who are celebrating. amal evolve she. we begin this hour wit confirmation of one of the man major lies that the former president told the america people this time regarding his taxes. following a years-long legal and political saga be house weight and mean committee was finally able t secure donald trump s ta returns. they voted to release them t the american public this pas week despite his insistent ally s donald trump s tax returns wer not under audit when he ran fo president the first time the irs did not audit th personal tax returns of donald trump during his first two years in office. this is an important point it s interesting because besid being one of the forme presidents publicly stated reasons for not releasing hi tax returns. the irs has a program mandatin the quote mandatory review o the presidents individual ta returns. that protocol was followed for presidents barack obama and jo biden. dir us did finally follow it own rules of the forme presidents third year
report from a damning ne evidence to potentia coconspirators in donald trump s coup attempt we are going to talk about wha we are learning in realtime. plus, forecasters are callin it almost unprecedented. a massive winter storm i bringing extreme temperatures, rolling power outages, and dangerous travel condition this holiday weekend and, a turning point in the wa in ukraine we are going to talk to a ke member of parliament about tha presidents trip to the unite states this week what ukrainians need from th american people, and what is coming next. then, a rare and pointed criticism of donald trump from republican leadership. what it means for the gop ongoing power struggle, th next presidential election, an the future of american politics plus, stick around, after ou regular show starting at 10 am for a special year and meeting of the velshi banned book club you re gonna hear from some of our favorite authors lik margaret atwood, next on, an more including never befor broa
department then starts doing this audit that is required of presidents that is where we re seeing potentially wasn t handled not only - its really wasn t as robust as it should ve been. is there any implication of the delay in the what should b the mandatory audit. it s not too - dictated by legislation. it s an irs internal rule or something. is there any implication tha the delay or the mishandling o that was politicized because the commission of the irs wa the guy who had written an opinion informs about the fact that donald trump didn t hav to release this tax returns in that case law became the commission of the arrest i don t know whether there s a connection between those two things i don t know either we can only speculate. when you look at this an isolation. it s quite shocking. when you look at it in the totality of everything tha happened during the trum administration it s just another not shocking thing to me i just don t know. it was so chaotic. somebody could ve put
said, the children of the thir reich, when they were educated to the purposes of the third reich became barbarians. we are educating our childre to something and that is to be civil. and to be kind and realize the belong to one another. we all belong to one another i want to read one last quote. i don t have a middle after th show, but a major theme in the book is that companionship tween these two boys friendship, and love one passage, reads i wanted to tell them that dante was the first human being aside from m mother who had ever made m want to talk about the thing that scared me i wanted to tell them so man things, and yet i didn t hav the words. so i just to put the repeate myself dante is my friend give me 30 seconds on what you meant by that? i think that we don t kno how special friends are. that we, in fact, whethe sexually or not, all the friends that we have we fall i love with.