documents from donald trump. it is, ali, under new york s laws has access to donald trump s tax filing with the state of new york. state returns is virtually identical to your federal return except for retirement income. so what i believe they re looking for is to see if donald trump s tax returns that were prepared and the business records behind them match up with what he filed with the government and why do i think they may not match up? donald lost two trials for income tax frauds. his tax returns was presented to his witness. he stestifies that s my signature on the tax returns but we did not prepare it. in tax world, that s a fraud. donald has a long well
hands on the federal tax return so as that has been playing out new york state passed a law that could give democrats access to the president s state returns. a lot of the same information. the attorney general will vigorously defend that new law. the trump attorney jacek yellow amounts to presidential harassment, he joins us right here tomorrow night on in-depth coverage of the mueller hearings. while washington has hours left a hearing, democrats hope it will bolster their case against the president, he s focused on another issue, immigration on a date ice released new data outlining how many people with deportation orders are refusing to leave the us. trace gallagher has more tonight. plan to increase deportations was officially called expanded interior enforcement operation, something democrats referred to as mass deportations but whatever you call it the operation was more subdued than initially thought.
president s state returns being made public. the state s attorney general says she will vigorously defend that law. you may remember last month the president said in an interview with abc that he hoped lawmakers would eventually get all the documents. they are after my financial statement, the senate, they would like to get my financial statement. at some point i hope they get it. are you going to turn it over? at some point i might, but at some point i hope they get it because it s a fantastic financial statement. bret: the infamous cough there. jay sekulow says the lawsuits have been filed to end what he calls presidential had left harassment. former special counsel robert mueller may bring along a plus 12 at least one of his congressional hearings tomorrow and republicans are not happy about that. chief intelligence correspondent catherine herridge is here with the breaking details. good evening. tonight the highly anticipated hearing is in flux after house democrats ann
executive barbara res and an author to boot. thanks for being here. my pleasure. how does donald trump see when he sees his native new york here this week pass an explicit law to get his state returns. yeah, he feels like everyone s after him and that s just another example of oh, my god, the world is closing in on him. is he worried about it? at this point, i don t think so. not yet. i think he thinks his lawyers will protect him. look what he s done. this is dealing with little new york state. i mean, he s managed to avoid subpoenas. he s not listening to the supreme court. he doesn t follow any rules at all. i think he s probably taking this okay for now. why do you think he hides his taxes? you know, at first i thought well, it had something to do with maybe the charitable contributions that he doesn t make. and then you know, maybe he doesn t make as much money as he says he does. and he s always been that way, years and years and years.
law by governor cuomo. new york is trump s home and the headquarters of his business, therefore, his state returns are likely to contain much of the same information as his federal returns but it s unclear if congressional lawmakers plan to use the new power in their investigations or if the president plans to challenge the state. as president trump continues to reel from significant blows to his efforts to conceal his finances, nbc news has learned that a key congressional committee has already gained access to his history with two major financial institutions. for more on that i want to bring in nbc news capitol hill reporter. thanks for joining us. what more are you learning? reporter: it s a pretty big development in the sense that congress is going to start to get a picture of the president s finances. we do know the house financial services committee has submitted nine subpoenas to banks,