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Paid 38 million on taxes on 150 million on income. The president tweeting does anyone really believe a reporter no one heard of went to his mailbox and found my tax at nbc news fake news. John roberts is live braving the subfreezing futures at the white house. How are they reacting . Theyre professing white house but this plays well for the president. You mentioned the partial returns and overall he paid 38 million on taxes on 153 million. He paid 5 million in regular income tax and 31 million in alternative tax and selfemployment tax for 1,887,596 and that puts him at a tax rate of 23. 5 and the average is 24. 8 and barack obama paid 17. 8 and Bernie Sanders paid 13. 5 . The reaction from the white house pretty sharp. A Senior Administration official said you know youre desperate for ratings when youre willing to violate the law for tax returns before being elected president. Mr. Trump was one of the most successful business men with a responsibility to his company, family and employees to pay no more tax than legally requires. The taxes were placed on a website and the writer said he received them in the mail monday and one suggestion said that the tax returns were given by mr. Trump himself to prove he pays taxes. The white house dismissed the motion saying its illegal to steal and publish tax returns and the media continue to be make this a part of their agenda and the president will focus on his including tax reform to benefit all americans. The White House Position the president made a lot of money and paid a lot of money in taxes. Well, a lot of folks say thats what we learned and others are looking at writeoffs the president may have taken. Legal . What do we know about that . He took a lot of writeoffs about 105 million in business tax writeoffs that could have been left over from the 918 million famously reported in the 1985 tax return and eligible for a charitable deduction of 39. 1 million in the form of whats called a conservation easement for promising he would not develop the property where his golf course is. It doesnt appear theres anything improper let alone illegal. The president by the way off to michigan where hell talk about fuel, economy and emission standards with automakers and in nashville tonight for a big Campaign Type appearance which hell talk about the new American Health care act. We know how much he those. John, thanks so much. You may remember Hillary Clinton repeatedly hitting candidate trump during the debate and we remember this one. First, maybe hes not as rich as he says he is. Second, maybe hes not as charitable as he claims to be or maybe he doesnt want the American People all of you watching tonight to know hes paid nothing in federal taxes. So then what do the two pages of 11yearold tax returns tell us well talk to Newt Gingrich in 27 minutes. Stay tuned for that. Meanwhile, President Trump will make a push on Health Care Reform during a rally in tennessee and Speaker Paul Ryan urging the rest of the Republican Party to fall in line. We have to make sure to hit the sweet spot for consensus and get it done. We dont want an endless, dragged out thing. We have to make good on our promises. The bill is modelled after tom prices bill he had introduced as recently as december which had like a dozen Freedom Caucus members as a cosponsor. I feel were in a good place but we want to listen to members and make improvements to the bill so long as it doesnt make it harder to pass. One is senator rand paul from kentucky. Welcome back. You speak as if the house bills going nowhere. Are you the one republican that can ensure its dead on arrival . I think conservatives are unhappy with ryans plan because it looks a lot like obamacare and the best description is obamacare lite and it keeps mandates and subsidies and keeps large bailouts for the Insurance Company. Its important to emphasize the reason theyre keeping the bailouts is the markets so broken it doesnt work without bailouts. The bill isnt going to fix the health care problem. Obamacare created the problem and this bill doesnt fix it and acknowledges it doesnt fix it because they keep the subsidies for Insurance Companies. Now, i have an idea that would fix the insurance market. What i would do is let every individual buy a group plan and all of a sudden the individual becomes king and the patient would be king again and instead of bowing to Insurance Companies theyd have to negotiate for our business and well have leverage for lower prices and would also have the ability to get better terms where they cant kick us off insurance or kick us off if we get sick. Maybe in the end you get the fix youre talking about. And maybe you dont but if obamacare is so broken are you willing to allow it to collapse under its own weight that would force your democratic colleagues to come in with their own fix . I think after six years we ought to fix it not a bandaid. I predict if ryans plans passes asis, insurance rates will still skyrocket the individual market will still be screwed up and guess what, the Insurance Companies will still get rich. So nothing will change. Again, are you willing to allow it to collapse under its own weight and force the other side to come forward with a solution . My thought would be to fix it and i spent a lot of time putting forward a replacement bill that i think fixes it and instead of fighting among republicans we ought to be promoting a replacement bill to fix it. Ryan calls his bill repeal and replace and it fixes nothing and the disaster of obamacare will continue after ryancare is put in. When is the last time you spoke to President Donald Trump . Its been a few days. I was at the white house yesterday and i met with officials on the policy and ten other senators and still my impression is the president is willing to negotiate. What im seeing in the house is they keep winning their Committee Votes and my prediction is if they keep Winning Committee votes they wont negotiate and conservatives have to bring down the rule to get a seat at the table and that means vote against the initial rule on debating on the obamacare lite bill. If that do that thats when the real negotiations begin. A few weeks ago he was headed for louisville, kentucky your home state and that changed somehow, somewhere. I dont know if you had influence but now hes going to nashville, tennessee. How would you rate how engaged the president is right now in getting this done . You know, i think very much so but we all want repeal so we are unified on repeal. Were just not unified on the replacement part. Im with the president. I want repeal and im with every republican that says obamacare is a disaster and lets repeal it but what was passed in congress was clean repeal. I wont vote to bail out the Insurance Company. Im a physician. I care about the patient. I do not care about the profits of the Insurance Company and im not going to have the taxpayer ensuring the profit of the Insurance Company. Speaking of taxpayer what do you think of the story that broke last night . I think someone broke the law and committed a felony to reveal someones tax return. Thats number one. Two, since senator sanders is such a good socialist i think hed want to pay his fair share and expecting news hell send a couple hundred thousand into the irs. Senator, thank you for your time. Rand paul, good talk to you. Shannon. Well hear what President Trump has to say on all the topics tonight when he sits down