the president has no plans to release it. abby: what a night it was. talked about a lot today. a long line of information making its way to the press. radio host laura ingram explains the legal ramifications why every american should be worried about these leaks. this should concern every american, libertarian, when the government starts leaking tax information this is a bad day for the united states. private citizens tax return, tax return information that may have originated and been disclosed by the united states department of treasury, the internal revenue service, and employees that do that are guilty of a crime. we have to realize what is going on here, you oppose the
the questions that his constituents were bringing to him. his constituents don t to want see 32 million americans lose their health insurance and what he would do to get donald trump s tax returns released. i don t know if donald trump is engaging in a big cover-up, if his business dealings or dealings with russia, what i do know is that tom reid as a member of the ways and means community can unilaterally require that the president release his tax returns. it s been used before for a sitting president, and i knew that republicans use this law two and a half years ago to release tax return information, tom reid is choosing not to do that. so i hope that he listens to his constituents, goes back to congress and stops rubber stamping the trump agenda and starts resisting it. thank you very much. bob, corinne, and steve, don t worry, we can talk more about this in just a few minutes. stick around. coming up, lieutenant general h.r. mcmaster is in. we ll have new details on president t
is the first time in 40 years that the senate will hold a confirmation hearing before a nominee has completed the ethics process, and the democratic national committee is now demanding hearings be delayed until all the ethics reviews are finished, accusing republicans of trying to jam through unvetted nominees. now, republican majority leader mitch mcconnell says democrats are just being sore losers. so all of these little procedural complaints are related to their frustration in having not only lost the white house, but having lost the senate. i understand that. but we need to sort of grow up here and get past that. we need to have the president s national security team in place on day one. reporter: interestingly though, back in 2009 a letter uncovered by politico shows mcdonnell asking for all ethics information to be turned in before hearings were set for obama s nominees including tax
so all of these little procedural complaints are related to their frustration at having not only lost the white house, but having lost the senate. i understand that, but we need to grow up here and get past that. need to have the president s national security team in place on day one. reporter: interesting though back in 2009, a letter uncovered by politico shows mcconnell asking for the same ethics information to be turned in before hearings were set for obama s nominees including tax return information. hearings begin on tuesday. arthel? arthel: bryan llenas, thank you. gregg: republicans on capitol hill making good on promise to repeal obamacare but there s growing concern about its possible replacement. elizabeth prann has more. reporter: discussing over repealing and replacing the affordable care act is looming over republicans in the house. it s a daunting task and different factions in the chamber look for common ground. president-elect donald trump s
which is honesty and trust worthiness. people think she is cunning, too political and too packaged not always being honest. that s her problem. that s more than a primary problem. biden get in? i think most likely not. i know he is engaged in at love conversations there are people around him continuing to urge him on. i have talked to some of them and, you know, going to go on with on his head. the balance of it suggests not. moments like this though are why people are going to continue to clamor to see more competition on the democratic side. thank you, stick around, gentlemen. a warning to all americans tonight. that means you. just when you thought or hoped you were safe, the irs now admitting that a cyber attack was much, much worse than the irs initially admitted. the irs now admitting hackers tried to gain access to tax return information from more than 300,000 americans. the cyber crooks used social security numbers and/or stolen data to try to take private tax information