haven t been able to execute really anything, it seems. daniel, i want to talk to you today about the tax issue for this reason. rachel maddow got her hands through david cay johnson on those two pages of the 1040 from 2005 and to me it s sort of focused the attention on the fact that everyone is going to file in less than a month and the fact that this white house the one document that would let us know what the status of conflicts are, and this is something he did not discuss tonight as far as i can tell, those tax returns are not going to have the excuse they have for the other ones, that it s under audit, right? well, that part is true and in theory he should be filing the financial forms that are required of candidates as swollen to in addition to the tax forms, we should be seeing additional ones as well i don t know, though, that s going to give us the confidence we need even if we do get those documents because of the fact he didn t divest from the businesses that create
return can be and there are highlights of important questions by this president of his tax returns. all right, who are we kidding? you are not finished from this. come on over here. lets do a few more minutes on this. i will be more in a few minutes thank you, rachel. we ll continue our breaking news coverage of the tax documents that recently arrived in david cay johnston s mailbox, that s how we know this and that s how he got it. this information reveals the president s basic tax information of his 2005 return. and revealing tax returns like this is something that all presidential candidates and presidents normally do. they just release this, this is not breaking news for any other presidential candidate. it has been a white house ritual for the president and the vice
new information on president trump s taxes tonight. back now with my panel. ambassador norman eisen is here and he said he believed that david cay johnson may have exposure for putting these out. david you say what is this. i don t believe there is any at all. i didn t solicit this. didn t say hey you work at place. send to me. it just came in the mail and once i got it, i m free to publish it. you said you teach it? i teach business and tax law in the ancient world. i m not a lawyer but teach you d be fascinated. david is absolutely right. may be that someone broke the law in giving it to him.
and david, the other thing you can get out of this is there are some public information, rachel has talked a couple of times about this russian. . we would love to see in tax files how that game was treated. we would love to be able to see, is it the amount that is publicly reported on it. is it some smaller amount and why would it be smaller amount. all of that lives inside these documents. the deal and inspected by palm beach had been done by a city councilman. if i can you over paid the politicians for real estate. you are trying to hide money from your wife, you don t want
accountant firm and i publish it, that s a different story. i got this over my home. and, suggestion that it is illegal for the public is nonsense. remember to donald trump, he lives in a world where in the judge screws with him, bad judge. donald sees himself and talks about the presidency as a dictator. calling this a dishonest media in this statement, there is nothing dishonest about this. there is nothing dishonest about this publication or nor would they accuse us. we are all journalists and on the look out for somebody trying to sucker us into something. when we got there and david got this and puts this on