with a oneonone interview with Tucker Carlson on fox news. Theres procedural rules and we are used to seeing them use them against each other and now theyll take the logjam and bring down the rule and let the negotiation begin. I like it. Were looking for the flow chart. A big president for President Trump what do you do about north korea. The rogue nation continues to antagonize the west and the secretary of state is on way to the region just arriving and a big meeting with china in a few days. How do you deal with kim jung un. And is james comey about to drop another bombshell . The fbi director set to tell lawmakers what he knows about the wiretapping claims and russia. Senator joe manchin is here on new questions from his colleague Lindsey Graham. If its not true then just tell us its not true. Whys it taking so long to get the answer . I have no evidence of it. Im suspicious of it but now im getting concerned because its taking so long to answer my letter. De to go from kidfriendly to kidfree. Now i can start relaxing even before the vacation begins. Your vacation is very important. Thats why booking. Com makes finding the right hotel for the right price easy. Visit booking. Com now to find out why were booking. Yeah whattwo servings of veggies . 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If its not true just tell me its not true. Give the the answer. Im suspicious but now im getting concerned because its taking so long to answer my letter. Bill senator joe manchin joining us. Do you think well get to the bottom of this . Were having a come to jesus meeting and i understand lindseys frustration. I admire him for speaking out the way he does always in a nonpartisan way. We have to get on with the business of this great country and cant have this smeared as it is. The nsa, fbi have to agree if theres information and if there isnt information state it to us so we can go forward. Bill i think we all want to figure out whether theres anything there then. Sean spicer said therell be vindication. He also suggested hes extremely confident can based on what the president has said theres nothing going on here. Where does that lead you . I understand accusations were made and if as the true it must have gone through a fisa court and if it wasnt the American People need to know and we need to move forward and get to the bottom of it and move on. The intel will bring us the facts. Were not getting the facts from the Intel Community the way we need to make the determination which way we go. The facts should take you to the truth and the truth should basically direct you on what actions need to be taken. Were not there. Earlier this week, james comey apparently had a meeting with senators and the word was a clear explanation will be provided. So maybe today is the day. Today could be the day. I hope it is because weve been waiting for this day for quite a while. Bill what im trying to figure out in your answer whether the white house is not being forthcoming or the Intel Community doesnt have its act together. Which is it . Ive had no connections with the white house. They dont need to do any more than that. If they believe theres reasons for them to say whats been said or the president believes it its out there its up to the Intel Community to prove its true or false. Bill the Intelligence Community has the information, right . Well find out today. They better have the information if they dont seas its a sorry state. Bill i dont believe theyre privy to the evidence the intelligence committees is so whats it all about . We can only reveal whats up to a classified level. The thing you all report on the info you get and the intel you are able to gather and were able to talk about that. What we cant talk about is anything on a classified level and higher. Thats where we need to get and the Intel Committee can get. If we cant get there and if lindseys as upset as he is a select committee will be called for and special prosecutors if were getting blocked. Bill the last point, senator, the frustration i think were hearing from you and others around viewers frankly and those who participated in the election of last november are looking for facts and right now theres not a lot out there. Theres not, bill. And me in the position im in i should be able to say with confidence this warrants us to go deeper into this or not its hogwash. I cant give you any clarity to this because i dont know. This is whats frustrating to us on the Intel Committee. Well get the information today hopefully knows theres something and theres a reason for it and well do more investigation to clear it up. Bill whats your hunch . You heard you say,i dont know several times do you think theres smoke . Theres a lot of smoke around the whole thing. We know russia and you reported and we know under a classified level that russia has done more to be involved in this election than ever before. We also know that basically it didnt have any direction as far as an outcome. It did make make a difference. What they tried to do we know that and will they be successful the next time we want to prevent that from happening but the past election they did not and in West Virginia donald trump won by 69 versus 26 . They did not alter any of that outcome. Bill when did you talk to President Trump last, senator . Its been a couple weeks. Bill did you ask him about this . I did not. Bill thank you for your time. Come back anytime. Thank you from West Virginia. Shannon. Shannon well, the Justice Department is ready to bring charges related to one of thet u. S. Company and a Russian Hackers could be the target this time. Check this out. The future king of england doing something we dont always associate with fancy royal behavior. Bill whats going on there, kid . Shannon busting a move. You dont let anything keep you sidelined. Thats why you drink ensure. With 9 grams of protein and 26 vitamins and minerals. For the strength and energy to get back to doing. 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Prince william having a good time in switzerland. Shannon he lives in the public eye. He has to live it up. Its better than my dancing. Bill we have issues here. Shannon all right. Russian hackers making headlines again. This time a possible connection with a massive data breach that surfaced last year at yahoo. The names, user names and pass words of more than a billion accounts were stolen. Were joined live outside the headquarters. Lets back up and refresh our memory about this big hack. It was unprecedented shannon when it was announced back in december in terms of its scope and yahoo announced the security was breached up with yards of a billion accounts and hackers were not believed to have gained access to financial records or any banking accounts. It was the second breach of yahoos system in 206 announced in 2016. The first affecting 100 million users. It dated back to a threeyear window where a lot of damage could have been done. Yahoo said in a statement we believe an Unauthorized Third Party stole data associated with more than a billion user accounts. Weve not been able to identify the intrusion associated with the theft. The Obama Administration through a spokesman was suddenly hinting they were hot on the trail of the alleged abusers. Wed want to be sure that before we indicate publicly who we believe or the Intelligence Community has concluded as responsible for the breach wed want to make sure the revealing the information doesnt undermine the