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
i have to say what i kind of found shocking was the information that we learne about the irs than about the audit. i want to clarify somethin because it s so hard to keep track of all of thes investigations that are goin on you re both with his money and with the election an everything else. he actually was under audit in 2015 it wasn t out of that stretche about 2009 we learned that when - this is part of our reportin leading up to the report that if when it it could cost him to 100 million dollars. we didn t learn a lot more about that audit we think it s stil outstanding. what we did learn a lot abou was this presidential audit an about the irs and shots that they were not really looking a it they had his taxes they were not of-ing him in th way they should. but more importantly i want to read from the report because i don t think consider really better one of the lines of jumped out to me they just said that in one o