investigating watergate, what do you think about that scenario? well, i think this is going to go much quicker. it took only seven months to get the watergate tapes in the nixon era. thing is going to go fast. i think this is trump s achilles heel. this is the thing that he s worried about most. if you look we ve been all focused on the mueller report, but we really haven t put enough focus on is the new york times reporting on trump s taxes and what he did in the past. and what that shows is a long history of tax evasion, tax crimes that goes right up until june of 2016 when he wound up selling two properties to his son eric for half the price that the trump organization had put those down for, $350,000 an apartment when the trump organization was claiming they were worth $800,000. right. that is tax evasion. it s gift tax evasion. you ve got earlier history that goes beyond the six-year limit
it s gift tax evasion. you ve got earlier history that goes beyond the six-year limit where trump did all kinds of things, including lowballing his father s estate and his brother s estate by hundreds of millions of dollars. also taking out a loan from his father for $11 million that he didn t repay, claimed it was a loan, paid back his father with interest in a property that he later bought back from his father for $10,000. all of that $11 million was evaded. what hasn t been focused on is that the reason that trump doesn t want those returns released is because it s going to show a long pattern of income tax evasion and criminal activity. well that i think comports with the theory that there is worry he wouldn t turn them over and would precipitate some kind of crisis. arthur delaney and nick akerman, thank you for joining us. the president s fourth of july spectacle being paid for by public money. new details after this.