ability of investigators to learn what had happened. It culminates with the announcement of the indictment and charges against the alleged hackers. We expect that to come at a press conference at 11 30 this morning, shannon. Shannon well be standing by. Thank you very much. Bill so President Trump hits the road to replace obamacare but some members of his own party are not sold. Jim jordan a member of the Freedom Caucus is live and well get his reaction and there is this today. What i have hear is a copy of Donald Trumps tax return. For the record the First Amendment gives us the right to public this return. Its not illegally published nor are we fake. Pinch me, im real. Shannon Rachel Maddow going after President Trump and his taxes. Newt gingrich weighs in and joins us live next. The democrats are always on yesterdays story line than invariably concocted. They have to keep beating the drum otherwise what do they do . Talk about how great our Foreign Policy was under obama or how hilary had all the answers . Bill 9 31 now. Senate confirmation hearing for senator dan koets is expected to be the next director of national intelligence. A very important position. He will likely face questions about russias interference in the election but if confirmed hell be the president s top intelligence official. Well watch that. Shannon a portion of President Trumps 2005 tax return leaked to the media. Rachel maddow spent a lot of time hyping up the news and made serious allegations along the way. Listen to this. The big existential worry and the greater concern, the worry this president may be financially beholden to an individual, to an institution, to a country. We cant know that without getting his tax returns. Couldnt the tax returns sort this out for us . If there are inexplicable dumps of foreign money into the president s coffers that cannot be explained in normal business terms thats potentially a huge problem for somebody serving as president of the United States. Shannon when all was said and done the tax return revealed none of that. Just what it should reveal President Trump made money and paid taxes and he blasted it calling it fake news. Mr. Speaker, Newt Gingrich with us. Good to be with you. Shannon there werent massive unexplained foreign dumps of money but there was certainly a lot of speculation. First of all the release of that tax return is a felony and panel a grand jury and find out who released it and that person ought to go to jail. The city is filled with people who think they can break the law as long as their liberals because it morally right to do anything you can to hurt donald trump. Thats wrong. The law requires Civil Servants obey the law and when they dump something thats illegal they should be prosecutored as criminals. Maddow is fake news so the attack shouldnt surprise anybody. The material turns out, guess what, donald trump is rich. As a rich person he makes a lot of money. As a smart rich money he uses lawyers and accountants to minimize his Tax Liability and still paid 25 of his income in taxes which for a wealthy person is a pretty high number. I think its proof, look, he is a remarkably successful guy who has played by the rules and that particular tax return proves the New York Times is wrong all along and President Trump is genuinely a successful man. Shannon donald trump tax race 25 and president obama paid 18. 7 and Bernie Sanders paid 13. 1 and comcast paid 24 in 2014. Mr. Speaker he had a higher effective tax rate than any of those critics. Right. As trump himself said at one point nobody volunteers to pay extra taxes. Its perfectly reasonable and ironic Bernie Sanders is so successful at avoiding taxes but its also a good argument for Speaker Paul Ryans efforts to get tax return. If we had a simpler tax code with a lower rate but one that made more sense id rather have people pay taxes than lawyers and accountants to get out of paying taxes and i get a low enough rate they say lets just pay it and get it over with and do the paper work and maneuvering but your case is good. We have a famous socialist antirich person paying the lowest rate of any of the people you mentioned. Theres a certain amount of egg on bernies face for that fact. I want to go back to what you said earlier that theres a lot of leakers in washington. Saying the ends justifies the means. You talk about the rule of law. Do you think thats been eroded a lot in the last eight to ten years because a lot of critics have said how handling information has changed and if they think they have the moral high ground to release it for the greater good. First of all, president obama was a radical and brought the antimiddle class and rule of law mind set of olinski and you look at the irs under obama it was clearly a lawbreaking institution. You can go case after case. You look at the way they handled benghazi they were clearly lying in ways that were illegalal. Illegal. The left has decided theyre in a civil war win trump and will make heroes of people who break the law in order to hurt donald trump. Well, you cannot have a Civil Servant to decide theyll release someones tax returns. Does that mean youre next or im next and what right do they have as an individual to make that decision. Theyll have to panel grand juries and have to have people go after these folks and frankly when you have 97 of the political donations in the Justice Department given to Hillary Clinton they may have to bring in a whole new generation of lawyers to have people willing to enforce the law rather than enforce their political ideology. Shannon im not going to lie, like a lot of people last night i was getting ready for bed as it went on and the data presented 150 million and 38 million in taxes it dawned on me that this could not have gone better for the president and leads me to the Conspiracy Theory and the reporter who said the president or the white house is behind the leaking their tax return. I doubt that very much. Not because it was good for tru trump. Look, when have you a genuinely honest guy and successful the picture turns out to be positive for him. And the white house and i talk to several people this morning, the white house is very upset about the degree to which illegal leaks and lets be clear, illegal leaks are breaking the law and setting an environment where you cant plan and have meetings and cant have memorandum because you have no idea where it will show up next. Its important we reassert these behaviors are felonies and people dont just lose their jobs, they go to jail. Once you start being serious about it the leaks will dry up rapidly. Shannon i think the release of the Tax Information i believe is up to five years in jail so it will be interesting now to see if the reporter is put in the hot seat about revealing he may know about how i landed in his mailbox. Mr. Speaker, always good to see you. Thanks for visiting. Good to be with you. Bill an interesting conversation and was the tax story real news or a rating stunt . Were looking at all sides of the story with howard kurtz. Shannon and a new report that Rex Tillerson is putting the Human Rights Council on notice. Big changes need to happen or the u. S. Will walk away. Reaction to it next. Just say, show me cars with only one owner pretty cool its perfect. Thats the power of carfax® find the cars you want, avoid the ones you dont plus you get a free carfax® report with every listing start your used car search at carfax. 