it will certainly go to the d.c. circuit, the court of appeals. at that point, you know, the losing side will probably seek and the supreme court will take it. all these cases between the congress and president are starting to bubble through the appeals process. and you notice, none of them have been resolved yet. because it s a slow process. and david, it is traditional that the sitting president has his taxes audited, and is that correct? that s what a number of people have said on this program. and that therefore congress can argue, well, they have a role in making sure that s done properly. well, it has them reviewed, is the word used in the regulations. but, yes. and i think it goes right to the heart of why we need to see the president s tax returns. you know, richard nixon famously said, i m not a crook and we later learned he was indeed a major league tax cheat whose lawyer went to prison. and the last time congress changed this law, which was in 1976, the office of lega
that the sitting president has his taxes audited, and is that correct? that s what a number of people have said on this program. and that therefore congress can argue, well, they have a role in making sure that s done properly. well, it has them reviewed, is the word used in the regulations. but, yes. and i think it goes right to the heart of why we need to see the president s tax returns. you know, richard nixon famously said, i m not a crook and we later learned he was indeed a major league tax cheat whose lawyer went to prison. and the last time congress changed this law, which was in 1976, the office of legal counsel at the justice department made only one significant observation about congress getting tax returns. it said the chairman of the relevant committees have to personally sign the letter, asking for them. and that s how there s no dispute over the law here. trump is just behaving lawlessly. david k. johnson, i
majority of republicans were still supporting richard nixon. that when it came crashing down it came crashing down all at once. very quickly. it was a very rapid cascading effect in 73. so the break in is june 17th, 27. nixon doesn t resign until august 8th, 74. hearings began may of 73. but it was, this was the season that the late, the last quarter of 73 when nixon said i m not a crook which would fit on twitter. then basically what begins to happen in 74, you have the investigations, but you also have the economy souring. and that s something to watch. if you want to one barometer of what will happen to president trump is what s in the corner of everyone s twig sets is what the markets are doing. i believe he s been propped up
it s not quite as dramatic as nixon s i m not a crook. i think we ll get there with trump, and it will get more blatant. but he s clearly you know, there s a clear pattern here. he denies at first that anything s amiss, and when it s revealed that he s done something amiss, then of course it s nothing illegal about it. it s standard operating procedure. so he knows his guilt. he s not willing to accept it at this point. yeah. susan, can i show this to you? all of you guys look at it. look at this enthusiastic bro shake, right, between the saudi crown prince and russia s president. it s seen around the world. what else can you read into it? look at them. what kind of message is that sending to the world and to the president? well, the message is received by all of us crystal clear, you know. the answer is somebody tweeted and i think it s
separate criminal conspiracies that aided donald trump s election in 2016. one was run by the russian government involving information, operations, and cyberattacks on the united states. and the other was a series of campaign finance violations masterminded by donald trump and michael cohen himself. what this plea agreement says this week now is that the central figure of one of those criminal conspiracies, michael cohen, was in the midst of this presidential campaign trying to contact and gain assistance from the central figure of the other criminal conspiracy. i mean that is absolutely stunning and astounding. yeah. i showed the president s tweet this morning, john, where he talks about how he only, quote, lightly looked into doing a building in russia. david frum called it his i m not a crook tweet. what s your reaction to that?