that document. this is one thing i was not able to show you last night but i can show you tonight. this is the envelope. this is the envelope the tax return arrived in. you might remember when the new york times obtained a few pages of state tax returns from trump from the 1990s, those paris jacksons were mailed to the times in a plain manila envelope that has trump tower listed as the return address. for the tax return we got last night the envelope looks different, it was addressed to david cay johnston at his home address in rochester, new york. there was no return address on the envelope at all. there was a stamp on the envelope, american flag stamp. and there was a post-mark. it was post-marked westchester county, a county just north of new york city. although this is the first federal tax return information ever released about donald trump, and we re very happy to have it and to have been able to put it into the world, honestly, we still have no idea who sent it to david cay
trump. tonight i m able to explain a little bit more about how we got thatdocument. to show you last night but i can show you tonight. this is the envelope. this is the envelope the tax return arrived in. you might remember when the new york times obtained a few pages of state tax returns from trump from the 1990s, those paris jacksons were mailed to the times in a plain manila envelope that has trump tower listed as the return address. for the tax return we got last night the envelope looks different, it was addressed to david cay johnston at his home address in rochester, new york. there was no return address on the envelope at all. there was a stamp on the envelope, american flag stamp. and there was a post-mark. it was post-marked westchester county, a county just north of new york city. although this is the first federal tax return information ever released about donald trump, and we re very happy to have it and to have been able to put it into the world, honestly,
i would think that liberals would agree with me here in the right to privacy but what they are doing again, i don t have a bigger problem with nbc reporting, i do have a problem with where the leaks come from. exactly. we are are not talking about national security intelligence here. we are talking about a then private citizens tax return. and a tax return information that may well have originated and been disclosed by the united states department of the treasury. the internal revenue service. employees that do that are guilty of a crime. we have to realize what s going on here. you oppose a president? you do it through policy. not three leaking information. sean: laura, i talked about a purge last week, if we don t get rid of the leakers within the intelligence community, find the people now that are sorting through people s tax returns
right to privacy but what they are doing again, i don t have a bigger problem with nbc reporting, i do have a problem with where the leaks come from. exactly. we are are not talking about national security intelligence here. we are talking about a then private citizen s tax return. and a tax return information that may well have originatedpr and been disclosed by the united states department of the treasury. the internal revenue service. employees that do that are guilty of a crime. we have to realize what s going on here. you oppose a president? you do it through policy. not through leaking information. sean: laura, i talked about a purge last week, if we don t get rid of the leakers within the intelligence community, find the people now that are sorting through people s tax returns i would argue that
return filed in 2005. the white house blasting the network saying the following, quote, you know you are desperate for ratings when you re willing to violate the law to push a story about two pages of tax returns from over a decade ago, end quote. there s more to that too. host of media buzz jay sekulow and the american center of law and justice. what s they the law say about making it public? as a former employee of the internal revenue service or working in concert distribute and put out to the public tax returns or tax return information that actually under the criminal code and internal revenue code is a felony, bill. when i was an irs lawyer and