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Japan is stop number one and china this weekend. Lieutena Lieutenant Colonel ralph peters. Theres no consensus as to what to do about north korea. Is there any way to move that forward on a trip like this . No, i dont think so. All the serious north korea watchers do agree on one thing only beijing and china has any serious leverage over north korea and youll hear a rationalization and theyre accurate that china fears a collapsed korea. They fear a wave of refugees after a regime collapse. All true. Bill, the Crucial Point everyone is missing is that china still sees north korea as an extremely useful military ally. In a war north korea would tie down an enormous proportion of u. S. Assets. China is not ready to give up and want a more rational leader but cant get rid of kim jongun because he has the lineage authority. They take a longterm view and see north korea as valuable. Bill so when they say we could have 8 million to 12 million refugees youre saying its an excuse. Youre making the case from a military standpoint beijing sees them as an ally. Its evident. Why would they give that up the adjacent waters would give china greater freedom of action. The chinese are real strategic thinkers. Our enemies play chess and we play jail bird checkers. Bill Rex Tillerson is the man on the job now. What is your expectation for him . Is he still a question mark as how effective he can be . Its a question mark. Hes a man with a great deal of International Background and savvy and very persuasive and good negotiator and highly intelligent. As a ceo he had to worry about the bottom line. The secretary of state has to juggle a lot of balls and we will have to see. I want him to succeed. We should all want him to succeed and i think hes wise by not getting out front until he learns how our state department and diplomacy works but at some point hell have to emerge and frankly therell be real battles within the Trump Administration between what i expect from tillerson a pragmatic approach and an ideologue. Bill he fired off a letter to the Human Rights Group and said we may not share a common view on this while it may be the only such organization devote to human rights the council requires considerable reform for us to continue to participate. Is this an American Administration despite threats in the past would act on its words . Its dishonest and antiamerican and yet i see it valuable if not essential. Its not just a talking shop but ideas can be raised short of violent conflict and has done a lot of good from peacekeeping to feeding children and its extremely valuable for the Trump Administration to stop using carrots and use a stick as well. Funding. We provide a disproportionate measure of funding and should use that as a lthrottle. Bill you can threaten reform but whether you get any change is an open question. Will you get something from this or not . I dont think well get a lot of this from the Human Rights Council. When have you a Human Rights Council for decades cuba and other players were involved and now you have saudi arabia its a human rights abuser and you have and despite that if we walk away from the Human Rights Council theyre voices are the only ones heard. We have to be the big boys. The grown ups and sometimes you have to fight back and hone they up the rhetoric on israel be a human rights abuser we have to hit back rhetorically and financially by the throttle of our funding. Bill thank you colonel for your time. Ralph peters there in washington, d. C. Shannon. Shannon hawaii taking its case against President Trumps travel ban to court saying it hurts the feelings of muslims and nobody expected this when they ordered uber. Wow. More on that coming up. Bill truly shocking Surveillance Video captures the moment an uber driver crashes an suv into a gas pump cause fiery explosion. Witnesses say the suv went airborne over a parking lot and barrelled threw through a gas station in washington. It was carrying a 40yearold passenger. No word on the cause. Shannon the driver is now in serious condition. Well wait to see but when you look at that video good thing they both survived. Bill you dont order that on the app. Our best. Shannon a legal battle over President Trumps revised travel ban is heating up in courtroom in hawaii and maryland before its supposed to go into effect. Hawaii became the first state to file a lawsuit against the travel ban and four other states have joined that suit. Were joined live from seattle. Whats the latest. Dan, what do we expect today . Shannon, well have hearings in three different states and thats because the travel ban is supposed to go into effect at midnight tonight and the states want to get in under the deadline and get some order. Much of the focus on hawaii because that state is trying to block this order by getting restraining order today. Federal district judge watson will hear oral arguments at 3 00 eastern time and likely to make his ruling at the end of the hearing. The state of hawaii is a plaintiff and has a plaintiff. Hes an american mayor rid married to a syrian and claim theyre harmed by not having her family visit and the travel ban allows for waivers and singles out citizens with family in the countries. The second draft is narrower and creates a waiver or exemption and you can still get in. In its response the Justice Department claims they cannot claim to be a victim yesterday because he hasnt even applied for a waiver to bring his motherinlaw into the u. S. Shannon does the suit amount to religious discrimination . Yes, theres not the same problems with due process and whether this seems to disfavor one religion. The first order put religious minorities in the front of the line when applying for Refugee Status and critics said it favored nonmuslim. The second executive order does not convey any religious message or reference religion at all. The countries represent only a small fraction of the worlds 50 muslim nation and home to less than 9 of the global muslim population. Will that be persuasive in court today well know this afternoon. Shannon dan springer, thank you very much. Bill some in the media getting hold of President Trumps tax return from 2005. Was the leak of a private irs document legal and settle the ongoing allegations and why are some still not convinced. Live reaction coming up next. With an armpit on the side of your head. Thats not just some battery. Thats a duracell battery. Thats a power you can trust. 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The document shows mr. Trump reported 153 million of income and paid 36. 5 million in federal taxes that year. The president tweeting a bit earlier today does anyone believe a reporter who nobody ever heard of went to his mailbox and found my tax returns . At nbc fake news. We are live in washington. Good morning to you. During the campaign this was a big deal. What does it do to a key charge from the Clinton Campaign of 2016 . Hillary clinton made all kinds of allegations maybe perhaps he wasnt as rich as he was claiming to the public and the other charge from Hillary Clinton is it appeared to her donald trump simply did not pay any taxes at all and thats why he was hiding something. But now we see this leak and from 2005 it turns out donald trump had 150 million in income that were. The first part about not being rich not true but also he paid 38 million in taxes. 5. 3 million in regular income taxes. If you look at the breakdown, 31 million in the alternative minimum tax and selfemployment tax of 1. 