump Organization are also trying to block that and are telling these outside financial institutions that if you are complicit if you go along with the request then you will face legal action from us. So on almost every front you're seeing a fight back from the president's White House layers, his outside lawyers, and you have democrats who are several months into having control of the House trying to figure out how to move forward.
[Baldwin:] So flash forward with me. If President Trump wins re- election, could this continue to hang over his head?
[Dawsey:] Well certainly if democrats have control of the House or possibly the Senate. Republicans when they were in control of both bodies up until the 2018 mid-terms did not really aggressively do oversight of the administration. There were not the subpoenas that we see now. There were not the requests for documents. There were not the demands for testimony on the hill nonstop. Now that you have Democrats in charge you're seeing a lot more loggerheads and should the president win in 2020 that could continue. However, if he won in 2020 that would also give him considerable momentum and it would be the American public speaking again and saying they wanted the president to stay in power. So that would possibly mitigate some of these requests.
[Baldwin:] Josh Dawsey, thank you so much.
[Dawsey:] Thank you.
[Baldwin:] Back to our breaking news out of Colorado this afternoon where this massive manhunt for this 18 year old woman who she was reportedly infatuated with Columbine with what happened there 20 years ago. That manhunt has ended with her apparent suicide this morning. We are live in Littleton for you coming up.