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.
department, the fbi and the gsa asking for documentation. we ve given them until the end of march. we ll see if they take us more seriously. and if they don t, well, we have other tools we can use to force them to give us that information. and by other tools, you presumably mean subpoena power? exactly. if the president did intervene in this project, obviously that would contradict earlier denials that he had nothing to do with this project. that s right. but if the president did make that kind of intervention, is there any way for you and your other committee and subcommittee chairs to pursue the prospect that the president made that intervention specifically to line his own pockets, specifically to benefit himself financially? well, we believe so, and we believe it s pretty clear from the evidence that we ve seen. you remember al capone, who committed so many spectacular crimes, but what they got him on was income tax evasion. you hear a lot about other investigations int
now we ve put the letter in again. we have written to the justice department, the fbi and the gsa asking for documentation. we ve given them until the end of march. we ll see if they take us more seriously. and if they don t, well, we have other tools we can use to force them to give us that information. and by other tools, you presumably mean subpoena power? exactly. if the president did intervene in this project, obviously that would contradict early denials that he had nothing to do with this project. that s right. but if the president did make that kind of intervention, is there any way for you and your other committee and subcommittee chairs to pursue the prospect that the president made that intervention specifically to line his own pockets, specifically to benefit himself financially? well, we believe so, and we believe it s pretty clear from the evidence that we ve seen. you remember al capone, who committed so many spectacular crimes, but what they got him on was i
committee and the democrats are in charge of the house, they have said they will cooperate. deutsche bank is the bank he s been dealing with and his family have been dealing with deutsche bank. they all have loans, big loans from deutsche bank. we ll find out a lot about deutsche bank and that bank s relationship to the president. we are very concerned about money laundering. money laundering and tax evasion as the potential next round in what started off being russiagate. we know al capone didn t go to prison for the various mob crimes he was convicted on 23 counts of income tax evasion. sometimes prosecutors get people the way they get them. is donald trump at risk, probably more risk for potential money laundering, tax evasion, financial crimes than at this point he is on russian collusion? something really weird going on with deutsche bank. no one would give the trump
get into the room. i only know what i ve read about the subpoena, and i m sure we will be able to comply as we have with any such request here. harris: she mentioned that one person. what does it matter? i don t think it s that significant. with the government is looking for is whether or not then-president-elect donald trump was aware of any of this. and is there any record of foreign donations, which was not reported? if it was reported, they would know about it and go directly to the donor. because the foreign donations are unlawful. harris: can ask your question? this didn t come because robert mueller is including this in his investigation. we go that s right. harris: this is almost like legal collateral damage. this came because they can t michael cohen on income tax evasion. he said, here s what i have for you if you go easy on me. this happens all the time. what you have for us? i have cooking the books for the transition. ask rick gates. now they are trying to