8 million. Almost 2 million. The point is in 2005 he paid over 38 million in taxes so the claim from Hillary Clinton that claims went by where he paid no taxes at all simply not true, bill. Bill how does this compare to other prominent politicians . Well, remember the whole argument about paying your fair share back in the 2012 campaign and president obama was saying that mitt romney didnt pay his fair share based on the Percentage Rate of taxes. Heres how donald trump stacks up based on the graphic we just showed. The president in 2005 paid a rate of 25. 3 . The average for someone with similar income was less than that, 22. 48 and president obama paid less 18. 7 and Bernie Sanders 13. 5 in the tax year 2014. Thats why rand paul last hour had this to say. Since senator sanders is such a good socialist i think hed want to pay his fair share. I expect news hell send a couple hundred thousand into the irs to pay his fair share. Well see if the check comes in and some supporters will wonder why he didnt put it out sooner. Bill ed henry in washington and shannon with more. Shannon we bring in Charles Payne the host of making money on the fox business network. Good morning. Shannon the president made some money. A little bit. Shannon and he paid some of taxes. And i have to tell you that royalty income, 67 million from that is absolutely amazing. Thats based on the power of the trump brand. Thats recurring revenue. You get it every year. People clamoring to attach properties to your name. Its something if you look at it this is something 42 million business and taxable income and s salary almost 2 million. The thing i think we all wish we could achieve. I think we all know Rachel Maddow had Something Else in mind but its the American Dream come true. Shannon what will we see from a more extensive tax return . Its difficult to see what the left is trying to get to and where the revenue comes from. Theres different ways of structuring corporations that make that a tough thing if youre trying to connect dots and phantom russian income or whatever. Shannon they spent a lot of time in the leadup trying to connect the dots. 20 minutes of that. And came up with nothing except donald trump paid a lot of taxes. The only angle i think youll see from the more reasonable folks on the left is theyll argue maybe we shouldnt abolish a and c for certain rich people. As the 31 million. Theyre saying hey, if donald trump didnt have that his effective tax rate would have been substantially less and far less than the average person out there. Thats the political spin on it. The bottom line as we see now in 2005 the president paid a lot of more taxes and a higher tax rate than a lot of people in the same bracket. Shannon the allegations was that for years he didnt pay taxes and 25 and you said he paid more than a lot of people in the bracket. It begs the question he said of course ill pay as little as possible. Anyone who makes that kind of money will have team of accountants and lawyers. Its all legal. Its all legal. You can debate what may be fair and unfair and what changes we need to make. Right now we want taxes to be lower for everyone. Thats one of the big things. Yesterday we were at the Business Roundtable and 100 ceos from the Biggest Company and jamie dimon the ceo of citi said if we get tax reform it would be the single biggest driver of the economy and repatriation at a lower tax rate. That would be a major boost to the economy, by the way wed all benefit from it. Shannon and do better from better branding and licensing. If you cant afford trump a building isnt bad. Shannon good to see you. Bill more reaction from the great northeast now. Former Massachusetts Center senator brown and fox news contributor. Good morning to you. How is this being received where you are today . Well, another attempted hatchet job and Rachel Maddow and what it tells me and what others new we paid more in one year than we pay in a life time. The fact he paid obviously on a percentage basis higher than Bernie Sanders and obama and clinton and everybody else goes to point out once again that he was write and they were wrong. So another attempt to discredit the president which frankly backfired big time because it confirmed in fact he paid taxes. Then you throw in the payroll taxes his businesses did and the other ancillary taxes through his businesses. Hes paid a tremendous amount. I think charles is right, the best way to continue lowering peoples taxes is the repatriation and lowering Corporate Tax rates to stimulate the economy. Bill i dont know how much you know about tax law but making it public . I am a lawyer. I remember my tax law and my First Amendment law. Listen, theres obviously a First Amendment to allow for this type of thing but its a felony of federal that prohibits this type of disclosure. The question comes how did they get it. They got it anonymously. Im not sure i believe that. I think its worth an inquiry we the Justice Department because people have the right to keep their tax Records Private and the fact that Rachel Maddow and others at msnbc disregard that is inappropriate. Bill you think theres a felony . It comes down to how did they get it and it comes to a question of a fact and thats up to the attorney general. Bill you took the seat of senator ted kennedy. What a big deal that was in january of 2010. Seven years now down the road from that election, what do you think the white house is in for and what paul ryan is in for . Can they get this done or not against the resistance of those in their own party . First of all its a mess. Seven years and some states have one insurer and its driving up costs, driving up deductibles lowering care and coverage. What ive suggest the to the white house and others get everybody opposed to it with the senate and house parliamentians and the counsel and secretary price and the president and sit down and say rand, whats your issue. Make sure it falls within reconciliation to do it in the first round. If you cant do the first round, mr. Secretary can you take care of rands concerns . Yes, i can. Do that with every member and get a legal ruling from the senate and house counsels and make sure the parliamentians feel it calls within reconciliation and get a commitment from the secretary price and president of the United States theyll address those concerns in the second and third phase. Thats the only way you get it done and im hopeful theyll take my advice. Bill id mark you down as confident. Well see if thats the case or not. Sir, thank you. It will be a lot of work. Great to see you. Bill shannon. Shannon President Trump taking his pitch for health care on the road heading for michigan and tennessee. Later tonight hell join Tucker Carlson for an exclusive to air on Tucker Carlson tonight at 9 00 p. M. A lot of questions to answer. You know bill thats tonight. Usa today, today. Shannon 9 00 eastern. The president and tucker sit down and hash it out. Bill so Rachel Maddows announcement of the socalled announcement started with tay tweet and quickly learned twitter giveth and taketh away. The backlash on that and plus theres this today. Shannon is that going too far. Snoop dogg pretending to shoot a man dressed as President Trump. Well debate. Bill and paul ryan is pushing the Health Care Bill hard and some supporters say it s breaking promises to voters. House caucus member jim jordan is our guest next. Its a bandaid for Insurance Company bailouts and doesnt fix the system. 