i m using my own money. i m not using the lobbyists or donors. i don t care. i m really rich. shepard: we re watching the fallout now from a bomb shell new york times investigation that spans some 18 months. the times uncovered a trail of documents that indicates president trump engaged in dubious tax schemes and committed outright fraud. as he built his reported fortune and business empire. after the expose hit the times website about this time yesterday, tax officials in new york state announced they re looking into the claims and they could launch an investigation. the new york times reporters poured over documents that stretch back for decades. they report they went through more than 100,000 pages of bank statements, tax returns, audits, invoices, ledgers and other financial records and found the president, his father and family members used deception to avoid
one of the envelopes that is according to a u.s. senior official. the pentagon was tipped off monday after the secret service intercepted a suspicious letter addressed to president trump. the centers for disease control says it would take a lot of ricin to kill someone. shepard: thanks, jennifer. mike pompeo has cancelled a treaty with iran, one that dates back more than 60 years. he made the announcement during a surprise news conference today. it s called the treaty of amity. odds are you never heard of it. analysts say withdrawing from it is a significant move. let s understand it a little better from our state department correspondent, rich edson who is live. hi, shep. iran has used this treaty to sue the united states in international court so the united states is now just removing the justification by getting out of this treaty. in fact, that court, the international court of justice, ruled this morning the united states should pull back some of
her lawyer tweeting a response to the president s comments calling it a vile and soulless atake on christine blasey ford. saying is it any wonder she was terrified to come forward and other sexual assault survivors are as well. he s a profile in cowardess. some lawmakers from the president s own party are criticizing him. there s no time, no place for remarks like that to discuss something this sensitive in a political rally is just not right. it s not right. i wish he hadn t done it. i just say it s appalling. the president s comments were just plain wrong. those senators jeff flake and susan collins are swing votes in the republican controlled senate along with lisa murkowski of alaska. she today called the president s comments and i question wholly
the trumps were playing a long game. they had a well-thought out strategy of how to avoid or in some cases evade how much amounts of gift and inheritance taxes. when the irs would look at it, they would say you owe us a couple million more. the trumps would say great, that s fine. by paying a full million more here and there, they got away with not paying hundreds of millions on the real estate assets that fred trump was transferring to his kids. shepard: the president says this is an old tired boring story. his lawyers say there s nothing to it. it s a hit piece by the failing new york times. so you can search every story ever written about donald trump and every book written about donald trump and every tv interview done by donald trump.
with a couple documents on a colleague s desk. my colleague, sue craig went to her desk. there was an envelope. there were a couple of pages from the president s 1995 tax return. we reported on those documents in the run up to the election. but it was information that was kind of stunning to us that within those documents, which was that the president in 1995 showed that he had lost over $900 million. it was one of those moments that made us realize. okay, wait a minute. there s a lot that we don t know about president trump than donald trump candidate trump in his history with money. so that was really the beginning of us deciding, let s dig deeper. let s try to pull back as many layers of this onion as we can.