money in taxes, some $38 million in taxes that year. what else is there to say? is it really that shocking or revealing? a couple pages of it, she has. it s primarily focusing on what was his real estate transaction, that was the last thing she was talking about. trying to make some kind of connection there. some nexus. she even mentioned wilbur ross, trying to tied into the trump administration. tucker: wright, who i think was seen on a grassy knoll. if legal, a much lower rate than i pay. so there is that. he has suggested in fact tax reform himself. in what people should be able to pay. perhaps they will get to more on the story here but obviously yes, this is an attempt to try to again stir the pot
look, i would think that given that that tape access hollywood, bombshell revelation will did not only change the presidential election but think of trump, clinton, the different agendas, supreme court justice. it is huge. i get it is 11 years later and you have to connect a lot of dots but you at least try to do an internal investigation to figure out where that tape went because i am sure that more than a couple people know exactly what happened there. and you at least make the effort but from what i can tell, that effort has not been made or it has not been made public. i would think if they did make an investigation, they would make that known. tucker: we asked them today that exact question. they refused to comment. if someone stole the biggest news story of the year out of your office, you may want to find out how that happened. a news organization had this tape and no one is claiming the tape was not real, president trump said what he
tucker: russia. [laughs] thank you for that. just don t say kgb. tucker: we are joined now by joe concha, who writes for the hill. great to see you. we open the show tonight with a story that i think is significant. it has come to our attention. it s true that nbc the people who run it, knew that the famous access hollywood tape was being leaked to the hollywood post. it was done intentionally because they wanted to distance themselves from it. they wanted to hurt trump before the presidential debate two days later. does that, as a shock to you? we do not know definitivelyy that they had knowledge of that. i understand it is within our bubble but we do not have a definitive report. tucker: i cane say that definitively. look, i would think that
it should be very alarming for everybody out there. with this report on msnbc, the real story i can see so far is that those got leaked by somebody. not what iss in them. that should be the lead story tonight or tomorrow. i will be interesting to see with what these news outlets lead with. tucker: the access hollywood tape breaks right before that debate. in st. louis. the kerplunk of it, i did not hear anyone ask hey, this is your tape. you knew it existed, why did no one ask that obvious question? because everybody loved the narrative. everybody s, as the end of donald trump. that blotted out the sun and no
there could be serious legality issues here and also i would be concerned as journalists if you crawford this information and essentially publish some days tax returns and private information. tucker: i think a lot of people in the press assume he paid nothing in taxes. he did not deny it, really. is there any scenario you can think of where a tax return might be public other than if it was released by the person who filed it? other than somebody filing it themselves, no. she does not have the complete return, just a couple pages. like the 1040 statements. we will have to see what the rest reveals but the headline, was it russia, real estate, all a guard, trying to demonize and scare everyone. they like to put out the oligarch thing.