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Thank you for joining us. Good to be with you. Shannon you had lunch with the president last week and the weather canceled the bowling summit. How do you feel about the lines of communication . Its been very open. We talked to the Vice President and secretary and president and staff. Theyve been open. The problem is the legislation itself. It doesnt repeal bill said in the previous segment theres a risk it doesnt repeal obamacare. Theres not a risk. It does not repeal obamacare. Thats the problem. Shannon you said theres been no substantive chances at an amendment. Do you think it will change in the process . What happens procedurally . Hopefully it will for the sake of the American People and the sake of the folks of those who sent to us repeal it. We didnt tell the people wed bring back the cadillac tax or repeal it but take Medicaid Expansion and extend it and repeal but provide insurance subsidies in the legislature. Lets hope theres amendment. It was rolled out and went to markup and no amendments were allowed to be offered in the committee and in the budget thats not how american democracy is supposed to work. Hopefully well get a chance to offer some amendments and changes in a fundamental way. Shannon you talked about having good communication with the white house the lines being open and conversations ongoing. Heres what sean spicer said from the white house yesterday. The president was going to engage with members to hear their ideas and welcomed them and director mulvaney stated it and secretary price and the Vice President. This has never been a take it or leave it. I said it from this podium and this is an opportunity to hear from individuals and groups and insurance and victims of obamacare. Shannon the white house, sean spicer, saying its never been a take it or leave it and some critics saying the message is this is a binary choice. Essentially it is take it or leave it. What is it . Thats the speakers words. Its a binary choice. Thats not the message from the white house and dont want it to continue to be a binary choice and want the process open like its supposed to be. Shannon, theres a reason why every organization is opposed to it and policy experts are opposed to it and why five conservative senators and conservatives in the house are oppose to the legislation. It doesnt do what we told the voters it would do and why it has to change. Shannon if you dont get a chance to change it through anything substantive were hearing a managers amendment. Maybe the white house can make changes and how that would work and where input youre giving the president would show up. We havent seen the managers amendment. Thats typically offered by the Committee Chair and an amendment that could cover a number of issues. We havent seen that. We dont know. What we know is we have to bring down the cost of premiums and you have to go after the Insurance Regulations that have driven up the costs and thats what weve been pushing for because that keeps our promise with the American People. Shannon whats worse for you not keeping the promise and facing the mid terms with a base that didnt get what you have campaigned on since 2010, 2012, 2014 or something gets passed that does not go well and the gop owns it . I think the choice should be this, lets do what we told the voters wed do and what they sent us to do. Thats what im focussed on. Nothing else. What did we tell the American People wed accomplish. We said wed repeal obamacare and bring down the cost of premiums for working class and middle class families who right now cant afford the insurance being offered to them today. Shannon it sounds like though if you dont get an extreme makeover soon a number of people will not vote yes and it will die in the house . Then you pick it back up and get back to negotiating. Thats sometimes how things work. If the legislation cant get the votes, time to change it. If that happens then i welcome that opportunity to put things back together and accomplish again what they sent us to accomplish. Shannon congressman jim jordan. Always great to have you. Thank you. Bill more to come on that. Twenty past the hour. Chaos tearing through a fireworks factory. This went on for some time and two people are dead and the investigation on what sparked it begins. Shannon is the fbi investing President Trumps team for possible ties to warrants. Were there fisa warrants . Fbi director james comey could answer today. Congress needs to be provided with information to clear the air whether there was a warrant issued against the Trump Campaign. For plaque which builds up as you age and increases your risk for stroke and cardiovascular disease. And by getting them through this package, youre saving over 50 . So call today and consider these numbers for just 149 youll receive five screenings that could reveal what your body isnt telling you. Im gonna tell you that was the best 150 i ever spent in my life. Life line screening. The power of prevention. Call now tow to learn more. Bill things slowly getting back to normal in the east and a lateseason blizzard and some got walloped. Washington, d. C. Getting less snow than expected. The storm weakened yesterday morning. Actually it weakened so much as it shifted a little bit and areas to the north and west saw more than a foot of snow. Some places saw two feet of snow. That form is being blamed for six deaths and grounding thousand of flights and closing schools and businesses. Now falling temperatures causing icy conditions on roads and sidewalks as people go back to work and school. Some areas are 10 to 25 degrees colder than normal today. We did not get the worst of it here. Shannon it was no joke for some people. It was serious. Bill and with the chilly temperatures it will stick around so winter is still here. Shannon be careful. Fbi director james comey expected to go on the record today and confirm whether or not his agency is investigating possible ties between President Trumps campaign and russia. I dont want to bump into a criminal investigation if there is one and the country need to know if theres something there and i wasnt an answer. Shannon Catherine Herridge is live in washington. Good morning. Will we get answers today . The issue is coming to a head. In an hour from now well have a News Conference and we expect confirmation of the witnesses for the first public hearing next monday. In the meantime senator graham have asked whether theres evidence to support the wiretapping allegations and they expect an answer as early as today from the fbi director. Yesterday another critic of the president weighed in. It doesnt mean it doesnt happen. It can be handled with a phone call. Our intelligence agencies know whether trump tower was tapped or not. It should be very simple. In a Statement Last night the chairman Chuck Grassley said he would hold up the confirmation of a Deputy Attorney general until he gets an answer from the fbi one way or the other. Shannon. Shannon were learning more how the information was collected, right . A key issue is whats called incidental intelligence collection and whether it was used lawfully and appropriately. It happens when a foreign target such as the Russian Ambassador is tracked and the phone calls and Text Messages of an american are picked up and based on our reporting we believe the former National Security adviser mike flin was flagged in this way. A member of the Senior Intelligence