democrats say all this refutes steve mnuchin who called their demand for trump s taxes an unprecedented request and who said he has never even heard of such a request. we will follow the law. thank you. i would expect that we would. i m not aware there has ever been a request for an elected official s tax return, but we will follow the law. joining me now, pulitzer prize winning journalist david cay johnston who has been digging into trump s finances for years. his book about the trump white house is called it is even worse than it looks. thank you so much for joining us on this. how relevant is this nixon era precedent to getting trump s taxes? well, it s totally relevant, yazmin. in the year since 1924, there is not a single known case of the irs not turning over a tax return on request. in fact, congress has at least three employees who work out of the irs just to examine tax