hush money payments to silence the trump affairs right before taking office. not over yet. today's testimony the final on capitol hill but a lot to follow up on. br brianna? in michael cohen's testimony, there were many threads, including this exchange about the president's refusal to release his tax returns. >> can you give us any insight into what the real reason is that the president has refused to release his tax returns? >> statements that he had said to me is that what he didn't want was to have an entire group of think tanks that are tax experts run through his tax return and start ripping it to pieces, and then he'll end up in an audit and he'll ultimately have taxable consequences, penalties and so on.