Committee Also investigating russia explained the issue to fox news. All the allegations of the campaign and who it was done with and what surveillance was done and if u. S. Persons were wrapped in that is part of the broader investigation but were eager to get that. And that rugs were russians were tag have shannon catherine, thanks so much. Youre welcome. Bill we have President Trump heading out on a twocity tour focuses on jobs and the economy and later repealing obamacare. Well follow all of that throughout the day, shannon. Shannon and it was supposed to be a tax return bombshell and turned out to be a dud. Was it all about ratings . Sean hannity calls it corporate jihad against the white house. Heres what the scandal is tonight. Weve been reporting on the deep state acters in detail for weeks. Theyve been working tireless since november the 8 behind the scenes, why . They want to create a false narrative that President Trump included with the russians. Jack knocked over a candlestick, onto the shag carpeting. And his pants ignited into flames, causing him to stop, drop and roll. Luckily jack recently had geico help him with renters insurance. Because all his belongings went up in flames. Jack got full replacement and now has new pants he ordered from banana republic. Visit geico. Com and see how affordable renters insurance can be. Getting ready for a twocity tour set to leave the white house minutes from now. The first stop detroit expect to talk about fuel efficiency regulations put in place by president obama and ten to tennessee for a campaignstyle rally tonight. Were live in nashville. What do we expect President Trump to focus on at the big rally tonight . Two things, shannon. Health care and school choice. Nashvilles the perfect city because is it not only ground zero and a hot bed for Charter Schools but one of the nations Biggest Health care hub. A 40 billion a year industry in nashville and a lot of universities here. President trump earlier today said on twitter, quote, looking forward to a big rally in nashville and big crowds expect. Will be fun. The thing to watch for is how hard did President Trump push. The House Republican Health Care Bill since so many supporters said recently perhaps he should back out. Tonight will we see a fullthroated endorsement from President Trump or more lukewarm support . Shannon, i think his tone on health care is going to be everything. Shannon yeah, that will be key. Before the rally though we understand hell stop by the home of former president Andrew Jackson . Thats right. Its the 250th anniversary of jacksons birth and hes also a president President Trump feels a real connection willing five days after his presidency he hung a portrait of jackson in the oval office. Both men were outsiders who many people initially dismissed and represented a threat to the elite and both loved a fight. Mr. Jackson in real fights with real guns and President Trump with twitter. Its about choice and today has symbolic significance as well. Shannon well tune in for your coverage. Kristen, thank you. I believe this is the only set of the federal taxes reporters have ever gotten a hold of and the First Amendment gives us the right to public the return. Its not illegal published. Nor are we fake. Pinch me, im real. Bill thats part of the report from last night and the white house and the president personally pushing back on that report from msnbc. It chose two pages of an old tax return filed in 2005. The white house blasting the network saying the following, quote, you know you are desperate for ratings when youre willing to violate the law to push a story about two pages of tax returns from over a decade ago, end quote. Theres more to that too. Host of media buzz jay sekulow and the American Center of law and justice. Whats they the law say about making it public . As a former employee of the Internal Revenue service or working in concert distribute and put out to the public tax returns or tax return information that actually under the criminal code and Internal Revenue code is a felony, bill. When i was an irs lawyer and started in the office of chief counsel we had a specific provision that stated without any question do not disclose taxpayer information. Its not just the return but the information return. If do you youre subject to indictment and felony prosecution and you can go to jail. Its very serious when you distribute. Bill and is this a reporter or Rachel Maddow or other executives on msnbc and they get the information doesnt the first question have to be if they understand the law who gave it out, who gave this to us and how did we get it . Thats correct. The media will claim and ive argued many of these First Amendment cases to the Supreme Court and theyll say they were for the First Amendment of the broadcast. It probably is true depending upon and the factor will be did they ask for this information . Theyre saying it just showed up with this reporter. If the reporter was involved in obtaining it that can be problematic. It wouldnt be problematic for Rachel Maddow for the reporter though the underlying aspect is if the informing was leaked from the Internal Revenue service its very serious. Its a felony and people should be prosecutored. Bill jay, prosecuted. Bill it was filed on the drudge report and the reaction was it was Something Else. You watched it and you saw it and youre gauging the fallout now and how do you see it . Will, this was a bigtime blunder by Rachel Maddow because the way in which she dragged it out two things happened. One is she had a news story but she turned it into a partisan spectacle with a 20minute monologue before she produced the news and was so gleeful of it and by hyping it she gave the white house time to put out a statement to criticize the media and confirming the fact that President Trump paid 38 million in taxes and so she fumbled away the scoop. Bill sean hannity reacted off the air and he is lumping her in with the Corporate Organization when he said the following. The corporate jihad being waged by nbc news against President Trump. Theyre part of the propaganda to destroy trump at all costs and releasing his 2005 tax return proves theyll spin any conspiracy to destroy the commanderinchief including working with people who have clearly broken the law. Bill a lot of people will agree with him and looked at the Media Coverage of the Administration Since it took office as you have as well. What does this story do if nothing changes based on what weve seen and do to the arguments on the right and left. Im troubled by the illegal leak and invasion of privacy but this particular story does indict nbc because i think most news organizations had this dropped in their lap would have published it but the way maddow presented it and hyped it up they started speculating where it came from. Maybe trump or one of his people leaked it. According to david k. Johnson who just wrote an antitrump book last year it showed up in his mailbox they dont know. But to play the game a little bit if someone on Donald Trumps behalf wanted to leak it i doubt it would be this reporter. Bill howard kurtz and jay sekulow. Thank you. Shannon. Shannon Rachel Maddow started the hype on social media and teasing the audience on a tweet 90 minutes before the hort report and then the twitter backlash. And new controversy over what many call a taste music video. Snoop dogg shooting a clown dressed like President Trump. Well debate it. Explosion at the