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 ve still got some questions. in moments, i will be joined b the best possible person answe them all someone who won a pulitzer plies. for her team s investigation o the fields ex presidents finances publishers are rushing to prin out books book additions of the januar six committee s final report three of which are already bestsellers on amazon. later in the show, on a talk t the veteran of the watergate investigation. former congresswoman liz holtzman who wrote the forward for one of these folks then where the midterm losse the last straw republicans finally tired of winning a stall trump promis they would be? if they start with him a conversation about what th naming and shaming it on trump might actually mean for th republican party for america politics and for democracy right ahead. velshi starts now. good afternoon that is something i m not used to saying. it s sunday, december the 25th merry christmas to all of yo