good morning. s it s 10:00 a.m. eastern. 7:00 a.m. pacific. i m ryan nobles. after years of broken promises and legal battles, some of former president trump s tax returns are now public. a short time ago, the house ways and means committee release trump s tax returns from 2013 through 2020 and returns from some of his businesses. it comes more than six years after the former president made this pledge to release the returns. i ll release them when the audit is completed. i have had audits for 15 or 16 years. under audit, when it s complete, i ll release them. he never did release them. the committee obtained the returns in november after a long legal bat thal went all the way to the u.s. supreme court. the panel hoped to res lease the documents last week, but it delayed the disclosure so they could redact personal information. the former president responding to the release with a statement saying in part, the democrats should have never done it, the supreme court shoul
were unjust and illegal. because the irs didn t do the job of auditing. the largest of his losses is $105 billion. we did not see any investigation of that nor did the ways and means committee get those records. excellent work that the new york times did back in 2020 leads us to believe that that s probably related to the failure of his atlantic casinos. but year after year he s relying on losses to not pay much of anything. is and i think americans should be greatly outramged by that and the failure of the irs under trump to do its job to audit him the way they have audited other president presidents. you want you to respond to republican complaints about this. they are organizing that it s going to open up pandora s skbox allow future ways and means
donald trump has probably felt lucky most of his life, but he didn t feel lucky when his atlantic casinos went bankrupt and when he was approaching a trial in the trump university case which he avoided by paying $25 million to the former trump university students who accused him of fraud. so donald trump knows what it is to not feel lucky. but until now he did not know what it felt like to be the subject of 17 investigations. and he s certainly tweeting like a man who doesn t feel lucky. he s tweeting like a panicked president. think about those words together. a president of the united states who is panicking, a panicked president. but donald trump s strategy to try to prove to the world that he is not panicking is to send to send the strangest presidential lawyer in history on tv to say profoundly strange
17 investigations. donald trump has probably felt lucky most of his life, but he didn t feel lucky when his atlantic casinos went bankrupt and when he was approaching a trial in the trump university case which he avoided by paying $25 million to the former trump university students who accused him of fraud. so donald trump knows what it is to not feel lucky. but until now he did not know what it felt like to be the subject of 17 investigations. and he s certainly tweeting like a man who doesn t feel lucky. he s tweeting like a panicked president. think about those words together. a president of the united states who is panicking, a panicked president. but donald trump s strategy to try to prove to the world that he is not panicking is to send
they got it into court so reporter won that, the lawyer who masterminded that case is now the lawyer who our next president has retained to be his counsel on, quote, matters related to the russia investigation. sure, why not him? well, lawyer marc kasowitz played a role in the lawsuit against trump university in which he had to settle. he was involved in the restructuring of the massive and controversial debt in trump s atlantic casinos. his most recent high-profile gig since trump has been president, though, has been on another matter. and you might have heard about this. you might have heard about this. a few weeks ago, maybe a month or two ago, the first high-profile thing that trump s lawyer has been involved with