presidents going back to nixon. what about the people that will say that this is a political, and politically motivated expose of his tax returns? i think our investigation shows, and it was targeted towards finding out if the presidential audit system was working, that it failed. and that for people to have confidence in the extent to which it failed, they need to see the returns. that kind of argument is just part of the republican cover up effort, they blocked my motion for two years to get the returns, and then trump appointed a jump that held the case in addition to years. i think the opposition is really weak but if they want more investigation of the way the internal revenue service did thisjob, orfailed to do it, i am all for it. this job, or failed to do it, i am all for it. , , this job, or failed to do it, i am all for it all for it. just briefly, what you make of donald all for it. just briefly, what you make of donald trump s - all for it. just briefly, what you make of
motivation there that would make you suspicious and want to check things further. what do you make of trump in 2017 paying nearly a million dollars in taxes to foreign countries, versus the just over $750 he paid in u.s. federal income taxes. what s the significance of that? well, it s kind of interesting. it could be that because he has activities in those countries he can t use they re just being they re just taxing him on those activities. they can t tax him on everything. we get to tax him sort of on everything which sounds like it s a good thing but means he has a lot more scope to put in losses that might be real or might not be real depending on what further investigation shows, so it s kind of funny that a u.s. citizen and resident and we get to tax everything and we end up taxing less than those other guys. with those other countries, just as a business there and does what it does and there s not a whole lot of scope for him to do anything about that.