the whole purpose of the ways and means when they requested this was to see if that audit program was working. not only was it working, it was completely broken down for two years. and separately, we didn t get much more information on this other than it looks like that this other big audit, and then there s this other audit that was going on since 2009. if that goes against him t could cost him more than $100 million with penalies he could have to pay. and that looks like it s still going on. we found out about that in 2020 when we got a the lot of the tax information. there was information about the audit this had that. and we re going to be watching to see if there s anything more that comes forward on that. we re also waiting. we have the report. we don t have the underlying tax return information. ways and means should be released, uh-uh would imagine, tomorrow or friday.
he just tried to fight and fight and fight this. and now here we are, after six years i ve been doing this for six years trying to get information for the public to bring transparency to this. and if he had just at the outset released some of his tax return information, i would argue that none of this, or very little of this, would ever have happened. tim, i m going to come back to you, and donna, i m going to save you for the end of this block to give the report on what s at stake here. but, tim, you are one of the people that have seen donald trump s tax returns. back in 2016, you wrote a piece for bloomberg the head line was i saw trump s tax returns. you should, too. i m going to read a little bit. you say here are some general questions a full release of several years of trump s tax returns might answer, one, income, trump has made it a centerpiece of his campaign, i would add now his presidency. implying it s a measure of his success as a businessman. two, trump s activities,
i think that it s i do think it s going to put wind in the sails of other people now that are looking at this, other investigators. when you look at the manhattan d.a. in particular is well positioned to continue to dig into this, in large part because they have his tax return information, which they can now compare and start to look for fraud, because they have so many other pieces. they have general ledgers, financial statements, emails, so many pieces to put together to continue this investigation and not just into the type of fraud that we saw in the trump organization trial that just concluded with the tax fraud but other areas that they could look at. house democrats no longer are going to be in leadership, but they have the tax records as well. phil, what is donald trump s reaction so far?
neil: how long is quite some time? too long. when general milley said this could last years, i don t understand how president biden could talk about genocide occurring and not want to do more to end this conflict. we need to give ukraine what they need in the donbas to man mover around. more humvees, more drones, humvees. we need to do more to give ukraine the capacity to fight back. otherwise, this will last longer than it should. i don t know how much more cities like bucha that the ukrainians can handle or how many more times should we allow russians to bomb maternity wards. it s a humanitarian catastrophe. neil: thanks, dan. good catching up with you. before we go to break here, we re getting the biden s combined tax return information. they re extending the deadline to monday, the 18th here.