come back anytime. yes, sir, thank you. that is all in on this thursday night. alex wagner tonight starts right now. good evening, alex. good evening, my friend. we re going to have more on al-shifa and what s going on at that hospital with a reporter has been to that hospital and reported there extensively, that s our own eamon mohyeldin. i want to start a with a good point made a member of congress, made by the freedom caucus no less. here s what chip roy had to say to his colleagues. one thing i want my republican colleagues to give me one thing, one that i can go campaign on and say we did. one. anybody sitting thin complex you want to come on the floor and explain to me one material meaningful significant thing the republican majority has done besides, well, i guess it s not as bad as the democrats in. congressman roy is correct on two fronts here. first off, the republican controlled house of representatives has next to nothing of substance this year. seco
will protect access to the pills, which are the most widely used form of abortion in the u.s. and here with me now is nbc capitol hill correspondent ali vitali what s this all about? what do they want to do here look, this is lawmakers knowing that the bill s probably not going to go anywhere because republicans control the house, but moving forward on this anyway trying to show in the instances of new york congressman pat ryan whose race hinged on his stances on reproductive access, and congresswoman liz zi fletcher who told me this was her sitting at the epicenter of the reproductive rights battling right now. it makes sense the two lawmakers are prioritizing this, putting it in. they re in a pro forma session, nevertheless, it s clear democrats want to show this is a priority they re trying to message off of it, and frankly, even if it s a messaging bill, they know the power at the ballot box. now it s a question of sustaining that enthusiasm across the next year and a half. tha
break down how this is expected to play out. reporter: jessica, any minute we do see the returns. on the house floor they are in a pro forma session. this is what happens. they usually quickly gavel in and they gavel out, but part of what is happening is entered into the congressional record will be this tax information of former president donald trump. it will be between 2015 and 2020. it will include the business entity as will as any audit miles related to donald trump s taxes. so a treasure trove of information expected to be released at any moment, jessica. lauren, stay with us. let s talk about the political
returns themselves public. once they re transmitted to the house, the next time we re in pro forma session, which is friday at 9:00 a.m., they will automatically become public at that time. i would direct people to take a look at the report, one of which written by the joint committee on taxation. that is a bipartisan, non-partisan committee. it s basically roadmap to what those six years of returns show. perhaps most disturbingly well, there are two things. the first is the irs did not follow their own rules on the mandatory audit for two years. that s very disturbing. the second thing is how many red flags there were on these returns. hundreds of millions of dollars of deductions that were unsubstantiated, never questioned by the irs. yet, if you re one of my constituents here in philadelphia and you re working class and you claim for the eitc, there s a 33% chance you ll be audited on that. yet, here is donald trump, someone who is in the top 1% of the 1% claiming hundreds of
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi sent a letter to her Democratic House colleagues on Dec. 30 informing of the events that have been scheduled for the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 (when the House will not be in session).