returns. so he may? i said i d have to get back to you on that. he s still under audit. the statement still stands. got to get back to you on that. what did you make on that response? the president doesn t want to release his tax returns. he doesn t have to. he won the election without it. he can go into his basement and pull out the packet that we have to keep for seven years and throw it out there. he doesn t want to do it, that s fine. it may be a political issue for him in 2020. it may not. it wasn t last year. but the excuse just doesn t hold water. he also says that the only people who care about his tax returns are reporters. he said that in press conferences before. that s not the case. donald trump can t have it both ways. he wants americans to say you were rightly the president. you were elected fairly. let s move on.
inciting the shouting. last night, we had zero problems. i do want to get to that. what s your answer to whether or not the president should release his tax returns? i think he should. it s not a reasonable request. he doesn t have to. he should, sure. it s up to the american people to hold him accountable for that if they think that s the issue. whether you want to see it or not, he s still the president and will still be the president even if he showed it. i do want to get to what happened last night. last night was different. somehow you tamed the beast. before that, let s talk about what happened monday and tuesday night. why are people so angry? what was your sense from your constituents? what are they most angry about? well, the anger has progressively subsided with each town hall. what i will tell you, there are come concerns, of course, legitimate concerns, a lot of talk about paid protesters, organized folks and organic folks. i will tell you, i don t know of any paid
chief of staff, white house press secretary sean spicer, both went out publicly to defend flynn back in january, and insist to the american people that flynn did not have those conversations with the russian ambassador. when it comes to flynn, i mean, really kind of amid all of the rumors of staff shake-ups that s going on right now, it s almost like there s a question mark hanging over his head, which is even more damaging. does the president have to come out and say something one way or the other, a vote of confidence or we re parting ways? he doesn t have to. he ll say whatever he wants to say whenever he wants to say it. but the problem for flynn is it s created this period of paralysis where we re now going on four days where flynn doesn t have that public vote of confidence, where if people who work with flynn see him as somehow weakened or undermined, and it s created a lot of controversy and drama around the national security council that inhibits their ability to do work a
there is a chance we will hear the president address this. governor huckabee, what about the first key aspect listed in this ruling? of the government has pointed to no evidence. mike: the first of all, it s not true, secondly, he doesn t have to. the law says if he believes there is a threat, he has a responsibility, not just a right, spohn s ability, to act. if the judge didn t have the benefit of national security briefings. if these judges want to legislate, then let them take off the robes, go run for congress and deal with it. they were arguing campaign rhetoric. if courts are going to start adjudicating, then it there s not a politician in america who will be overturned. they ll be put in jail.
to be an outcome where it s determined that the russians helped him win the election. it s just not going to happen. i think in the end, he s going to be moving so fast on the domestic agenda, it s going to be very difficult to get mcconnell to say, yeah, let s let john mccain try to produce an outcome that suggests that donald trump is illegitimate but he doesn t have to. mccain has the power to not with a select committee. not likely to happen. you used the term foreign adversary, that s not how trump sees russia. in fact, many people within the republican foreign policy community, they think, come next year, they wouldn t be surprised if president trump calls president putin and says, would you want to work together on combatting isis in the middle east? they see them as a potential partner. the two mansions, one in long island and in maryland have long histories.