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
i ve still got some questions. in moments, i will be joined b the best possible person answe them all someone who won a pulitzer plies. for her team s investigation o the fields ex presidents finances publishers are rushing to prin out books book additions of the januar six committee s final report three of which are already bestsellers on amazon. later in the show, on a talk t the veteran of the watergate investigation. former congresswoman liz holtzman who wrote the forward for one of these folks then where the midterm losse the last straw republicans finally tired of winning a stall trump promis they would be? if they start with him a conversation about what th naming and shaming it on trump might actually mean for th republican party for america politics and for democracy right ahead. velshi starts now. good afternoon that is something i m not used to saying. it s sunday, december the 25th merry christmas to all of yo
in the initial investigation, right? all these people involved in investigating what russia did to try into stall trump in the white house, all these people who were involved in that investigation or who crucially might have been witnesses between what happened between trump and comey, all of them have since seen themselves and their careers systematically targeted by president and the trump administration and their helpers in conservative media. but with andrew mccabe they re now going an extra mile. they are demanding not just the destruction of his career and his reputation but they are now demanding his criminal prosecution. and the proximate charge is related to an internal investigation at the justice department into who at the fbi leaked information to the wall street journal confirming that there was an fbi investigation before the election into potential wrongdoing at the clinton foundation. now, i know, why would a possessed anti-trump partisan do such a thing?
totally legitimate. this is something a 14-year-old kid could have hacked. mr. trump picked up assange s charge thing the democrats were careless and to blame. the vice president-elect defended his boss. given some of the intelligence failures of recent years, the president-elect has made it clear to the american people that he s skeptical about conclusions. i think the american people hear him. the republican house speaker told a radio show he has no opinion of assange. i think the guy is a sycophant for russia. he leaks, steals data and compromises national security. fox news has been told the report is virtually complete and president obama could be briefed tomorrow, the same day james clapper and mike rogers will testify to the senate about
then you ve got him going into this private briefing on friday, and i think trump has to be really careful. these are republican hawks that are going to be against him that he needs for his confirmation. mccain signaled today probably not going to be voting for tillerson. if he loses two more hawks, tillerson is going down. they are saying this is they are saying this is . . .