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
department then starts doing this audit that is required of presidents that is where we re seeing potentially wasn t handled not only - its really wasn t as robust as it should ve been. is there any implication of the delay in the what should b the mandatory audit. it s not too - dictated by legislation. it s an irs internal rule or something. is there any implication tha the delay or the mishandling o that was politicized because the commission of the irs wa the guy who had written an opinion informs about the fact that donald trump didn t hav to release this tax returns in that case law became the commission of the arrest i don t know whether there s a connection between those two things i don t know either we can only speculate. when you look at this an isolation. it s quite shocking. when you look at it in the totality of everything tha happened during the trum administration it s just another not shocking thing to me i just don t know. it was so chaotic. somebody could ve put