fire works warehouse in central israel. This thing went on. It was all captured on camera on and on and when it was over two people were dead and seven others injured. This is north of tel aviv. The building collapsed and now investigators are trying to figure out what caused this explosion. Shannon President Trump responding after Rapper Snoop Dogg released a music video that shows the rapper shoot clown resembling the president with a toy gun. The president tweeting can you imagine what the outcry would be if snoop dogg failing career and all had aimed and fired the gun at president obama. Jail time. Here to talk about it is rachel camposduffy and lis smith former Campaign Manager for martin omally. Do you think this would be different during the president obama years. Would it work with the democratic president . Look, i remember in 2012 working on president obamas campaign and ted nugent went out and made some comment could be perceived as threatening towards the president. The way the white house handled then i thought was smart was they werent going to give it air time and give ted nugent a platform for the hateful language and i think thats the approach that would be smart to take towards what i think is an offensive and overtheline video from snoop dogg. Its irresponsible to put images out there and dont think it will have defenders either democrats or republicans for this sort of stuff. As a democrat who really cares about having more civil discourse i would hope videos like this do not get replayed. Ism Shannon Shannon rachel we saw defense as and artistic view and have we changed how with we have Public Discourse with politicians we disagree with . I dont think anybody has put up with you mentioned barack obama dealing with ted nugent but weve never seen anything like this. Im glad donald trump is tweeting about it because hes exposing the hypocrisy and the violence and the rallies where they accused conservatives and it was video showing it was liberals inciting the violence. Im glad hes doing this. Theres a lot of republican politicians who know who snoop dogg is and the more liberals do this its highly unlikable and whos is doing more to make black America Great again . Snoop dogg glamorizing drug and gang culture or donald trump making our economy better and making it easier for people to start businesses and get out of cycles and poverty and like the rally hes doing tonight bringing equality and justice and education to poor people. Shannon is this a smart move by snoop dogg. Hes getting a ton of attention. Its probably going to be a positive thing for him for those who follow him and are critics of the president. He knows its explosive and will get a ton of attention. It is going to get attention and i think its incumbent upon us to not give it attention. The images are disturbing and we need basic boundaries here where we do not depict violence against the president. Especially just five years after a democratic congresswomanan being shot and i think the president has more to with his time than tweet about the video and theres a Health Care Bill were debating. Shannon lets not get side tracked. The Supreme Court is all about the First Amendment and strongly protects groups. Rachel, its america, thank goodness it is and were free to have our expression. You can express yourself but you know who has a lot of time on his hands is barack obama. He should sent a press release condemning snoop dogg and had this been done against barack obama every member of Republican Congress would have had a microphone stuffed in their face asking them to weigh in. Its not fair the hypocrisy of this and the way its treated differently when its against a republican or a white man. Shannon we have to leave it there but rachel and lis we all agree this is tacky and potentially dangerous. Should not be happening regardless of who the president is. Thank you both. Bill jon scott is up next on happening now good morning to you. Eleven minutes away were waiting for the investigation into russia as were hearing well get news from fbi director james comey as soon as today about russia and about the allegations that President Trump and president obama sorry, President Trump says president obama had him wire tapped and new charges of major hacks of yahoo and the Justice Department believes russia was behind it. Bill see you jon. In the meantime a good example how to go viral in 140 characters or less and Rachel Maddow promising a scoop and when the bombshell fizzled guess who turned on her . Bill stories break online and twitter was abuzz last night at 7 30 eastern time Rachel Maddow tweeted the following breaking we have trump tax returns 9 00 p. M. Eastern time, msnbc, seriously. It was not long before the social media tables were turned. A fox contributor was up last night and saw it all unfold as many of us did and what happened . It started with the tweet from Rachel Maddow tweeting the story. The suspense and intrigue and people thought it would be a big bombshell and it turned out it wasnt. He paid 38 million in taxes and took a big write down of 103 million. More on that later. If you add up the lines for income he made more than 150 million in that year, mazeltov. Bill people were expecting more and were served a bore side dish. Bill they turned on her as quickly. And youre offering a big thing and i think reporters felt similar to how the rest of america felt. Lets look at a tweet from a man who summed it all up in a nutshell. He says, after that ridiculous speculative longwinded tinfoil hatted opening maddow had nothing. Nothing, my god. Bill here is matt drudge. Maddow will get huge ratings but so many saw the fail. Andy lack runs nbc. Others feel it was a gift to President Trump handed on a silver platter because it showed he paid a quarter of his salary in taxes which is right on the money about 38 million he paid in taxes. Donald trump jr. Chimed in saying thank you for proving to your trumphating followers how successful donald trump is and he paid 40 million in taxes. Bill you wonder what happens today, right, carley . If that was last night youre watching more stuff roll in already today. Thats right. I saw Rachel Maddows name starting to trend and clicked on the story and said oh, my goodness and turned on the tv. Bill my hunch is people will watch tucker tonight when he sits down with the president. Thank you, carley. Shannon, whats next . Shannon brand new details on alleged russian interference in the race for the white house. Lawmakers about to give an update on their investigation and fbi director james comey may shed some light today as well on President Trump claims his phones were tapped during the campaign. Its been a newsy kind of morning. [ laughter ] how did you survive your first snowfall here . I did not fall down yet. But today is another day. Theres still time. Well see you on the radio everybody. Happening now starts right now. Jon we are awaiting to see air force one take off in just a few moments as the president heads to detroit while the white house punches back on a report about mr. Trumps taxes. Good morning. Welcome to happening now. Im jon scott. Im heather childers, in for jenna scott. President trump is off to music city to meet with Auto Executives and union workers, hes expected to announce a roll back of rules. While law makers like Lindsey Graham depend answers on his allegations of wear tapping by president obama and his campaign ties to russia. All of this after a night of